Roads to complexity: Hawaiians and Vikings compared
Mads Ravn
ABSTRACTThe purpose of this paper is to analyse roads complexity and societal development. By comparing the processes leading in Late Iron Age early Viking society South Scandinavia with pre-contact Hawaiian state, I set framework for a comparative archaeology suggest that was not state. reach conclusion within framework, by looking at comparable but also different both places over time between subject source, Hawaii. estimate how important geographic, cultural, technological, ideological, ecological factors were development change general advent particular. analogical approach gives us less biased perspective places, because we avoid partial metanarratives, such as example teleological, nationalist narratives. Using approach, will discover new aspects cannot be identif...
Danish journal of archaeology