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History and archaeology: the state of play in early medieval Europe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Catherine Hills
Catherine Hills*
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*Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, UK (Email: ch35@cam.ac.uk)
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How useful is archaeology to historians? Do they use it in their work? If so how? Catherine Hills considers a number of mighty histories of early medieval Europe that have recently appeared and examines how far the extremely productive archaeology of the last two decades has affected them – or failed to.

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EuropeRoman empireMigration periodhistoryarchaeology
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Debate
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Antiquity , Volume 81 , Issue 311 , 1 March 2007 , pp. 191 - 200
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2007

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