HaNOA: Harbours in the North Atlantic (800-1300 AD)

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Dieter Quast, since 8/2023
• Subject Area: Prehistory and World Archaeology
• Term: from 2012 to 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 219510741

HaNOA is a highly interdisciplinary project examines selected harbours and landing places of the period c. 800 to 1300 in Iceland, Greenland, Shetland, the Faroe Islands and western Norway with different methods of maritime archaeology, archaeology, history, Nordic philology, geology, geomorphology, and climatology. The development of new methods to identify harbours and landing places in the research area is at the centre of the project, and to understand their functions as sites as well as parts of a supra-regional network. During phase two all data collected during phase one shall be analysed. Main objective is to produce a final monograph in which all results from the investigations are put in context.

• DFG Programme: Priority Programmes
• Subproject of: SPP 1630: Harbours from the Roman Iron Age until the Middle Ages - Archaeology and History of Regional and Supra-regional Traffic Systems
• Ehemaliger Antragsteller: Professor Dr. Claus von Carnap-Bornheim, until 8/2023