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.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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.).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Historical reconstruction
- Sociocultural trends
- Pastoral activities
- Tillage
- Ornament
- Settlement patterns
- Saving and investment
- Burial practices and funerals
- Prayers and sacrifices
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Scandinavian Iron Age
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2002
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Europe
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Scandinavia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 2001
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 2500 BP-1300 BP (500 B.C.-700 A.D.)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Denmark
- NotesAdditional notes
- Lotte Hedeager ; translated by John Hines
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [256]-268) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 91041746
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Iron Age--Scandinavia