Research Catalog

Title

Ancient Scandinavia : an archaeological history from the first humans to the Vikings / T. Douglas Price.

Author

Price, T. Douglas (Theron Douglas)

Publication

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015]

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Details

Description

xx, 494 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color); 27 cm

Summary

"This book is about the prehistory of Scandinavia, from the first inhabitants to their Viking descendants. Scandinavia in this study includes the modern countries of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway. The first chapter provides frameworks for understanding the prehistory of Scandinavia, concentrating on place, time, and archaeology. The subsequent chapters are organized by the major archeological divisions of the time between the arrival of the first inhabitants, sometime after 13,500 BC, and the end of the Viking period, ca. AD 1050, from the end of the Pleistocene, to the early Neolithic, to the Vikings. The archaeology of this region provides an exceptional perspective on the development of human society. It's a kind of laboratory for the evolution of human culture that allows us to examine detailed evidence about past changes in human society and to ask questions about what took place during this process. Human groups in Scandinavia evolved from small bands of migratory hunters to village farmers, metal-using tribes, and early states in roughly 10,000 years. While the focus of this volume is on Scandinavia, what has been learned there has implications across a much broader set of archaeological questions: how do humans colonize new regions, how do hunter-gatherers adapt to difficult environments, how do humans cope with dramatic changes in their environment, how important was the sea for hunter-gatherers, why did foragers become farmers, what were the consequences of farming, how did hierarchical social relationships develop, how did early states operate? Insight on these questions in Scandinavia sheds light elsewhere in the prehistoric world"--

Subjects

• Prehistoric peoples
• Social archaeology
• Prehistoric peoples > Scandinavia
• Social archaeology > Scandinavia
• HISTORY / Europe / Scandinavia
• History
• To 1397
• Scandinavia > Antiquities
• Antiquities, Prehistoric > Scandinavia
• Scandinavia > History > To 1397
• Antiquities

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• Also available as an ebook.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-461) and index.

Contents

PLACE, TIME, AND ARCHAEOLOGY -- THE FIRST INHABITANTS (13,000-9500 BC) -- THE LAST HUNTERS (9500-4000 BC) -- THE FIRST FARMERS (4000-2800 BC) -- NEOLITHIC SOCIETIES (2800-1800 BC) -- BRONZE WARRIORS (1800-800 BC) -- THE AGE OF IRON (800 BC-AD 750) -- VIKINGS! (AD 750-1050) -- A VIEW TO THE PAST.

Call Number

JFF 15-966

ISBN

• 9780190231972
• 0190231971

LCCN

2014032951

OCLC

900306404

Author

Price, T. Douglas (Theron Douglas), author.

Title

Ancient Scandinavia : an archaeological history from the first humans to the Vikings / T. Douglas Price.

Publisher

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-461) and index.

Chronological Term

To 1397

Research Call Number

JFF 15-966