The Bjurselet Settlement III
Title | The Bjurselet Settlement III PDF eBook |
Author | Hans Christiansson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Bjurselet Site (Sweden). |
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Paths Towards a New World
Title | Paths Towards a New World PDF eBook |
Author | Mats Larsson |
Publisher | Oxbow Books |
Pages | 167 |
Release | 2014-04-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1782972579 |
Covering the approximately 6,500 years from the beginning of the Late Mesolithic to the transition to the Bronze Age, Mats Larsson takes the reader on a journey through the development of Swedish prehistoric society and culture set against the backdrop of climatic and landscape change. Using examples selected from a wealth of archaeological sites, artefacts and palaeo-environmental studies he explores a series of chronological themes: such as how the relationship between land and water influenced peoples lives in many ways and the development of often long-distance cultural and exchange networks, as reflected in the occurrence of foreign stone axes, flint, copper and pottery. He describes how innovations, such as the introduction of agriculture, spread rapidly during the Neolithic, incorporating characteristics of extensive northern European cultural groups, beginning with the Funnel Beaker Culture with its array of distinctive objects, settlements and burial monuments, while retaining some specific regional and local expressions in material culture. Later, certain characteristics of the Pitted Ware Culture, such as specific types of pottery decoration, were taken up in some areas while the emergence of some regional groups can be seen as a step in the ideological and social changes that led to what we today call the Battle Axe Culture. Towards the end of the Stone Age the battle axe was replaced by the dagger as a symbol of the male warrior as a more stable society emerged in many parts of the country, concentrated around large farms with longhouses. It was only at this late stage that agriculture and the raising of livestock gained a firm hold, and the landscape was opened up permanently.
Ancient Scandinavia
Title | Ancient Scandinavia PDF eBook |
Author | T. Douglas Price |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 521 |
Release | 2015-06-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0190231998 |
Scandinavia, a land mass comprising the modern countries of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, was the last part of Europe to be inhabited by humans. Not until the end of the last Ice Age when the melting of huge ice sheets left behind a fresh, barren land surface, about 13,000 BC, did the first humans arrive and settle in the region. The archaeological record of these prehistoric cultures, much of it remarkably preserved in Scandinavia's bogs, lakes, and fjords, has given us a detailed portrait of the evolution of human society at the edge of the inhabitable world. In this book, distinguished archaeologist T. Douglas Price provides a history of Scandinavia from the arrival of the first humans to the end of the Viking period, ca. AD 1050. The first book of its kind in English in many years, Ancient Scandinavia features overviews of each prehistoric epoch followed by illustrative examples from the region's rich archaeology. An engrossing and comprehensive picture of change across the millennia emerges, showing how human society evolved from small bands of hunter-gatherers to large farming communities to the complex warrior cultures of the Bronze and Iron Ages, cultures which culminated in the spectacular rise of the Vikings at the end of the prehistoric period. The material evidence of these past societies--arrowheads from reindeer hunts, megalithic tombs, rock art, beautifully wrought weaponry, Viking warships--give vivid testimony to the ancient peoples of Scandinavia and to their extensive contacts with the remote cultures of the Arctic Circle, Western Europe, and the Mediterranean
Ethnographies of Archaeological Practice
Title | Ethnographies of Archaeological Practice PDF eBook |
Author | Matt Edgeworth |
Publisher | Rowman Altamira |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780759108455 |
Collection of original studies on the contemporary practice of archaeology as a professional and scholarly endeavor.
Lapps and Labyrinths
Title | Lapps and Labyrinths PDF eBook |
Author | Noel D. Broadbent |
Publisher | Smithsonian Institution |
Pages | 584 |
Release | 2013-10-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1935623362 |
Professor Noel D. Broadbent is one of Sweden's foremost experts on north Swedish archaeology and literally wrote the book on the prehistory of the Skellefteå region on the North Bothnian coast. This knowledge is now brought to bear on the issue of Saami origins. The focus is on the successful adaptive strategies of Saami societies over thousands of years - a testimony to Saami resiliency, of relevance to the survival of indigenous societies worldwide today.
Acta Regiae Societatis Skytteanae
Title | Acta Regiae Societatis Skytteanae PDF eBook |
Author | Kungl. Skytteanska samfundet |
Publisher | |
Pages | 42 |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | Norrland (Sweden) |
ISBN |
Prehistoric Settlement Patterns
Title | Prehistoric Settlement Patterns PDF eBook |
Author | Evon Zartman Vogt |
Publisher | |
Pages | 552 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | Social Science |
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