European Societies In The Bronze Age

Author : A. F. Harding
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2000-05-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0521367298

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European Societies in the Bronze Age by A. F. Harding Pdf

The Bronze Age, roughly 2500 to 750 BC, was the last fully prehistoric period in Europe and a crucial element in the formation of the Europe that emerged into history in the later first millennium BC. This book focuses on the material culture remains of the period, and through them provides an interpretation of the main trends in human development that occurred during this timespan. It pays particular attention to the discoveries and theoretical advances of the last twenty years that have necessitated a major revision of received opinions about many aspects of the Bronze Age. Arranged thematically, it reviews the evidence for a range of topics in cross-cultural fashion, defining which major characteristics of the period were universal and which culture and area-specific. The result is a comprehensive study that will be of value to specialists and students, while remaining accessible to the non-specialist.

Author : Marie Louise Stig Sørensen,Roger Thomas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Bronze age
ISBN : PSU:000015785954

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The Bronze Age-Iron Age Transition in Europe by Marie Louise Stig Sørensen,Roger Thomas Pdf

Author : Tobias L. Kienlin
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781784911485

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Bronze Age Tell Communities in Context: An Exploration Into Culture, Society and the Study of European Prehistory. Part 1 by Tobias L. Kienlin Pdf

This study challenges current modelling of Bronze Age tell communities in the Carpathian Basin in terms of the evolution of functionally-differentiated, hierarchical or 'proto-urban' society under the influence of Mediterranean palatial centres.

Author : Vere Gordon Childe
Publisher : Spokesman Books
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Bronze age
ISBN : 9780851247564

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The Prehistory of European Society by Vere Gordon Childe Pdf

Author : Timothy Earle,Kristian Kristiansen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,6 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.

Author : Nils Anfinset,Melanie Wrigglesworth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317544104

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Local Societies in Bronze Age Northern Europe by Nils Anfinset,Melanie Wrigglesworth Pdf

This book aims to understand the process of the Bronze Age societies of Northern Europe which are often regarded as the periphery and a bleak contrast to the Central European Bronze Age. The Bronze Age is the first "globalised" period with new types of societies and new modes of exchange and trade. In this context there is considerable local variation and diversity within the Bronze Age societies of Northern Europe which is poorly understood, although there have been advances and changes in this research. Therefore this book challenges some of the mainstream opinions on the Bronze Age of Northern Europe, and focus on local and regional aspects. This is done by a series of articles from significant contributors that deal with these issues on theoretical and empirical levels, with regards to differences, cultural dualism, boundaries, regions and regionality in a period of increased "globalisation". The result is a movement away from local and regional aspects toward communications, travels and contacts between northern Europe and the greater world, not only towards Central Europe and the Near East but also towards the east. Northern/Arctic Europe is often left out in these discussions, and this book will contribute to this greater picture of the Bronze Age world.

Author : Harry Fokkens,Anthony Harding
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1012 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199572861

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The Oxford Handbook of the European Bronze Age by Harry Fokkens,Anthony Harding Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of the European Bronze Age is a wide-ranging survey of a crucial period in prehistory during which many social, economic, and technological changes took place. Written by expert specialists in the field, the book provides coverage both of the themes that characterize the period, and of the specific developments that took place in the various countries of Europe. After an introduction and a discussion of chronology, successive chapters deal with settlement studies, burial analysis, hoards and hoarding, monumentality, rock art, cosmology, gender, and trade, as well as a series of articles on specific technologies and crafts (such as transport, metals, glass, salt, textiles, and weighing). The second half of the book covers each country in turn. From Ireland to Russia, Scandinavia to Sicily, every area is considered, and up to date information on important recent finds is discussed in detail. The book is the first to consider the whole of the European Bronze Age in both geographical and thematic terms, and will be the standard book on the subject for the foreseeable future.

Author : J. M. Coles,A. F. Harding
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317606000

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The Bronze Age in Europe by J. M. Coles,A. F. Harding Pdf

This book provides an account of the development of European culture and society during the Bronze Age, the time span between c. 2000 and 700 BC. It was a period of remarkable innovation, seen for instance in the development and growth of metallurgy as a major industry, the spread of trading contacts, the origins of urbanism and the beginnings of social stratification. The study is divided chronologically into two, the earlier and later Bronze Age, giving a clear picture of the nature of the radical changes which occurred in the period as a whole. The geographical area covered, from the Atlantic shores across Europe into the Soviet Union and from northern Scandinavia to the Mediterranean, is too vast to be taken as one unit, and has been broken down into five regions; each is discussed in terms of settlement form, burial practices, ritual and religious sites, material culture, economic and social background, and trading patterns. The book describes and develops common themes that link together the different areas and cultural groups, rather than taking the typographical approach often adopted by Bronze Age specialists, and uses the results of radiocarbon dating to establish an objective chronology for the period. The text is generously illustrated and fully documented with radiocarbon dating tables and extensive bibliography. Our understanding of Bronze Age Europe is still increasing, but no other book of this scope had been written before this, in 1979. It is a major study of its time of interest to anyone looking beyond popular accounts of the day.

Author : Nils Anfinset,Melanie Wrigglesworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:929797426

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Local Societies in Bronze Age Northern Europe by Nils Anfinset,Melanie Wrigglesworth Pdf

Author : Kristian Kristiansen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0521784360

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Europe Before History by Kristian Kristiansen Pdf

This is a survey of European prehistory addressing questions raised in the study of the Bronze Age.

Author : Sherratt A. Sherratt
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-07
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9781474472562

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Economy and Society in Prehistoric Europe by Sherratt A. Sherratt Pdf

This book brings together a classic collection of Andrew Sherratt's work on the economic foundations of prehistoric Europe, which have put forward important new ideas about the development of farming, pastoralism, early technology and trade. In a series of contributions that have included wide-ranging syntheses and detailed local studies, he discusses their implications for the understanding of settlement-patterns, social structures, material culture, and less tangible aspects of prehistoric life such as the spread of languages and the use of narcotics.

Author : Anthony Harding
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783110705805

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Bronze Age Lives by Anthony Harding Pdf

Das Münchner Zentrum für Antike Welten ist eine interfakultäre Arbeitsgemeinschaft an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität. Es verfügt über eine ständige Gastprofessur für antike Kulturgeschichte. Auf sie werden im jährlichen Wechsel namhafte Gelehrte aus den Altertumswissenschaften berufen, die in einer Vortragsreihe ein interdisziplinär bedeutsames Thema behandeln. Zudem veranstaltet das MZAW Kolloquien und Fachtagungen. Die Reihe Münchner Vorlesungen zu Antiken Welten legt diese Vorträge einem kultur- und altertumswissenschaftlich interessierten Publikum vor.

Author : Lisbeth Bredholt Christensen,Olav Hammer,David Warburton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317544531

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The Handbook of Religions in Ancient Europe by Lisbeth Bredholt Christensen,Olav Hammer,David Warburton Pdf

"The Handbook of Religions in Ancient Europe" surveys the major religious currents of Europe before Christianity - the first continental religion with hegemonic ambition - wiped out most local religions. The evidence - whether archaeological or written - is notoriously difficult to interpret, and the variety of religions documented by the sources and the range of languages used are bewildering. The "Handbook" brings together leading authorities on pre-Christian religious history to provide a state-of-the-art survey. The first section of the book covers the Prehistoric period, from the Paleolithic to the Bronze Age. The second section covers the period since writing systems began. Ranging across the Mediterranean and Northern, Celtic and Slavic Europe, the essays assess the archaeological and textual evidence. Dispersed archaeological remains and biased outside sources constitute our main sources of information, so the complex task of interpreting these traces is explained for each case. The "Handbook" also aims to highlight the plurality of religion in ancient Europe: the many ways in which it is expressed, notably in discourse, action, organization, and material culture; how it is produced and maintained by different people with different interests; how communities always connect with or disassociate from adjunct communities and how their beliefs and rituals are shaped by these relationships. The "Handbook" will be invaluable to anyone interested in ancient History and also to scholars and students of Religion, Anthropology, Archaeology, and Classical Studies.

Author : Christian Horn,Kristian Kristiansen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107185562

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Warfare in Bronze Age Society by Christian Horn,Kristian Kristiansen Pdf

The Bronze Age represents the global emergence of a militarized society with a martial culture that constructed the warrior as a 'Hero' and warfare as 'Heroic'. The book takes a fresh look at warfare and its role in reshaping Bronze Age society from the Mediterranean to northern Europe.

Author : John M. Coles,A. F. Harding
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 581 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Bronze age
ISBN : 0312105975

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The Bronze Age in Europe by John M. Coles,A. F. Harding Pdf