Cooperation partners: Oberösterreichische Landes-Kultur GmbH (Dr.in Jutta Leskovar)Independent researchers: Dr.in Martina Reitberger (Feldforschung) the University of Innsbruck and the OÖ Landeskultur GmbH have been jointly investigating the cemetery of Micheldorf-Am Stein in Upper Austria (Fig 1) – a burial site of the 8th and 9th centuries AD which was discovered during construction work in 2016 and then partially excavated the archaeology firm Archeonova The grave goods from the 2016-campaign were analysed by students from the Universities of Innsbruck and Vienna the UIBK and the OÖLK are continuing the fieldwork in the framework of a field school (Fig 3 Plan of the cemetery Micheldorf-Am Stein (B During the 2016- and 2022-excavations it was possible to determine the cemetery’s extent in the Northwest and the Southeast (Fig 44 burials have been excavated and another 10 grave shafts documented over ground All of the recovered burials were single inhumation graves some of them containing moderate sets of grave goods such as simple knives and pieces of jewellery made of wire and pressed sheet metal which show similarities to objects from the Middle-Danube region and the Eastern Alps (Fig 4 Grave goods from burials of the excavation 2016 (N 5 Residues of textiles in the backside of sheet-metal brooch (A it is notable that almost half of the graves excavated until today contained the burials of subadult individuals in particular small children who died in early infancy yet receiving the same burial treatment as the rest of the community (Fig The cemetery’s internal structure exposes at least two different grave groups which can be clearly distinguished by their orientation (Fig The northern group aligns with the Krems river on a Norwest-Southeast axis whereas the southern grave group is oriented towards Georgenberg hill on a Southwest-Northeast axis (Fig A diagonal structure that cuts through the cemetery – roughly between the two burial groups – possibly represents a former path running through the burial ground further archaeological investigations are required to confirm this interpretation Whether the reasons for the cemetery’s spatial structure are to be sought in chronological social or cultural differences of the buried individuals is further investigated in the ongoing analyses of the finds and the human remains but will also require further excavations since the cemetery definitely extends beyond the current excavation borders The cemetery of Micheldorf-Am Stein is of scientific relevance not only because of its interesting internal structure but also because of its specific regional setting The Krems Valley is a focal point of early medieval research in Upper Austria which was supposed to serve as a base for the establishment of the Duchy’s ecclesiastical organisation in the area and for the expansion of Bavarian rule over the people settling east of the river Traun Although the founding charter of the monastery mentions a “Slavic deanery” (Slawendekanie) led by a “Župan” the early medieval text actually does not reveal very much about the people living in this area in the early Middle Ages Today we have only a vague idea that the regions between the river Traun and central Lower Austria became a geopolitical buffer zone after the end of the Roman Empire the Bavarian Duchy and the Frankish Empire emerged in the early Middle Ages and a little later the Duchy of Carantania in the South remain largely silent about how society and settlements developed between these dominions in the late Merovingian and early Carolingian periods The Upper Krems Valley in particular has become a focal point for research because in the area of present-day Micheldorf several (late) antique settlement sites have been recorded as well as three early medieval cemeteries (Fig 1): the cemetery of Micheldorf-Kremsdorf with over 70 graves of the 8th and early 9th centuries which expose diverse cultural contacts to the South the East and the West; the cemetery of Micheldorf-Georgenberg (dated to the 9th and 10th centuries) which most likely represents the first churchyard on Georgenberg hill and the successor generation of the people buried in Kremsdorf The burial site Micheldorf-Am Stein raises new questions about early medieval society and settlement structures in the Upper Krems Valley or cultural developments in the Micheldorf area in regard to processes of Christianization and the consolidation of ecclesiastic infrastructure in the Carolingian period It also provides new insights into the supra-regional importance of South-Eastern Upper Austria as a cultural border and contact zone during the early medieval periods The ERC synergy project HistoGenes (Nr Walther Pohl at the Austrian Academy of Science is currently conducting a large interdisciplinary study that looks in the population history of Eastern Central by merging archaeological anthropological and historical approaches with new methods from archaeogenetics Since Upper Austria constitutes crucial buffer zone between Western and Eastern European cultures in the early medieval period 25 individuals from the cemetery of Micheldorf-Am Stein will be included in ERC study allowing to explore the genetic makeup of the community internally and in relation to other European areas Selected grave goods from Micheldorf-Am Stein are being analysed as part of the FWF-funded CHRONOCU project (headed by Dr. habil. Marianne Mödlinger/University of Innsbruck) in which voltammetry of immobilised particles (VIMP) is being developed as a new method for dating bronzes from archaeological contexts We would like to thank the owners and tenant of the property on which the cemetery is located for granting permission to excavate the municipality of Micheldorf for supporting our research which carried out the rescue excavations in 2016 Hausmair, B. 2009. ‘Langsax und Gürtel. Archäologische Hinweise zu kulturhistorischen Prozessen im frühmittelalterlichen Ostalpenraum’. Sonius 5: 5–6. ———. 2016. ‘Micheldorf/Kremsdorf – Frühmittelalter zwischen Baiovaria und Karantanien’. In Frühmittelalter in Oberösterreich. Inventare aus den Sammlungen des Oberösterreichischen Landesmuseums, edited by J. Leskovar, 11–189. Studien zur Kulturgeschichte von Oberösterreich 40. Linz: OÖLM. ———. 2022. ‘Neue Einblicke ins frühmittelalterliche Kremstal: das Gräberfeld von Micheldorf-Am Stein’. Sonius 31: 3–6. ———. 2022. ‘Some remarks on society and settlement dynamics in the early medieval Alpine foothills of north-western Noricum’. 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