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020 $a9780190231972$qhardcover
020 $a0190231971$qhardcover
024 $a40025047582
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050 00 $aGN825$b.P74 2015
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100 1 $aPrice, T. Douglas$q(Theron Douglas),$eauthor.
245 10 $aAncient Scandinavia :$ban archaeological history from the first humans to the Vikings /$cT. Douglas Price.
264 1 $aNew York, NY :$bOxford University Press,$c[2015]
300 $axx, 494 pages ;$c27 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
500 $aAlso available as an ebook.
520 $a"This book is about the prehistory of Scandinavia, from the first inhabitants to their Viking descendants. Scandinavia in this study includes the modern countries of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway. The first chapter provides frameworks for understanding the prehistory of Scandinavia, concentrating on place, time, and archaeology. The subsequent chapters are organized by the major archeological divisions of the time between the arrival of the first inhabitants, sometime after 13,500 BC, and the end of the Viking period, ca. AD 1050, from the end of the Pleistocene, to the early Neolithic, to the Vikings. The archaeology of this region provides an exceptional perspective on the development of human society. It's a kind of laboratory for the evolution of human culture that allows us to examine detailed evidence about past changes in human society and to ask questions about what took place during this process. Human groups in Scandinavia evolved from small bands of migratory hunters to village farmers, metal-using tribes, and early states in roughly 10,000 years. While the focus of this volume is on Scandinavia, what has been learned there has implications across a much broader set of archaeological questions: how do humans colonize new regions, how do hunter-gatherers adapt to difficult environments, how do humans cope with dramatic changes in their environment, how important was the sea for hunter-gatherers, why did foragers become farmers, what were the consequences of farming, how did hierarchical social relationships develop, how did early states operate? Insight on these questions in Scandinavia sheds light elsewhere in the prehistoric world"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
650 0 $aPrehistoric peoples$zScandinavia.
650 0 $aAntiquities, Prehistoric$zScandinavia.
651 0 $aScandinavia$xAntiquities.
651 0 $aScandinavia$xHistory$yTo 1397.
650 0 $aSocial archaeology$zScandinavia.
650 7 $aHISTORY / Europe / Scandinavia.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aAntiquities.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00810745
650 7 $aAntiquities, Prehistoric.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00810762
650 7 $aPrehistoric peoples.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01075242
650 7 $aSocial archaeology.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01122274
651 7 $aScandinavia.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01242804
648 7 $aTo 1397$2fast
655 7 $aHistory.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411628
852 00 $boff,ave$hGN825$i.P74 2015