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This page is a summary of: Crafting the urban network, February 2020, JSTOR,
DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv138ws19.3.
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CNVT: Crafting Networks in Viking Towns
This project, funded by the British Academy, brought together leading UK and Scandinavian archaeological specialists to undertake a comparative survey of crafted products and workshop assemblages from Viking-period towns in Northern Europe in order to clarify the role of long-distance interactions in early medieval urbanism. Striking similarities of material culture show that these places, though sometimes separated by hundreds of kilometres, were often as tightly related as neighbouring villages. Yet we have but a vague understanding of this communication. Did early medieval urban communities form a densely connected ‘global village’, or did they interact through selective, personal links to a few distant sites?
Viking Craft Network
This network emerged from our work on the CNVT project, and is intended as a first port-of-call for anyone interested in the archaeology of Viking-Age crafts.
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