Week 1: Introduction

                What is medieval archaeology? History and archaeology

• Graham-Campbell and Valor 13-28
• see the cover of the journal Archaeologia historica (published in Prague)
• see a plan and an image of Vladimir Nekuda's excavations in Pfaffenschlag (with a reconstruction of the village) and images of the excavation site in Mstěnice (Czech Republic)
• see also the remains of a soldier fallen in the battle of Visby (1361), and the cover of Bengt Thordeman's book; see also pictures of Paul Grimm , Rene Pittioni, and Michel de Bouard
• visit the website of the Society for Medieval Archaeology

                History of archaeology.The Three-Age system, stratigraphy, and typology

• Greene and Moore 1-50
• see a brief presentation of Cyriacus of Ancona and the beginnings of antiquarianism
• see the portraits of  Olof Rudbeck, William Stukeley, General Augustus Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers, and Oskar Montelius
• see a brief presentation of Thomsen's Three-Age system
•  see also pictures of the Museum of Natural History in Oxford (facade; interior with Victorian, neo-Gothic architecture, the evolutionary displays for fish and elephants, and the commemorative plaque of the historical Huxley-Willberforce debate on evolutionism; see also General Pitt Rivers's collection of rifles, as well as the display showing the evolution of bull-roarers and human head-trophies