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Antwerp (Belgium) – a ninth-century Viking town? From Early Medieval trading place to Ottonian power centre Vrije Universiteit Brussel
In Antwerp, the Department of Archaeology of the City of Antwerp, supported by the developer of the site, Immpact, as well as the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the Flemish Heritage Institute were able to develop large-scale excavations in the oldest centre of the town in 2008-2009. This oldest centre is the so-called "Burg" of Antwerp, a D-shaped fortress that goes back to at least the Ottonian period (FIG 1). Already in the 1950s and 1960s, ...
Recasting a Viking warrior woman from Ribe: 3D digital image reconstruction compared Vrije Universiteit Brussel
We use 3D digital image reconstruction to recreate a unique anthropomorphic pendant from a group of casting mould fragments found in a workshop at the Viking-age emporium Ribe, Denmark. The image showing a figure in female dress and carrying weapons links a production site to ‘valkyrie’ pendants found in England, Denmark and southern Sweden. We compare three different set-ups for 3D recording and their results in terms of model quality, amount ...
Sr analyses from only known Scandinavian cremation cemetery in Britain illuminate early Viking journey with horse and dog across the North Sea Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The barrow cemetery at Heath Wood, Derbyshire, is the only known Viking cremation cemetery in the British Isles. It dates to the late ninth century and is associated with the over-wintering of the Viking Great Army at nearby Repton in AD 873-4. Only the cremated remains of three humans and of a few animals are still available for research. Using strontium content and isotope ratios of these three people and three animals – a horse, a dog and a ...
Anvers. Du centre commerçant du haut Moyen Âge à l’emprise viking et au burg Ottonien Vrije Universiteit Brussel
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Subdividing Y-chromosome haplogroup R1a1 reveals Norse Viking dispersal lineages in Britain KU Leuven
The influence of Viking-Age migrants to the British Isles is obvious in archaeological and place-names evidence, but their demographic impact has been unclear. Autosomal genetic analyses support Norse Viking contributions to parts of Britain, but show no signal corresponding to the Danelaw, the region under Scandinavian administrative control from the ninth to eleventh centuries. Y-chromosome haplogroup R1a1 has been considered as a possible ...
Soil micromorphology in urban research: early medieval Antwerp (Belgium) and Viking Age Kaupang (Norway) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Soil micromorphology, a method that analyzes undisturbed soils and sediments in thin section using petrographic microscopes, has proven a useful tool for the study of archaeological sites. In particular, this geoarchaeological method is suitable for tackling a number of questions that are recurrent in research on early medieval towns and are often difficult to study with other methods. The starting point of the research that prompted this paper ...