Includes bibliographical references (pages 473-498).
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Front Matter; Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Preface; Contents; 1. Introduction; 1.1 The ambitions of the Kaupang Excavation Project; About the current volume; Future publications; 1.2 Kaupang and Skiringssal in the archaeology of the Viking Period; 1.3 Exploring the distant past; Part I: Background; 2. Exploring Skiringssal 1771-1999; 2.1 The literati and the antiquarians 1771-1850; 2.2 The historian and the archaeologist 1850-1867; 2.3 A modest revival 1901-1902; 2.4 Advances in Skiringssal research 1909-1950
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2.5 The breakthrough: Charlotte Blindheim's excavations 1950-1974 and publications 1960-19993. Preparing the New Campaign; 3.1 Scandinavian urban sites prior to AD 1000: the central issues; Defining the town; Research on the early urban sites of Scandinavia; New excavations at Kaupang; 3.2 Skiringssal: a central place; 3.3 A wider scope of questions; 4. Skiringssal, Kaupang, Tjølling -- the Toponymic Evidence; 4.1 The Early Iron-age names; 4.2 The Late Iron-age and Viking-age names; 4.3 Summary; 5. The Kaupang Cemeteries Revisited; 5.1 The cemeteries; Søndre Kaupang (Ka. 150-166)
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5.9 A couple and their sorceress? Ka. 294-296The bronze bowl; 5.10 Concluding remarks -- Birka and Kaupang; Comprehensive catalogue of grave-finds from Kaupang; Abbreviations; Concordance table; 6. Evidence from the Settlement Area 1956-1984; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 The methodology of the excavations of 1956-1984; 6.3 The interpretation of the documented structures; 6.4 Evidence from other parts of the settlement area; 6.5 The platform for the new fieldwork; Part II: Excavations and Surveys 1998-2003; 7. The Fieldwork 1998-2003: Overview and Methods; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Surveys
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7.2.1 Introduction7.2.2 Field surveys; Method; Results; 7.2.3 Geophysical prospection; Magnetometer; Ground Penetrating Radar; Augering; 7.3 Excavations; 7.3.1 The main research excavation 2000-2002; 7.3.2 Cultural resource management excavations 1999-2003; 7.3.3 Minor excavations and surveillance; 7.3.4 Method of excavation; Artefact recovery from the ploughsoil; Water-sieving of the intact deposits; Environmental archaeology and geoarchaeology; Dendrochronology; Intrasis; Context sheets; 7.4 Summary; 8. The Settlement: Extent and Dating; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Topography
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Nordre Kaupang (Ka. 1-73)Hagejordet (Ka. 125-134); Bikjholberget (Ka. 250-323); Lamøya (Ka. 200-230); Bjønnes; Vikingholmen; 5.2 Number of burials; 5.3 The dated burials; The 9th and 10th centuries; The late 10th century; 5.4 The dead; The gendered burials; Weapon combinations; The chronology of the imported finds; Population estimate; 5.5 Horizontal stratigraphy; 5.6 Mortuary customs; The treatment of the body; The external structure of the graves; The alignment of the graves; The internal structure of the graves; 5.7 A horseman and a falconer? Ka. 157; 5.8 The horseshoe from Ka. 250
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In this, the first of six volumes, the main results of the excavations which the University of Oslo carried out at Kaupang 1998-2003 are presented. A completely new picture is put forward of the port that the adventurer Ohthere visited in c. 890. It is now clear that Kaupang was one of the four Scandinavian towns that were founded around the year 800. Kaupang is connected to the power centre of Skiringssal, to the Ynglings - the legendary Norwegian royal lineage, and to the King of the Danes - the dominant political actor in south-west Scandinavia.Kaupang is shown to have had several of the sa.
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Title
Kaupang in Skiringssal.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Excavations (Archaeology)-- Norway.
Viking antiquities-- Norway.
Excavations (Archaeology)
HISTORY-- Europe-- Scandinavia.
Viking antiquities.
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Kaupang Site (Norway)
Norway, Kaupang Site.
Norway.
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DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
948
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1/01
Edition
23
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
DL596
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K36
Book number
K38
2007eb
PERSONAL NAME - ALTERNATIVE RESPONSIBILITY
Skre, Dagfinn.
CORPORATE BODY NAME - ALTERNATIVE RESPONSIBILITY
Universitetet i Oslo., Kulturhistorisk museum., Kaupang Undersøkelsen.