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  • Presenting Counterpoints to the Dominant Terrestrial Narrative of European Prehistory

    Series Book 1 - Maritime Encounters
    Challenges the terrestrial focus of European prehistory, emphasizing the significance of seascapes, maritime networks, and coastal societies in shaping prehistoric Europe.For many years now, the main thrust of European prehistory has followed a fundamentally terrestrial plot line. This terrestrial paradigm has undervalued the story of Europe as a peninsula between the Baltic, Mediterranean and ... Read more

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  • Rock Art and Seascapes in Uppland

    by Johan Ling ...
    Series Book 1 - SWEDISH ROCK ART RESEARCH SERIES
    Rock Art and Seascapes in Uppland presents a fresh approach to the detailed study of a selection of over 80 rock art panels located close to the present coastline of Uppland, Sweden, which include some 2000 ship depictions among the varied figurative art. Using GPS measurement combined with detailed study of the terrain, topography and relative sea level data in order to present accurate maps of ... Read more

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  • Elevated Rock Art

    Towards a maritime understanding of Bronze Age rock art in northern Bohuslän, Sweden

    by Johan Ling ...
    Series Book 2 - SWEDISH ROCK ART RESEARCH SERIES
    How may Bohuslän rock art and landscape be perceived and understood? Since the Bronze Age, the landscape has been transformed by shore displacement but, largely due to misunderstanding and certain ideas about the character of Bronze Age society, rock art research in Tanum has drawn much of its inspiration from the present agrarian landscape. This perception of the landscape has not been a major ... Read more

    $30.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bronze Age Rock Art in Iberia and Scandinavia

    Words, Warriors, and Long-distance Metal Trade

    Series Book 8 - Swedish Rock Art Research Series
    Discusses new evidence of interactions between Scandinavia and Iberia during the Bronze Age and cross references warrior iconography in both societies.Recent research has uncovered new evidence of long-distance interactions between Scandinavia and Iberia during the Late Bronze Age. Advances in various lines of inquiry, such as 3D recording of rock art, iconography, metals and amber sourcing, ... Read more

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  • Picturing the Bronze Age

    Series Book 3 - Swedish Rock Art Research Series
    Pictures from the Bronze Age are numerous, vivid and complex. There is no other prehistoric period that has produced such a wide range of images spanning from rock art to figurines to decoration on bronzes and gold. Fourteen papers, with a geographical coverage from Scandinavia to the Iberian Peninsula, examine a wide range of topics reflecting the many forms and expressions of Bronze Age imagery ... Read more

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  • North Meets South

    Theoretical Aspects on the Northern and Southern Rock Art Traditions in Scandinavia

    Series Book 6 - Swedish Rock Art Research Series
    This latest volume in the Swedish Rock Art series bridges the gap between analysis and interpretation of rock art imagery, location and chronology in the northern and southern regions of Scandinavia. Long viewed as belonging to distinctive regional traditions, there are many underlying similarities, themes and formats in common, overlain by regional complexities and variations. The authors explore ... Read more

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  • Nordic Bronze Age Economies

    Series series Elements in Ancient and Pre-modern Economies
    Provides a multi-scalar synthesis of Nordic Bronze Age economies (1800/1700–500 BCE) that is organized around six sections: an introduction to the Nordic Bronze Age, macro-economic perspectives, defining local communities, economic interaction, conflict and alliances, political formations, and encountering Europe. Despite a unifying material culture, the Bronze Age of Scandinavia was complex and ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Trade before Civilization

    Long Distance Exchange and the Rise of Social Complexity

    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 ... Read more

    $122.99 USD

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  • Bronze Age Economics

    The First Political Economies

    by Timothy Earle ...
    "Timothy Earle has set out to offer the most comprehensive view now available of the economic foundations of early societies, and it may well be that he has succeeded. Bronze Age Economics is a pioneering contribution to archaeological theory." —Colin Renfrew, University of Cambridge ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • Rock Art Through Time

    Scanian rock carvings in the Bronze Age and Earliest Iron Age

    Series Book 5 - Swedish Rock Art Research Series
    As in many other areas in south Scandinavia, the region surrounding the city of Simrishamn in south-east Scania has a great many Bronze Age mounds that are still visible in the landscape, and records from the museums demonstrate that the area is rich in bronze metalwork. Nevertheless, it is the figurative rock art that makes this region stand out as distinct from surrounding areas that lack such ... Read more

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  • Trade and Civilisation

    Economic Networks and Cultural Ties, from Prehistory to the Early Modern Era

    This book provides the first global analysis of the relationship between trade and civilisation from the beginning of civilisation 3000 BC until the modern era 1600 AD. Encompassing the various networks including the Silk Road, the Indian Ocean trade, Near Eastern family traders of the Bronze Age, and the Medieval Hanseatic League, it examines the role of the individual merchant, the products of ... Read more

    $146.79 USD

  • Making Journeys

    Archaeologies of Mobility

    Despite notable explorations of past dynamics, much of the archaeological literature on mobility remains dominated by accounts of earlier prehistoric gatherer-hunters, or the long-distance exchange of materials. Refinements of scientific dating techniques, isotope, trace element and aDNA analyses, in conjunction with phenomenological investigation, computer-aided landscape modeling and GIS-style ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus