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Connections and Transformations in Early Europe examines the diverse economic, social, and symbolic practices of Iron Age and early medieval societies in northern, western, and central Europe, offering fresh insights into the innovative processes of the first millennia BC and AD.
This book provides a comprehensive exploration of connectivity, mobility, urbanism, and visual worlds in early European societies. Through regional case studies, including the British Isles, Germany, Poland, the lower Rhine Valley, and Denmark, readers gain a deeper understanding of how social identities were communicated and urban centers emerged. With contributions from leading scholars, it delivers valuable theoretical reflections supported by the latest research and discoveries, underscoring the transformative nature of these regions during the first millennia.
Providing a lasting tribute to Peter S. Wells, whose influence continues to shape the study of prehistoric and early historic Europe, this book is for students and researchers of late prehistoric and early historic Europe during the final millennium BC and the first millennium AD.
Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Foreword
1. Introduction
Part 1: Connectivity and Mobility
2. Connectivities and coming together in Europe in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC
Colin Haselgrove
3. A prestige item or ornament for broader social groups? On the production and social use of Late Iron Age glass bracelets in transalpine Europe and the connectivity with the Mediterranean world
Nico Roymans
4. Money On the Hoof: animal economies within and outside the Roman Empire
Erin Crowley-Champoux
5. Viking Age Diasporic Identities in the North Atlantic: Adaptation and Transformation in the Scottish Isles and Iceland
Rachel Cartwright
Part 2: Urbanism in the First Millennia
6. Concepts of European Urbanism in the Iron Age
Jinoh Kim and Simon Stoddart
7. From Theories to Stories: building alternative concepts of urbanism
John Soderberg
8. Feeding Early Medieval Towns: Zooarchaeological Evidence from 7th-10th Century Urban Sites in Northwest Europe
Pam J. Crabtree
9. Thoughts on the organization of rural, proto-urban and urban crafts production in the late prehistoric and historic North
T L Thurston
10. First-millennium AD Central Places on the Polish Plains: the case of Łęczyca
Ryszard Grygiel, Michał Grygiel and Peter Bogucki
Part 3: Material and Visual Worlds
11. Frequent Hearses: The Archaeology of Funeral Ritual in Early Iron Age Southwest Germany
Bettina Arnold
12. Seeing and Knowing: How Wrapping Transformed the Visual Experience of Iron Age Funerals
Matthew Leigh Murray
13. Visual worlds on the northern frontier
Fraser Hunter
14. Visualization and Material Studies: Where Archaeology and Art History Meet
Nancy L. Wicker
15. The images of ancient Britons: entangled colonial parallels
Richard Hingley.
Index



