Connections and Transformations in Early Europe

Rachel Cartwright is the Editorial Coordinator for the journal Archaeometry at the University of Oxford and a Lecturer at Florida State University-London Centre. Her research focuses on early medieval Europe, particularly the Viking Age North Atlantic. She is co-editor of Rethinking Migrations in Late Prehistoric Eurasia (2023).Peter Bogucki is Senior Scholar in Engineering Education in the Keller Center at Princeton University, where he previously was Associate Dean for Undergraduate Affairs of the School of Engineering and Applied Science. He studies prehistoric societies in central Europe. Bogucki is the author of Lost Civilizations: The Barbarians (2017) and co-editor (with Pam J. Crabtree) of Ancient Europe: an Encyclopedia of the Barbarian World (2004).

• List of figuresList of tablesList of contributorsForewordManuel Fernández-Götz1. IntroductionRachel Cartwright and Peter BoguckiPart 1: Connectivity and Mobility2. Connectivities and coming together in Europe in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BCColin Haselgrove3. A prestige item or ornament for broader social groups? On the production and social use of Late Iron Age glass bracelets in transalpine Europe and the connectivity with the Mediterranean worldNico Roymans4. Money On the Hoof: animal economies within and outside the Roman EmpireErin Crowley-Champoux5. Viking Age Diasporic Identities in the North Atlantic: Adaptation and Transformation in the Scottish Isles and IcelandRachel CartwrightPart 2: Urbanism in the First Millennia6. Concepts of European Urbanism in the Iron AgeJinoh Kim and Simon Stoddart7. From Theories to Stories: building alternative concepts of urbanismJohn Soderberg8. Feeding Early Medieval Towns: Zooarchaeological Evidence from 7th-10th Century Urban Sites in Northwest EuropePam J. Crabtree9. Thoughts on the organization of rural, proto-urban and urban crafts production in the late prehistoric and historic NorthT L Thurston10. First-millennium AD Central Places on the Polish Plains: the case of ŁęczycaRyszard Grygiel, Michał Grygiel and Peter BoguckiPart 3: Material and Visual Worlds11. Frequent Hearses: The Archaeology of Funeral Ritual in Early Iron Age Southwest GermanyBettina Arnold12. Seeing and Knowing: How Wrapping Transformed the Visual Experience of Iron Age FuneralsMatthew Leigh Murray13. Visual worlds on the northern frontierFraser Hunter 14. Visualization and Material Studies: Where Archaeology and Art History MeetNancy L. Wicker15. The images of ancient Britons: entangled colonial parallelsRichard Hingley.Index