Book
Iron-age societies: from tribe to state in northern Europe, 500 BC to AD 700
Blackwell • Oxford, Uk • Published In 1992 • Pages:
By: Hedeager, Lotte, Hines, John.
Abstract
Hedeager's aim in this document is to use archaeology, basically the analysis of the material from approximately 10,000 graves, hoards, and loose finds, to throw some light upon the economic growth and political centralization which in the course of a thousand years formed the bases of the earliest state fomation in Denmark (p. 1). The author's major thesis is that state formation evolved in the period between the Earlier and Later Iron Age, but that it had its necessary preconditons in the Earlier Roman period and was subsequently consolidated in the Earlier Germanic Period before further expansion in the Later Germanic Period and Viking Period (not part of this study). The timespan for the analysis presented in this work runs from about 2500 B.P.-1300 B.P. (500 B.C-700 A.D.), broken down as follows: Pre-Roman Iron age -- 2500 B.P.-1999 B.P. (500 B.C-1 A.D); Roman Iron Age -- 1999 B.P.-1600 B.P. (1 A.D.-400 A.D.); and Germanic Iron Age -- 1600 B.P.-1300 B.P. (400 A.D.-700 A.D.).
- HRAF PubDate
- 2002
- Region
- Europe
- Sub Region
- Scandinavia
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle ; 2001
- Field Date
- no date
- Coverage Date
- 2500 BP-1300 BP (500 B.C.-700 A.D.)
- Coverage Place
- Denmark
- Notes
- Lotte Hedeager ; translated by John Hines
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [256]-268) and index
- LCCN
- 91041746
- LCSH
- Iron Age--Scandinavia