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Book Cover
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Imprint
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Preface
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Contents
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Introduction: The farm as a social arena (Liv Helga Dommasnes)
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What is a farm?
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Former research on the farm in Norway
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Recent developments
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The farm as a social arena
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Papers and approaches
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Why the farm?
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Bibliography
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Sheep, dog and man. Multi-species becomings leading to new ways of living in Early Bronze Age longhouses on Jæren, Norway (Kristin Armstrong Oma)
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Abstract
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Zusammenfassung
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Changed way of living, changed way of building
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Three-aisled longhouses – the research discourse of indoor stalling
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Bronze Age house typology in relation to Rogaland houses
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Finding a house shared by humans and animals
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Did animals live in the Early Bronze Age houses of Rogaland?
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Historical accounts of keeping sheep in Western Norway
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Situating the Bronze Age farm in the wider environment
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Faunal remains from Forsandmoen and Kvåle
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Sheep in Bronze Age Europe – general trends
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Wool textiles in graves
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Primacy of sheep in Rogaland
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Sheep and their social strategies
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The domination discourse unbound
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Trust, socialisation and habituation embedded in the architecture
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Bibliography
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Unlocking identities. Keys and locks from Iron Age farms in eastern Sweden (Emma Nordström)
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Abstract
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Zusammenfassung
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Introduction
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Material, method and outline of the study
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Vallhagar
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Granby-Hyppinge
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Locked doors and chests in the Icelandic Sagas
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The keys to the farm
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Unlocking identities
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Acknowledgements
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Understandings – burial practice, identity and social ties. The Horvnes Iron Age burials, a peephole into the farming society of Helgeland, North-Norway (Birgitta Berglund)
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Abstract
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Zusammenfassung
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The puzzling Horvnes burials
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The Horvnes burials and the farming society
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The magnate farm Sandnes
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The Horvnes graves: Burial practices, analyses and presentations of the buried individuals
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The Horvnes East grave: burial practices, analyses and presentations of the buried individuals
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Towards a new understanding of the Horvnes burials
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New perspectives of the Iron Age farming society and burial customs at the coast of Helgeland
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Acknowledgements
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Bibliography
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Individual lifeworlds and social structured societies in Merovingian settlements from the Munich Gravel Plain (Doris Gutsmiedl-Schümann)
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Abstract
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Zusammenfassung
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Introduction
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Farms and settlements
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The main source for social structure of early medieval society: Graves
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Contemporary written sources
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Conclusion and closing remarks
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Bibliograhpy
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One thousand years of tradition and change on two West-Norwegian farms AD 200–1200 (Liv Helga Dommasnes and Alf Tore Hommedal)
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Abstract
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Zusammenfassung
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Introduction
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The monuments
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Becoming European
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Tradition, change and bases of power
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Some conclusions
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Bibliography
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A shattered farm: Changes in making space from pagan to Christian Norway (Kristin Armstrong Oma)
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Abstract
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Zusammenfassung
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From pagan to Christian farms
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From space to place
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Animals and their changing ontological status
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Posthumanism – or prehumanism? Animals in the pagan Norse universe
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From pagan to Christian – changes in ontological status
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Animals in the early Christian theology
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Changes in the nature of being?
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Bibliography
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House, farmyard and landscape as social arena in a time of transition (Helge Sørheim)
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Abstract
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Zusammenfassung
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Research focus and approaches
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What creates the social character?
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Iron Age and Medieval houses and farm in Norway, a short review
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Tradition, conservatism? – why was the corner-timbering technique not used earlier?
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Routines, rituals, habitus
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Territories, space, home and building tradition
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Borders, roles
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The house and social levels
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Interior of the house
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The new farm plan
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The towns
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Conclusion
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Between chiefdom and kingdom. A case study of the Iron Age farm Borg in Lofoten, Arctic Norway (Inger Storli)
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Abstract
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Zusammenfassung
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Introduction: Borg farm and its people
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Some comments on archaeology and archaeologists
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The archaeology of Borg
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Borg I
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Rich farms and their location
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Court sites in Lofoten
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The hall and its meaning
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A possible high seat
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On the scent of a line of princes?
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From Borg to Iceland?
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Borg between chiefdom and kingdom
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Bibliography
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Constructing society in Viking Age Iceland: Rituals and power (Timothy Carlisle and Karen Milek)
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Abstract
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Zusammenfassung
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Introduction
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The role of ritual performance in Viking Age belief systems
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Possible structured house deposits at Aðalstræti 16, Reyjkjavík
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Possible structured house deposits at Hofstaðir, Mývatnssveit
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Possible structured house deposit at Vatnsfjörður, Westfjords
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Structured house deposits in a social perspective
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Conclusions: Structured house deposits, domestic space, and society
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Bibliography
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The social structures of High Medieval rural settlements. An example from the Northern Rhineland, Germany (Timo Bremer)
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Abstract
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Zusammenfassung
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Introduction
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The rural space of the northern Rhineland in the High Middle Ages
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Archaeological excavations in Pier, its backcountry and the environment
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The settlement formation in the research area before the High Middle Ages
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High Medieval settlement structures in Pier
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Sociological interpretation of the High Medieval features
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Conclusions
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Bibliography
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“Being a vicar at the end of the world”. The priesthood at Alstahaug vicarage in North-Norway presents its identity through the household and daily life before AD 1750 (Birgitta Berglund)
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Abstract
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Zusammenfassung
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The approach
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Archaeological excavations and written sources
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How did the priesthood present itself through the delights of the table?
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Cooking pots and pans
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How did the priesthood present itself through personal items?
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How did the priesthood present itself through the buildings?
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Concluding remarks and perspectives – presenting, producing and maintaining identity
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Epilogue
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Bibliography
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Authors and editors
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