Handbook of Postcolonial Archaeology

Handbook of Postcolonial Archaeology

Author: Jane Lydon

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-07

Total Pages: 526

ISBN-13: 1315427680

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The contributors to this volume—themselves from six continents and many representing indigenous and minority communities and disadvantaged countries—suggest strategies to strip archaeological theory and practice of its colonial heritage and create a discipline sensitive to its inherent inequalities.


Norsemen in the Viking Age

Norsemen in the Viking Age

Author: Eric Christiansen

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-04-15

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 0470692766

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This history of the Nordic peoples in the period 750-1050 focuses on their homelands and colonies, demonstrating the fluidity and incoherence of the world in which they lived. Considers the Nordic peoples in Viking times without undue recourse to developmental theories. Guides readers through some of the scholarly controversies surrounding these peoples. Illustrated by reference to runic, poetic and archaeological evidence.