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1 online resource (305 pages) |
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THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF REGIONAL TECHNOLOGIES: Case Studies from the Palaeolithic to the Age of the Vikings; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Chapter 1: Technology and regions in a long time perspective -- an introduction; Chapter 2: Re-visiting the region and regional identityTheoretical reflections with empirical illustrations; Chapter 3: From ethnology to material culture studies -- and back again; Chapter 4: The phenomenal promise of Chaine Operatoire Mindfully engaged bodies and manufacture of personhood in a regional perspective |
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Chapter 5: Staying home for dinner: an isotopic approach to regionality in Mesolithic Atlantic EuropeChapter 6: Housing and hunting -- Technological reproduction in the Late Mesolithic Nostvet region of eastern Norway and western Sweden; Chapter 7: Marrying the enemy:Technology and regions in Early Neolithic Norway; Chapter 8: A consideration of the role of bifacial lithic technology in northern Scandinavia; Chapter 9: Woven and cast -- entangled trajectories in north-western Scandinavia, 1000 BC |
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Chapter 10: Technological choices and changes and the concept of innovation Reflections on the introduction of iron in areas with different power systemsIllustrations; Plate 4.1: 'Harpoon' from La Vache; Plate 4.2: Non-functional 'harpoons' from La Vache; Plate 4.3: The 'Lion Frieze' from La Vache; Chapter 11: Iron technology in a regional perspectiveA reflection on the technological compatibility; Chapter 12: Exploring the dynamics of African pottery cultures |
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Chapter 13: Technological style, regional diversity and identity: Asbestos regions and soapstone regions in Norway in the Late Roman and Migration PeriodsChapter 14: Regional approaches to technology clusters and local variation in a long term perspective: Sunnmore in western Norway; Chapter 15: Re-assembling regions: The social occasions of technological exchange in Viking Age Scandinavia; Bibliography; Contributors in this volume |
| Summary |
This anthology methodologically examines the relation between material culture, technology, regions, regionalisation and regional identities from a wide range of angles and perspectives. This theoretical resource for archaeologists, anthropologists, and ethnographers contains 14 essays that discuss and develop archaeological relevant understandings of technology in a regional long time perspective. This book contains ten color photographs and three black and white photographs |
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Includes bibliographical references |
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Print version record |
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Technology -- Scandinavia -- History -- To 1500
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Regionalism -- Scandinavia -- History -- To 1500
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Group identity -- Scandinavia -- History -- To 1500
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Social archaeology -- Scandinavia -- Case studies
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Technology -- History -- To 1500
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Regionalism -- History -- To 1500
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Group identity -- History -- To 1500
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Social archaeology -- Case studies
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
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Antiquities
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Group identity
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Regionalism
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Social archaeology
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Technology
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Scandinavia -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2006008502
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Scandinavia
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Case studies
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History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Engevik, Asbjørn
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Øye, Ingvild
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| ISBN |
9780773422025 |
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0773422021 |
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