Comparative Perspectives on Past Colonisation, Maritime Interaction and Cultural Integration

Introduction: Comparative Perspectives on Past Colonisation, Maritime Interaction and Cultural IntegrationHakon Glorstad, Zanette Tsigaridas Glorstad and Lene MelheimPart 1: Colonization1. The Development of Early Mesolithic Social Networks during the Settlement of Virgin Lands in the Eastern Baltic Sea Region - Interpreted through Comparison of Two Sites in Finland Aivar Kriiska, University of Tartu, Estonia, Tapani Rostedt and Timo Jussila, Microlith Ltd.2. The Sicilian World after the Punic Wars: The Greek Colony in a New Reality Roksana Chowaniec, University of Warsaw, Poland3. When the Romans Arrived in Sardinia. Three Case Studies: Cornus, Olbia and Nora Cristina Nervi4. Yakut Food Producers Colonising Areas Occupied by Evenk Hunter-gatherers: Fragments of a Process of Cultural Change Caused by MigrationOle Gron, University of Southern DenmarkPart 2: Maritime Interaction5. Past Mirrors: Thucydides, Sahlins and the Bronze and Viking Ages Zanette Tsigaridas Glorstad and Lene Melheim6. Nothing to Lose: Waterborne Raiding in Southern ScandinaviaChristian Horn, Christian-Albrechts University, Kiel, Germany7. Migration, Identity and Material Culture: Hanseatic Translocality in the Medieval Baltic SeaMagdalena Naum, Lund University, Sweden8. Pirates of the North Sea? The Viking Ship as Political SpaceNeil Price, University of Aberdeen9. Bronze Age Vikings? A Comparative Analysis of Deep Historical Structures and their DynamicsKristian Kristiansen, University of Gothenburg, SwedenPart 3: Cultural Integration10. Exploring New Territories - Expanding Frontiers: Bowmen and Prospectors on the Scandinavian Peninsula in the 3rd Millennium BCLene Melheim and Christopher Prescott, University of Oslo, Norway 11. Spreading Ideas - Late Bronze Age Face-urn Burials across Northern Europe and the Baltic SeaJutta Kneisel, Christian-Albrechts University, Kiel, Germany12. Long-term Cosmological Interconnectedness and Long-distance Trade: Cosmology and Comparative Advantage in the Bronze Age and BeyondMichael Rowlands, University College London, and Johan Ling, University of Gothenburg, Sweden13. In the Footsteps of the Vikings: Children and Cultural ChangeDawn Hadley, University of SheffieldConclusion: Thoughts of a Comparativist on Past Colonisation, Maritime Interaction and Cultural IntegrationMatthew Spriggs, Australian National University