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Crafting Networks in Viking TownsResponsables du projet/Project leaders :Steve Ashby (steve.ashby@york.ac.uk), Søren M. Sindbæk (soren.sindbaek@york.ac.uk)Établissement principal/Main institution :University of YorkProjet en cours/Project in progressDescription :This project brings 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?[Lien/Link : http://www.york.ac.uk/archaeology/research/current-projects/cnvt/]