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The palaeoenvironment of medieval Novgorod and its hinterland

Objectif



This project will investigate the archaeological evidence for the palaeoenvironment of the impressively well-preserved remains of the medieval town of Novgorod and its hinterland from the 8th to 11th centuries AD. It will do this by collaborating with Russian archaeologists from a number of organisations which are currently investigating a number of town and hinterland sites. These sites will be used to set up an integrated study of the environmental evidence, predominantly the animal bone evidence in the first instance, but including other remains such as plant and possibly insect remains in the second year of the project.

The research will concentrate on refining sampling strategies and methodologies and then the examination of evidence will take place. It will also include the identification of the faunal remains, particularly the bone evidence, for both wild and domesticated species, including fish and bird. This work will almost certainly show up bias due to present collection methods, which will need to be altered in an appropriate manner in order to respond to these findings. A programme of sieving archaeological deposits specifically for environmental data will be instigated.

The result of this work will be a number of joint publications in Russian and English covering both the methodological refinements and academic outcomes of collaboration.

The research must be seen in the context of a severely altered situation for Russian archaeology with little financial support, a fundamental changeover from research to rescue archaeology, and the possible introduction of developer-funded work. The project, while self-contained, will indirectly help to underpin the fragile research base for the study of the origin and development of early urbanism in NW Russia. Novgorod is a crucial site in this study, due to its unique preservation. Together with the evidence from its hinterland, it ably demonstrates an increasing complexity of settlement type that eventually leads to the formation of an urban trading centre of paramount importance to the study of European urbanism.

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Coordinateur

Bournemouth University
Contribution de l’UE
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Adresse
Talbot Campus Fern Barrow
BH12 5BB Poole
Royaume-Uni

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