Comparative Perspectives on Past Colonisation, Maritime Interaction and Cultural Integration (New Directions in Anthropological Archaeology)

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)

• | Author: Anne Lene Melheim, Håkon Glørstad, Zanette Tsigaridas Glørstad, Hakon Glorstad
• | Publisher: Equinox Publishing
• | Publication Date: Nov 15, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 256 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1781790485
• | ISBN-13: 9781781790489