Table of Contents

List of figures and tables, Contributors, Acknowledgements, Introduction: local societies, regions and processes of cultural interaction in the Bronze Age, PART I: IDENTITY, GRAND NARRATIVES AND NETWORKS, 1. Approaching a complex past: entangled collective identities, 2. Asymmetric twins? Some reflections on coastal and inland societies in the Bothnian area during the Epineolithic and Early Metal Age, 3. Expressing identity through ritual in the Early Bronze Age, 4. Large-scale “grand narratives” and small-scale local studies in the Bronze Age discourse: the animal perspective, 5. Reconsidering a periphery: scenarios of copper production in southern Norway, 6. On the bronze trail: short-cuts, byways, transformation and displacement, PART II: REGIONS, GLOBALIZATION AND RESISTANCE, 7. Northwestern Russia at the periphery of the north European and Volga-Uralic Bronze Age, 8. Local centres in the periphery: the Late Neolithic, Bronze Age and Early Metal Age in Finland, 9. The Nordic Bronze Age and the Lüneburg culture: two different responses to social change, 10. Pottery, transmission and innovation in Mälardalen, 11. Social landscapes of Bronze Age Scandinavia, 12. The origin of a Bronze Age in Norway: structure, regional process and localized history, 13. Social response or resistance to the introduction of metal? Western Norway at the edge of the “globalized” world, Index

About the Author

Nils Anfinset is Research Fellow at the Department of Archaeology, University of Bergen, connected to the research project A"Global Moments in the LevantA". He is the author of Metal, Nomads and Culture Contact: The Middle East and North Africa (Equinox, 2010). Melanie Wrigglesworth is currently research fellow at the Museum of Bergen, Norway. She has worked on large excavation projects in Norway and has documented rock art in West and Central Norway.