Prestate Societies of the North Central European Plains 600-900 CE

                This volume offers a new perspective on social dynamics and culture change in the North Central European Plains (NCEP) from 600 to 900 CE. Using archaeological evid

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Ludomir R. Lozny

Prestate Societies of the North Central European Plains – CE

SpringerBriefs in Anthropology SpringerBriefs in Human Ecology

Series Editors Daniel G. Bates Ludomir R. Lozny

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Ludomir R. Lozny

Prestate Societies of the North Central European Plains 600–900 CE

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Ludomir R. Lozny Department of Anthropology Hunter College New York, NY USA

ISSN 2195-0806 ISSN  2195-0814  (electronic) ISBN 978-1-4614-6814-1 ISBN 978-1-4614-6815-8  (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-6815-8 Springer New York Heidelberg Dordrecht London

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I dedicate this book to the memory of Marek and Graz˙yna Dulinicz

Preface

For over thirty years Marek Dulinicz and I shared scholarly interests in the early medieval societies of the Central European Plains. We worked and published together. In 2009, during my last visit at the Dulinicz residence in Łomianki near Warsaw, we briefly discussed another joint project on the rise of social complexity in the North Central European Plains during the Middle Ages that would blend traditional European positivistic approaches embedded in meticulous studies of mater