Modeling Cross-Cultural Interaction in Ancient Borderlands
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Modeling Cross-Cultural Interaction in Ancient Borderlands

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  2. English
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Modeling Cross-Cultural Interaction in Ancient Borderlands

About this book

This volume introduces the Cross-Cultural Interaction Model (CCIM), a visual tool for studying the exchanges that take place between different cultures in borderland areas or across long distances. The model helps researchers untangle complex webs of connections among people, landscapes, and artifacts, and can be used to support multiple theoretical viewpoints.

Through case studies, contributors apply the CCIM to various regions and time periods, including Roman Europe, the Greek province of Thessaly in the Late Bronze Age, the ancient Egyptian-Nubian frontier, colonial Greenland in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Mississippian realm of Cahokia, ancient Costa Rica and Panama, and the Moquegua Valley of Peru in the early Middle Horizon period. They adapt the model to best represent their data, successfully plotting connections in many different dimensions, including geography, material culture, religion and spirituality, and ideology. The model enables them to expose what motivates people to participate in cultural exchange, as well as the influences that people reject in these interactions.

These results demonstrate the versatility and analytical power of the CCIM. Bridging the gap between theory and data, this tool can prompt users to rethink previous interpretations of their research, leading to new ideas, new theories, and new directions for future study.

Contributors: Meghan E. Buchanan | Michele R. Buzon | Kirk Costion | Bryan Feuer | Ulrike Matthies Green | Scott Palumbo | Stuart Tyson Smith | Peter Andreas Toft | Peter S. Wells

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. MODELING CROSS-CULTURAL INTERACTION IN ANCIENT BORDERLANDS
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Figures
  8. List of Tables
  9. 1. A Porous Line: Exploring the Visual Representation of Cross-Cultural Interaction in Ancient Borderlands
  10. 2. Cross-Frontier Interactions in Roman Europe, AD 100–350: The Graphic Model Applied
  11. 3. Modeling Differential Cultural Interaction in Late Bronze Age Thessaly
  12. 4. Modeling Complex Cultural Encounters in Contact and Colonial Greenland, 1690–1900: Possibilities and Limitations of the Cross-Cultural Interaction Model
  13. 5. Cross-Cultural Interaction in the Ancient Egyptian and Nubian Borderland
  14. 6. Reconfiguring Regional Interactions in the Face of Cahokian Decline: A View from the Common Field Site, Missouri
  15. 7. Conspicuous Consumption in Ancient Costa Rica and Panama
  16. 8. Graphically Modeling the Prehistory of Regional Interactions in the Moquegua Valley, Southern Peru
  17. 9. Conclusion
  18. List of Contributors
  19. Index