[Niels Just Rasmussen]

Since we already have a Thread on "New Discoveries" I though we needed one about interesting new books in archaeology and history, that could contain information on technological and military aspects.

So while searching I fell over some titles from Aarhus University Press and the Black Sea Studies.

1) "Die Einführung der Eisentechnologie in Südkaukasien und Ostanatolien wärend der Spätbronze- und Früheisenzeit".
(The Introduction of Iron-Technology in South-Caucasia and Eas- Anatolia during the Later Bronze Age and Early Iron Age).
A German Doctoral thesis by Jens Nieling.
Black Sea Studies (10)
Aarhus University Press.
Source: http://da.unipress.dk/udgivelser/e/einf%C3%BC...ogie,-die/

The conclusion is that it was the Nomad Population (coming from the North) that brought in the Iron Technology to the Caucasus and it later influence the Assyrian and Neo-Hittite states to adopt Iron Technology!

2) From Goths to Varangians. Communication and Cultural Exchange Between the Baltic and the Black See.
Selection of papers from 4 meetings organized by the "Varangian Networks".
Ed: Line Bjerg, John H. Lind & Søren Michael Sindbæk.
Black Sea Studies (15)
Aarhus University Press.
Source: http://da.unipress.dk/udgivelser/f/from-goths-to-varangians/

[Shahril Dzulkifli]

I have 1 question, Niels:
Who are the Varangian Networks?

[Niels Just Rasmussen]