The societies of the European Bronze Age produced elaborate artifacts and were drawn into a wide trade network extending over the whole of Europe, yet they were economically and politically undiversified. Kristian Kristiansen attempts to explain this paradox using a world-systems analysis, and provides a rich body of evidence to support his case. The result is a coherent overview of this period of European prehistory that addresses some of the larger questions raised in the study of the period.
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"Students will welcome this book about the Iron Age of Europe and the way it uniquely incorporates chapters on the Late Bronze Age urnfield cultures, which in many ways foreshadow developments in the Iron Age." Choice
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The societies of the European Bronze Age produced elaborate artifacts and were drawn into a wide trade network extending over the whole of Europe, yet they were economically and politically undiversified. Kristian Kristiansen attempts to explain this paradox using a world-systems analysis, and provides a rich body of evidence to support his case. The result is a coherent overview of this period of European prehistory that addresses some of the larger questions raised in the study of the period.
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I was attracted to this book because I am an armchair archaeology buff. I managed to read it,however it was tough going. It is not readably written and is clearly aimed at professionals in the field. It focuses narrowly on the archaeological finds from the Bronze age which are primarily weapons. There is little attempt to flesh out the everyday lives of the people of the time. The author is more concerned with documenting every forth word. He doesn't correlate with any of the recent work in other fields such as linquistics or genetics. I was attracted to the cover picture. He eventually reveals that it is a drinking scene.Unfortunately it is cropped so that the steins are obscured.I was frustrated that he never gives any explanation of the garments depicted. There have been finds of ancient fabrics as attested to by Elizabeth W.Barber and her collegues. Women's work doesn't seem to interest Kristiansen.Unless you need it for your PhD.I suggest you give it a pass.
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It may be taken as a sign of increasing theoretical maturity within the discipline of archaeology that it is beginning to see itself as a product of the forces of history. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
militärische demokratie, new economic axis, archaic state formation, foreign prestige goods, monumental barrows, der hallstattzeit, tumulus culture, tribal social organisation, burial wealth, chiefly settlements, bronze moyen, ritual hoarding, wagon burials, royal tumuli, chiefly centres, distribution hoards, princely burials, orientalising style, princes celtes, warrior ideology, chiefly burials, chiefly warriors, votive depositions, chiefly residences, ancient world systems Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bronze Age, Asia Minor, Black Sea, Early Iron Age, Near East, West Hallstatt, Dark Age, East Hallstatt, Roman Empire, Mont Lassois, World War, Colin Renfrew, Denarian Alps, Bronze Final, Gustav Kossinna, Late Neolithic, Shaft Grave, Bietti Sestieri, Central Asian, Chiefly Urnfield, Corded Ware, Gordon Childe, Daphne Nash, Ewart Park, Oscar Montelius New!
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It may be taken as a sign of increasing theoretical maturity within the discipline of archaeology that it is beginning to see itself as a product of the forces of history. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
militärische demokratie, new economic axis, archaic state formation, foreign prestige goods, monumental barrows, der hallstattzeit, tumulus culture, tribal social organisation, burial wealth, chiefly settlements, bronze moyen, ritual hoarding, wagon burials, royal tumuli, chiefly centres, distribution hoards, princely burials, orientalising style, princes celtes, warrior ideology, chiefly burials, chiefly warriors, votive depositions, chiefly residences, ancient world systems Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bronze Age, Asia Minor, Black Sea, Early Iron Age, Near East, West Hallstatt, Dark Age, East Hallstatt, Roman Empire, Mont Lassois, World War, Colin Renfrew, Denarian Alps, Bronze Final, Gustav Kossinna, Late Neolithic, Shaft Grave, Bietti Sestieri, Central Asian, Chiefly Urnfield, Corded Ware, Gordon Childe, Daphne Nash, Ewart Park, Oscar Montelius New!
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- Centre and Periphery in the Ancient World (New Directions in Archaeology) by Michael J. Rowlands on 4 pages
- The Cambridge Ancient History, Vol. 5: The Fifth Century BC (Volume 5) by David M. Lewis on 4 pages
- The Bronze Age (Irvington Reprint Series in Anthropology) by V. Gordon Childe on 4 pages
- Centre and Periphery: Comparative Studies in Archaeology (One World Archaeology) by T. C. Champion on 4 pages
- Climatic Change in Later Prehistory by A. Harding in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- The Rise of Bronze Age Society: Travels, Transmissions and Transformations by Kristian Kristiansen in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter
- The Prehistory of Britain and Ireland (Cambridge World Archaeology) by Richard Bradley on page 227, and Back Matter
- Archaeology: The Basics by Clive Gamble in Back Matter
- Mediterranean Paradigms and Classical Antiquity by Irad Malkin on page 54
- Archaeology and Modernity by Julian Thomas on page 142
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