"Row graves - let us use the source abundance!" Was the demand of the participants of a conference from 17 to 19 February 2015 in Mannheim. 25 posts summarizes the present session. They point to new and diverse perspectives, demonstrating that the sources are far from being exhausted, show new opportunities in collaboration with anthropology or present  hitherto only inadequately investigated sources. Above all, it was a meeting of the discussions. The focus of the meeting was the question of "how do we make merovingian archeology attractive?". The proceedings tries to find answers.