Alpár Dobos. Weapons and weapon depositions in the late row-grave cemeteries in Transylvania // Warriors, Weapons, and Harness from the 5th-10th Centuries in the Carpathian Basin / Ethnic and Cultural Interferences in the 1st Millennium B.C. to the 1st Millennium A.D. / Ed. Călin Cosma. – 2015. – Vol. XXII. – P. 57-88.

The late row-grave cemeteries from Transylvania, also known in the archaeological literature as Band-Vereșmort group, form a particular group within the archaeological material of the Early Avar Period. Generally, they were connected to the late Gepidic communities living under Avar rule. The present paper is an attempt to analyse the weapon burials discovered in the cemeteries in discussion. The basis of this examination is represented by a typological survey intended to outline the main chronological and functional characteristics of the different weapon categories. On the grounds of the weapon combinations correlated with the associated grave-goods regional differences are also detected.
Keywords: Transylvania, Early Avar Period, weapons, row-grave cemeteries, cultural traditions