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Guests in the House (The Northern World)
Cultural transmission between Slavs and Scandinavians 900 to 1300 A.D.
by Mats Roslund
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xxv, 557 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
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Guests in the House (The Northern World): Cultural transmission between Slavs and Scandinavians 900 to 1300 A.D.
August 31, 2007, Brill
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Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgements … xi
List of Illustrations … xv
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I. THE POWER OF THE PAST … 1
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Introduction … 3
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Perspective and method—the itinerary of an archaeologist … 8
▫ For a self-critical contextual archaeology … 10
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The hidden ties … 17
▫ The Slavs … 18
▫ Alliances and wars in the south … 22
▫ The outlook on the Slavs in the Ostsiedlung … 29
▫ From cultural integration to conflicts of interest in the east … 34
▫ A people with smokehouses and kvass … 39
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From ‘subhumans’ to a part of Scandinavia's history … 42
▫ Ur-Slavs and the Pan-Slavic aspiration for a Slavic identity … 43
▫ To arms! Slavic archaeology in hot and cold wars … 48
▫ “The poor Slavic culture...”. The view of the Slavs in Scandinavian archaeological and historical research … 61
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Conclusions … 73
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II. THE ENCOUNTER … 77
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Cultural identity and material culture … 78
▫ Ethnic categorization in the Middle Ages … 78
▫ Race, tribe, and ethnic identity … 86
▫ From essentialism to subjectivism—a historical reorientation … 91
▫ Cultural and ethnic identity—anthropological renewal … 97
▫ Four questions for archaeologists … 102
▫ Conspicuous signals and low-key communication … 120
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Cultural transfer … 128
▫ Style and cultural transfer … 128
▫ Pottery and cultural identity … 139
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Conclusions … 151
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III. PREPARING THE GIFT … 155
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The Ideological Potter's Wheel Models to Explain Changes to Early and Middle Slavic Pottery … 156
▫ From the Danube to the Baltic … 159
▫ From the Black Sea to Ladoga … 174
▫ Pottery, change, and ideology … 187
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Late Slavic Pottery in the Homelands … 198
▫ The tribes in the west … 201
▫ Pomerania and the Great Poland of the Piasts … 223
▫ Rus' … 245
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Conclusions … 258
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IV. SCANDINAVIAN RECEPTION … 261
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Baltic Ware—a Definition … 264
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Eastern Denmark … 279
▫ Lund … 279
▫ Lund between Slavic and Scandinavian ceramic traditions … 284
▫ Conclusion … 305
▫ Rural Skåne … 307
▫ Rural Skåne between Slavic and Scandinavian ceramic traditions … 308
▫ The countryside and Lund … 319
▫ Conclusion … 322
▫ Rural Halland … 323
▫ Rural Halland between Slavic and Scandinavian ceramic traditions … 324
▫ Conclusion … 329
▫ Rural Blekinge … 330
▫ Rural Blekinge between Slavic and Scandinavian ceramic traditions … 330
▫ Conclusion … 333
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Gotland … 334
▫ Visby … 334
▫ Visby between Slavic and Scandinavian ceramic traditions … 337
▫ Conclusion … 344
▫ Rural Gotland … 344
▫ Rural Gotland between Slavic and Scandinavian ceramic traditions … 345
▫ Conclusion … 353
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Götaland … 353
▫ Småland and Öland … 353
▫ Köpingsvik and Kalmar … 354
▫ Rural Småland and Öland … 358
▫ Baltic ware from Berga and Eketorp … 358
▫ Småland and Öland between Slavic and Scandinavian ceramic traditions … 361
▫ Conclusion … 363
▫ Västergötland … 363
▫ Skara … 363
▫ Skara between Slavic and Scandinavian ceramic traditions … 365
▫ Conclusion .. 374
▫ Lödöse … 375
▫ Lödöse between Slavic and Scandinavian ceramic traditions … 376
▫ Conclusion … 380
▫ Rural Västergötland … 381
▫ Rural Västergötland between Slavic and Scandinavian ceramic traditions … 381
▫ Conclusion … 385
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Östergötland … 385
▫ Skänninge, Linköping and Söderköping … 385
▫ Skänninge, Linköping, and Söderköping between Slavic and Scandinavian ceramic traditions … 391
▫ Conclusion … 394
▫ Rural Östergötland … 395
▫ Rural Östergötland between Slavic and Scandinavian ceramic traditions … 395
▫ Conclusion … 400
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The Mälaren valley … 400
▫ Between west and east—black earthenware in Birka … 402
▫ Sigtuna … 406
▫ Sigtuna between Slavic and Scandinavian ceramic traditions … 409
▫ Conclusion … 434
▫ Nyköping, Södertälje, and Strängnäs … 449
▫ The towns around Mälaren between Slavic and Scandinavian ceramic traditions … 437
▫ Conclusion … 448
▫ Rural sites in the Mälaren valley … 449
▫ The rural Mälaren valley between Slavic and Scandinavian ceramic traditions … 452
▫ The countryside and towns of the Mälaren valley … 463
▫ Conclusion … 467
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V. SLAVIC GUESTS IN THE SCANDINAVIAN HOUSE … 469
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Contacts and Baltic ware—what the potsherds tell us … 472
▫ Arrival—the time before 1000 … 472
▫ Consolidation—the first half of the eleventh century … 473
▫ Separate paths—the second half of the eleventh century … 476
▫ Maximum—the first half of the twelfth century … 480
▫ The watershed—the second half of the twelfth century … 484
▫ The beginning of the end—the thirteenth century … 489
▫ Shades of black—regional consumption patterns … 491
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People and Baltic ware—the potter's tale … 495
▫ The memory of hands, the receptivity of humans … 496
▫ The guests who arrived—Slavic contacts … 505
▫ Slaves and guests … 505
▫ Idiosyncratic assimilation … 514
▫ Broken ties, firm handshakes … 516
▫ Farewell and welcome … 521
▫ Baltic ware and Slavic identity … 525
▫ The power of the present over the past … 527
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Literature … 531
Index … 551
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