Comparative Perspectives on Past Colonisation, Maritime Interaction and Cultural Integration
edited by Lene Melheim, Hakon Glorstad, and Zanette Tsigaridas Glorstad
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(November 2016)
ISBN: 9781781790489
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This volume explores processes of colonization and cultural integration from the end of the last Ice Age to the present from a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary perspective. The contributions to this volume shed light on various social aspects of movement, migration and colonization among hunter-gatherers and Neolithic groups as well as in chiefdoms and state societies. Geographically, an area spanning from the Mediterranean to Central Europe and the North Sea Region, Greenland and Siberia is covered. Three social and historical processes-the social aspects of colonization, cultural integration and maritime interaction-are particularly discussed as interrelated phenomena.
This volume explores processes of colonisation and cultural integration from the end of the last Ice Age to the present from a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary perspective. All kinds of human mobility, short-distance as well as long-distance movements, short-term and long-term interactions are potential triggers for change and also cultural integration. The colonisation of an area most clearly brings into focus what kind of social fabric encompassed the actual historical processes. Recent perspectives on the social and cultural embeddedness of exchange, and how objects facilitate constructions of identities and political legitimacy, serve to frame and explicate the role of material culture in such processes. The contributions to this volume shed light on various social aspects of movement, migration and colonisation among hunter-gatherers and Neolithic groups as well as in chiefdoms and state societies. Geographically, an area spanning from the Mediterranean to Central Europe and the North Sea Region, Greenland and Siberia is covered. Three social and historical processes – the social aspects of colonisation, cultural integration and maritime interaction – are particularly discussed as interrelated phenomena.
Introduction: Comparative Perspectives on Past Colonisation, Maritime Interaction and Cultural Integration Hakon Glorstad, Zanette Tsigaridas Glorstad and Lene Melheim Part 1: Colonization 1. 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. 2. The Sicilian World after the Punic Wars: The Greek Colony in a New Reality Roksana Chowaniec, University of Warsaw, Poland 3. When the Romans Arrived in Sardinia. Three Case Studies: Cornus, Olbia and Nora Cristina Nervi 4. Yakut Food Producers Colonising Areas Occupied by Evenk Hunter-gatherers: Fragments of a Process of Cultural Change Caused by Migration Ole Gron, University of Southern Denmark Part 2: Maritime Interaction 5. Past Mirrors: Thucydides, Sahlins and the Bronze and Viking Ages Zanette Tsigaridas Glorstad and Lene Melheim 6. Nothing to Lose: Waterborne Raiding in Southern Scandinavia
- Edited by Hakon Glorstad
- Edited by Lene Melheim
- Edited by Zanette Tsigaridas Glorstad
"...The collected works represent a valuable and thought-provoking addition to the current corpus of comparative literature on this topic, providing a number of case studies that can be examined and discussed in wider contexts." --Ben Raffield, Uppsala University, Antiquity, February 2018
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Other Titles in this Series
Seaways to Complexity
A Study of Sociopolitical Organisation Along the Coast of Northwestern Scandinavia in the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age
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