IMC 2013: Sessions
Session 502: The Early Medieval Inn in Culmine: How Pleasure and Usefulness Were Joined Together in Ancient Poland
Tuesday 2 July 2013, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika, Toruń |
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| Organiser: | Wojciech Chudziak, Instytut Archeologii, Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika, Toruń |
| Moderator/Chair: | Emilia Jamroziak, Forschungsstelle für Vergleichende Ordensgeschichte (FOVOG), Technische Universität Dresden / Institute for Medieval Studies / School of History, University of Leeds |
| Paper 502-a | Relics of the Inn at Culmine: Building Reconstruction and Spatial Organisation (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Archaeology - Sites, Daily Life, Economics - Trade |
| Paper 502-b | Defining the Inn: An Examination of the Archaeological Evidence (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Archaeology - Sites, Daily Life, Economics - Trade |
| Paper 502-c | Functions of the Inn in Culmine in the Light of Archaeological and Written Sources (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Archaeology - Sites, Daily Life, Economics - Trade |
| Abstract | This proposed session is a presentation of the results of interdisciplinary research team consisting of archaeologists, archaeobotanists, archaeozoologists, and historians. Thanks to excavations the archaeological, archaeobotanical, and archaeozoological evidence was received; it can be connected with the early medieval inn functioning on the crossing of long distance routes in Culmine lying on the Pomeranian Vistula. Explored materials indicate that reconstructed inn was a very important place where useful trade was connected with games, food, and drinking. The discussed inn is the first archaeological discovery of this type of institution from early Middle Ages known from Polish territories and what's more - it has the confirmation in written sources. |