Communication, Settlements and Landscape – Social Dimensions in Norse Societies in the Viking and Early Medieval periods (c. 800-1200 AD)
| Project Connections: | This project is not linked to any other projects |
Project Details | |
| Title: | Communication, Settlements and Landscape – Social Dimensions in Norse Societies in the Viking and Early Medieval periods (c. 800-1200 AD) |
| Permalink: | https://www.nabohome.org/cgi-bin/explore.pl?seq=118 |
| Abstract: | This four year PhD project focus on the dynamics between the physcial landscape, communication in various shapes, settlement structure and the society. Focus areas in the Orkneys, Iceland, Greenland and Canada provide the empirical base of the project.
The project is concerned with various types of communication within the periods, and analyse active transportation strategies as well as static visual communication between e.g. farm sites or farm sites and travellers. |
| Keywords: | Communication,landscape,settlements,social,transport,cairn,cairns,ships,visual,analysis |
| Country: | Other |
| Region: | The project includes areas in Scotland, Iceland, South Greenland and Canada. |
| Project Start Year: | 2007 |
| Projected End Year: | 2011 |
Account Owner | |
| Contact: | Poul Baltzer Heide |
| Postal Address: | Aarhus University
Dep. of Medieval and Renaissance Archaeology, Moesgård, 8270 Højbjerg |
| Post Code: | 8270 |
| Telephone: | 004589424607 |
| Email: | markpbh@hum.au.dk |
Project Collaborators | |
| Name: | Oscar Aldred |
| Institution: | Institute of Archaeology |
| Country: | Iceland |
| Email: | oscar@instarch.is |
| Name: | Konrad Smiarowski |
| Institution: | HERC Center & CUNY Graduate School and University Center |
| Address: | 365 Fifth Avenue New York, NY |
| Postcode: | 10016 |
| Country: | USA |
| Email: | zaglobax@yahoo.com |
| Website: | http://www.polarfield.com/blog/tag/konrad-smiarowski/ |
Project Location
Latitude: 60.68932°N
Longitude: 45.57129°W