Bronze Age Connections

Author : Peter Clark
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782973164

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Bronze Age Connections by Peter Clark Pdf

New and exciting discoveries on either side of the English Channel in recent years have begun to show that people living in the coastal zones of Belgium, southern Britain, northern France and the Netherlands shared a common material culture during the Bronze Age, between three and four thousand years ago. They used similar styles of pottery and metalwork, lived in the same kind of houses and buried their dead in the same kind of tombs, often quite different to those used by their neighbours further inland. The sea did not appear to be a barrier to these people but rather a highway, connecting communities in a unique cultural identity; the 'People of La Manche'. Symbolic of these maritime Bronze Age Connections is the iconic Dover Bronze Age boat, one of Europe's greatest prehistoric discoveries and testament to the skill and technical sophistication of our Bronze Age ancestors. This monograph presents papers from a conference held in Dover in 2006 organised by the Dover Bronze Age Boat Trust, which brought together scholars from many different countries to explore and celebrate these ancient seaborne contacts. Twelve wide-ranging chapters explore themes of travel, exchange, production, magic and ritual that throw new light on our understanding of the seafaring peoples of the second millennium BC.

Author : Knut Ivar Austvoll,Marianne Hem Eriksen,Per Ditlef Frederiksen,Lene Melheim,Lisbeth Prøsch-Danielsen,Lisbeth Skogstrand
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Bronze age
ISBN : 2503588778

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Contrasts of the Nordic Bronze Age by Knut Ivar Austvoll,Marianne Hem Eriksen,Per Ditlef Frederiksen,Lene Melheim,Lisbeth Prøsch-Danielsen,Lisbeth Skogstrand Pdf

This innovative volume draws on a range of materials and places to explore the disparate facets of Bronze Age society across the Nordic region through the key themes of time and trajectory, rituals and everyday life, and encounters and identities. The Bronze Age in Northern Europe was a place of diversity and contrast, an era that saw movements and changes not just of peoples, but of cultures, beliefs, and socio-political systems, and that led to the forging of ontological ideas materialized in landscapes, bodies, and technologies. Drawing on a range of materials and places, the innovative contributions gathered here in this volume explore the disparate facets of Bronze Age society across the Nordic region through the key themes of time and trajectory, rituals and everyday life, and encounters and identities. The contributions explore how and why society evolved over time, from the changing nature of sea travel to new technologies in house building, and from advances in lithic production to evolving burial practices and beliefs in the afterlife. This edited collection honours the ground-breaking research of Professor Christopher Prescott, an outstanding figure in the study of the Bronze Age north, and it takes as its inspiration the diversity, interdisciplinarity, and vitality of his own research in order to make a major new contribution to the field, and to shed new light on a Bronze Age full of contrasts and connections.

Author : Benjamin Roberts,Neil Wilkin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1138302872

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Bronze Age Britain by Benjamin Roberts,Neil Wilkin Pdf

Author : Laura Perucchetti
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781784916152

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Physical Barriers, Cultural Connections: A Reconsideration of the Metal Flow at the Beginning of the Metal Age in the Alps by Laura Perucchetti Pdf

This book considers the early copper and copper-alloy metallurgy of the entire Circum- Alpine region. It introduces a new approach to the interpretation of chemical composition data sets, which has been applied to a comprehensive regional database for the first time.

Author : Lukasz Niesiolowski-Spanò,Marek Węcowski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3447109696

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Change, Continuity, and Connectivity by Lukasz Niesiolowski-Spanò,Marek Węcowski Pdf

The end of the Bronze Age and beginning of the Iron Age was the period of a historical turning point for the relationship of the Aegean and the Levant. THe two regions were closely related to each other and benefited mutually in this period. THe transmission of the alphabet from the East to Greece and the appearance of Mycenaean-style pottery in the East illustrate the cultural borrowings in both directions. The volume presents updated studies on both regions and questions of bilateral relationships regarding archaeological, historical and linguistic aspects. THese studies shed light on the pivotal periods of both regions: when Greek poleis were formed, with the culture related to it, and when the political and social situation in the Levant took its form, influencing the entire first millennium BCE. In the linguistic part, the volume includes papers showing possible linguistic relations and mutual borrowings in the triangle of Semitic, Greek and Anatolian languages. IN the archaeological and historical parts, the studies deal both with case studies from Anatolia, Greece and Palestine and the synthetic issues regarding the 'big' questions. THe book also presents the possible benefits of the usage of scientific methods in historical reconstruction - analysis of isotopes and ancient DNA samples. THese new techniques offer a useful tool, expanding our way of exploring the past.

Author : H. Steegstra
Publisher : Barkhuis
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789492444578

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Jay by H. Steegstra Pdf

The archaeologist and Bronze Age metal specialist Dr Jay J. Butler (1921-2014) was a kind, warmhearted man, averse to hype and ostentation, who was happy to share his knowledge in non-academic language both with professionals and interested amateurs. But woe betide anyone who might use the evidence to draw unwarranted conclusions… A cosmopolitan American, he demonstrated that people in the Bronze Age maintained contacts that reached well beyond today’s national frontiers. In practicals with his students he acquainted them with, for instance, the difficulties of bronze casting: prehistoric artisans were far more sophisticated than previously thought. He started taking samples for metal analyses, initiated international collaborative projects, and widened his students’ horizons by taking them on trips abroad to visit excavations and museums. His eventful life was linked to many themes: immigration that is welcome only inasfar as it is lucrative, racism, exploitation of the poor, religious fundamentalism, a devastating world war, information being doctored or suppressed, lack of humanity and neglect of common courtesy. With Jay Butler’s demise, the world lost an enthusiastic, authoritative and accessible archaeologist.

Author : Stuart Needham,George Anelay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9464260467

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Barrows at the Core of Bronze Age Communities by Stuart Needham,George Anelay Pdf

Appendices to the main volume 'Barrows at the core of Bronze Age Communities'

Author : Susan L. Cohen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004369856

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Canaanites, Chronologies, and Connections by Susan L. Cohen Pdf

The Middle Bronze Age (MB IIA) in Canaan set the stage for many of the cultural, political, and economic institutions in the ancient Near East. Theoretical models for the analysis of complex societies examine textual, pictorial, and archaeological evidence.

Author : Emma Blake
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107063204

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Social Networks and Regional Identity in Bronze Age Italy by Emma Blake Pdf

This innovative book uses social network analysis to trace the origins of pre-Roman Italian peoples from their earliest exchange networks.

Author : Diamantis Panagiotopoulos
Publisher : Presses univ. de Louvain
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Architecture, Minoan
ISBN : 9782875881007

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Minoan Realities by Diamantis Panagiotopoulos Pdf

What is the social role of images and architecture in a pre-modern society? How were they used to create adequate environments for specific profane and ritual activities? In which ways did they interact with each other? These and other crucial issues on the social significance of imagery and built structures in Neopalatial Crete were the subject of a workshop which took place on November 16th, 2009 at the University of Heidelberg. The papers presented in the workshop are collected in the present volume. They provide different approaches to this complex topic and are aimed at a better understanding of the formation, role, and perception of images and architecture in a very dynamic social landscape. The Cretan Neopalatial period saw a rapid increase in the number of palaces and 'villas', characterized by elaborate designs and idiosyncratic architectural patterns which were themselves in turn generated by a pressing desire for a distinctive social and performative environment.

Author : J. J. Butler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Bronze age
ISBN : IND:30000047800994

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Bronze Age Connections Across the North Sea by J. J. Butler Pdf

Author : Kristian Kristiansen,Thomas B. Larsson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2005-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0521843634

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The Rise of Bronze Age Society by Kristian Kristiansen,Thomas B. Larsson Pdf

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Author : Claude Doumet-Serhal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biqāʻ Valley (Lebanon)
ISBN : NWU:35556038443248

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Networking Patterns of the Bronze and Iron Age Levant by Claude Doumet-Serhal Pdf

Author : Andy M. Jones,James Gossip,Henrietta Quinnell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Antiquities, Prehistoric
ISBN : 9088902933

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Settlement and Metalworking in the Middle Bronze Age and Beyond by Andy M. Jones,James Gossip,Henrietta Quinnell Pdf

Between 2008 and 2011 excavations were undertaken by the Cornwall Archaeological Unit at Tremough, near Penryn, Cornwall. The site is situated on a plateau overlooking the Carrick Roads, historically one of the busiest waterways in Cornwall. The excavations led to a large number of significant archaeological features being uncovered ranging from Neolithic pits to Bronze Age structures and late prehistoric enclosures. Foremost of these sites were a Middle Bronze roundhouse (circa 1500-1300 cal BC) and a large circular Late Bronze Age enclosure (circa 1000-800 cal BC). Importantly, the roundhouse was found to contain stone molds associated with the production of socketed tools and pins, and traces of metalworking were found inside the building. As such, the excavations have provided the first evidence for metalworking inside a Middle Bronze Age roundhouse in southern England, as well as radiocarbon dating for a range of metalwork forms. As part of the project finds of metalwork from other roundhouses in the South West region have been reassessed. The Late Bronze Age enclosure is the first of its type to found in the South West of Britain. It encircled a large number of pits and postholes, some of which were associated with rectangular post-built structures. A carefully made cairn of burnt stone beside a large pit and a second large pit containing burnt stone and pottery were also investigated. These may have been associated with cooking or perhaps with a small-scale episode of metalworking, as the tip of a sword mold was found in one of the pits. The significance of the investigated sites is fully discussed with regard to their relationships with other prehistoric sites on the plateau and in terms of their wider context with other sites in the South West and beyond.

Author : Timothy Earle,Kristian Kristiansen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781139491129

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Organizing Bronze Age Societies by Timothy Earle,Kristian Kristiansen Pdf

The Bronze Age was a formative period in European history when the organisation of landscapes, settlements, and economy reached a new level of complexity. This book presents the first in-depth, comparative study of household economy and settlement in three micro-regions: the Mediterranean (Sicily), Central Europe (Hungary), and Northern Europe (South Scandinavia). The results are based on ten years of fieldwork in a similar method of documentation, and scientific analyses were used in each of the regional studies, making controlled comparisons possible. The new evidence demonstrates how differences in settlement organisation and household economies were counterbalanced by similarities in the organised use of the landscape in an economy dominated by the herding of large flocks of sheep and cattle. This book's innovative theoretical and methodological approaches will be of relevance to all researchers of landscape and settlement history.