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About This Book
This is the second and final volume presenting the results of the Northern Emporium research project and the high-definition excavations carried out within this programme in 2017-18 in Ribe. The 22 chapters survey the remarkable range of finds retrieved from this hub of the North Sea world in the eighth and ninth centuries AD: artefacts made from pottery, stone, shell, glass, metals, amber, leather, wood, textile, bone and antler. They offer detailed insights that highlight discoveries such as the assemblages from glass bead or comb-making workshops, and rare finds such as wooden furnishings and musical instruments.The focus of the book is on assembling Ribe's early urban network. By analysing finds and their context, we develop a picture of social roles and interactions between residents and visitors in the emporium. And we follow the connections they created with other worlds as we trace the flows of glass vessels, pottery and wine barrels from Western Europe; iron, stone and animal products from North and Central Scandinavia and beads and coins that travelled from the Middle East and the Indian Ocean into northern Europe's new maritime frontier.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title page
- Colophon
- Contents
- Preface
- 1) Excavating Ribe's networks
- 2) The pottery from Posthustorvet
- 3) Rhenish and other imported pottery
- 4) Tating ware
- 5) A Samian ware sherd and the recycling of Roman materials
- 6) Stone and shell products
- 7) Whetstones and touchstones
- 8) The numismatic evidence from Posthustorvet
- 9) Non-ferrous metals: Ornaments, fittings, and vessels
- 10) Non-ferrous metalworking and the figurative casting moulds from Posthustorvet
- 11) Iron and slag
- 12) Vessel-glass sherds from Posthustorvet
- 13) Glass beads and beadmaking
- 14) Bone- and antlerworking
- 15) Amber
- 16) Runic inscriptions
- 17) The leather from Posthustorvet
- 18) Textile production
- 19) Textile finds
- 20) Wood
- 21) Musical instruments
- 22) An urban network of the Viking Age
- List of authors