The archaeology of regional technologies
Subtitle: case studies from the Palaeolithic to the age of the Vikings
By: edited by Randi Barndon, Asbjørn Engevik, and Ingvild Øye ; with a foreword by Pierre Lemonnier.
Contributors: Barndon, Randi.; Engevik, Asbjørn.; Øye, Ingvild.
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lewiston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780773436862
Subjects: Technology -- Scandinavia -- History -- To 1500; Regionalism -- Scandinavia -- History -- To 1500; Group identity -- Scandinavia -- History -- To 1500; Social archaeology -- Scandinavia -- Case studies; Technology -- History -- To 1500; Regionalism -- History -- To 1500; Group identity -- History -- To 1500; Social archaeology -- Case studies; Scandinavia -- Antiquities
Genres: Case studies
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 Chaine Operatoire : 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 Nostvet region of eastern Norway and western Sweden / Hakon Glorstad; 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 / Orjan Engedal; title: Technological choices and changes and the concept of innovation : reflections on the introduction of iron in areas with different power systems / Eva Hjarthner-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 : Sunnmore in western Norway / Randi Barndon; title: Re-assembling regions : the social occasions of technological exchange in Viking age Scandinavia / Soren Michael Sindbak.