The archaeology of regional technologies
Subtitle: case studies from the Palaeolithic to the age of the Vikings
By: edited by Randi Barndon, Asbjørn Engevik, Ingvild Øye ; with a foreword by Pierre Lemonnier
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lewiston, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780773436862
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Technology and regions in a long time perspective : an introduction / Ingvild Øye, Randi Barndon, and Asbjørn Engevik; title: Re-visiting the region and regional identity : theoretical reflections with empirical illustrations / Anssi Paasi; title: From ethnology to material culture studies, and back again / Michael Rowlands; title: The phenomenal promise of Chaîne Opératoire : mindfully engaged bodies and the manufacture of personhood in a regional perspective / Marcia-Anne Dobres; title: Staying home for dinner : an isotopic approach to regionality in Mesolithic Atlantic Europe / Rick Schulting; title: Housing and hunting : technological reproduction in the late Mesolithic Nøstvet region of eastern Norway and western Sweden / Håkon Glørstad; title: Marrying the enemy : technology and regions in early Neolithic Norway / Knut Andreas Bergsvik; title: A consideration of the role of bifacial lithic technology in northern Scandinavia / Lars Forsberg; title: Woven and cast-entangled trajectories in north-western Scandinavia, 1000 BC / Ørjan Engedal; title: Technological choices and changes and the concept of innovation : reflections on the introduction of iron in areas with different power systems / Eva Hjärthner-Holdar; title: Iron technology in a regional perspective : a reflection on the technological compatibility / Lars F. Stenvik; title: Exploring the dynamics of African pottery cultures / Olivier P. Gosselain; title: Technological style, regional diversity and identity : asbestos regions and soapstone regions in Norway in the late Roman and migration periods / Asbjørn Engevik; title: Regional approaches to technology clusters and local variation in a long term perspective : Sunnmøre in western Norway / Randi Barndon; title: Re-assembling regions : the social occasions of technological exchange in Viking age Scandinavia / Søren Michael Sindbœk.