It is widely accepted that the Viking Age (c. 800–1050) stimulated the development of long-
distance, regional and local trade and exchange networks. The clearest archaeological …

Viking-Age Scandinavia was fuelled by exotic objects, notably the silver coins that travelled
across long-distance networks and were available in almost every corner of the Viking …

This book investigates whether Viking hoards leave behind traces of the people who
deposited them and the reasons for doing so. The focus is on the Viking-Age hoards of the …

Besides its vast number of silver hoards, two features of Viking-Age Gotland stand out: a lack
of evidence for centralised power, and an abundance of landing places. The latter may have …

The archaeological site” the Bulwark”(Bulverket), is a classical historical and archaeological
problem in the Baltic Sea Region. The construction built in the 1130s, was a gigantic urban …

Abstract Pahlman, LM 2024. in portu, cui Garnum nomen–Towards a Chronology of Viking
Age and Medieval Seas and Development in Västergarn on Gotland: Phosphates and Other …

The dissertation deals with the archaeological context of Baltic-zone silver hoards deposited
in the Viking Age. Its main objective is to investigate the hoards and the context of their …

Many of todays challenges of how to create and plan for sustainable cities in the future holds
similarities to those that urban residents and decision makers have been confronted with for …

Viking-Age silver hoards are a complex phenomenon, linking local histories and trajectories
with distant geographies and global economies. During the Viking Age, Scandinavia was …

This chapter focuses on Bornholm and compares it to Gotland, since these Baltic islands are
home to the largest concentrations of Viking-Age silver hoards in Denmark and Sweden …