Frontmatter -- Contents -- Early European towns. The development of the economy in the Frankish realm between dynamism and deceleration AD 500-1100 -- Where do trading towns come from? Early medieval Venice and the northern emporia -- Provenancing Merovingian garnets by PIXE and μ-Raman spectrometry -- Flourishing places in North-Eastern Italy: towns and emporia between late antiquity and the Carolingian age -- Rome in the ninth century: the economic system -- Production and circulation of silver and secondary products (lead and glass) from Frankish royal silver mines at Melle (eighth to tenth century) -- The hinterlands of early medieval towns: the transformation of the countryside in Tuscany -- Where is the eighth century in the towns of the Meuse valley? -- Towns and rivers, river towns: environmental archaeology and the archaeological evaluation of urban activities and trade -- The royal foundation of Recópolis and the urban renewal in Iberia during the second half of the sixth century -- Recent archaeological research in Haithabu -- Agrarian production and the emporia of mid Saxon England, ca. AD 650-850 -- Urbanisation in Northern and Eastern Europe, ca. AD 700-1100 -- Urban archaeology in Magdeburg: results and prospects -- Micromorphology and post-Roman town research: the examples of London and Magdeburg -- Karlburg am Main (Bavaria) and its role as a local centre in the late Merovingian and Ottonian periods -- Some remarks on the topography of Franconofurd -- Marburg Castle: the cradle of the province Hesse, from Carolingian to Ottonian times -- Das karolingerzeitliche Kloster Fulda - ein „monasterium in solitudine". Seine Strukturen und Handwerksproduktion nach den seit 1898 gewonnenen archäologischen Daten -- New findings of the excavations in Mosaburg/Zalavár (Western Hungary).

"Tribal" societies and the rise of early medieval trade: archaeological evidence from Polish territories (eighth-tenth centuries) -- Counted and weighed silver: the fragmentation of coins in early medieval East Central Europe -- Early medieval centre in Pohansko near Břeclav/Lundeburg: munitio, emporium or palatium of the rulers of Moravia? -- Ninth-century Mikulčice: the "market of the Moravians"? The archaeological evidence of trade in Great Moravia -- Ein frühmittelalterliches Grubenhaus von Bielovce (Slowakei): Befund und Rekonstruktion -- On "Orient-preference" in archaeological research on the Avars, proto-Bulgarians and conquering Hungarians -- Backmatter.