Becoming European : the transformation of third millennium northern and western Europe / edited by Christopher Prescott and Hakon Glrstad.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Prescott, Christopher.

Glrstad, Hakon.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prehistoric peoples--Europe.

Prehistoric peoples.

Anthropology, Prehistoric--Europe.

Anthropology, Prehistoric.

Antiquities, Prehistoric--Europe.

Antiquities, Prehistoric.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Oakville, Conn. : Oxbow Books, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

It can be argued that elements of European heritage can be identified not only as a national strategy of the present but also as a process in prehistory - the cultural and political transformations of the third millennium BC in European prehistory sparking off this process. These transformations initiated the processes and mechanisms that led up to the complex political, social and cultural institutions of the first half of the second millennium BC. From this time on, an authentic historical continuum leading towards present-day society can be identified. The papers in this anthology provide a

Contents:

Cover; Preface; Contributors and abstracts; 1. Introduction: becoming European; 2. Personhoods for Europe: the archaeological construction and deconstruction of European-ness; 3. Demography and mobility in North-Western Europe during the third millennium cal. BC; 4. Perceiving changes in the third millennium BC in Europe through pott ery: Galicia,Britt any and Denmark as examples; 5. Body use transformations: socio-political changes in the Bell Beaker context; 6. Late Neolithic expansion to Norway. The beginning of a 4000 year-old shipbuilding tradition

7. Towards a new understanding of Late Neolithic Norway - the role of metal and metal working8. Historical ideal types and the transition to the Late Neolithic in South Norway; 9. The last hunter-fi shers of western Norway; 10. Third millennium transformations in Norway: modeling an interpretative platform; 11. Technology Talks: material diversity and change in Northern Norway 3000-1000 BC; 12. Cultural Reproduction from Late Stone Age to Early Metal Age - a short discussion of the culturesin Finland, the northern part of Fennoscandia and Karelia, 3200 cal. BC to 1500 cal. BC

13. Tracing pressure-fl aked Arrowheads in Europe14. The Bronze Age expansion of Indo-European languages: an archaeological model

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781842176849

1842176846

9781842176863

1842176862

OCLC:

831118189