Коллекции кожаных изделий Хедебю и Ладоги: сравнительная оценка жизнедеятельности раннесредневековых поселений
Collections of Leather Objects from Hedeby and Ladoga: comparative discussion of everyday life in Early Medieval Settlements

Summary/Abstract: Publication of the entire collection of leather objects from excavations of the oldest horizons of Zemlyanoye Gorodishche in Staraya Ladoga enables us to compare this category of artefacts of material culture at the two early urban centres — Hedeby and Ladoga. The quantitative and qualitative composition of the collection of leather finds from Ladoga indicates a rather weak occupation of this settlement which was intensified due to the temporary residence of merchants and traders here. The footwear sets and other leather products from Ladoga and Hedeby show their complete correspondence in terms of constructions and fashions. This fact suggests personal contacts between residents of these settlements, as well as a fairly ‘narrow’ chronological span of these contacts — the second half of the 9th century to the early 10th century.The sewing industry of leather-workers in the Ladoga settlement of the 8th — first half of the 10th century was limited primarily to repair and re-sewing of worn and torn goods, firstly footwear.

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