“2015 publications on the history and archaeology of Central and Eastern Europe, c. 500 to c. 1250.” Medieval and Early Modern Studies for Central and Eastern Europe 8 (2016): 97-206.
“Amphorae and seals: the ‘sub-Byzantine’ Avars and the quaestura exercitus.” In Zwischen Byzanz und der Steppe. Archäologische und historische Studien für Csanád Bálint zum 70. Geburtstag. Edited by Ádám Bollók, Gergely Csiky, and Tivadar Vida, pp. 307-334. Budapest: Institute of Archaeology, 2016.
“An uneasy relation: Byzantium and the nomads,” Byzantine Studies public lecture, Dumbarton Oaks (Washington, D.C., October 13, 2016). Publisher’s version
“Avar Blitzkrieg, Slavic and Bulgar raiders, and Roman special ops: mobile warriors in the 6th-century Balkans.” In Central Eurasia in the Middle Ages. Studies in Honour of Peter B. Golden. Edited by István Zimonyi and Osman Karatay, pp. 69-90. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2016. Publisher’s version
“Burial in early medieval Greece: on ethnicity in Byzantine archaeology.” In Prof d-r Boris Borisov uchenici i priiateli. Edited by Boris Borisov, pp. 419-448. Veliko Tărnovo: IVIS, 2016.
“Burials in prehistoric mounds. Reconnecting with the past in early medieval Greece.” Revue des études byzantines 74 (2016): 269-85.
“Constantinople and the echo chamber. The Vlachs in the French crusade chronicles.” Medieval Encounters 22 (2016): 427-462.
“Clay pans and pita bread in early medieval Europe, from Spain to Eastern Europe,” lecture for the Archaeological Institute of America, Jacksonville society (Jacksonville, Florida, September 17, 2016)
Great Events in Religion. An Encyclopedia of Pivotal Events in Religious History. 3 vols. Santa Barbara/Denver: ABC-Clio, 2016 (together with Andrew Holt). Publisher’s version
“Mobile warriors in the 6th-century Balkans,” lecture for the Archaeological Institute of America, Gainesville society (Gainesville, Florida, September 14, 2016)
“Monede, castre și schimburi comerciale în peninsula Balcanică (sec. VI-începutul sec. VII).” Plural 4 (2016), no. 2: 5-26. Publisher’s version
“Observaţii asupra tipsiilor de lut din secolele VI-VII.” In Identităţi şi schimburi culturale în mileniul I p. Chr. Edited by Bogdan Ciupercă (Arheologia mileniului I p. Chr., 5), pp. 149-246. Brăila: Istros, 2016.
“Oblivion and invention: Charlemagne and his wars with the Avars in the medieval Hungarian chronicles,” paper presented at the 51st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 12-15, 2016
“Postcards from Maurilia, or the historiography of the Dark-Age cities of Byzantium.” Post-Classical Archaeologies 6 (2016): 89-110. Publisher’s version
“Remarks on coins, forts, and commercial exchanges in the 6th and early 7th-century Balkans,” lecture for the FLAME conference “Coins, minting, and economy in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages” (Princeton University, April 29, 2016)
Review of Hoards, Grave Goods, Jewellery. Objects in Hoards and in Burial Contexts during the Mongol Invasion of Central-Eastern Europe, by Mária Vargha (Oxford, 2015), in Medieval Archaeology 60 (2016), no. 1, 199.
Review of An Thaya und Notte im Mittelalter. Vergleichende archäologische Untersuchungen zu Sozial- und Siedlungsstrukturen im westslawischen Raum (6. bis 13. Jahrhundert), by Felix Biermann, Jiří Macháček, and Franz Schopper (Bonn, 2015), in Speculum 91 (2016), no. 2, 464-466.
“Shedding light on a murky matter: remarks on 6th to early 7th century clay lamps in the Balkans.” Archaeologia Bulgarica 20 (2016), no. 3: 51-116.
“Sredina srednjoavarskog perioda: opaske o polukružnim privjescima s alkom.” Starohrvatska prosvjeta 43 (2016): 199-216.
“The archaeology of medieval nomadism in Eastern Europe (10th-13th centuries). The current state of research,” paper presented at the 81st annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology (Orlando, April 8, 2016)
“Theophylact Simocatta revisited. A response to Andreas Gkoutzioukostas.” Byzantion Nea Hellás 35 (2016): 195-209.