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  • Who is deterministic? On the nature of interdisciplinary research in archaeology
  • Kristian Kristiansen
  • Journal: Archaeological Dialogues / Volume 26 / Issue 1 / June 2019
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 June 2019, pp. 12-14
  • Print publication: June 2019
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    Arponen et al.’s paper is a timely discussion paper which raises basic issues about the relationship between environmental science and archaeology, and thus about the relationship between science and archaeology more broadly. My comments will therefore begin with a discussion of the nature of interdisciplinary research, as a background for re-evaluating the question of determinism in environmental research. Thus more recently we have seen a critical concern or even anxiety emerge over how to reconcile science-based and humanistic traditions of interpretation in a period of expanding importance of science-based knowledge in aDNA studies (Callaway 2018; Sørensen 2017; Kristiansen 2017). It raises the question of their relationship and of what provides good practice.

  • Social formation and collapse in the Tisza-Maros region: dating the Maros Group and its Late Bronze Age successors
  • John M. O'Shea, Györgyi Parditka, Amy Nicodemus, Kristian Kristiansen, Karl-Göran Sjögren, László Paja, György Pálfi, Lidija Milašinović
  • Journal: Antiquity / Volume 93 / Issue 369 / June 2019
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 June 2019, pp. 604-623
  • Print publication: June 2019
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    Radiocarbon dating is paramount for chronologically defining the rise of polities in the Middle Bronze Age Carpathian Basin. This article presents a suite of new radiocarbon dates obtained from sites associated with the Early and Middle Bronze Age Maros Group, and its Late Bronze Age successors in the Tisza-Maros region of south-east Hungary, western Romania and northern Serbia. The results indicate tight chronological synchronisation of Middle Bronze Age settlements and cemeteries in the Maros region, while confirming the accuracy of ceramic-based relative chronology for the Szőreg cemetery.

Trade and Civilisation
  • Trade and Civilisation
  • Economic Networks and Cultural Ties, from Prehistory to the Early Modern Era
  • Edited by Kristian Kristiansen, Thomas Lindkvist, Janken Myrdal
  • Published online: 03 July 2018
  • Print publication: 05 July 2018
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    This book provides the first global analysis of the relationship between trade and civilisation from the beginning of civilisation 3000 BC until the modern era 1600 AD. Encompassing the various networks including the Silk Road, the Indian Ocean trade, Near Eastern family traders of the Bronze Age, and the Medieval Hanseatic League, it examines the role of the individual merchant, the products of trade, the role of the state, and the technical conditions for land and sea transport that created diverging systems of trade and in the development of global trade networks. Trade networks, however, were not durable. The book focuses on the establishment and decline of great trading network systems, and how they related to the expansion of civilisation, and to different forms of social and economic exploitation. Case studies focus on local conditions as well as global networks until the sixteenth century when the whole globe was connected by trade.
  • Chapter One - Introducing Bronze Age Warfare
  • Edited by Christian Horn, Christian-Albrechts Universität zu Kiel, Germany, Kristian Kristiansen, Göteborgs Universitet, Sweden
  • Book: Warfare in Bronze Age Society
  • Published online: 06 April 2018
  • Print publication: 26 April 2018, pp 1-15
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Warfare in Bronze Age Society
  • Warfare in Bronze Age Society
  • Edited by Christian Horn, Kristian Kristiansen
  • Published online: 06 April 2018
  • Print publication: 26 April 2018
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    Warfare in Bronze Age Society takes a fresh look at warfare and its role in reshaping Bronze Age society. The Bronze Age represents the global emergence of a militarized society with a martial culture, materialized in a package of new efficient weapons that remained in use for millennia to come. Warfare became institutionalized and professionalized during the Bronze Age, and a new class of warriors made their appearance. Evidence for this development is reflected in the ostentatious display of weapons in burials and hoards, and in iconography, from rock art to palace frescoes. These new manifestations of martial culture constructed the warrior as a 'Hero' and warfare as 'Heroic'. The case studies, written by an international team of scholars, discuss these and other new aspects of Bronze Age warfare. Moreover, the essays show that warriors also facilitated mobility and innovation as new weapons would have quickly spread from the Mediterranean to northern Europe.

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