Early medieval harbours between Wismar Bay and Danzig Bay (Germany/Poland)

该项目的目的是对威斯马尔湾和格但斯克湾之间的早期中世纪海上购物中心的结构进行系统和跨学科的研究。在该项目第一阶段开展的活动在各个研究区的景观和聚落历史方面取得了许多新的成果。因此，可以审查地点选择的第一种模式：对于建立登陆地和港口，最好选择海湾和泻湖或河流沿线的保护区，而相关的定居点往往建在高架位置上非常接近的地方。着陆点和海岸线部分由木制设施加固。在一些情况下，港口和定居点之间的联系在更大的基础设施框架内有系统地扩大和固定。如果墓地是已知的，它们通常位于较高的位置，可以俯瞰带有登陆点或港口的百货商店。特别明显的是，定居点复合体依赖于古地理过程：沉积、水位变化或多次洪水事件导致定居点和港口内基础设施的广泛扩建和改善。对于Bardy/Swielubie和GroúStrömkendorf来说，他们认为河流的高动态和相对海平面的上升可能是放弃定居点的一个原因。在项目应用的第二阶段，现有的知识将在更多的地质、地球物理和考古勘探和分析的帮助下得到密切关注和深化。除了建立港口的古地理条件外，还有待澄清，港口是如何与各自的定居点联系起来的，港口在定居点结构中具有什么社会和经济功能，以及是否建造了船只和船舶码头或码头的装卸。由于所有研究地点的有机物质保存良好，建议进行补充的古植物学和动物学分析。它们当然可以汇编关于所用材料的大量细节，但也可以汇编食物和环境条件的细节。在项目结束时，研究结果和研究项目的综合将完全公布。

The aim of the project is a systematic and interdisciplinary study of the structures of early medieval maritime emporia between Wismar Bay and the Gulf of Gdansk. The activities carried out during the first phase of the project led to many new results regarding the landscape and settlement history of the individual study areas. Thus, first patterns of the choice of the locations could be examined: for the founding of landing places and ports protected areas in bays and lagoons or along rivers were preferred, while the associated settlement was often was established in close proximity on elevated locations. The landing sites and shore lines were partially stabilized by wooden installations. In several cases was the connection between port and settlement systematically expanded and fixed within the framework of larger infrastructure. If cemeteries are known, they are usually in an elevated position and offered a view over the emporia with their landing sites or ports. Particularly evident was the dependence of the settlement complexes on paleogeographic processes: sedimentation, changes in water level or multiple flood events led to extensive expansion and installation of infrastructural ameliorations within settlements and also the ports. For Bardy/Swielubie and Groß Strömkendorf is to assume that the high dynamics of the river and the relative sea-level rise respectively might have been a reason for the abandonment of the settlements. In the applyed second phase of the project existing knowledge will be tightly focussed and deepened with the help of additional geological, geophysical and archaeological prospection and analysis. In addition to the paleogeographic conditions for the establishment of ports it remains to be clarified, how the harbours were linked to their respective settlements, what social and economic function the harbors possessed within the settlement structure and whether for loading and unloading of boats and ships jetties or piers were built. Due to the excellent preservation of organic materials in all study sites it is proposed to do complementary paleobotanical and zoological analyzes. They certainly will allow the compilation of numerous details about the materials used, but also for the food aliment and the environmental conditions. At the end of the project the results and a synthesis of the research project will completely be published.