Rural Riches

Navigating Early Medieval Europe is the first pan-European interdisciplinary database for the archaeology and history of early medieval Europe. Its goal is to show the intensive connections of people across Europe in a time supposed to be characterised by fragmentation after the ‘fall’ of the Roman Empire. The database has the potential to show how people, ideas and material culture were exchanged and what people shared even when they were far apart.

It will take time to fully show the vast ocean of available evidence and what can be learned from it, but with the help of an increasing group of scholars across Europe new images of what is often called the ‘Dark Ages’ or ‘Migration Period’ will enlighten what was a highly innovative period when it came to creating a new European society.