Aspects on Realizing House Reconstructions: a Scandinavian Perspective

Abstract

Experiments are an integrated part of archaeological research, a tool used to analyse and understand archaeological phenomena. It is a method as legitimate and as problematic as so many others. The reconstruction of wooden buildings is a main branch of experimental archaeology. As Herschend (1987) has pointed out, house reconstruction is of interest in the development of archaeological theory because interpretation appears, by this approach, as a very conspicuous element of the research process.

Keywords

• (re)construction
• construction of building
• methodology
• iron age
• viking age
• denmark
• norway
• sweden