Abstract
Issuing from Jane Jacobs’s concepts of ‘import replacement’ and ‘adding new work to old’, this paper proposes that these processes can be traced in the archaeological record of the early stages of the medieval city Odense in Denmark. It is suggested that Jacobs’s concepts help model the drivers of urban growth and expansion of economy. Therefore, it is suggested that Jacobs’s concepts are an alternative way of studying and comparing settlements regardless of their functional, topographical, or administrative traits. The paper also proposes that social processes of interdependency, related to co-presence and the dynamics of growth, are defining for the urban way of life. The argument is developed through an analysis of use and strategies towards animal resources - meat, bones, fur, and leather.
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