دانلود کتاب The Early Iron Age in South Scandinavia: Social Order in Settlement and Landscape

This book is the first of hopefully two eventually to be produced within the project "The Late Iron Age in South Scandinavia – A Historical Anthropology", sponsored by The Swedish Research Council. As a point of departure for such a project, it may seem odd to start by writing a book about the seven or eight centuries that took society to the second part of the first millennium CE and the period focussed by the project. Nevertheless, so great is the need for synthesis in Scandinavian Archaeology that only on the basis of an overall understanding of EIA society can that of LIA and VA be properly understood.

In order to be able to draw what I believe to be the essential conclusion about the change in society during the middle of the first millennium CE, I have focussed on the understanding of the landscape, and the way landscape was used in prehistoric times. These conclusions are cardinal because the second book is supposed to discuss the mentality of the LIA and the way it brought acculturation and Christianity into society before the arrival of the Church, i.e. before the renaissance period of the Viking Age that brought back Roman influence to South Scandinavia. In my opinion, as well as in that of many others, understanding the mid millennium holds the key to understanding LIA and VA.

Visiting Egypt 2002 with a number of junior researchers in Egyptology Dr. Sofia Häggman introduced me to the Siwa oasis and the Director of Schools and Chairman of the Heritage Committee Abdallah Baghi. When showed around in the Siwan landscape by Sofia Häggman its sites and the structural similarities between peripheral Roman Period Siwa and the equally peripheral Roman Iron Age Öland became apparent. Eventually, thanks to Siwan hospitality this similarity structured an essential part of the research project behind this book.