Center for Baltic and Scandinavian Archeology
The Center for Baltic and Scandinavian Archeology (ZBSA) was founded in September 2008 and is part of the Schleswig-Holstein State Museums Foundation at Gottorf Castle in Schleswig. As a non-university research institute, the scientists deal with archaeological research in the North and Baltic Sea regions and in Scandinavia. The focus is on the Paleolithic (Paleolithic) and Middle Stone Age (Mesolithic) as well as on the 1st millennium AD ( Roman Empire , Migration Period , Early Middle Ages / Viking Age ). Another integral part of the ZBSA are the departments of archaeozoology and fauna history (AZA) as well as the research area AMS dating and isotope research established in January 2011, which is operated in cooperation with the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel.
Research goals
The task of the ZBSA is to promote knowledge of the archeology and history of Europe through archaeological, historical, scientific and numismatic research in the Baltic States, Scandinavia and the North Atlantic area. In particular, the importance of the North and Baltic Seas as communication spaces in prehistoric times is explored. As a further complex, this results in the question of the transformation, the changes, their intensity and their dynamics for epochs in which written records are almost completely absent and the interpretation of the archaeological sources is essential.