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Meetings of cultures in the Black Sea Region / edited by Pia Guldager Bilde and Jane Hjarl Petersen.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Black Sea studies ; 8.
- Black Sea Studies ; 8
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Material culture--Black Sea Region--Congresses.
- Material culture.
- Intercultural communication--Black Sea Region--History--Congresses.
- Intercultural communication.
- Black Sea Region--Civilization--Congresses.
- Black Sea Region.
- Black Sea Region--Antiquities--Congresses.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (422 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Aarhus, Denmark : Aarhus University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Meetings of cultures arouse strong feelings. In this volume, nineteen scholars from Denmark, France, Georgia, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Russia, and Ukraine present a profound discussion covering various topics from the physical arena of the colonial encounters, to the layout of land and protection of cities, to the dynamics of the cultural exchange, to the perception of how it was to be Greek in the Pontic realm, and finally, to be reciprocal strategies exerted by the Greeks and Scythians in the Olbia as described in Herodotos's Skythian Tale. Through the many-sided contributions it is r
- Contents:
- Phalerae of Horse Harnesses in Votive Depositions of the 2nd-1st Century BC in the North Pontic Region and the Sarmatian ParadigmResearch history; Two groups of phalerae; "Sarmatians", "Sarmatian culture", and the "Sarmatian Paradigm"; Rostovcev and the Sarmatians; P. Rau and his followers; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Abbreviations; Conflict or Coexistence? Remarks on Indigenous Settlement and Greek Colonization in the Foothills and Hinterland of the Sibaritide (Northern Calabria, Italy); Meeting of cultures East and West: an introduction; Aim and content of paper
- Settling in the margins of Oinotrian societyMeeting of cultures in the sanctuary on Timpone Motta; Meeting of cultures, the Iron Age and Archaic settlement of Timpone Motta; What can landscape archaeology add?; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; The Chora Formation of the Greek Cities of Aegean Thrace. Towards a Chronological Approach to the Colonization Process; Greek colonization in context: Aegean Thrace before the arrival of the first Greek settlers; The development of the early Iron Age settlement pattern; The cultural diversity of the Aegean Thracian societies
- Necropolis of the 4th century AD
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9788779346543
- 8779346545
- OCLC:
- 817900212
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