Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Theoretical framework -- 2 Approaching the Early Slavs -- 3 Written sources -- 4 The Carpathian Basin -- 5 The East German and Czech lands -- 6 Poland -- 7 Western (Right-Bank) Ukraine and Belarus -- 8 Eastern (Left-Bank) Ukraine and Western Russia -- 9 Migration -- 10 Language -- 11 Ethnicity -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Early Slavs in northwestern Russia? -- Appendix 2: Early Slavs on the Middle Volga? -- Bibliography -- Index