Aarhus University Seal

Northern Emporium: The Archaeology of Network Urbanism in Ribe

MCH seminar

Info about event

Time

Thursday 2 May 2019,  at 13:00 - 16:00

Location

The Old Lecture Hall, Aarhus University, Moesgaard Allé 20, 8270 Højbjerg, Denmark (Building 4206-139)

Organizer

IKS

In 2016, the Northern Emporium Project set out to explore the evolution and dynamics of the earliest urban network in Scan-dinavia. The project embarked on a 14-month excavation in the settlement and workshop layers in Ribe, one of the richest archaeological sites of the North Sea trading world, which emerged in the eighth century CE. This seminar presents a look at some initial results of the Carlsberg-funded project, from a “high definition” approach to stratigraphic excavation in microlaminated layers, to a new approach to radiocarbon calibration, and the impact of global networks in Viking-age trade.

13:15        Søren M. Sindbæk: Introduction

13:40        Claus Feveile: The excavation

14:00        Barbora Wouters: Geoarchaeology in Ribe

14:20        Jacob Kveiborg: Zooarchaeology and fur trade.

14:40        B. Philipsen & J. Olsen: 775 CE. Annual  calibration and high-definition radiocarbon dating

15:00        S. Croix: 3D scanning: Context and metacontext

15:20        P. Deckers: the urban network of Tating ware

15:40        Questions and discussion

See programme