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Iron Age Myth and Materiality
Iron Age Myth and Materiality: an Archaeology of Scandinavia AD 400-1000 considers the relationship between myth and materiality in Scandinavia from the beginning of the post-Roman era and the European Migrations up until the coming of Christianity. It pursues an interdisciplinary interpretation of text and material culture and examines how the documentation of an oral past relates to its material embodiment. While the material evidence is from the Iron Age, most Old Norse texts were written down in the thirteenth century or even later. With a time lag of 300 to 900 years from the archaeological evidence, the textual material has until recently been ruled out as a usable source for any study...
Facets of Archeology
Professor Lotte Hedeager, one of Scandinavia's most prominent archaeologists, turned 60 on February 24, 2008. Many colleagues felt that this called for a festschrift in her honour! When the editing board invited Lotte's many colleagues to contribute an article in her honour, they felt that a festschrift should allow writers more freedom, a bit more leeway for the thoughts and ideas that do not always fit the constraints of traditional academic publishing. In the invitation to contribute to this volume the editors expressed the ambition of assembling "... a collection of very special articles from friends - articles that are a bit daring, original, entertaining and humorous. Articles that reflect Lotte!". 47 colleagues, friends and former students have contributed 44 articles to this book entitled Facets of archaeology. Essays in honour of Lotte Hedeager on her 60th birthday. The articles are in one of the Scandinavian languages or English, and deal with a wide range of themes within contemporary archaeology (prehistoric, classical and historical), anthropology and other disciplines.
Iron-age Societies
Skandinavien - Eisenzeit - Sozialgeschichte/Alltag - Religionsgeschichte.
Humans and Animals
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Centre and Periphery in the Ancient World
This collaborative volume is concerned with long-term social change. Envisaging individual societies as interlinked and interdependent parts of a global social system, the aim of the contributors is to determine the extent to which ancient societies were shaped over time by their incorporation in - or resistance to - the larger system. Their particular concern is the dependent relationship between technically and socially more developed societies with a strong state ideology at the centre and the simpler societies that functioned principally as sources of raw materials and manpower on the periphery of the system. The papers in the first part of the book are all concerned with political developments in the Ancient Near East and the notion of a regional system as a framework for analysis. Part 2 examines the problems of conceptualising local societies as discrete centres of development in the context of both the Near East and prehistoric Europe during the second millennium BC. Part 3 then presents a comprehensive analytical study of the Roman Empire as a single system showing how its component parts often relate to each other in uneven, even contradictory, ways.
Excavating Women
Archaeologists are increasingly aware of issues of gender when studying past societies; women are becoming better represented within the discipline and are attaining top academic posts. However, until now there has been no study undertaken of the history of women in European archaeology and their contribution to the development of the discipline. Excavating Women discusses the careers of women archaeologists such as Dorothy Garrod, Hanna Rydh and Marija Gimbutas, who against all odds became famous, as well as the many lesser-known personalities who did important archaeological work. The collection spans the earliest days of archaeology as a discipline to the present, telling the stories of w...
After Empire
The decline of the Roman Empire encouraged the spread westwards of tribes from eastern Europe, settling areas from which native people had been cleared by the spread of the power of Rome. The studies here focus on the customs of these barbarian peoples.
Danmarks jernalder. Mellem stamme og stat
"Danmarks jernalder. Mellem stamme og stat" er en bearbejdning af Lotte Hedeagers ph.d.-afhandling fra 1990, som har til formål at samle analysetraditionerne om den danske jernalder og give et samlet syn på samfundsudviklingen i perioden. Afhandlingen er baseret på grundige arkæologiske analyser, som videreføres for at beskrive jernalderens ideologi, ritualer, økonomi, samfundsorganisering, bebyggelse og sociale systemer. Lotte Hedeager (f. 1948) er professor i arkæologi ved Oslo Universitet siden 1996. Hun er uddannet fra Københavns Universitet i 1978 og fik sin ph.d. ved Aarhus Universitet i 1990. Hun har skrevet en række bøger om arkæologi og historie med særligt fokus på jernalderen i Skandinavien.
Critical Public Archaeology
Critical approaches to public archaeology have been in use since the 1980s, however only recently have archaeologists begun using critical theory in conjunction with public archaeology to challenge dominant narratives of the past. This volume brings together current work on the theory and practice of critical public archaeology from Europe and the United States to illustrate the ways that implementing critical approaches can introduce new understandings of the past and reveal new insights on the present. Contributors to this volume explore public perceptions of museum interpretations as well as public archaeology projects related to changing perceptions of immigration, the working classes, and race.
