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

该项目的目的是对维斯马湾和格但斯克湾之间的中世纪早期海上商业中心的结构进行系统和跨学科的研究。在项目第一阶段开展的活动导致了许多关于单个研究区域的景观和定居历史的新结果。因此，可以研究地点选择的第一种模式：对于建立登陆点和港口，首选海湾和泻湖或河流沿岸的保护区，而相关的定居点通常建立在靠近高地的地方。登陆点和岸线部分由木制设施稳定。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的框架内系统地扩大和固定。如果墓地是已知的，他们通常在一个较高的位置，并提供一个俯瞰大商场与登陆点或港口。特别明显的是聚落复合体对古地理过程的依赖：沉积、水位变化或多次洪水事件导致了聚落和港口内基础设施的大规模扩建和改善。对于Bardy/Swielubie和Groß Strömkendorf来说，假设河流的高动力和相对海平面的上升分别可能是放弃定居点的一个原因。在项目实施的第二阶段，现有的知识将在额外的地质、地球物理和考古勘探和分析的帮助下紧密集中和深化。除了港口建立的古地理条件外，港口是如何与各自的聚落联系起来的，港口在聚落结构中具有什么样的社会经济功能，以及是否建造了船舶装卸码头或码头，这些都有待澄清。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。它们当然可以汇编大量关于所用材料的细节，也可以汇编食物、营养和环境条件。在项目结束时，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.