Migration Models

Pre-requisites: To have attended the necessary semesters according to the study plan.

Course objectives: Development of student’s ability to independently analyze the structure of migrating groups and to retain a critical point of view to the ethnic attribution of finds from the time of the migration period.

Course description: Review and analysis of different possible migration structures\models and examples of racial and ethnic mixes (based on written records). Review and analysis of the question of “costume” and the acculturation process in the time of the migration period and the early middle ages. With this in mind, the analysis of methodological justification of ethnic attribution in archeology of the great migration and the early middle ages, also its importance in the maintenance of archaeology as a “historical science”.

Learning Outcomes: Essay, oral examination.

Migration Models

Pre-requisites: To have attended the necessary semesters according to the study plan.

Course objectives: Development of student’s ability to independently analyze the structure of migrating groups and to retain a critical point of view to the ethnic attribution of finds from the time of the migration period.

Course description: Review and analysis of different possible migration structures\models and examples of racial and ethnic mixes (based on written records). Review and analysis of the question of “costume” and the acculturation process in the time of the migration period and the early middle ages. With this in mind, the analysis of methodological justification of ethnic attribution in archeology of the great migration and the early middle ages, also its importance in the maintenance of archaeology as a “historical science”.

Learning Outcomes: Essay, oral examination.

Literature/Reading:

• R. Wenskus, Stammesbildung und Verfassung. Das Werden der frühmittelalterlichen gentes, Köln 1961.
• V. Bierbrauer, Frühgeschichtliche Akkulturationsprozesse in den germanischen Staaten am Mittelmeer (Westgoten Ostgoten, Langobarden) aus der Sicht des Archäologen, Atti del 6 Congr. int. di
• B. B. Phillips, Circus Factions and Barbarian Dress in Sixth Century Constantionople, In: Falko Daim (Hrsg.), Awarenforschungen, Band 1, Wien 1992., 25-32.
• W. Pohl, Telling the difference: Signs of Ethnic Identity, in: W. Pohl-H.Reimitz (Hrsg.), Strategies of Distinction. The Construction of Ethnic Communities, 300-800, Leiden-Boston-Köln 1998., 17-
• S. Brather, Ethnische Identitäten als Konstrukte der frühgeschichtlichen Archäologie, Germania 78/2000, 1. Halbband, 139-177.
• W. Pohl, Die Germanen, München 2000.
• W. Pohl, Die Völkerwanderung. Eroberung und Integration, Stuttgart 2002.
• H. Fehr, Volkstum as Paradigm: Germanic People and Gallo-Romans in Early Medieval Archaeology since the 1930s, in:On Barbarian Identity. Critical Approaches to Ethnicity in the Early Middle Ages, 2002
• P. Geary, Europäische Völker im frühen Mittelalter. Zur Legende vom werden der Nationen, Frnakfurt a.M. 2002.
• M. Milinković, Ulpijana kod Gračanice na Kosovu i Gradina na Jelici kod Čačka u svetlu akulturacionih procesa u Iliriku VI v., Treća jug. konf. vizantologa, Beograd-Kruševac 2002., 343-359.