Comparative perspectives on past colonisation, maritime interaction and cultural integration / edited by Lene Melheim, Håkon Glørstad and Zanette Tsigaridas Glørstad.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Melheim, Anne Lene.

Glørstad, Håkon

Glørstad, Zanette Tsigaridas, 1969-

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

New directions in anthropological archaeology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Colonization--Social aspects--History.

Colonization.

Seafaring life--Social aspects--History.

Seafaring life.

Acculturation--Social aspects--History.

Acculturation.

Social integration--History.

Social integration.

Material culture--History.

Material culture.

Emigration and immigration--History.

Emigration and immigration.

History.

Social mobility--History.

Social mobility.

Social change--History.

Social change.

Social aspects.

Seafaring life--Social aspects.

Colonization--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

xii, 289 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm.

Place of Publication:

Sheffield, UK : Equinox Publishing Ltd., 2016.

Summary:

"This volume explores processes of colonisation and cultural integration from the end of the last Ice Age to the present from a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary perspective. All kinds of human mobility, short-distance as well as long-distance movements, short-term and long-term interactions are potential triggers for change and also cultural integration. The colonisation of an area most clearly brings into focus what kind of social fabric encompassed the actual historical processes. Recent perspectives on the social and cultural embeddedness of exchange, and how objects facilitate constructions of identities and political legitimacy, serve to frame and explicate the role of material culture in such processes. The contributions to this volume shed light on various social aspects of movement, migration and colonisation among hunter-gatherers and Neolithic groups as well as in chiefdoms and state societies. Geographically, an area spanning from the Mediterranean to Central Europe and the North Sea Region, Greenland and Siberia is covered. Three social and historical processes--the social aspects of colonisation, cultural integration and maritime interaction--are particularly discussed as interrelated phenomena"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Comparative perspectives on past colonisation, maritime interaction and cultural integration-an introduction / Zanette Tsigaridas Glørstad, Håkon Glørstad, and Lene Melheim

Part 1. Colonisation

The development of early Mesolithic social networks during the settlement of virgin lands in the eastern Baltic Sea region-interpreted through comparison of two sites in Finland / Aivar Kriiska, Tapani Rostedt and Timo Jussila

The Sicilian world after the Punic Wars : the Greek colony in a new reality / Roksana Chowaniec

When the Romans arrived in Sardinia : three case studies-Cornus, Olbia and Nora / Cristina Nervi

Yakut food producers colonising areas occupied by Evenk hunter-gatherers : fragments of a process of cultural change caused by migration / Ole Grøn

Part 2. Maritime interaction

Past mirrors : Thucydides, Sahlins and the Bronze and Viking ages / Zanette Tsigaridas Glorstad and Lene Melheim

Nothing to lose : waterborne raiding in southern Scandinavia / Christian Horn

Migration, identity and material culture : Hanseatic translocality in the medieval Baltic Sea / Magdalena Naum

Pirates of the North Sea? : the Viking ship as political space / Neil Price

Bronze Age vikings? : a comparative analysis of deep historical structures and their dynamics / Kristian Kristiansen

Part 3. Cultural integration

Exploring new territories : expanding frontiers : bowmen and prospectors on the Scandinavian Peninsula in the third millennium BC / Lene Melheim and Christopher Prescott

Spreading ideas : late Bronze Age face-urn burials across Northern Europe and the Baltic Sea / Jutta Kneisel

Long-term cosmological interconnectedness and long-distance trade : cosmology and comparative advantage in the Bronze Age and beyond / Michael Rowlands and Johan Ling

In the footsteps of the Vikings : children and cultural change / D.M. Hadley.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

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

ISBN:

9781781790489

1781790485

OCLC:

922161568

Publisher Number:

99968575322