Modeling Cross-Cultural Interaction in Ancient Borderlands

230 Pages·2018·11.453 MB·English

by  Ulrike Matthies Green, Kirk E. Costion

Modeling Cross-Cultural Interaction
in Ancient Borderlands
University Press of Florida
Florida A&M University, Tallahassee
Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton
Florida Gulf Coast University, Ft. Myers
Florida International University, Miami
Florida State University, Tallahassee
New College of Florida, Sarasota
University of Central Florida, Orlando
University of Florida, Gainesville
University of North Florida, Jacksonville
University of South Florida, Tampa
University of West Florida, Pensacola

Modeling Cross-Cultural
Interaction in
Ancient Borderlands
Edited by
Ulrike Matthies Green and Kirk E. Costion
University Press of Florida
Gainesville · Tallahassee · Tampa · Boca Raton
Pensacola · Orlando · Miami · Jacksonville · Ft. Myers · Sarasota
Copyright 2018 by Ulrike Matthies Green and Kirk E. Costion
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper
This book may be available in an electronic edition.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Green, Ulrike Matthies, author. | Costion, Kirk E., author.
Title: Modeling cross-cultural interaction in ancient borderlands / Ulrike
Matthies Green and Kirk E. Costion.
Description: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2018. | Includes
bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017032675 | ISBN 9780813056883 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Intercultural communication. | Borderlands—History. | Ethnic
relations. | Social interaction.
Classification: LCC HM1211 .G73 2018 | DDC 303.48/2—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017032675
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Contents
List of Figures ix
List of Tables xi
1. A Porous Line: Exploring the Visual Representation of Cross-
Cultural Interaction in Ancient Borderlands 1
Ulrike Matthies Green and Kirk E. Costion
2. Cross-Frontier Interactions in Roman Europe, AD 100–350:
The Graphic Model Applied 14
Peter S. Wells
3. Modeling Differential Cultural Interaction in Late Bronze Age
Thessaly 35
Bryan Feuer
4. Modeling Complex Cultural Encounters in Contact and Colonial
Greenland, 1690–1900: Possibilities and Limitations of the Cross-
Cultural Interaction Model 64
Peter Andreas Toft
5. Cross-Cultural Interaction in the Ancient Egyptian and Nubian
Borderland 89
Stuart Tyson Smith and Michele R. Buzon
6. Reconfiguring Regional Interactions in the Face of Cahokian
Decline: A View from the Common Field Site, Missouri 114
Meghan E. Buchanan
7. Conspicuous Consumption in Ancient Costa Rica and Panama 143
Scott Palumbo
8. Graphically Modeling the Prehistory of Regional Interactions in
the Moquegua Valley, Southern Peru 167
Kirk E. Costion and Ulrike Matthies Green
9. Conclusion 192
Ulrike Matthies Green and Kirk E. Costion
List of Contributors 201
Index 205