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dc.contributor.authorGjerpe, Lars Erik
dc.date.accessioned2023-10-20T09:08:25Z
dc.date.available2023-10-20T09:08:25Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/76886
dc.description.abstractThis book examines property rights, settlement structure and social organization in Norway’s Østlandet in the Iron age (500 BC–AD 1050). Inspired by ethnographical and anthropological studies, a model of a stateless, agrarian and hierarchical society with socially based rights to land is presented. In this model, where there are no territorially embedded rights, society is better represented as a heterarchy or anarchy than as a hierarchy. Power in society was shared between the honoured warrior, the powerless leader and perhaps also the productive farmer. This model differs from that presented by standard Norwegian research, where the retrogressive method is combined with a belief in the stability and continuity of the farm. A critical study of Norwegian research history is therefore an essential part of this book. This study has also been able to make use of new and extensive settlement evidence gained from machine-stripping of topsoil from large areas in the past thirty years; this has shed new light on the issues discussed in the book related to building practices and the settlement pattern.en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.subject.otherarchaeology, buildings, models of society, heterarchy, anarchy, economy, non-state, Viking Age, settlement, property rights, Norway, Iron Ageen_US
dc.titleEffective Housesen_US
dc.title.alternativeProperty Rights and Settlement in Iron Age Eastern Norwayen_US
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.23865/noasp.194en_US
oapen.relation.isPublishedBybf7b42a4-6892-42e3-aaf8-8f32c8470a8ben_US
oapen.relation.isFundedByc273ec27-d2be-4f1d-8917-141b286f1657en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9788202801120en_US
oapen.pages198en_US
oapen.place.publicationOsloen_US
oapen.remark.publicFunder name: Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo


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