Landscapes of Power, Landscapes of Conflict State Formation in the South Scandinavian Iron Age /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Thurston, Tina L. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2002.
• Series: Fundamental Issues in Archaeology,
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Anthropology.; Archaeology.; Social Sciences.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess

Tina ThurstonỚ"s Landscapes of Power; Landscapes of Conflict is a thi- generation processual analysis of sociopolitical evolution during the Iron Age in southern Scandinavia. Several red flags seem to be raised at once. Are not archaeologists now postprocessual, using new interpretive approach...

Table of Contents:

• Theoretical, Archaelogical, and Historic Background
• The Secondary State in South Scandinavia
• A Multidisciplinary Study of the State
• Prestate Denmark
• Social, Political, and Economic Change in the Viking Age
• The Viking Age in Denmark
• Social Classes in the Viking Age
• Landscapes of Power and Landscapes of Conflict
• Power and Force: Courses Toward State Integration
• Reconstructing Cultural Landscapes in Southeast Scania
• Place, Space, and Experience in Iron Age Communities
• Conclusions.