Settlement of the Basin on the Middle Course of the Morava River during the Early Middle Ages—General Model (Tested Hypotheses) and the First Preliminary Model

Hladík, Marek; Heiden, Zuzana; Benkovič, Matúš

doi:10.1163/9789004393561_007

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“…At its peak, following the great expansion at the last third of the ninth century, Great Moravia encompassed nearly all of modern Czech Republic and Slovakia, much of Austria, and smaller parts of today's Poland and Hungary (Macháček, 2010; Měřínsky, 2006). Written records and archeological data provide information regarding the development and decline of Great Moravia, and suggest the region was a center for economic, political, and religious activity (Hladík, 2020; Měřínsky, 2006; Poláček et al, 2020). The third and final ruler of Great Moravia, Svatopluk (AD 871–894) expanded the range of cultural influence throughout the region, and saw the greatest territorial expansion of Great Moravia, including parts of modern Poland and Hungary.…”

Section: Cultural Context For Early‐high Medieval Central Europementioning

confidence: 99%

The effects of cultural networks on migration among Early and High Medieval populations in Central Europe based on dental phenotypic data

Ragsdale

Velemínský

2023

Intl J of Osteoarchaeology

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Throughout the region of Central Europe, population movements have transcended political boundaries throughout history. The Early (6th to 11th centuries AD) and High (11th to 14th centuries AD) Medieval periods were times of constantly shifting cultural relationships, as well as climatic fluctuations. Limited archeological and historic records for the region often focus on the broader cultural processes of the time, and to a large degree, on elites. Very little work has focused on population movement, particularly across cultural boundaries. Here we examine the potential effects of cultural processes on the movement and subsequent genetic exchange among the people throughout the region. We compare biological, cultural, geographic, and temporal relationships using biological distance analysis and model matrix comparison. To examine population structures, we combine dental morphological and metric data derived from human skeletal remains representing Early and High Medieval groups. Our results support the important influence of cultural processes on migration and population structures among Early and High Medieval groups. Distances based on the cultural complexity model we employ here is significantly correlated with biological distances (p = 0.028), while temporal period (p = 0.099), geographic proximity (p = 0.104), and shared origin (p = 0.193) models are not significant. Although our model is limited in the complex breadth of cultural processes during the Early and High Medieval period, we assert that these processes played an important role in population movement. Finally, we support an inter‐regional approach to examining population interactions among Central European and neighboring areas.

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Section: Cultural Context For Early‐high Medieval Central Europementioning

confidence: 99%