Dagfinn Skre

In this third volume deriving from the excavations of the Viking town of Kaupang of 2000-2003, a range of artefacts is presented along with a discussion of the town's inhabitants: their origins, activities and trading connexions. The main categories of …

The Viking Age was a period of great economic complexity and experimentation in Scandinavia. By the end of the period, an ancient 'display' economy, based on ornaments of precious metal, had been largely replaced by counted money and national coinages. …

This second volume on the excavations of the Norwegian Viking town Kaupang 2000-2003 presents find types used in economic transactions - coins, hacksilver, ingots, weights and balances. Changes in type and volume of economic transactions at Kaupang and in Scandinavia …

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 …

Bogen ser på nordvesteuropæiske bebyggelser og deres landskaber gennem 4.000 år fra yngre stenalder til middelalder. Bogen viser, at en moderne bebyggelsesarkæologi ikke kun interesserer sig for stolpehuller, huse og hegn, men også for landskabet som ramme om menneskers liv …