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Crafting Networks in Viking Towns

Crafting Networks in Viking Towns

Responsables du projet/Project leaders :

Steve Ashby (steve.ashby@york.ac.uk), Søren M. Sindbæk (soren.sindbaek@york.ac.uk)

Établissement principal/Main institution :

University of York

Projet en cours/Project in progress

Description :

This project brings together leading UK and Scandinavian archaeological specialists to undertake a comparative survey of crafted products and workshop assemblages from Viking-period towns in Northern Europe in order to clarify the role of long-distance interactions in early medieval urbanism. Striking similarities of material culture show that these places, though sometimes separated by hundreds of kilometres, were often as tightly related as neighbouring villages. Yet we have but a vague understanding of this communication. Did early medieval urban communities form a densely connected ‘global village’, or did they interact through selective, personal links to a few distant sites?

[Lien/Link : http://www.york.ac.uk/archaeology/research/current-projects/cnvt/]


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Rédaction (20 décembre 2014). Crafting Networks in Viking Towns. Mondes nordiques et normands médiévaux. Consulté le 18 avril 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/rilo


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