Landscapes of Power, Landscapes of Conflict - State Formation in the South Scandinavian Iron Age

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Contents......Page 14
PART I • THEORETICAL, ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL BACKGROUND......Page 22
1.1 Introduction......Page 24
1.2 Theoretical Background for the Danish State......Page 25
1.3 The Substrate of State Formation in Denmark......Page 27
1.4 Alternative Methodologies for Differently Organized States......Page 29
1.5 Historical Documents......Page 30
1.6 The Framing of the Study......Page 31
1.7 Organization of the Study......Page 34
1.8 Chapter Summary......Page 36
2.2 The Archaeological Dimension......Page 38
2.3 The Historical Dimension......Page 41
2.4 The Geographic Dimension......Page 48
2.5 Studying the Corporate State Through Its Dynamic Landscapes......Page 55
2.6 Contextualizing the State......Page 59
2.7 Conclusions......Page 60
2.8 Chapter Summary......Page 61
3.1 Introduction......Page 62
3.2 The Roman Iron Age: Courses Toward Complexity......Page 65
3.3 Political Economy and Social Organization......Page 69
3.4 Warfare and the Social Order......Page 72
3.5 Regions, Boundaries, and Integration......Page 73
3.6 Changes in the Balance of Prestige and Trade......Page 78
3.7 Polities of the Germanic Iron Age: Courses Toward Political Integration......Page 82
3.8 Chapter Summary......Page 90
PART II • SOCIAL, POLITICAL, AND ECONOMIC CHANGE IN THE VIKING AGE......Page 92
4.1 Introduction......Page 94
4.2 Analysis on the Macroscale: External Forces and Peer Polity Interaction in the Early Viking Age......Page 95
4.3 Analysis on the Intermediate Scale: The Coalescing Provinces of Denmark......Page 98
4.4 The Nature of Rulership in Viking Age Denmark......Page 103
4.5 Strategies for Integration......Page 107
4.6 Chapter Summary......Page 131
5.2 Stability and Change in Social Relations, Institutions, and Political Ideology in the First Millennium A.D......Page 134
5.3 The Social Code in Action......Page 138
5.4 Change in Society and the Terms of Social Relations......Page 140
5.5 Political Specialists in the Archaeological Record......Page 145
5.6 Class Conflict in the Early Middle Ages: The Early Historic Record......Page 149
5.7 Chapter Summary......Page 151
6.1 Geographic Approaches to Culture Change in Iron Age Denmark......Page 152
6.2 Methods of Geographic Analysis......Page 154
6.3 Theories of Locational Geography......Page 156
6.4 Rank-Size Analysis and Related Methods of Investigation......Page 158
6.5 Patterns of Places: Locational Analysis as an Indicator of Large-Scale, Long-Term Change......Page 167
5.6 Chapter Summary......Page 194
PART III • POWER AND FORCE COURSES TOWARD STATE INTEGRATION......Page 196
7.1 The Prehistoric Cultural Landscape: An Overview......Page 198
7.2 Fieldwork Strategy......Page 220
7.3 Site Patterning......Page 227
7.4 Stratigraphy......Page 228
7.5 Laboratory Method......Page 230
7.6 Chapter Summary......Page 231
8.1 The Development and Transformation of a Prehistoric Cultural Landscape......Page 234
8.2 Landscapes of Järrestad’s Roman Iron Age: A.D.. 1–400......Page 235
8.3 The Germanic Iron Age: A.D.. 400–700......Page 240
8.4 The Viking Age in Järrestad......Page 251
8.5 Contextualizing the Landscape and the Record......Page 259
8.6 Geography and the Alteration of Everyday Experience......Page 264
8.7 Local Christianity in The Late Viking Age......Page 276
8.8 Landscapes in Järrestad A.D. After Restructuring......Page 277
8.9 Chapter Summary......Page 281
9.1 Power and Force, Time and Space......Page 284
9.3 Goals of the Research: Local, Regional, and Cross-Cultural Study of Alliance, Unification, and State Formation......Page 285
9.4 Refining Models of Location and Organization......Page 286
9.5 Increasing Understanding of Demographic Change......Page 287
9.6 Advocating the Utility of Soil Chemical Survey......Page 288
9.7 Moving Beyond Simple Ecological Models of Dominion and Territory......Page 289
9.8 Extending Cross-Cultural Comparisons......Page 290
9.9 Political Development in Light of Some Previous Models......Page 291
9.10 Linkages Between Power, Place, and History......Page 292
9.11 The Peopling of the Archaeological Record......Page 293
9.12 Conclusions: Landscape and the Power of Place......Page 295
Appendix......Page 298
References......Page 306