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Local Societies in Bronze Age Northern Europe.

The Bronze Age saw the development of new methods of exchange and trade in Northern Europe and was a period of increased globalization. However, until now, archaeologists have neglected Bronze Age societies in Northern Europe in favour of Central Europe and the Near East. Local Societies in Bronze A...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Anfinset, Nils
Otros Autores: Wrigglesworth, Melanie
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures and tables; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: local societies, regions and processes of cultural interaction in the Bronze Age; PART I: IDENTITY, GRAND NARRATIVES AND NETWORKS; 1. Approaching a complex past: entangled collective identities; 2. Asymmetric twins? Some reflections on coastal and inland societies in the Bothnian area during the Epineolithic and Early Metal Age; 3. Expressing identity through ritual in the Early Bronze Age.
  • 4. Large-scale "grand narratives" and small-scale local studies in the Bronze Age discourse: the animal perspective5. Reconsidering a periphery: scenarios of copper production in southern Norway; 6. On the bronze trail: short-cuts, byways, transformation and displacement; PART II: REGIONS, GLOBALIZATION AND RESISTANCE; 7. Northwestern Russia at the periphery of the north European and Volga-Uralic Bronze Age; 8. Local centres in the periphery: the Late Neolithic, Bronze Age and Early Metal Age in Finland.
  • 9. The Nordic Bronze Age and the Lüneburg culture: two different responses to social change10. Pottery, transmission and innovation in Mälardalen; 11. Social landscapes of Bronze Age Scandinavia; 12. The origin of a Bronze Age in Norway: structure, regional process and localized history; 13. Social response or resistance to the introduction of metal? Western Norway at the edge of the "globalized" world; Index.