Meetings of cultures in the Black Sea Region
Subtitle: between conflict and coexistence
By: edited by Pia Guldager Bilde and Jane Hjarl Petersen
Contributors: Center for sortehavsstudier (Denmark)
Series: Black Sea studies -- 8; Black Sea studies -- 8.
Publisher: Aarhus University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Aarhus
Language: eng
Number of pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9788779344198
Subjects: Material culture; Ethnology; Acculturation; Kulturkontakt; Antiquities; Civilization; Congresses; History; Intercultural communication
Other titles: Meetings of cultures :
Notes: Consists primarily of papers presented at the Danish National Research Foundation's Centre for Black Sea Studies' seventh international conference, with 5 additional papers on similar themes.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Setting the scene: Rhythms of Eurasia and the main historical stages of the Kimmerian Bosporos in Pre-Roman times / Jurij A. Vinogradov; title: Some reflection on eschatological currents, diasporic experience, and group identity in the Northwestern Black Sea Region / Pia Guldager Bilde; title: Phalerae of horse harnesses in votive deposition of the 2nd-1st century  BC in the North Pontic Region and the Sarmatian paradigm / Valentina Mordvintseva.; title: Spaces of identity: Conflict or coexistence? Remarks on indigenous settlement and Greek colonization in the foothills and hinterland of the Sibaritide (North Calabria, Italy) / Peter Attema; title: The chora formation of the Greek cities of Aegean Thrace : toward a chronological approach to the colonization process / Alexandre Baralis; title: A Kolchian and Greek settlement : excavation at Pičvnari 1967 to 2005 / Michael Vickers and Amiran Kakhidze.; title: Claiming the land: The cities that never were : failed attempts at colonization in the Black Sea / Jakob Munk Højte; title: The defense wall in the Northern part of the lower city of Olbia Pontike ; The demarcation system of the agricultural environment of Olbia Pontike / Alexander V. Karjaka; title: The first results of the archaeological surveys near Cape Čauda and Lake Kačic on the Kerch Peninsula / Alexander V. Gavrilov; title: Archaeological sites of the Southwestern part of Bosporos and their connection to the landscape / Tatina N. Smekalova.; title: The dynamics of cultural exchange: Kurgan burials from Nymphaion, a new approach / Jane Hjarl Petersen; title: Social and economic stratification of the Scythians from the Steppe region based on black-glazed pottery from burials / Nadežda A. Gavriljuk; title: Indigenous responses to encounters with the Greeks in Northern Anatolia : the reception of architectural terracottas in the Iron Age settlements of the Halys Basin / Latife Summerer; title: Mountainous Crimea : a frontier zone of ancient civilization / Natalia G. Novičenkova; title: Apsaros : a Roman fort in Southwestern Georgia / Emzar Kakhidze.; title: Mind the gap: Reciprocal strategies : imperialism, barbarism and trade in Archaic and Classical Olbia / Robin Osborne; title: Scythian laughter : conversation in the Northern Black Sea Region in the 5th century BC / David Braund; title: Dionysos and Herakles in Scythia : the eschatalogical string of Herodotos' Book 4 / George Hinge.