The Pottery from the Early Medieval Trading Site and Cemetery at Groß Strömkendorf, Lkr. Nordwestmecklenburg

Forschungen zu Groß Strömkendorf III

By (author) Torbjörn Brorsson

Book cover: The Pottery from the Early Medieval Trading Site and Cemetery at Groß Strömkendorf, Lkr. Nordwestmecklenburg

Hardback (Published)

(October 2010)

ISBN: 9783895007514

7.48 x 11.46 inches

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English Summary: This book is an archaeological study involving natural sciences analyses of the ceramic find material from the settlement and the cemetery of the early medieval trading site Gross Stromkendorf, Nordwestmecklenburg. During the 8th and early 9th century Slavs, Scandinavians and Saxons used the place as a trading centre, and the site was most likely identical with the “emporium Reric”, mentioned in Frankish Annales. The imported ceramics mainly derive from Scandinavia and the coastal region of the North Sea, but a large amount of sherds also came from the Rhineland and the Eiffel. German Description: Dieses Buch behandelt die Analyse des keramischen Fundguts der Siedlung und des Graberfeldes des fruhmittelalterlichen Seehandelsplatzes von Gross Stromkendorf im Landkreis Nordwestmecklenburg. Der wahrend des 8. und fruhen 9. Jahrhunderts gemeinsam von Slawen, Skandinaviern und Sachsen genutzte Handelsplatz ist moglicherweise mit dem in den frankischen Reichsannalen der Jahre 808 und 809 erwahnten “emporium reric” identisch. Die qualitatvolle importierte Keramik, die insbesondere aus dem Rheinischen Vorgebirge, der Eifel, Skandinavien und der Kustenregion der Nordsee stammt, lasst jedenfalls kaum einen anderen Schluss zu.

Torbjörn Brorsson<br/>born in Höganäs, Sweden.<br/>Studied archaeology and geology at Lund University between 1990 and 1996. Brorsson made his Master of Science at the university in 1996. <br/>In 2005 Brorsson became Doktor der Naturwissenschaft at Kiel University. <br/>Brorsson started to work with ceramics in 1995 at Lund University. Since 2006 Brorsson is working at Ceramic Studies in Sweden, which is a company dealing with ceramics from rescue excavations as well as from research excavations. Ceramic Studies are involved in several different projects in Europe. <br/>Brorsson is working with archaeological studies as well as natural science analyses, which are the same methods used in this book. <br/>

  • By (author) Torbjörn Brorsson