Forging Identities. The Mobility of Culture in Bronze Age Europe: Report from a Marie Curie Project 2009-2012 with Concluding Conference at Aarhus University, Moesgaard 2012: Volume 2

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With a strong emphasis on data, the two volumes of this book demonstrate that mobility was essential to the European Bronze Age by exploring the shared cultural expression of Bronze Age societies in contrast to their simultaneous development of new local and regional characteristics. During this seminal époque, cultural and social formations of an entirely new kind and magnitude came to characterize Europe. The intense and dynamic relations between local and large-scale change processes coincided with increased mobility in different domains and forms, forging new identities and shaping the emergence of Europe as a distinct cultural zone. Through over fifty essays by leading Bronze Age scholars, the reader engages with cultural mobility and connectivity and the ways in which these forces affected and transformed human behaviour. The two volume set includes four parts; this volume contains parts 3 (Modes and Channels of Movement and Transmission) and 4 (Geo-political Configurations, Boundaries and Transformations). Front Cover Copyright TABLE OF CONTENTS PART 3: CULTURAL INTERACTION: MODES AND CHANNELS OF MOVEMENT AND TRANSMISSION RICH LATE BRONZE AGE GRAVES AND HOARDS AS INDICATORS OF MOBILITY: AN INVESTIGATION FROM BLISTRUP PARISH IN NORTHERN ZEALAND, DENMARK SOMETHING NEAR, SOMETHING FAR: THE REFERENCING OF LOCAL AND SUPRA-REGIONAL ORIGINS IN MIDDLE- AND LATE BRONZE AGE HOARDS FROM THE NORTHERN NETHERLANDS LOCAL AND INTERREGIONAL MOBILITY AND IDENTITY FORMATION PROCESSES IN THE LATE BRONZE AGE, CENTRAL MACEDONIA AND ULUBURUN THE EARLIEST SOCKETED AXES IN SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: TRACKING THE SPREAD OF A BRONZE AGE TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION EXCHANGE NETWORKS IN THE MIDDLE BRONZE AGE CARPATHIAN BASIN: THE MOVEMENT OF VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE COMMODITIES TEXTILES ON THE MOVE: THE PROVENANCE OF A LATE BRONZE AGE NETTLE TEXTILE FROM LUSEHØJ, DENMARK SWORDS WITHOUT WARRIORS: A NEW READING OF BRONZE ARTEFACTS IN THE BALEARIC MIDDLE AND LATE BRONZE AGE (C. 1600/1550-850 CAL BC) SERIAL PRODUCTION AND METAL EXCHANGE IN EARLY BRONZE AGE SCANDINAVIA: SMØRUMOVRE REVISITED AEGEAN INFLUENCES IN THE NORDIC BRONZE AGE: THE RAZOR EVIDENCE THE LATE BRONZE AGE TRANS-EURASIAN ‘TIN’ ROAD METAL HEADS: A REVIEW ON THE ORIGIN AND SPREAD OF TWO-PIECE HELMETS IN THE EUROPEAN BRONZE AGE IN SEARCH OF AMBER: LONG-DISTANCE DIRECTIONAL MOVEMENT BETWEEN BRONZE AGE IRELAND AND DENMARK: AN ANALOGY FROM EARLY MEDIEVAL IRISH LITERATURE BRONZE AGE CAIRNS IN THE FINNISH LAKE DISTRICT: CULTURAL CONTACTS, CREATIVE TRANSLATIONS AND LOCAL TRADITIONS THE SO-CALLED ÚNĚTICE HOARDS OF THE NORTH: A PRECIPITATION OF THE MOVEMENT OF THINGS, IDEAS OR PEOPLE? PART 4: GEO-POLITICAL CONFIGURATIONS, BOUNDARIES AND TRANSFORMATIONS METAL, INSTITUTIONS AND ECONOMIC STRUCTURES IN SOUTHERN NORWAY DURING THE EARLY BRONZE AGE CULTURAL INTERACTION (AND INTEGRATION?) PHENOMENA BETWEEN THE TERRAMARE WORLD AND PENINSULAR ITALY IN THE MIDDLE BRONZE AGE. THE POTTERY POINT OF VIEW A NEW WORLD ORDER: THE SPREAD OF CHANNELLED WARE IN LATE BRONZE AGE AND EARLY IRON AGE TRANSYLVANIA TOWARDS A COSMOPOLITAN BRONZE AGE RESEARCH: SCALE-LEVEL PERSPECTIVES AND INTERPRETATIONS THE LONG JOURNEY OF A FEW UGLY POTS: LONG DISTANCE CULTURAL INTERACTIONS IN THE SOUTHWESTERN BALKANS AT THE END OF THE EARLY BRONZE AGE STRUCTURE AND STYLE: A CULTURAL BORDER IN CENTRAL POLAND IN PERIOD II OF THE BRONZE AGE COMBAT AND CHANGE: REMARKS ON EARLY BRONZE AGE SPEARS FROM SWEDEN BARROWS, LONG-DISTANCE MOBILITY AND PERIPHERAL ELITES BETWEEN THE BALTIC AND BLACK SEAS DURING THE 2ND MILLENNIUM BC CULTURAL GEOGRAPHIES, SOCIO-ECONOMIC COMPLEXES AND TERRITORIES ALONG THE CHANNEL/MANCHE – SOUTHERN NORTH SEA LITTORAL (BELGIUM, ENGLAND, FRANCE) A MOVING STORY? SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE CIRCULATION OF METAL, METALWORKING AND METAL USERS IN THE 13TH TO 11TH CENTURY BC BALKAN AND APENNINE PENINSULAS TRACING TRANSCULTURALITY IN BURIAL CONTEXTS: THE CASE OF SALA CONSILINA, SOUTHERN ITALY THE DISSEMINATION OF NAUE II SWORDS: A CASE STUDY ON LONG-DISTANCE MOBILITY LIST OF AUTHORS