Urban material culture in Copenhagen in the post medieval period
Author(s): Lene Høst-Madsen
Year: 2013
Summary
Refuse dumps in Copenhagen comprise a broad variety of imports from abroad and show that the new world did indeed influence a small capital like Copenhagen in the post-medieval period.
The archaeological finds are unique in an international perspective. Well-preserved leather, textile, hair and other organic components supplement the common ceramic material. The finds from several large post-medieval waterfront excavations form a very strong archaeological source material for urban material culture in Copenhagen, and put this material into a national and international context, offering the potential for working with material culture in and out of context.
In 2005 at the SHA conference in York results from the first large scale refuse dump excavations in Copenhagen were presented for an international audience. This paper will focus on the different aspects of the material that can provide information regarding globalization, immigration and transformation in post-medieval Copenhagen.
Cite this Record
Urban material culture in Copenhagen in the post medieval period. Lene Høst-Madsen. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Leicester, England, U.K. 2013 ( tDAR id: 428427)
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Keywords
General
context
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Material Culture
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Methodology.
Geographic Keywords
Denmark
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Western Europe
Temporal Keywords
Post medieval to modern time
Spatial Coverage
min long: 8.093; min lat: 54.562 ; max long: 15.138; max lat: 57.736 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 229