Avaldsnes - a Sea-Kings' Manor in First-Millennium Western Scandinavia.
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- text
- computer
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- 9783110421088
- 948.3/401
- GN828 .A935 2018
Intro -- Preface -- Table of content -- Abbreviations -- Section A. Scholarly Background -- 1. Rethinking Avaldsnes and Kormt -- 2. Exploring Avaldsnes 1540-2005 -- 3. Avaldsnes and Kormt in Old Norse Written Sources -- 4. The Avaldsnes Royal Manor Project's Research Plan and Excavation Objectives -- Section B. Excavation Results 2011-12 -- 5 Excavations and Surveys 1985-2012 -- 6. Site Periods and Key Contexts -- 7. The Prehistoric Settlement and Buildings -- 8 Prehistoric Agriculture -- 9. The Production Area -- 10. Two Iron Age Boathouses -- 11. A Late Iron Age Palisade Facing the Karmsund Strait -- 12. Grave Monuments at Avaldsnes -- 13. Political and Ritual Aspects of Cooking Pits -- 14. The High Medieval Royal Manor -- 15. The Post-Medieval Rectory -- Section C Scientific Analyses 2011-12 -- 16. Geophysical Surveys -- 17. Microstratigraphy (Soil Micromorphology and Microchemistry, Soil Chemistry, and Magnetic Susceptibility) -- 18. Geochemical analysis using portable X-ray fluorescence -- 19 Biological Remains -- Section D Specialist Studies -- 20. Artefacts from the 2011-12 Excavations -- 21. Migration Period Pottery from Avaldsnes: A Study of Shards from Bucket-shaped Pots -- 22. The Flaghaug Burials -- 23. The Raised Stones -- 24. Avaldsnes, Kormt and Rogaland. A Toponymy and Landscape Survey -- 25. Depositional Traditions in Iron Age Kormt -- 26. Emerging Kingship in the 8th Century? New Datings of three Courtyard Sites in Rogaland -- Section E Avaldsnes: a Sea-Kings' Manor -- 27. Aristocratic Presence along the Karmsund Strait 2000 BC-AD 1368 -- 28. The Warrior Manor -- 29. Sea Kings on the Norðvegr -- References Appendices -- References -- Appendix I: The ARM Project Council, Advisory Group, Staff, and Authors -- Appendix II: Radiocarbon dates.
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