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Ancient Scandinavia - An Archaeological History from the First Humans to the Vikings (Hardcover)
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Ancient Scandinavia - An Archaeological History from the First Humans to the Vikings (Hardcover)
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Although occupied only relatively briefly in the long span of world
prehistory, Scandinavia is an extraordinary laboratory for
investigating past human societies. The area was essentially
unoccupied until the end of the last Ice Age when the melting of
huge ice sheets left behind a fresh, barren land surface, which was
eventually covered by flora and fauna. The first humans did not
arrive until sometime after 13,500 BCE. The prehistoric remains of
human activity in Scandinavia - much of it remarkably preserved in
its bogs, lakes, and fjords - have given archaeologists a richly
detailed portrait of the evolution of human society. In this book,
Doug Price provides an archaeological history of Scandinavia-a land
mass comprising the modern countries of Denmark, Sweden, and
Norway-from the arrival of the first humans after the last Ice Age
to the end of the Viking period, ca. AD 1050. Constructed similarly
to the author's previous book, Europe before Rome, Ancient
Scandinavia provides overviews of each prehistoric epoch followed
by detailed, illustrative examples from the archaeological record.
An engrossing and comprehensive picture emerges of change across
the millennia, as human society evolves from small bands of hunter
- gatherers to large farming communities to the complex warrior
cultures of the Bronze and Iron Ages, which culminated in the
spectacular rise of the Vikings. The material evidence of these
past societies - arrowheads from reindeer hunts, megalithic tombs,
rock art, beautifully wrought weaponry, Viking warships - give
vivid testimony to the ancient humans who once called home this
often unforgiving edge of the inhabitable world.
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