• Die Grablege der Udonen in Harsefeld

    Im Zuge archäologischer Untersuchungen im Bereich von Burg, Kloster und Stift Harsefeld, Lkr. Stade, Niedersachsen, konnte in den Jahren 1992–1993 die Grablege des Adelsgeschlechtes der Udonen – auch als Grafen von Stade bezeichnet – durch die Stader Kreisarchäologie annähernd vollständig…

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  • Urbanisation of Viking-age Scandinavia

    Dr. Sven Kalmring The major proto-urban centres of the early medieval world in Northern Europe such as Hedeby, Ribe, Birka and Kaupang, possessed a specifically favourable traffic-geographic situation, were situated in borderlands and could attract many merchants from sometimes far-distant…

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  • Birka – A State of Research

    The project “Birka – A State of Research” aims to prepare a by the länsstyrelsen in Stockholm only in 2012 urgently demanded state of research of the academic Birka investigations. The author’s points of departure are his previous archive studies…

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  • Ausgrabung Haithabu-Flachgräberfeld

    In April to October 2017 a larger section of Hedeby’s Flat-Grave Burial Ground (Flachgräberfeld; Busdorf, Kreis Schleswig-Flensburg; LA No. 31-3; excavation ALSH 2017-32) was subject to an archaeological investigation. The declared aim of this research-excavation was to relocate the exact…

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