Research behind the exhibition
The special exhibition 'The World in the Viking Age' and the accompanying book was created with the help of researchers from five continents.
The exhibition project was anchored in collaboration between the Viking Ship Museum and the Danish Council for Independent Research (DFF) Sapere Aude research project 'ENTREPOT - Maritime Network Development and Urbanisation in Global Medieval Archaeology', based at Aarhus University and the University of York, England.
The collaboration included an international research conference in April 2013 at the Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde, which brought invaluable knowledge together to form the basis for the exhibition and gather content for the publication.
Several of the new results presented in the exhibition and in the book were the result of the Entrepot project’s research into maritime exchange networks and urbanisation from the North Atlantic to the Indian Ocean.
Søren M. Sindbæk, leader of the research project 'ENTREPOT', has written the introduction to the book accompanying the exhibition 'World in the Viking Age'.
» Introduction article
ENTREPOT
ENTREPOT was an archaeological research project (from 2012 - 2014) in cooperation with Aarhus University and University of York, UK, exploring the global expansion of maritime exchange networks and towns in the period 500-1200 AD.
ENTRPOT encompassed a range of pilot projects, fieldwork and analyses, ranging from Northern Europe over the Mediterranean to East Africa and India.
The research project was financed by the Danish Council for Independent Research (DFF) Researchers Career Programme, Sapere Aude.