Row grave cemetery, farmstead burials and settlement of Lauchheim. Exemplary analysis of an early medieval local society

劳赫海姆-瓦瑟富尔什拥有1300多个墓葬，是德国西南部迄今为止挖掘出的最大的排墓墓地。结合CA。Mittelhofen定居点内的80个坟墓和已经分析过的定居点本身，它提供了重建中世纪早期当地社会的独特机会。这样广泛而详细的本地研究尚未实现。在考古学方面，将分析已经完成的关于横卧墓地的广泛文件，包括对发现和特征的共同记录，并辅之以纺织品考古学和许多计算机断层扫描数据，并辅之以农场墓地的可管理数量的发现和特征。两者都将与已完成的定居点研究和已完成的行墓墓地临时报告联系起来。在人类学方面，将详细分析两个埋葬地点的性别、年龄和病理学的最终文件，并辅以考古动物学研究。该项目的目的是根据具体的研究问题，对这一独特的原始材料进行最终和全面的解释。包括所有信息在内的行墓墓地项目数据库是一个中心起点，以便通过网络和地理信息系统分析开发和评估复杂的解释。它们将直接包括农场墓地以及相关的定居点特征。通过开放空间的概念，不同的范围，层次和背景将被检测到，导致一个更多样的，并通过分化成几个阶段-一个比以前更动态的重建。在劳赫海姆之外，必须对中世纪早期地方社会的发达模式在多大程度上可以转移到其他地方和地区进行分析和评估。有了这个提案，在过去30年中进行的关于中世纪早期劳赫海姆的研究和项目将结束。这个提案与三个进一步的项目相结合。他们处理阿拉曼尼亚（瓦莱丽Schoenenberg）的早期中世纪定居点的工艺和内部结构，早期中世纪庄园制度的考古学（托马斯迈耶）和当地牧师和教会组织在西南部（斯蒂芬Patzold）。一些实证研究和不同的记录相结合，将提供新的见解。我们希望共同制定一个经验饱和和理论基础良好的模型，中世纪早期的地方社会在阿拉曼尼亚，在史学和考古学的研究现状的基础上。

Lauchheim-Wasserfurche with more than 1300 burial represents the largest excavated row grave cemetery in Southwest Germany still today. In combination with ca. 80 graves within the settlement Mittelhofen and the already analysed settlement itself, it offers the unique opportunity to reconstruct an early medieval local society. Such an extensive and detailed local study has not been achieved yet. Archaeologically, the already completed and extensive documentation of the row grave cemetery, including the common recording of finds and features, complemented by textile archaeology and many computer tomography data, will be analysed, and complemented by the manageable number of finds and features from the farm stead burials. Both will be linked up with the finished settlement study and interim reports of the row grave cemetery already made. Anthropologically, the finalised documentation of sex, age and pathologies of both burial places will be analysed in detail, supplemented by an archaeozoological study.The aim of the project is the final and comprehensive interpretation of this unique source material, following specific research questions. The project data base of the row grave cemetery, including all information, represents the central starting point - in order to develop and evaluate complex interpretations by network and GIS analysis. They will include directly the farm stead burials as well as the connected settlement features. By an open space concept, different ranges, levels and contexts shall be detected, leading to a more manifold and - by differentiation into several phases - a more dynamic reconstruction than made before. Beyond Lauchheim it has to be analysed and evaluated, to what extent the developed model of an early medieval local society can be transferred to other places and regions. With this proposal, the research and the projects on early medieval Lauchheim, undertaken during the last 30 years, will be finished.This proposal is combined with three further projects. They deal with craftmanship and inner structures of early medieval settlements in Alamannia (Valerie Schoenenberg), with the archaeology of early medieval manorial systems (Thomas Meier) and with local priests and church organisation in the Southwest (Steffen Patzold). The combination of some empirical studies and different records will offer new insights. Together we want to formulate an empirically saturated and theoretically well-grounded model of early medieval local societies in Alamannia, based on the current state of research in historiography and archaeology.