Local Societies in Bronze Age Northern Europe
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A01=Melanie Wrigglesworth
A01=Nils Anfinset
archaeological theory
Author_Melanie Wrigglesworth
Author_Nils Anfinset
bce
Bifacial Points
Bronze Age
Bronze Age Northern Europe
Bronze Age societal networks
Bronze Age World System
Category=GTQ
Category=NKD
Central European Bronze Age
cultural interaction
early
Early Metal Age
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
Female Burials
Flanged Axes
Flint Daggers
Karelian Isthmus
Kristiansen 1987a
late
LBA
LN
Male Graves
metal
metallurgical practices
Middle Neolithic
millennium
Millennium Bce
neolithic
nordic
Nordic Bronze Age
Northern Fennoscandia
Northwestern Russia
peninsula
prehistoric trade networks
regional identities
ritual expression
scandinavian
Scandinavian Bronze Age
Southern Scandinavia
Southwest Norway
Textile Pottery
Volga Kama Region
western
Western Norway
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- ISBN 9781845537425
- Weight: 660g
- Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 01 Nov 2005
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book aims to understand the process of the Bronze Age societies of Northern Europe which are often regarded as the periphery and a bleak contrast to the Central European Bronze Age. The Bronze Age is the first "globalised" period with new types of societies and new modes of exchange and trade. In this context there is considerable local variation and diversity within the Bronze Age societies of Northern Europe which is poorly understood, although there have been advances and changes in this research. Therefore this book challenges some of the mainstream opinions on the Bronze Age of Northern Europe, and focus on local and regional aspects. This is done by a series of articles from significant contributors that deal with these issues on theoretical and empirical levels, with regards to differences, cultural dualism, boundaries, regions and regionality in a period of increased "globalisation". The result is a movement away from local and regional aspects toward communications, travels and contacts between northern Europe and the greater world, not only towards Central Europe and the Near East but also towards the east. Northern/Arctic Europe is often left out in these discussions, and this book will contribute to this greater picture of the Bronze Age world.
Nils Anfinset is Associate Professor at the Department of Archaeology, University of Bergen.
