Local societies in Bronze Age Northern Europe / edited by Nils Anfinset and Melanie Wrigglesworth.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Anfinset, Nils.

Wrigglesworth, Melanie

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bronze age--Europe, Northern.

Bronze age.

Europe, Northern--Antiquities.

Europe, Northern.

Northern Europe.

Antiquities.

Physical Description:

ix, 260 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; Oakville, CT : Equinox, 2012.

Summary:

For many years archaeologists considered the Bronze Age societies of Northern/Arctic Europe as being on the periphery and a bleak contrast to what was going on in Central Europe and the Near East at the time. More recent research, however, has seen the period as one of increased globalization, and has shown that new types of societies and new modes of exchange and trade also emerged in Northern Europe. The essays in this volume are part of this new approach and offer new insights into the societies of Bronze Age Northern Europe and challenge many longstanding orthodoxies. The contributions reveal that there was considerable local variation and diversity within the Bronze Age societies of Northern Europe and that they were less isolated than previously thought, with clear evidence of communication, travel and contact not only with Central Europe and the Near East hut also towards the Far East. By bringing the experience of this neglected area into wider discussions of regionality, the hook is a significant contribution to the greater picture of the Bronze Age world. Book jacket.

Contents:

Local societies, regions and processes of cultural interaction in the Bronze Age / Nils Anfinset & Melanie Wrigglesworth

Approaching a complex past : entangled collective identities / Charlotte Damm

Assymetric twins? : some reflections on coastal and inland societies in the Bothnian area during the epi-neolithic and early metal age / Lars Forsberg

Expressing identity through ritual in the early Bronze Age / Mette Roesgaard Hansen

Large-scale "grand narratives" and small-scale local studies in the Bronze Age discourse : the animal perspective / Kristin Armstrong Oma

Reconsidering a periphery : scenarios of copper production in southern Norway / Anne Lene Melheim

On the bronze trail : short-cuts, byways, transformation and displacement / Ørjan Engedal

North-western Russia at the periphery of the North-European and Volga-Uralic Bronze Age / Maria Yushkova

Local centres in the periphery : discussing the late neolithic, Bronze Age and early metal age Finland / Mika Lavento

The Nordic Bronze Age and the Lüneburg culture : two different responses to social change / Sophie Bergerbrant

Pottery, transmission and innovation in Malerdalen / Thomas Erikson

Social landscapes of Bronze Age Scandinavia / Peter Skoglund

The origin of a Bronze Age in Norway : structure, regional process and localised history / Christopher Prescott

Social response or resistance to the introduction of metal : western Norway at the edge of the "globalised" world / Nils Anfinset.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

1845537424

9781845537425

OCLC:

727047864

Publisher Number:

99949502019