In 2016, the Northern Emporium Project set out to explore the evolution and dynamics of the earliest urban network in Scandinavia. 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