Cast Your Nets: The Island Economy and Ecology of Gotland Within the Larger Viking World

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

In recent decades, more archaeological scholarships have been dedicated to understanding the types of exchanges that were occurring in the Viking world in the early Medieval period. Particularly, Gotland remains one of the key trading centers regarding smithed exported silver. Looking broadly at Gotland and its relations to other periphery sites, such as Grobina in present-day Latvia, and Salme in present-day Estona, how was Gotland’s trade influenced by its island geography and ecology? My research aims to look at the ways Gotland’s success in the Viking network derived from maintaining larger trading networks to other periphery sites, by comparing it to other island economies within the period.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 41651.0