EAA2021: Session #389

The Baltic Sea is a connecting environment for trade, migration and cultural exchange in prehistoric and historic times and enables long distance trade from modern Scandinavia at the northern coast of the Baltic Sea to the southern coast: the Baltic States, the Kaliningrad area, Poland and Germany. The reception of archaeological research in this area is still very much influenced by the political events of the 20th century, when the Baltic Sea was rather an insurmountable border than a connection between the neighboring states along the northern and southern shores of the Baltic Sea.
This session intends to be a kind of overview on the recent and current research, studies and research projects related to the cultural interaction between different areas along and across the Baltic Sea during the Bronze Age, Iron Age, Roman and Migration Period, Viking Age and the Middle Ages. We are looking for examples of archaeological data that illustrate social and economic processes, cultural exchange, intercultural and cross-cultural relations of different societies around the Baltic Sea. How much Scandinavian influence can be found at the other Baltic societies? What kind of Baltic, Slavic, Finno-Ugric, etc. material came to Scandinavia? What are the connections amongst the cultures at the southern or eastern coast of the Baltic Sea? Can we identify migration, demographic changes or group identity by international and interdisciplinary exchange of data? We are interested in new research projects and results of studies on the widely understood topic of cultural exchange as well as presentations on methodology, chronology and typology of archaeological sites and artefacts of the Baltic Sea region.

Baltic Sea, Cultural Exchange, Migration, International Research, Chronology

 Session #389 (PDF)

Christoph Jahn¹

Adam Cieśliński²
Sławomir Wadyl²
Roman Shiroukhov¹
Annika Sirkin¹

prussia museum digital. A new resource for research on archaeology in former East Prussia

Bornholm - the island in the middle. Societies, contacts and alliance systems on the threshold of history

Traces of a migration from Scandinavia? The Roman Period cemeteries with stone circles on the Southern Baltic coastland

"Stones and Circles": To the Study of the Burial Rite of the Southeastern Baltic in the 1st century AD

Amber finds from 1st-7th cent. AD in Northern Europe – New studies on distribution and use of a special material

Glass beads of Late Roman period from West Lithuania as indicators of communication across the Baltic Sea

“Gotlandic” imitations of late Roman solidi – local custom or broader phenomenon?

Gold Lady and trolls. The archaeological site at Smørenge on Bornholm as insight into interregional contacts in the Baltic Region

Landscape of the Gods – a project about sacral topography and religious networks of Iron Age Bornholm

The anthropomorphic figurine´s head from Haithabu - a Viking Age gaming piece?

From Scandinavia through the Piast royal court to Pomerania. An amazing story of men buried in chamber graves in Ciepłe

Crossing Waters – The Scandinavian Influence on the Viking Age Cemeteries of Wiskiauten and Linkuhnen at the Curonian Lagoon

The missing Trading Port of Wiskiauten/Mokhovoye on the Sambia Peninsula – a final Assessment on the archaeological Investigations 2005–2011

From the Baltic to the Black sea. In search of the origin of Ostriv cemetery migrants (Ukraine)

Yatvingian ‘Valley of the Kings’ at the Szczeberka River

Something old and something borrowed: dress in North-Estonia in the turn of the 12th-13th centuries