TY - JOUR AU - Daim, Falko PY - 1996/12/01 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Archäologie und Ethnizität: Awaren, Karantanen, Mährer im 8. Jahrhundert JF - Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften JA - OeZG VL - 7 IS - 4 SE - research paper DO - 10.25365/oezg-1996-7-4-3 UR - https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/oezg/article/view/5665 SP - 479–497 AB - <div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(42.750000%, 45.100000%, 40.780000%);">The author </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(42.750000%, 45.100000%, 40.780000%);">poses </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(42.750000%, 45.100000%, 40.780000%);">the </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(42.750000%, 45.100000%, 40.780000%);">question as to whether or not </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(42.750000%, 45.100000%, 40.780000%);">it </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(42.750000%, 45.100000%, 40.780000%);">is possible </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(42.750000%, 45.100000%, 40.780000%);">to </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(42.750000%, 45.100000%, 40.780000%);">draw conclusions </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(42.750000%, 45.100000%, 40.780000%);">about the </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(42.750000%, 45.100000%, 40.780000%);">ethnic consciousness of </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(42.750000%, 45.100000%, 40.780000%);">the </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(42.750000%, 45.100000%, 40.780000%);">Avars on </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(42.750000%, 45.100000%, 40.780000%);">the </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(42.750000%, 45.100000%, 40.780000%);">basis of archaeological </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(34.120000%, 36.860000%, 32.160000%);">findings </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(42.750000%, 45.100000%, 40.780000%);">from </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(42.750000%, 45.100000%, 40.780000%);">the 8th </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(42.750000%, 45.100000%, 40.780000%);">century. As currently used in </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(42.750000%, 45.100000%, 40.780000%);">the </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(42.750000%, 45.100000%, 40.780000%);">historical </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(42.750000%, 45.100000%, 40.780000%);">and </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(42.750000%, 45.100000%, 40.780000%);">social science </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(34.120000%, 36.860000%, 32.160000%);">literature </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(42.750000%, 45.100000%, 40.780000%);">the term </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(42.750000%, 45.100000%, 40.780000%);">,ethnicity</span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(52.940000%, 54.510000%, 50.590000%);">' </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(42.750000%, 45.100000%, 40.780000%);">usually refers to communities who differentiate themselves from other groups in terms of their language, history, origins, religion, dress, material culture etc., </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(42.750000%, 45.100000%, 40.780000%);">and </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(42.750000%, 45.100000%, 40.780000%);">who create a sense of belonging together from </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(42.750000%, 45.100000%, 40.780000%);">that </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(42.750000%, 45.100000%, 40.780000%);">consciousness. </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(42.750000%, 45.100000%, 40.780000%);">The author </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(42.750000%, 45.100000%, 40.780000%);">outlines </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(42.750000%, 45.100000%, 40.780000%);">the </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(42.750000%, 45.100000%, 40.780000%);">present </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(42.750000%, 45.100000%, 40.780000%);">state </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(42.750000%, 45.100000%, 40.780000%);">of knowledge </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(42.750000%, 45.100000%, 40.780000%);">about the </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(42.750000%, 45.100000%, 40.780000%);">Avars, which is predominantly based on </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(42.750000%, 45.100000%, 40.780000%);">the </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(42.750000%, 45.100000%, 40.780000%);">results of excavations of Avar burial sites</span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(52.940000%, 54.510000%, 50.590000%);">. </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(42.750000%, 45.100000%, 40.780000%);">Avarian culture emerged in </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(42.750000%, 45.100000%, 40.780000%);">the Carpathian </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(42.750000%, 45.100000%, 40.780000%);">basin </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(34.120000%, 36.860000%, 32.160000%);">from </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(42.750000%, 45.100000%, 40.780000%);">the 6th </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(42.750000%, 45.100000%, 40.780000%);">century onwards </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(42.750000%, 45.100000%, 40.780000%);">at </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(42.750000%, 45.100000%, 40.780000%);">a point where </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(42.750000%, 45.100000%, 40.780000%);">the </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(42.750000%, 45.100000%, 40.780000%);">byzantine culture of </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(42.750000%, 45.100000%, 40.780000%);">the </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(42.750000%, 45.100000%, 40.780000%);">east came into contact with </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(42.750000%, 45.100000%, 40.780000%);">the </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(42.750000%, 45.100000%, 40.780000%);">bavarian-frankish culture </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(42.750000%, 45.100000%, 40.780000%);">to th</span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(52.940000%, 54.510000%, 50.590000%);">e </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(42.750000%, 45.100000%, 40.780000%);">west. However</span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(52.940000%, 54.510000%, 50.590000%);">, </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(41.960000%, 44.310000%, 39.610000%);">owing to </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(41.960000%, 44.310000%, 39.610000%);">the </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(41.960000%, 44.310000%, 39.610000%);">fact </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(41.960000%, 44.310000%, 39.610000%);">that </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(41.960000%, 44.310000%, 39.610000%);">most of our knowledge of </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(41.960000%, 44.310000%, 39.610000%);">the </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(41.960000%, 44.310000%, 39.610000%);">Avars' culture is based </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(34.900000%, 37.650000%, 32.940000%);">upon </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(41.960000%, 44.310000%, 39.610000%);">fragmentary material evidence </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(56.470000%, 57.650000%, 53.330000%);">- </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(41.960000%, 44.310000%, 39.610000%);">nothing of their oral traditions has survived </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(56.470000%, 57.650000%, 53.330000%);">- </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(41.960000%, 44.310000%, 39.610000%);">it is very difficult </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(41.960000%, 44.310000%, 39.610000%);">to </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(41.960000%, 44.310000%, 39.610000%);">come </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(41.960000%, 44.310000%, 39.610000%);">to </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(41.960000%, 44.310000%, 39.610000%);">any firm conclusions as </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(41.960000%, 44.310000%, 39.610000%);">to </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(41.960000%, 44.310000%, 39.610000%);">their sense of ethnicity. </span></p></div></div></div> ER -