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The Archaeology of Regional Technologies [electronic resource] : Case Studies from the Palaeolithic to the Age of the Vikings
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barndon, Randi.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Group identity--History--To 1500.
- Group identity--Scandinavia--History--To 1500.
- Regionalism--History--To 1500.
- Regionalism--Scandinavia--History--To 1500.
- Scandinavia--Antiquities.
- Social archaeology--Case studies.
- Social archaeology--Scandinavia--Case studies.
- Technology--History--To 1500.
- Technology--Scandinavia--History--To 1500.
- Technology--History--To 1500--Scandinavia--Case studies.
- Technology.
- Regionalism--History--To 1500--Scandinavia--Case studies.
- Regionalism.
- Group identity--History--To 1500--Scandinavia.
- Group identity.
- Social archaeology--History--To 1500--Scandinavia.
- Social archaeology.
- Scandinavia.
- Local Subjects:
- Group identity--History--To 1500.
- Group identity--Scandinavia--History--To 1500.
- Regionalism--History--To 1500.
- Regionalism--Scandinavia--History--To 1500.
- Scandinavia--Antiquities.
- Social archaeology--Case studies.
- Social archaeology--Scandinavia--Case studies.
- Technology--History--To 1500.
- Technology--Scandinavia--History--To 1500.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (305 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This anthology methodologically examines the relation between material culture, technology, regions, regionalisation and regional identities from a wide range of angles and perspectives. This theoretical resource for archaeologists, anthropologists, and ethnographers contains 14 essays that discuss and develop archaeological relevant understandings of technology in a regional long time perspective. This book contains ten color photographs and three black and white photographs.
- Contents:
- THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF REGIONAL TECHNOLOGIES: Case Studies from the Palaeolithic to the Age of the Vikings; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Chapter 1: Technology and regions in a long time perspective - an introduction; Chapter 2: Re-visiting the region and regional identityTheoretical reflections with empirical illustrations; Chapter 3: From ethnology to material culture studies - and back again; Chapter 4: The phenomenal promise of Chaine Operatoire Mindfully engaged bodies and manufacture of personhood in a regional perspective
- Chapter 5: Staying home for dinner: an isotopic approach to regionality in Mesolithic Atlantic EuropeChapter 6: Housing and hunting - Technological reproduction in the Late Mesolithic Nostvet region of eastern Norway and western Sweden; Chapter 7: Marrying the enemy:Technology and regions in Early Neolithic Norway; Chapter 8: A consideration of the role of bifacial lithic technology in northern Scandinavia; Chapter 9: Woven and cast - entangled trajectories in north-western Scandinavia, 1000 BC
- Chapter 10: Technological choices and changes and the concept of innovation Reflections on the introduction of iron in areas with different power systemsIllustrations; Plate 4.1: 'Harpoon' from La Vache; Plate 4.2: Non-functional 'harpoons' from La Vache; Plate 4.3: The 'Lion Frieze' from La Vache; Chapter 11: Iron technology in a regional perspectiveA reflection on the technological compatibility; Chapter 12: Exploring the dynamics of African pottery cultures
- Chapter 13: Technological style, regional diversity and identity: Asbestos regions and soapstone regions in Norway in the Late Roman and Migration PeriodsChapter 14: Regional approaches to technology clusters and local variation in a long term perspective: Sunnmore in western Norway; Chapter 15: Re-assembling regions: The social occasions of technological exchange in Viking Age Scandinavia; Bibliography; Contributors in this volume
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-7734-2202-1
- OCLC:
- 818851377
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