Project Details: Communication, Settlements and Landscape – Social Dimensions in Norse Societies in the Viking and Early Medieval periods (c. 800-1200 AD)

Project Description

Title:	Communication, Settlements and Landscape – Social Dimensions in Norse Societies in the Viking and Early Medieval periods (c. 800-1200 AD)
Description	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
Project End Year	2011

Contact:	Poul Baltzer Heide
Address	Aarhus University Dep. of Medieval and Renaissance Archaeology, Moesgård, 8270 Højbjerg
Postcode	8270
Telephone	004589424607
Email	markpbh@hum.au.dk