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Author:   Daniela Hofmann ,  Frank Nikulka ,  Robert Schumann
Publisher:   Sidestone Press
Imprint:   Sidestone Press
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9789464270181

ISBN 10:   9464270187
Pages:   430
Publication Date:   15 November 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Introduction: The Baltic in the Bronze Age world Daniela Hofmann, Frank Nikulka, Robert Schumann OBJECTS Shared symbols and values. On Nordic disc pins and deposition practices in the eastern Baltic Uwe Sperling and Daniel Sahlen Local perspectives on innovation and dispersal of new technologies in northern foraging societies: lithics, ceramics and early metallurgy in northern Sweden Lars Forsberg Swords and sword-bearers across the Baltic Sea in the Early Bronze Age Jan-Heinrich Bunnefeld The arrowheads of the Tollense Valley. From use-wear analysis to the sequence of violence Hella Harten-Buga; Birte Meller; Thomas Terberger; Frank Nikulka; Detlef Jantzen; Joerg Orschiedt Craftspeople in the Late Bronze Age: bone and antler working at fortified settlements in the eastern Baltic region Heidi Luik Hoards, metallurgy and points. Proposal of an analytical tool for describing hoards with components related to metalworking Marcin Maciejewski and Kamil Nowak Kannelurensteine - balance weights of the Bronze Age? Nicola Ialongo and Lorenz Rahmstorf From the seaside to the inland. Comparing Late Bronze Age pottery production and styles in the eastern Baltic Vanda Visocka, Vytenis Podenas, Uwe Sperling SITES, REGIONS AND LANDSCAPES Settlement patterns in the Bronze Age western Baltic - comparisons at different regional scales Jutta Kneisel, Stefanie Schaefer-Di Maida, Ingo Feeser The emergence of fortified settlements in Bronze Age Lithuania: a new model Algimantas Merkevicius Interpreting Bronze and Iron Age enclosed spaces, fortifications and boundaries in the western Baltic Jutta Kneisel, Inge Beilke-Voigt, Oliver Nakoinz Stone Age-Early Metal Period transition in the southern Finnish lake district: incipient forest grazing and temporary burning practices Kerkko Nordqvist, Teija Alenius and Chiara Molinari The Bronze Age culture in Finland from the perspective of the 2020s Mika Lavento The Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age transition in the lower Oder and the Oder lagoon region from settlement and environmental perspectives Katarzyna Slusarska CONNECTIONS Peripheral or non-peripheral? The world view of the Bronze Age people in the eastern Baltic Agne Civilyte Bronze Age globalisation in numbers: volumes of trade and its organisation Kristian Kristiansen Bloody warriors? The Tollense valley conflict and its relation to the Baltic Sea region Detlef Jantzen and Gundula Lidke Bronze Age cultural changes, population movements, and the formation of the Proto-Finnic ethnos Valter Lang Baltic stone ships. Monuments of a maritory in Late Bronze Age northern Europe Joakim Wehlin

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Daniela Hofmann is Associate Professor at the University of Bergen, but has previously worked in Germany and the UK. She teaches and researches chiefly on the Neolithic of central Europe. Her main areas of interest are the application of scientific methods to narratives of prehistoric life, notably concerning migration and mobility, as well as the role of material culture and social practices (burial, structured deposition, figurines, architecture) in bringing about or resisting change. Frank Nikulka is currently Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology at the University of Hamburg. His main research interests include the Bronze and Iron Ages of Europe, as well as the Slavic period, the economic and social implications of metallurgy, variability in burial rituals and cultural contacts throughout Iron Age Europe. Robert Schumann is currently substitute professor at Heidelberg University. Prior to that, the worked and researched in Hamburg, Berlin and Munich after receiving his PhD from Munich in 2014. His research interests include Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age, social archaeology and social organisation, contemporary archaeology and the history of archaeology

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