The Archaeology of Slavery in Early Medieval Northern Europe: The Invisible Commodity

Introduction: An 'invisible commodity'? Marek Jankowiak and Felix Biermann

Part One: Comparative perspectives

Chapter 1. The arrogation of slavery: Prehistory, archaeology, and pre-theoretical commitments concerning people as property; Timothy Taylor

Chapter 2. Recent approaches to the archaeological investigation of slavery in Africa; Paul Lane

Part Two: The British Isles

Chapter 3. To tread the paths, and traverse the moors: Investigating slavery in early medieval western Britain; Katie Hemer

Chapter 4. The archaeology of slave trading in Viking Age Britain and Ireland: A methodological approach; Janel Fontaine

Part Three: Scandinavia

Chapter 5. The norm and the subaltern. Identifying slaves in an early medieval Scandinavian society; Anna Kjellström

Chapter 6. Legacy of the disowned. Finding ambátts in high medieval Scania and Östergötland through ceramic production; Mats Roslund

Chapter 7. Bonded people. Making thralls visible in Viking-Age and early medieval Sweden; Torun Zachrisson

Part Four: Central Europe

Chapter 8. The slave trade in Great Moravia: reality or fiction?; Jirí Machácek

Chapter 9. Slavery and slave trade in early medieval Czech duchy: Archaeology of slavery or slavery of archaeology?; Ivo Stefan

Chapter 10. Archaeological evidence for slavery among the early medieval north-western Slavs; Felix Biermann

Chapter 11.Tracing the Saqaliba: slave trade and the archaeology of tenth-century northern Europe; Marek Jankowiak

Index