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Comparative Perspectives on Past Colonisation, Maritime Interaction and Cultural Integration

Author : Anne Lene Melheim

Publisher : Equinox Publishing (UK)

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 17,35 MB

Release : 2016

Category : Acculturation

ISBN : 9781781790489

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Introduction: Comparative perspectives on past colonisation, maritime interaction and cultural integration / Håkon Glørstad, Zanette Tsigaridas Glørstad and Lene Melheim -- Part 1. Colonization -- The development of early Mesolithic social networks during the settlement of virgin lands in the eastern Baltic Sea region : interpreted through comparison of two sites in Finland / Aivar Kriiska (University of Tartu, Estonia), Tapani Rostedt and Timo Jussila (Microlith Ltd.) -- The Sicilian world after the Punic Wars : the Greek colony in a new reality / Roksana Chowaniec (University of Warsaw, Poland) -- When the Romans arrived in Sardinia : three case studies: Cornus, Olbia and Nora / Cristina Nervi -- Yakut food producers colonising areas occupied by Evenk hunter-gatherers : fragments of a process of cultural change caused by migration / Ole Grøn (University of Southern Denmark) -- Part 2. Maritime interaction -- Past mirrors : Thucydides, Sahlins and the Bronze and Viking ages / Zanette Tsigaridas Glorstad and Lene Melheim -- Nothing to lose : waterborne raiding in southern Scandinavia / Christian Horn (Christian-Albrechts University, Kiel, Germany) -- Migration, identity and material culture : Hanseatic translocality in the medieval Baltic Sea / Magdalena Naum (Lund University, Sweden) -- Pirates of the North Sea? : the Viking ship as political space / Neil Price (University of Aberdeen) -- Bronze Age vikings? : a comparative analysis of deep historical structures and their dynamics / Kristian Kristiansen (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) -- Part 3. Cultural integration -- Exploring new territories : expanding frontiers : bowmen and prospectors on the Scandinavian Peninsula in the 3rd millennium BC / Lene Melheim and Christopher Prescott (University of Oslo, Norway) -- Spreading ideas : late Bronze Age face-urn burials across Northern Europe and the Baltic Sea / Jutta Kneisel (Christian-Albrechts University, Kiel, Germany) -- Long-term cosmological interconnectedness and long-distance trade : cosmology and comparative advantage in the Bronze Age and beyond / Michael Rowlands (University College London) and Johan Ling (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) -- In the footsteps of the Vikings : children and cultural change / Dawn Hadley (University of Sheffield) -- Conclusion: Thoughts of a comparativist on past colonisation, maritime interaction and cultural integration / Matthew Spriggs (Australian National University)



Ancient Economies in Comparative Perspective

Author : Marcella Frangipane

Publisher : Springer Nature

Page : 366 pages

File Size : 32,58 MB

Release : 2022-09-09

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 3031087631

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This book investigates the economic organization of ancient societies from a comparative perspective. By pursuing an interdisciplinary approach, including contributions by archaeologists, historians of antiquity, economic historians as well as historians of economic thought, it studies various aspects of ancient economies, such as the material living conditions including production technologies, etc.; economic institutions such as markets and coinage; as well as the economic thinking of the time. In the process, it also explores the comparability of economic thought, economic institutions and economic systems in ancient history. Focusing on the Ancient Near East as well as the Mediterranean, including Greece and Rome, this comparative perspective makes it possible to identify historical permanencies, but also diverse forms of social and political organization and cultural systems. These institutions are then evaluated in terms of their capacity to solve economic problems, such as the efficient use of resources or political stability. The first part of the book introduces readers to the methodological context of the comparative approach, including an evaluation of the related historiographical tradition. Subsequent parts discuss a range of development models, elements of economic thinking in ancient societies, the role of trade and globalization, and the use of monetary and financial instruments, as well as political aspects.



Landscapes of Movement and Predation

Author : Brenda J. Bowser

Publisher : University of Arizona Press

Page : 320 pages

File Size : 39,83 MB

Release : 2024-10-15

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 081655336X

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Landscapes of Movement and Predation is a global study of times and places where people were subject to brutality, displacement, and loss of life, liberty, livelihood, and possessions. Extensive landscapes of predation emerged in the colonial era when Europeans expanded across much of the world, appropriating land and demanding labor from Indigenous people, resulting in the enslavement of millions of Africans and Indigenous Americans. Landscapes of predation also developed in precolonial times in places where people were subjected to repeated ruthless attacks and dislocation. With contributions from archaeologists and a historian, the book provides a startling new perspective on an aspect of the past that is often overlooked: the role of violence in shaping where, how, and with whom people lived. Using ethnohistoric, ethnographic, historic, and archaeological data, the authors explore the actions of both predators and their targets and uncover the myriad responses people took to protect themselves. Contributors Fernando Almeida Thomas John Biginagwa Brenda J. Bowser Catherine M. Cameron Charles Cobb Robbie Ethridge Thiago Kater Richard M. Leventhal Lydia Wilson Marshall Cliverson Pessoa Neil Price Ben Raffield Andrés Reséndez Samantha Seyler Fabíola Andréa Silva



Monarchs and Hydrarchs

Author : Christian Cooijmans

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 273 pages

File Size : 45,30 MB

Release : 2020-03-13

Category : History

ISBN : 0429535821

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As the politico-economic exploits of vikings in and around the Frankish realm remain, to a considerable extent, obscured by the constraints of a fragmentary and biased corpus of (near-)contemporary evidence, this volume approaches the available interdisciplinary data on a cumulative and conceptual level, allowing overall spatiotemporal patterns of viking activity to be detected and defined – and thereby challenging the notion that these movements were capricious, haphazard, and gratuitous in character. Set against a backdrop of continuous commerce and knowledge exchange, this overarching survey demonstrates the existence of a relatively uniform, sequential framework of wealth extraction, encampment, and political engagement, within which Scandinavian fleets operated as adaptable, ambulant polities – or ‘hydrarchies’. By delineating and visualising this framework, a four-phased conceptual development model of hydrarchic conduct and consequence is established, whose validity is substantiated by its application to a number of distinct regional case studies. The parameters of this abstract model affirm that Scandinavian movements across Francia were the result of prudent and expedient decision-making processes, contingent on exchanged intelligence, cumulative experience, and the ongoing individual and collective need for socioeconomic subsistence and enrichment. Monarchs and Hydrarchs will appeal to both students and specialists of the Viking Age, whilst serving as an equally valuable resource to those investigating early medieval Francia, Scandinavia, and the North Sea world as a whole.



Oceania, 800-1800CE

Author : James L. Flexner

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 131 pages

File Size : 25,50 MB

Release : 2021-12-23

Category : History

ISBN : 110891148X

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Over a span of 1000 years beginning around 800CE, the people of the Pacific Islands undertook a remarkable period of voyaging, political evolution, and cross-cultural interactions. Polynesian navigators encountered previously uninhabited lands, as well as already inhabited islands and the coast of the Americas. Island societies saw epic sagas of political competition and intrigue, documented through oral traditions and the monuments and artefacts recovered through archaeology. European entry into the region added a new episode of interaction with strange people from over the horizon. These histories provide an important cross-cultural perspective for the concept of 'the Middle Ages' from outside of the usual Old World focus.



New Perspectives on the Bronze Age

Author : Sophie Bergerbrant

Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

Page : 460 pages

File Size : 41,77 MB

Release : 2017-04-30

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1784915998

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This collection of articles helps to explain why the Bronze Age has come to hold such a fascination within modern archaeological research. By providing new theoretical and analytical perspectives on the evidence new interpretative avenues have opened, it situates the history of the Bronze Age in both a local and a global setting.



Trade before Civilization

Author : Johan Ling

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 447 pages

File Size : 23,96 MB

Release : 2022-09-15

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1316514684

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Trade before Civilization explores the role that long-distance exchange played in the establishment and/or maintenance of social complexity, and its role in the transformation of societies from egalitarian to non-egalitarian. Bringing together research by an international and methodologically diverse team of scholars, it analyses the relationship between long-distance trade and the rise of inequality. The volume illustrates how elites used exotic prestige goods to enhance and maintain their elevated social positions in society. Global in scope, it offers case studies of early societies and sites in Europe, Asia, Oceania, North America, and Mesoamerica. Deploying a range of inter-disciplinary and cutting-edge theoretical approaches from a cross-cultural framework, the volume offers new insights and enhances our understanding of socio-political evolution. It will appeal to archaeologists, cultural anthropologists, conflict theorists, and ethnohistorians, as well as economists seeking to understand the nexus between imported luxury items and cultural evolution.



Viking Camps

Author : Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson

Publisher : Taylor & Francis

Page : 325 pages

File Size : 11,52 MB

Release : 2023-07-13

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1000905764

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This book is the coming together of several disciplines under the thematic umbrella of Viking Camps and provides the very latest research presented by the leading researchers in the field, making it the most comprehensive compilation of the phenomenon of Viking camps to date. Compiling the current state of research on encampments across the Viking world and their impact on their surroundings, this volume provides an all-encompassing analysis of their characteristics—functions, form, inner workings, and interaction with the landscape and the local population. It initiates a wider discussion on the features and functions that define them, making it possible to identify and understand new sites, also broadening the geographical scope. Sites in Ireland, England, Sweden, Frankia, and Iberia are presented and explored, allowing the reader to understand the camp phenomenon from a comparative, more inclusive perspective. The combination of geographically bound case-studies and in-depth analyses of specific themes, such as economy and religion, bring together an abundance of methodologies and approaches. The volume introduces new interdisciplinary approaches to define and identify Viking encampment sites, combining archaeology, historical documents, metal detecting, landscape analysis, and toponymic research. It builds the methodological foundations for future research on Viking camps, the armies inhabiting them, and their interaction with the surrounding world. Viking Camps contributes to a better understanding of the functioning of Viking expeditionary groups, both on campaign and during the early stages of settlement, and will be of use to researchers in Viking archaeology, history, and Viking Studies.



Urban Elite Culture

Author : Luisa Radohs

Publisher : Böhlau Köln

Page : 693 pages

File Size : 17,15 MB

Release : 2023-10-09

Category : History

ISBN : 3412528617

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Medieval towns were vibrant and complex social environments where diverse groups and lifestyles encountered and influenced each other. Surprisingly, in the study of urban archaeology, the aristocracy, one of the leading and most influential groups in medieval society, has so far been neglected. This book puts "aristocracy in towns" on the archaeological research agenda. The interdisciplinary and comparative study explores the significance and representation of aristocrats and their interaction with civic elites in sea-trading towns of the southwestern Baltic from the 12th to the 14th centuries. Essentially, however, the analysis of urban elite culture leads to discussion of a much more fundamental issue: the informative value of material culture for the investigation of social conditions. The book provides new archaeological approaches to the study of social differentiation in towns, and contributes to a deeper understanding of the complexity of urban social structures.



RETI MARITTIME COME FATTORI DELL’INTEGRAZIONE EUROPEA MARITIME NETWORKS AS A FACTOR IN EUROPEAN INTEGRATION

Author : Giampiero Nigro

Publisher : Firenze University Press

Page : 594 pages

File Size : 48,73 MB

Release : 2019

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 8864538569

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An analysis of Valencia's fifteenth-century port activity functional to the study of the city's diverse maritime networks and markets based on first-hand archive research mainly focusing on the second half of the fifteenth century. The text also takes into account an assortment of further late-fourteenth to early-sixteenth century data collected and analysed by other authors.