 As a starting point of the session, I'll introduce the project that I myself is head of. The project from Central Space to Urban Place is conducted over the years 2017 to 2020 and funded by the Velux Foundation. The project consists of research, as well as mediation and learning elements. The project partners are besides UNCEDI museums, museums of Eastern Funen, the Historical Museum of Northern Jotland, Moskow Museum, the National Museum of Denmark, University of Southern Denmark, also University and University of Copenhagen. And connected to the project is an advisory board with specialists from the Universities of Lund, Ulslo, Bern, Copenhagen, and August. The aim of the project is to shed new light on the earliest organization process in South Scandinavia within the chronological frame, AD 400 to 1100. The mean set is, with the city's Odense in the center of Denmark and Olbo in the northern Jotland as cases, to explore the development from the central spaces of the late Iron Age, defined as concentrations of localizations characterized by wealth and functions like trade, crafts, cult, and defense to the urban places of the Middle Ages, where the structures of power are concentrated at one spot. Even though the central areas have several elements, several central elements that tense urban, that has in Danish archeology so far not been an attempt to include the two phenomena in a common hypothesis and the connection between the two, thus being nonexisting. In the following, I will first present the two areas of research, secondly, present the theoretical and mythological basis of the project, and finally, introduce a model for the processes of urbanization in the concrete cases. The project is, as mentioned, work in progress and the results, thus, preliminary. The development of Olbo and Odense shows both similarities and differences. Both cities traditionally are ascribed to the second phase of cities in South Scandinavia and located in relation to central land and waterways. The series of archeological excavations and the large contextualized detector material have given a comprehensive empirical background from the period. Both areas are in the late Iron Age, so-called gateway communities, especially rich areas due to network and import. On the other side, Odense, in contradiction to Olbo, has a market hierarchy of society. Odense also seems to have roots in the sacred background, with the name Odense deriving from Odense V, a heathen cult place for the god Odin. This sacred position is also seen in Odense's stages as one of the early dioceses and in the derivative consequences of the canonization of St. Canute, the first Danish royal saint. Olbo has no sacred background and is not an early diocese. Finally, military elements are more common in Odense than in the Olbo area. The broad chronological and spatial frame of the project is a methodological and theoretical challenge, as they must compare structures with highly varying forms of organization, background of society, technological preconditions, and networks. Methodologically, the analyzers combines overall landscape studies with detailed analyzers of artifacts and structures. The data material consists of archaeology, place names, topography, geology, historical sources, and natural sciences. Theoretically, a basis is the space and place perspective, a perspective that seeks to bring a human dimension to the traditional ecological and geographical landscape analyzers. Space is something abstract as places without definite meaning, whereas place is a space with a certain meaning. In the project, space and place primarily are used in a structural sense, where space is conceived as an open form of organization with a different function spread over different locations in a wider area. Place, on the other hand, is characterized by a clustering of central functions. Space and place, thereby, is used as a concept for connection of analyzers of landscapes and cities. Space and place supports the central place and growth pole theories that are also fundamental for the project. The central place theory's overall definition of centrality and the functional-based categories of central places makes it possible to compare parameters of centrality across time. The dynamic development and its causality, on the other hand, is not part of the central place theory. In contradiction, these are inherited elements in the growth pole theory, which focuses on the active elements in the accumulation of resources and functions and the spread of growth. Besides the dynamic dimension, the growth pole theory can isolate factors that are decisive for the location and emergence of the central places, as well as the driving forces in the development of growth and general economical wealth. Not all central functions, thus, do generate growth. The meteorological and theoretical approach are well suited for the aim of the project, where the connection between the hinterland and the city in a dynamic perspective is crucial. The overall project consists of three sub-projects. The first sub-project analyzed the setting of landscape with settlement areas and infrastructural possibilities and created a basis for the forthcoming studies of interaction and economy. The place names present another layer to the analysis of landscape. The detector localities make up a comprehensive source to the questions of the research project and is a group that crosses the chronological frame as well as the symmetrical issues. In sub-project two, the empirical record is treated to make diachronic analyzes of organization and hierarchy in and between the central places. The sub-project focus on three themes. First, settlement trade and crafts. Second, military entry, cult and religion. Sub-project three focuses on dynamics and driving forces in the early urbanization process. The purpose is to analyze the factors and causalities behind development and abandonment of sensors. On this background, a thin thesis and model for the early urbanization process of South Scandinavia is produced. In another project called the Regions of Udense conducted by my colleague Moos Buhennigsen and myself. The general two-faced urbanization model of Scandinavia with a phase one with the Emporia and a second phase with the royally founded medieval cities of the 11th century is adjusted to a three-faced model. In this model, a middle phase with locally upland founded proto-cities with a blossom-up background is proposed. These proto-cities are founded in the 9th and 10th century and thereby bridging the Emporia and the medieval cities. In Denmark Udense, but perhaps also Öyborg, Viborg Orhus Horsens and Nistvig could be part of this group. This model and the following points from the project of relevance for the front-central space project where it can be tested on a larger empirical background. The emergence of these proto-towns is to be found in general societal changes and developments. A significant factor is the shift in trading peasants from thousandly orientated networks as expressed in the Emporia to more local and northerly-oriented networks that became increasingly dominant through the Viking Age. With time, this could mean that the Emporia played out their role while centers with a foundation in the local hinterland emerged. Another relevant factor is that new studies by Jesper Hensen indicate that already in the late Iron Age the agrarian environment achieved a stable structure with well-established village society and rigid organization of landscape resources. With this, opportunities for a surplus production and a levy system was possibly established. The rigid system with exploitation of large parts of the landscape together with a greater focus on locally-based trade also created a greater need for dominance of the local infrastructure, especially the land-based traffic. This is seen in a connection between location of metro-rich sites and the general road-nit. The locations of the proto-towns also fit well into this system. The two projects mentioned are founded in a new perspective on urbanization where the inclusion of the hinterland, the space, is of utmost importance in relation to the creation of the cities, the places. This dialogue also is reflected in abstracts of many of the other papers of today's session which we will now carry on with. Thank you.