Dr. Andreas Rau

Andreas Rau is a Senior Researcher at Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie (previously Centre for Baltic and Scandinavian Archaeology) in Schleswig, Germany. Andreas has published widely on Iron Age, Roman and Migration period archaeology including on hacksilver hoarding in southern Scandinavia, and on the deposits at Nydam, Denmark. He has curated displays on the Nydam ships in Schlesewig.


Books by Andreas Rau

Silver Beyond Empire

The transition between late Roman and early medieval Europe

Edited by Alice E. Blackwell, Fraser Hunter, Andreas Rau & Martin Goldberg | Forthcoming

Power and prestige in Europe during the first millennium AD were predominantly expressed in two portable materials: silver and gold. These precious metals underpinned the emergence of early Medieval kingdoms in Europe by providing the…









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