Avar-Age Polearms and Edged Weapons. Classification, Typology, Chronology and Technology

8 CHAPTER 1 research of these weapons has largely addressed their classification and typol- ogy, as well as ethnic identificatio ...

Introduction 9 (Avar and early Hungarian) weapons was made by Géza Nagy who sum- marised current understanding of Avar and early ...

10 CHAPTER 1 Dezső Csallány, who was the first to discuss Early Avar period swords33 and reed-shaped spearheads.34 Dezső Csallán ...

Introduction 11 As a result of its geographical situation in the Carpathian Basin, Hungary played a leading role in the study of ...

12 CHAPTER 1 loops, crossguards and decorations), while their primary (functional) attribute (the blade) was of secondary import ...

Introduction 13 from the site at ‘Tiszakécske–Óbög’. Her main distinguishing criteria for the classification of crossguards was ...

14 CHAPTER 1 Simon’s observations on the appearance of sabre attributes during the Early Avar period led to significant changes ...

Introduction 15 used long before the assumed date for the first appearance of the sabres (670), and its distribution was not lim ...

16 CHAPTER 1 2.3 Ethnic Interpretations and Questions of Origin The study of early medieval archaeology in Central and Eastern E ...

Introduction 17 with burials containing horses, as a result of several stray finds containing spearheads and stirrups being inte ...

18 CHAPTER 1 historical theory had a significant impact on Avar archaeology: István Bóna tried to identify these two ethnic comp ...

Introduction 19 generated considerable scholarly debate,95 and even leading to an interna- tional conference on several aspects ...

20 CHAPTER 1 Based on his broad knowledge of Merovingian archaeology, Kiss con- structed a theory concerning the mass continuity ...

Introduction 21 to light108 suggesting that the chronology of several burials formerly dated to the first half of the 6th centur ...

22 CHAPTER 1 The research on Byzantine influences on Avar weaponry, however, started well before the aforementioned new approach ...

Introduction 23 and Bulgarian archaeology, overemphasizing Eastern analogies and regarding them as the earliest and original. Th ...

24 CHAPTER 1 Kiskőrös–Városalatt, however, he mainly focused on the ‘princely burial’ of Bócsa. The reconstruction of the double ...

Introduction 25 Tóth, was deeply influenced by László’s work, and therefore tried to recon- struct the biography of the deceased ...

26 CHAPTER 1 László’s social interest was inherited by his former students such as József Szentpéteri, who studied various aspec ...

Introduction 27 burials with weapons, ornamented belts and horses, studying their distribu- tion and chronology.148 The concept ...