Annika Sirkin

Annika Sirkin studied Prehistoric and Historical Archaeology with minor subject Biosciences at Christian-Albrechts University in Kiel. She completed her studies in 2015 with a master’s thesis on the topic: ›Der frühmittelalterliche Handel im nördlichen Samland (Kaliningrader Gebiet). Eine Untersuchung an Waagen, Gewichten, Münzen, Barren und Hacksilberfunden‹. Annika Sirkin obtained a doctoral scholarship in the project from 2016 to 2019.

Dissertation Subject

›Studien zur frühmittelalterlichen Siedlungslandschaft im Samland/ehemaligen Ostpreußen am Beispiel des Fundplatzes Wiskiauten (Mokhovoe)‹

Annika Sirkin’s doctoral thesis aims at developing an extensive compilation and final interpretation of recent investigations of the settlements in the surroundings of the Viking burial site Kaup near Wiskiauten, today located in the Russian Kaliningrad region. Excavations and surveys were carried out between 2005 and 2011 by the Centre for Baltic and Scandinavian Archaeology in Schleswig in cooperation with the Archaeological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. The thesis focuses on issues relating to the internal structure of the settlement areas, their relative and absolute chronology as well as local and supra-regional influences. She defended her doctoral thesis in 2020 at Kiel University.

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Selected Publications

A. Sirkin, Der frühmittelalterliche Siedlungskomplex von Wiskiauten/Mochovoe im Kontext der samländischen Siedlungslandschaft. In: Zentrum für Baltische und Skandinavische Archäologie, Jahresbericht 2017 (Schleswig 2018) 53.

A. Sirkin, Studien zur frühmittelalterlichen Siedlungslandschaft im Samland / ehemaligen Ostpreußen am Beispiel des Fundplatzes Wiskiauten (Mochovoe). In: Zentrum für Baltische und Skandinavische Archäologie, Jahresbericht 2016 (Schleswig 2017) 50‒51.