The Center-Periphery-Effect
Subproject:
B 06 Humans and resources during the Viking Era. Anthropological and bioarchaeological analyses on the usage of food resources and detection of mobility
Project leadership:
Prof. Dr. Jörg Baten, Prof. Dr. Jörn Staecker, Prof. Dr. Joachim Wahl
Staff:
Dr. Laura Maravall Buckwalter, M.A. Valerie Palmowski, Dr. Matthias S. Toplak
Region:
Northern Germany, Scandinavia
Where did the women with the tower skulls in Scandinavia come from?
In Viking cemeteries, three female skeletons propose a conundrum: Their heads were lengthened in childhood by bandages to tower skulls, which was not common in Scandinavia. Where did they come from and how did they live? Questions like these will be answered within the scope of the subproject ‘Man and Resources in the Viking Age. Anthropological and Bioarchaeological analyses of the use of food resources and the detection of mobility’. Investigations of several cemeteries in Gotland as well as in Haithabu will clarify central questions of Viking Age research on mobility and the use of resources. Three questions are in the foreground: The investigation of 1.) migration based on strontium isotopes, 2.) the interaction between rule, social inequality and adaptation of use, and 3.) the interaction of experiences of violence with cultural-historical developments.