Local Societies in Bronze Age Northern Europe 9781845537425, 2011019860, 1845537424
This book aims to understand the process of the Bronze Age societies of Northern Europe which are often regarded as the
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Table of contents :
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 perspective
5. 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 change
10. 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
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 perspective
5. 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 change
10. 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
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