Archäologische Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ostbayern /West- und Südböhmen / Fines Transire. Archäologische Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ostbayern /West- und Südböhmen / Oberösterreich

The volume contains a foreword, words of welcome, an introduction, and eighteen papers on the connexion between archaeology and natural sciences. The contributions deal with isotope and DNA analyses from skeletons, a Late Hallstatt princely tumulus near Rovná, the restoration of its bronze vessels, archaeobotanical research in Southern Bohemian settlements, a triple burial in a Münchshöfen earthwork at Riedling, archaeomagnetic dating, the archaeometry of the pottery and phosphate analyses from Medieval settlements, theory and practice of flint working, dedro-dates from Eger, the dendro-archaeology of Eastern Bavaria, wooden artefacts and interdisciplinary research at Hallstatt, the archaeozoology of Eastern Bavaria, thirty years of archaeology and natural sciences in the district of Deggendorf, husbandry at Ceský Krumlov in Early Modern times, the taphonomy of cremations, the dendro-dating of the Medieval gold ore mill at Stará Pazderna as well as with an interdisciplinary research project on the hillfort of Hradište near Plzen. The book ends with a bibliography and lists of participants and authors.