Near the village of Szólád in Hungary, a small Lombard period burial ground was archaeologically and scientifically investigated. This first volume of the published results of the project presents studies and analyses of soils and plants, of the remains of birds and fish, and of the people buried at Szólád. The volume shows not only how the graves were designed and the dead buried, but also how a small farming community shaped the landscape at Lake Balaton and utilized local resources during the transition from Late Antiquity to the early Middle Ages.