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Local societies, regions and processes of cultural interaction in the Bronze Age / Nils Anfinset & Melanie Wrigglesworth -- Approaching a complex past : entangled collective identities / Charlotte Damm -- Assymetric twins? : some reflections on coastal and inland societies in the Bothnian area during the epi-neolithic and early metal age / Lars Forsberg -- Expressing identity through ritual in the early Bronze Age / Mette Roesgaard Hansen -- Large-scale "grand narratives" and small-scale local studies in the Bronze Age discourse : the animal perspective / Kristin Armstrong Oma -- Reconsidering a periphery : scenarios of copper production in southern Norway / Anne Lene Melheim -- On the bronze trail : short-cuts, byways, transformation and displacement / �rjan Engedal -- North-western Russia at the periphery of the North-European and Volga-Uralic Bronze Age / Maria Yushkova -- Local centres in the periphery : discussing the late neolithic, Bronze Age and early metal age Finland / Mika Lavento -- The Nordic Bronze Age and the L�uneburg culture : two different responses to social change / Sophie Bergerbrant -- Pottery, transmission and innovation in Malerdalen / Thomas Erikson -- Social landscapes of Bronze Age Scandinavia / Peter Skoglund -- The origin of a Bronze Age in Norway : structure, regional process and localised history / Christopher Prescott -- Social response or resistance to the introduction of metal : western Norway at the edge of the "globalised" world / Nils Anfinset.

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