Living Conditions and Indoor Air Quality in a Reconstructed Viking House

Abstract

During the winter of 2011 and 2012 an archaeological indoor environment experiment was conducted in two reconstructions of the same house from the Viking Age built in Denmark. Both houses were inhabited, and they were made of wattle and daub with thatched roofs and a fire in the centre of the house. The purpose of the experiment was to examine the living conditions inside the houses during 15 weeks in wintertime. The purpose of this paper is to introduce the experiment and present the results achieved.

Keywords

• chemistry
• construction of building
• fire
• environment
• viking age
• denmark