TY - JOUR AU - Schade, Tobias PY - 2020/02/13 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Werkstätten oder Wohnhäuser? Ein Beitrag zur Ansprache und Deutung von wikingerzeitlichen Grubenhäuser JF - Arkæologi i Slesvig-Archäologie in Schleswig JA - AIS VL - 0 IS - 17 SE - Artikler DO - UR - https://tidsskrift.dk/arkaeologi_i_Slesvig/article/view/118537 SP - 97-114 AB - <p>In the area between the Eider and the<br>Kongeå, many Viking Age settlements<br>are known, but only at fifty-seven sites<br>could structures of buildings be identified.<br>Thirty-four settlements contained<br>pit-houses, but in some cases the dominance<br>of pit-houses over post built structures<br>was striking. Settlement sites with<br>predominantly sunken-featured buildings<br>are often interpreted as seasonal<br>settlements, trading places, or specialised<br>settlement sites. However, historical analogies<br>indicate a possible function of the<br>sunken-featured as living areas in which<br>daily activities such as sleeping, cooking,<br>handling of refuse, or handicrafting<br>took place. The analysis of features from<br>the settlement of Kosel-East (LA 198),<br>distr. Rendsburg-Eckernförde, yields evidence<br>on economic activities in some<br>of the longhouses as well as on the habitation<br>of some pit-houses. Sometimes<br>it is assumed that pit-houses with fireplaces<br>could have been used for living<br>or they were used as outbuildings. In<br>the scientific discussion, however, longhouses<br>are defined as habitable in contrast<br>the use of the pit-houses which<br>is often identified as seasonal or for<br>skilled crafts. But only in two cases it<br>was possible to identify workplaces situated<br>in pit-houses in Kosel-East. On<br>the other hand, many pit-houses built<br>in robust techniques and with fireplaces<br>inside implied a theoretical habitability.<br>In combination with the evidence<br>of objects of daily use or indicators for<br>a domestic economy disposed in abandoned<br>pit-houses and pits, possible areas<br>of activity e. g. housing space could be<br>identified. Referring to other historical<br>and archaeological analogies, this paper<br>offers a theoretical and methodological<br>contribution to the discussion of the<br>housing situation, emphasizing different<br>archaeological indications for the identification<br>of various (hybrid) ways of living<br>and working.</p> ER -