Local Societies in Bronze Age Northern Europe.

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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures and tables; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: local societies, regions and processes of cultural interaction in the Bronze Age; PART I: IDENTITY, GRAND NARRATIVES AND NETWORKS; 1. Approaching a complex past: entangled collective identities; 2. Asymmetric twins? Some reflections on coastal and inland societies in the Bothnian area during the Epineolithic and Early Metal Age; 3. Expressing identity through ritual in the Early Bronze Age.

4. Large-scale "grand narratives" and small-scale local studies in the Bronze Age discourse: the animal perspective5. Reconsidering a periphery: scenarios of copper production in southern Norway; 6. On the bronze trail: short-cuts, byways, transformation and displacement; PART II: REGIONS, GLOBALIZATION AND RESISTANCE; 7. Northwestern Russia at the periphery of the north European and Volga-Uralic Bronze Age; 8. Local centres in the periphery: the Late Neolithic, Bronze Age and Early Metal Age in Finland.

9. The Nordic Bronze Age and the Lüneburg culture: two different responses to social change10. Pottery, transmission and innovation in Mälardalen; 11. Social landscapes of Bronze Age Scandinavia; 12. The origin of a Bronze Age in Norway: structure, regional process and localized history; 13. Social response or resistance to the introduction of metal? Western Norway at the edge of the "globalized" world; Index.

The Bronze Age saw the development of new methods of exchange and trade in Northern Europe and was a period of increased globalization. However, until now, archaeologists have neglected Bronze Age societies in Northern Europe in favour of Central Europe and the Near East. Local Societies in Bronze Age Northern Europe highlights the diversity of Bronze Age societies in the region. The book argues that such societies were less isolated than previously thought and presents evidence of communication and travel between Northern Europe, Central Europe and the East. Ranging across the Bothnian area, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Russia, the book examines a wide range of topics, from the use of ritual in the expression of identity, to the production of pottery, and social responses to the introduction of metal.

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