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Publications

2024

Barfod, G. H., Feveile, L., & Sindbæk, S. M. (2024). "The Emperor's New Glass: The Introduction of Carolingian Wood Ash Glass in North Sea Trade", Archaeometry. Advance online publication: https://doi.org/10.1111/arcm.12968

2023

Croix, S. (2023). "Textile Production", in: S. M. Sindbæk (ed.), Northern Emporium Vol. 2: The networks of Viking-age Ribe, Højbjerg: Jutland Archaeological Society, 351-377.

Croix, S., Mikkensen P. H. & Sindbæk, S. M. "Wood", in: S. M. Sindbæk (ed.), Northern Emporium Vol. 2: The networks of Viking-age Ribe, Højbjerg: Jutland Archaeological Society, 385-402.

Deckers, P. & Sindbæk, S. M. (2023). "Non-ferrous Metalworking and the Figurative Casting Moulds from Posthustorvet", in: S. M. Sindbæk (ed.), Northern Emporium Vol. 2: The networks of Viking-age Ribe, Højbjerg: Jutland Archaeological Society,171-181.

Deckers, P. (2023). "Tating Ware", in: S. M. Sindbæk (ed.), Northern Emporium Vol. 2: The networks of Viking-age Ribe, Højbjerg: Jutland Archaeological Society, 69-82.

Imer, L. M. & Sindbæk, S. M. (2023). "Runic Inscriptions", in: S. M. Sindbæk (ed.), Northern Emporium Vol. 2: The networks of Viking-age Ribe, Højbjerg: Jutland Archaeological Society, 329-337.

Lauridsen, L. K., Brandt, L. Ø., Kveiborg, J. & Tjelldén, A. K. E. (2023). "The Leather from Posthustorvet", in: S. M. Sindbæk (ed.), Northern Emporium Vol. 2: The networks of Viking-age Ribe, Højbjerg: Jutland Archaeological Society, 339-350.

Lauridsen, L. K., Zolbin, M. A. & Birch, T. "Iron and Slag", in: S. M. Sindbæk (ed.), Northern Emporium Vol. 2: The networks of Viking-age Ribe, Højbjerg: Jutland Archaeological Society, 183-200.

Qvistgaard, S. S. & Sindbæk, S. M. (2023). "Bone- and Antlerworking", in: S. M. Sindbæk (ed.), Northern Emporium Vol. 2: The networks of Viking-age Ribe, Højbjerg: Jutland Archaeological Society, 283-317.

Raja, R. & Sindbæk, S. M. (2023). "A Samian Ware Sherd and the Recycling of Roman Materials", in: S. M. Sindbæk (ed.), Northern Emporium Vol. 2: The networks of Viking-age Ribe, Højbjerg: Jutland Archaeological Society, 83-85.

Rey-iglesia, A.,Jager, D. de, Presslee, S., Qvistgaard, S.S., Sindbæk, S.M., & Lorenzen, E.D (2023). "Antlers Far and Wide: Biomolecular Identification of Scandinavian Hair Combs from Ribe, Denmark, 720–900 CE", Journal of Archaeological Science, 153, 105773. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2023.105773.  

Sindbæk, S. M. (2023). "Amber", in: S. M. Sindbæk (ed.), Northern Emporium Vol. 2: The networks of Viking-age Ribe, Højbjerg: Jutland Archaeological Society, 319-328.

Sindbæk, S. M. (2023). "An Urban Network of the Viking Age", in: S. M. Sindbæk (ed.), Northern Emporium Vol. 2: The networks of Viking-age Ribe, Højbjerg: Jutland Archaeological Society, 411-429.

Sindbæk, S. M. (2023). "Excavating Ribe's Networks", in: S. M. Sindbæk (ed.), Northern Emporium Vol. 2: The networks of Viking-age Ribe, Højbjerg: Jutland Archaeological Society, 9-19.

Sindbæk, S. M. (2023). "Glass Beads and Beadmaking", in: S. M. Sindbæk (ed.), Northern Emporium Vol. 2: The networks of Viking-age Ribe, Højbjerg: Jutland Archaeological Society, 239-281.

Sindbæk, S. M. (2023). "Musical Instruments", in: S. M. Sindbæk (ed.), Northern Emporium Vol. 2: The networks of Viking-age Ribe, Højbjerg: Jutland Archaeological Society, 403-410.

Sindbæk, S. M. (ed.) (2023). Northern Emporium Vol. 2: The networks of Viking-age Ribe, Højbjerg: Jutland Archaeological Society.

Sindbæk, S. M. (2023). "Review of “Viking-Age Slavery” by M. Toplak, H. Østhus & R. Simek (eds.)". Germania 100, 2022, 439-441.

Sindbæk, S. M. (2023). “Viking-Age Markets and Emporia”, in: Shepard, J. & Treadwell, L. (eds.), Muslims on the Volga in the Viking Age: In the Footsteps of Ibn Fadlan, London: I.B. Tauris, 199-213.

Sindbæk, S. M. & Barfod, G. H. (2023). "Stone and Shell Products", in: S. M. Sindbæk (ed.), Northern Emporium Vol. 2: The networks of Viking-age Ribe, Højbjerg: Jutland Archaeological Society, 87-101.

2022

Croix, S. (2022): ”People, time, and place in Viking-Age Ribe”, in: Bjerregaard, M. M., Haase K. & Runge, M. (eds.): From Central Space to Urban Place, seminar 2: Spaces, places, and the earliest urbanisation of South Scandinavia. Report from an international seminar at Lindholm Høje, November 30th - December 1st 2021, Archaeological & Historical Studies in Centrality 6, Odense: Syddansk Universitetsforlag, 68-83. Available online.

Sindbæk, S. M. (2022). "Book Review: The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World – and Globalization Began. By  Valerie Hansen. [s.l.]: Viking. 320 pp. £20. ISBN 024135126X.", Early Medieval Europe: Early View.

Sindbæk, S. M. (ed.) (2022): Northern Emporium: Vol. 1 The making of Viking-age Ribe, Højbjerg: Jutland Archaeological Society..  

Sindbæk, S. M. (2022): ”Past, present, and future approaches to research in the earliest urbanisation”, in: Bjerregaard, M. M., Haase K. & Runge, M. (eds.): From Central Space to Urban Place, seminar 2: Spaces, places, and the earliest urbanisation of South Scandinavia. Report from an international seminar at Lindholm Høje, November 30th - December 1st 2021, Archaeological & Historical Studies in Centrality 6, Odense: Syddansk Universitetsforlag, 30-40. Available online.

Sindbæk, S. M. (2022). "Review of “Viking-Age slavery”, edited by Matthias Toplak / Hanne Østhus / Rudolf Simek" Germania.

Sulas, F., Bagge, M. S., Enovold, R., Harrault, L., Kristiansen, S. M., Ljungberg, T., Milek, K. B., Mikkelsen, P. H., Jensen, P. M., Orfanou, V., Out, W. A., Portillo, M. & Sindbæk, S. M. (2022) "Revealing the invisible dead: integrated bio-geoarchaeological profiling exposes human and animal remains in a seemingly ‘empty’ Viking-Age burial", Journal of Archaeological Science 141, 105589. DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2022.105589.

2021

Christensen, J., Daly, A., Henriksen, P. S., Holm, N., Jessen, C., Jørgensen, S., Olesen, L., Olsen, J., Kildetoft Schultz, M., Sindbæk, S. M. & Ulriksen., J. (2021). "Borgring: Uncovering the Strategy for a Viking-Age Ring Fortress in Denmark", Journal of Danish Archaeology 10, 1-22. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7146/dja.v10i0.121920.

Deckers, P., Croix, S. & Sindbæk, S. M. (2021). “Assembling the Full Cast: Ritual Performance, Gender Transgression and Iconographic Innovation in Viking-Age Ribe”, Medieval Archaeology 65:1, 30-65. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00766097.2021.1923893.

Ljungkvist, E., Thomsen, B., Sindbæk, S. M., Christensen, J., Holm, N,. Schultz, M. K. & Ulriksen, J. (2021). "‘The Coldest Case of All’: Fire Investigation at the Viking Age Ring Fortress of Borgring, Denmark", Journal of Danish Archaeology 10, 1-12. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7146/dja.v10i0.12191/.

Imer, L. & Sindbæk, S. M. (2021). "Nye fund af runer i Ribe", Danske Studier 2021, 5–30.

Lund, J. & Sindbæk, S. M. (2021). "Crossing the Maelstrom: New Departures in Viking Archaeology", Journal of Archaeological Research 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10814-021-09163-3.

Madsen, L. H. & Sindbæk, S. M. (2021). "Preface", in: A. Pedersen & M Schifter Bagge (eds.), Horse and Rider in the late Viking Age: Equestrian burial in perspective, Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 9-14.  

Mortensen, M. F., Baittinger, C., Christensen, J., Nielsen, A. B., Nielsen, S., Pihl, A., Prøsch-Danielsen, L., Ravn, M., Sindbæk, S. M. & Ulriksen, J. (2021). "Turfs and Timbers: Resource Use in the Construction of a Viking Age Ring Fortress", Journal of Danish Archaeology 10, 1-18. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7146/dja.v10i0.12191.

Orfanou, V., Birch, T., Sindbæk, S. M., Feveile, C., Barfod, G.H. & Lesher, E. E.  (2021). "On Diverse Arts: Crucible Metallurgy and the Polymetallic Cycle at Scandinavia’s Earliest Viking Town, Ribe (8th–9th c. CE), Denmark", Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 13, 81. DOI: doi.org/10.1007/s12520-021-01308-1.

Raja, R. & Sindbæk, S. M. (2021). "Dark Sides of the City" (editorial), Journal of Urban Archaeology 4, 11-14.

Raja, R. & Sindbæk, S. M. (2021). "Network Evolutions and High-Definition Narratives: An Introduction", Journal of Urban Archaeology 3, 11-12. DOI: doi.org/10.1484/J.JUA.5.123672.

Trant, P. L. K., Kristiansen, S. M., Christiansen, A. V., Wouters, B. & Sindbæk, S. M. (2021). "Sampling density and spatial analysis: a methodological pXRF study of the geochemistry of a Viking-Age house in Ribe, Denmark", Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 13:21. DOI: doi.org/10.1007/s12520-020-01243-7.  

2020

Croix, S. (2020). "Identifying ‘occasions’ of the self in Viking-age Scandinavia: Textile production as gendered performance and its social and spatial settings”, in: Eriksen, S., Holmqvist, K. L. & Bandlien, B. (eds.), Approaches to the medieval self: Representations and conceptualizations of the self in the textual and material culture of Western Scandinavia, c. 800-1500, 235-254. DOI: doi.org/10.1515/9783110655582

Croix, S. (2020). "Objects, Contexts, and Use of Space: The 'Biography' of a Workshop in Eighth-Century Ribe", Journal of Urban Archaeology 2: 15-30. DOI: doi.org/10.1484/J.JUA.5.121526.

Croix, S. (2020). "Ribe's pre-Christian cemetery - the burial customs of an early urban community", in: Pedersen, A. & Sindbæk, S. M. (eds.), Viking Encounters: Proceedings of the 18th Viking Congress, Aarhus, 465-480.      

Croix, S. (2020). “The dead of the Viking-age towns in Scandinavie”, in: Aannestad, H. L., Pedersen, U., Moen, M., Neumann, E. & Berg, H. L. (eds.), Vikings Across Boundaries: Viking-Age transformations vol. II, 236-257, DOI: doi.org/10.4324/9780429346194.

Croix, S. (2020). “Urban way-of-life as identity? A case study from Ribe’s market-place”, in: Aannestad, H. L., Pedersen, U., Moen, M., Neumann, E. & Berg, H. L. (eds.), Vikings Across Boundaries: Viking-Age transformations vol. II, 115-128. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429346194.

Croix, S., Deckers, P. & Sindbæk, S. M. (2020). "Recasting a Viking warrior woman from Ribe: 3D digital image reconstruction compared", Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 32, 102455.

Croix, S., Frei, K.M., Sindbæk, S.M. & Søvsø, M. (2020). "Individual geographic mobility in a Viking-Age emporium – Burial practices and strontium isotope analyses of Ribe’s earliest inhabitants", PLOS ONE 15:8, e0237850. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0237850.

Croix, S., Sindbæk, S.M. & Søvsø, M. (2020). "An 8th-Century Mayen Ware Pitcher found in Ribe, Denmark", Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt 50:4, 601-612.

Dobat, A. S., Deckers, P., Heeren, S., Lewis, M., Thomas, S. & Wessman, A. (2020). “Towards a Cooperative Approach to Hobby Metal Detecting: The European Public Finds Recording Network (EPFRN) Vision Statement”, European Journal of Archaeology 23:2, 272-292. DOI: doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2020.1.

Sindbæk, S. M. (2020). "A complex beadwork. Bead trade and trade beads in Scandinavia, ca. 800-1000 A.D. revisited", in: Donnellan, L.D. (ed.) Archaeological networks and social interaction Routledge, 146-172. DOI: doi.org/10.4324/9781351003063.

Sindbæk, S. M. (2020). "Communities on the edge: Retracing the Northern Emporia", in: Gautier, A. & Malbos, L. (eds), Communautés Maritimes et Insulaires du Premier Moyen Âge, Turnhout, 127-141.

Sindbæk, S. M. (2020). "Nøglen til de første byer", in: Klæsøe, I. S., Jepsen, J. B., Amtsen, F., Staal, B., Tomlinson, A., Barry, S., Thomsen, N. B. & Mortensen, S. T. (eds.), Glimt fra Vikingetiden. [np]: Sammenslutningen af Danske Amatørarkæologer, 98-103.    

2019

Ashby, S. P. & Sindbæk, S. M. (2019). Crafts and Social Networks in Viking Towns, Oxford.

Ashby, S. P. & Sindbæk, S. M. (2019). "Crafting the urban network", in: Ashby, S. P. & Sindbæk, S. M. (eds.), Crafts and Social Networks in Viking Towns, Oxford, 1-30.

Ashby, S. P. & Sindbæk, S. M. (2019). "Between domestic circles and urban networks", in: Ashby, S. P. & Sindbæk, S. M. (eds.), Crafts and Social Networks in Viking Towns, Oxford, 53-58.

Ashby, S. P. & Sindbæk, S. M. (2019). "Constructing specialism", in: Ashby, S. P. & Sindbæk, S. M. (eds.), Crafts and Social Networks in Viking Towns, Oxford, 127-132.

Ashby, S. P. & Sindbæk, S. M. (2019). "Collaboration and expert knowledge", in: Ashby, S. P. & Sindbæk, S. M. (eds.), Crafts and Social Networks in Viking Towns, Oxford, 225-230.

Croix, S. (2019). "La ville portuaire de Ribe. L'archéologie en «haute résolution»", Dossier d'Archéologie 391, 46-49.

Croix, S., Deckers, P., Feveile, C., Knudsen, M., Qvistgaard, S. S., Sindbæk, S, M. & Wouters, B. (2019). "Single context, metacontext, and high definition archaeology: Integrating new standards of stratigraphic excavation and recording", Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 2019, DOI: doi.org/10.1007/s10816-019-09417-x.

Croix, S., Gundersen, O. E., Kristiansen, S. M., Olsen, J., Sindbæk, S. M. & Søvsø, M. (2019). "Dating earthwork fortifications: Integrating five dating methods in Viking-age Ribe, Denmark", Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 26.    

Croix, S., Neiß, M. & Sindbæk, S. M. (2019). "The réseau opératoire of Urbanization: Craft collaborations and organization in an Early Medieval workshop in Ribe, Denmark", Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 1-20, DOI: 10.1017/S0959774318000525.     

2018

Christensen, J., Holm, N., Schultz, M. K., Sindbæk, S. M. & Ulriksen, J. (2018). "The Borgring Project 2016–2018", in: Hansen, J. & Bruus, M. (eds.), The fortified Viking Age. 36th Interdisciplinary Viking Symposium, Odense, 60-68.

Croix, S. (2018). "3D scanning as documentation and analytical tool: First field experiences at the Northern Emporium excavation project, Ribe", in: Raja, R. & Sindbæk, S. M. (eds.), Urban network evolutions: Towards a high-definition archaeology, Aarhus, 167-173.

Deckers, P. (2018). "Archaeological metal detecting by amateurs in Flanders: Legislation, policy and practice of a hobby", in: Campbell, S., White, L. & Thomas, S. (eds.), Competing Values in Archaeological Heritage, Cham, 103-123, DOI: doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94102-8_8.

Hrnjic, M. (2018). "Missing links: Viking-Age silver rings and urban networks", in: Raja, R. & Sindbæk, S. M. (eds.), Urban network evolutions: Towards a high-definition archaeology, Aarhus, 203-208.  

Ivanovaite, L., Bjørnevad, M., Philippsen, B., Hoggard, C., Enghild, J. J., Scavenius, C., Vasiliauskaite, A., Dručkuvienė, G., Jensen, P., Maring, R., Dodd, J., Serwatka, K. & Riede, F. (2018). "Selected find spots along the Swedish coast of the Baltic Sea are presented, in order to illustrate different ways in which hunter-gatherer societies related to the coast during the Mesolithic. Transformations of the landscape were mainly due to isostatic", Archaeologia Baltica 25, 53-70, DOI: doi.org/10.15181/ab.v25i0.1830.

Orfanou, V. & Birch, T. (2018). "Viking-Age metals and urbanisation: The case of Ribe in Denmark", in: Raja, R. & Sindbæk, S. M. (eds.), Urban network evolutions: Towards a high-definition archaeology, Aarhus, 189-195.

Phillipsen, B. (2018). "Reservoir effects in a Stone Age fjord on Lolland, Denmark", Radiocarbon 60:2, 1-13.

Philippsen, B. & Schou, M. F. (2018). "A new calibration curve for improved radiocarbon dating of urban contexts", in: Raja, R. & Sindbæk, S. M. (eds.), Urban network evolutions: Towards a high-definition archaeology, Aarhus, 197-208. 

Raja, R. & Sindbæk, S. M. (eds.) (2018). Urban network evolutions: Towards a high-definition archaeology, Aarhus.

Raja, R. & Sindbæk, S. M. (2018). "Urban network evolutions: Exploring dynamics and flows through evidence from urban contexts", in: Raja, R. & Sindbæk, S. M. (eds.), Urban network evolutions: Towards a high-definition archaeology, Aarhus, 13-17.

Raja, R. & Sindbæk, S. M. (2018). "Through the looking glass: Glass, high-definition archaeology and urban networks in the 8th century CE from North to South", in: Raja, R. & Sindbæk, S. M. (eds.), Urban network evolutions: Towards a high-definition archaeology, Aarhus, 289-295.

Sindbæk, S. M. (2018). "Harald Blåtands ringborge skulle modstå vikingeangreb og sikre kongen en mobil hær", Videnskab.dk.     

Sindbæk, S. M. (2018). "Northern Emporium: The archaeology of urban networks in Viking-Age Ribe", in: Raja, R. & Sindbæk, S. M. (eds.), Urban network evolutions: Towards a high-definition archaeology, Aarhus, 161-166.   

Sindbæk, S. M. (2018). "Review of: N. Christie, & H. Herold (eds.), Fortified Settlements in Early Medieval Europe: Defended Communities of the 8th-10th Centures (Oxford 2016)", The Medieval Review 18:10:01.

Sindbæk, S. M. (2018)."Tusindvis af fund fra stor ekspedition til vikingetidens første by", Videnskab.dk.  

Sindbæk, S. M. & Imer, L. M. (2018). "Kæm, kam!", in: Skalk 2018:1, 16. 

Trant, P. L. K. (2018). "Geoarchaeology of early northern cities: Microscopic and geochemical investigations of urban spaces in Denmark", in: Raja, R. & Sindbæk, S. M. (eds.), Urban network evolutions: Towards a high-definition archaeology, Aarhus, 183-187.  

Wouters, B. (2018). "Geoarchaeology and micromorphology at Ribe: A Northern Emporium in high definition", in: Raja, R. & Sindbæk, S. M. (eds.), Urban network evolutions: Towards a high-definition archaeology, Aarhus, 175-182.  

2017

Crabtree, P. J., Reilly, E., Wouters, B., Devos, Y., Bellens, T. & Schryvers, A. (2017). "Environmental evidence from early urban Antwerp: New data from archaeology, micromorphology, macrofauna and insect remains", Quaternary International 460, 108-123.

Croix, S., Sindbæk, S. M. & Søvsø, M. (2017). "Uddannelsesudgravning ved Rosen Allé, Ribe, 2014-2016",  Middelalderarkæologisk Nyhedsbrev.

Sindbæk, S. M. (2017). "Urbanism and exchange in the North Atlantic/Baltic, 600-1000CE", in: T. Hodos (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Archaeology and Globalization, London-New York, 553-565.

Sindbæk, S. M. (2017). "Review of: P. F. Wallace. 2016. Viking Dublin: the Wood Quay Excavations (Newbridge 2016)", Antiquity 91:357, 828-830.

Sindbæk, S. M. (2017). "A Site of Intersection: Staraya Ladoga, Eastern Silver, and Long-Distance Communication Networks in Early Medieval Europe", in: Callmer, J., Gustin, I. & Roslund, M. (eds.), Identity Formation and Diversity in the Early Medieval Baltic and Beyond: Communicators and Communication, Leiden, 76-90.

Ulriksen, J., Christensen, J., Holm, N., Schultz, M. K. & Sindbæk, S. M. (2017). "Borgring sæson 1 - vold, brand og ødelæggelse", in: Museum Sydøstdanmark, Årbog 2016, 10-21.

Wouters, B., Devos, Y., Milek, K., Vrydaghs, L., Bartholomieux, B., Tys, D., Moolhuizen, C. & van Asch, N. (2017). "Medieval markets: a soil micromorphological and archaeobotanical study of the urban stratigraphy of Lier (Belgium)", Quaternary International 460, 48-64.

2016

Sindbæk, S. M. (2016). "Steatite vessels and the Viking diaspora. Migrants, travellers, and cultural change in early medieval Britain and Ireland", in: Barrett, J. H. & Gibbon, S. J. (eds.), Maritime Societies of the Viking Age and Medieval World, Oxford, 198-218.

Sindbæk, S. M. (2016). "Review of: J. Kershaw, Viking Identities: Scandinavian Jewellery in England (Oxford 2013)", Medieval Archaeology 59:1, 343-344.

Sindbæk, S. M. (2016). "Crafting networks in Viking towns", Medieval and Modern Matters 4, 119-132.

Sindbæk, S. M. & Croix, S. (2016). "Helhest og Himmelhund: Dyrebegravelser på Ribes ældste gravplads", Skalk 4, 3-9.

Sindbæk, S. M., Christensen, J., Goodchild, H. & Holm, N. (2016). "Borgring: En nyopdaget vikingeborg ved Køge", Museum Sydøstdanmark Årbog 2015, 8-19.