This festschrift contains a foreword, the honouree’s bibliography and the theses he has supervised. The 42 contributions are organised around his work for the Gesellschaft für Archäologie in Bayern e.V., the Rhineland, Bavaria, Germany, Europe, the rest of the world and the natural sciences. Specifically, they cover glass cameos, Cologne’s topography, St. Viktor at Xanten, Haus Meer, Bonn’s Jewish quarter, large Celtic open settlements, Roman roads, almandine jewellery, Seaxes/Spathae, grave manipulation, Early Medieval settlements and tombs, Tassilo as a monastery founder, artificial waterways, execution by breaking on the wheel, and spurs with mask decoration. Further topics include sound vessels and clay trumpets, castles, urban archaeology, monasteries, workshop waste, Jewish life in Bavaria, the hospital cemetery at Neuburg a.d.D., discarded written documents, early Christianity, enamel-painted glass cups, the BA plague, LBA gold diadems, pottery with metal features, evidence for “Amazons”, the Roman town of Sucidava Moesica, West Slavic animal motifs, exported Rhenish stoneware, Holocene biodiversity loss and pollen analyses from the Arzmoos bog.
