Ethnic Identity and the Archaeology of the aduentus Saxonum : A Modern Framework and its Problems (The Early Medieval North Atlantic)

For centuries, archaeologists have excavated the soils of Britain to uncover finds from the early medieval past. These finds have been used to reconstruct the alleged communities, migration patterns, and expressions of identity of coherent groups who can be regarded as ethnic ''Anglo-Saxons''. This book challenges the ethnic paradigm.