Inter Ambo Maria: Contacts between Scandinavia and the Crimea in the Roman Period: Collected Papers

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In October 2010 the conference “Inter Ambo Maria: Contacts between Scandinavia and the Crimea in the Roman Period” was held in the spa town of Gaspra on the Crimea. It was initiated by the Department of Commerce, Transport and Cultural Affairs of the Vest-Agder County Council (Norway), the nonprofit foundation for history and archaeology “Heritage of Millennia”, the Taurida National University (Simferopol, Ukraine), and the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (Lublin, Poland). Archaeologists from nine countries met in the Crimea. The conference resulted in the publication of this volume presenting revised papers by its participants.As it was reckoned years ago, the movement of the Goths and other Germanic tribes from Scandinavia to the Black Sea opened the way for contacts between two opposite parts of Europe. These contacts reflected in various categories of artefacts common to Northern Europe and the Black Sea area. Distribution maps of several types of artefacts have been compiled to indicate a definite diagonal line with one end in Scandinavia and another end in the Crimea. Concrete routes of the Germanics from Scandinavia to the Black Sea have also been reconstructed.Despite the successes achieved, many problems related to contacts between Northern Europe and the north Black Sea area still remain unstudied or investigated insufficiently. In order to come closer to the solution of such problems, the conference was called and this volume is published.