Practices of wealth depositing in the 1st-9th century AD Eastern Baltic / / Ester Oras
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| Autore: |
Oras Ester
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| Titolo: |
Practices of wealth depositing in the 1st-9th century AD Eastern Baltic / / Ester Oras
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| Pubblicazione: | Leiden, [Netherlands] : , : Sidestone Press, , 2015 |
| ©2015 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (356 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps |
| Disciplina: | 947.9 |
| Soggetto topico: | Wealth - Baltic States - History - To 1500 |
| Soggetto geografico: | Baltic States History |
| Baltic States Antiquities | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | "This PhD thesis discusses the practices of wealth depositing in the 1st-9th century AD eastern Baltic (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania). Wealth deposits are one or more valued object/s that is/are hidden deliberately as an intended separate deposition in a selected place in a specific, distinguishable manner. Wealth depositing is regarded as an important cultural practice which relates to and derives from various past social phenomena and changes respectively in spatial and temporal terms. It is emphasised that wealth deposits should be analysed as a cohesive corpus of material, regardless of specific artefact types, functional groups, production material, environment of concealment, and most importantly without any predetermined interpretation categorisations. The dissertation presents different patterned practices of concealing valuables in the 1st-9th century AD eastern Baltic through a detailed contextual analysis of their main material characteristics: artefacts, their assemblages and appearance, environment of concealment, chronology and location in the cultural landscape. The study demonstrates how depositional practices change in time and space, and analyses relations between specific depositional practices and developments on a wider social scale. A comparative analysis of wealth deposits and important social changes in contemporary society based on overall archaeological material is presented. The key regional and cross-regional practices of wealth depositing in the 1st-9th century AD eastern Baltic are identified. Additionally, further comparisons are drawn between depositional practices in the eastern Baltic and other parts of the Baltic Sea region, especially Scandinavia."--Page 4 of cover. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Practices of wealth depositing in the 1st-9th century AD Eastern Baltic |
| ISBN: | 90-8890-308-5 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910798748603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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