Wanderungsnarrative in der Ur- und Frühgeschichtsforschung

Abstract

Fundamental preconditions of narratives are an individual or collective agent, an evident starting and end, and a thread, providing coherence beyond a just chronological sequence. Not surprisingly, by reason of the vivid dialectic of continuity and change, migrations are an obvious subject of narratives. My paper discusses narratives of migration in archaeological research and demonstrates, how the mentioned preconditions are (re-)constructed and how they form narratives. The examples, taken from Neolithic and Early Medieval Archaeology, show, that an orientation on narrative patterns is seductive as well as deceptive for archaeological issues.

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