Birkaborna med föremål från finska fastlandet, vilka var de?
Författare
Redaktör
- Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson
Summary, in English
This article focuses on objects from mainland Finland retrieved in the graves of the Viking Age town Birka in the Mälalen valley, Sweden. The main questions posed in the article are what people were buried with these items and what can be concluded about their cultural identity. In the article the artefacts from mainland Finland are presented as well as their contexts. An examination of the find assemblages shows that the material culture in the graves had a heterogeneous origin. The graves in Birka with objects from the Finnish mainland can thus be said to display cultural hybridity.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2012
Språk
Svenska
Sidor
95-110
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Birka nu. Pågående forskning om världsarvet Birka och Hovgården.
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Dokumenttyp
Del av eller Kapitel i bok
Förlag
Staten Historisk Museum, Stockholm
Ämne
- Archaeology
Nyckelord
- Viking Age
- trading places
- cultural identity
- cultural hybridity
- the Finnish mainland
- faceted pegged penannular brooches
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISBN: 978-91-89176-45-4