Crafts and Social Networks in Viking Towns by Steven P Ashby

Crafts and Social Networks in Viking Towns by Steven P Ashby

Explores the interface between craft, communication networks, and urbanization in Viking-age Northern Europe employing new theoretical and analytical approaches to artefacts, technology and the processes of craft specialisation in developing economies.

Highly relevant to anyone interested in the Viking Age, not just artefact and craft specialistsIt sets out the basic research and chronologies, contains a wealth of new data, and importantly places these new results into the wider context of networks, thus adding individuals to the discussion. It's a book I will certainly return to. * Medieval Archaeology *
The volume uses thoroughly researched studies of material evidence, underpinned by social network theory, to construct a compelling argument for the interdependence of craft, communication networks and urbanisation in Viking Age Northern Europe. * Antiquity *

Steve Ashby is a Senior Lecturer at the University of York specialising in the archaeology of medieval portable material culture and technology with a particular interest in the relationship between the various regions of Britain and Scandinavia before, during, and just after the Viking Age and application of scientific techniques and anthropological theory to the analysis of familiar materials. Søren M. Sindbæk is professor of archaeology at Aarhus University.

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ISBN 13	9781789251609
ISBN 10	1789251605
Title	Crafts and Social Networks in Viking Towns
Author	Steven P Ashby
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oxbow Books
Year published	2019-11-30
Number of pages	288
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