Ebook: Import and imitation in archaeology

Beier & Beran, 2008. – 252 p. — (Schriften des Zentrums für Archäologie und Kulturgeschichte des Schwarzmeerraumes, 11). — ISBN 978-3-937517-95-7.Import and imitation have been in archaeological vocabulary since the 19th century and many archaeologists still use these terms when describing similarities of material culture in different archaeological cultures.Generally import and imitation as concepts have been used to build up chronological frameworks in Europe and Eurasia by connecting regional relative chronologies.
The editor’s collection of papers given in EAA meetings in Thessaloniki and St. Petersburg is a welcome contribution to the widening perspective on foreign objects. The variety of contributions from the Neolithic to the Migration Period and from the Black Sea to the Baltic Sea should be taken as an excellent chance by specialists to read case studies from other regions and periods outside of their own specialization.Contents
S. Hansen: Preface -1.
P. F. Biehl & Y. Ya. Rassamakin: Import and Imitation in Archaeology. An Introduction -2.
A. Choyke: Shifting Meaning and Value through Imitation in the European Late Neolithic -5.
J. Czebreszuk & M. Szmyt: What Lies behind ‘Import’ and ‘Imitation’? Case Studies from the European Late Neolithic -23.
T. Tkachuk: Ceramic Imports and Imitations in Trypillia Culture at the End of Period CI - Period CII (3900 - 3300 BC) -35.
Y. Ya. Rassamakin & A. Nikolova: Carpathian Imports and Imitations in Context of the Eneolithic and Early Bronze Age of the Black Sea Steppe Area -51.
A. A. Bauer: Import, Imitation, or Communication? Pottery Style, Technology and Coastal Contact in the Early Bronze Age Black Sea -89.
P. F. Biehl: ‘Import’, ‘Imitation’ or ‘Communication’? Figurines from the Lower Danube and Mycenae -105.
G. J. van Wijngaarden: The Relevance of Authenticity. Mycenaean-Type Pottery in the Mediterranean -125.
A. Ma. Lucena Martin: Things We Have, Things We Lack: Reconsidering the First Contacts Between Aegean and the Central and West Mediterranean -147.
S. Makhortykh: About the Question of Cimmerian Imports and Imitations in Central Europe -167.
H. Potrebica: Contacts Between Greece and Pannonia in the Early Iron Age - With Special Concern to the Area of Thessalonica -187.
M. Carucci: The Sette Sale Domus. A Proposal of Reading -213.
A. Kaliff: The Goths and Scandinavia. Contacts Between Scandinavia, the Southern Baltic Coast and the Black Sea Area During the Early Iron Age and Roman Period -223.
N. Wicker: Import and Imitation in the Migration Period -243.
List of Authors and Addresses -253.