The European Bronze Age, roughly 2500 to 750 BC, was the last fully prehistoric period and crucial to the formation of the Europe emerging in the later first millennium BC. This book provides a detailed account of its material culture, comparing and contrasting evidence from different geographical zones, and drawing out the essential characteristics of the period. It looks at settlement, burial, economy, technology, trade and transport, warfare, and social and religious life. The result is a comprehensive study that will interest specialists and students, and be accessible to nonspecialists.
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The European Bronze Age, roughly 2500 to 750 BC, was the last fully prehistoric period and crucial to the formation of the Europe emerging in the later first millennium BC. This book provides a detailed account of its material culture, comparing and contrasting evidence from different geographical zones, and drawing out the essential characteristics of the period. It looks at settlement, burial, economy, technology, trade and transport, warfare, and social and religious life. The result is a comprehensive study that will interest specialists and students, and be accessible to non-specialists.
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This book is concerned with the history of human societies and the course of human interactions in Europe during the period that is traditionally called the Bronze Age, that is to say in absolute years the period of time between about 2500 and 800 BC. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
vroege ijzertijd, dendro dates, hoard deposition, artefactual record, edad del bronce, disc barrows, bronze hoards, bronze ancien, ring ingots, posebna izdanja, mould fragments, burnt mounds, crucible fragments, flat cemeteries, socketed axes, inhumation cemeteries, stone moulds, tell settlements, artefact types, rock panels, artefact studies, female graves, barrow burial, post rings, faience beads Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bronze Age, Copper Age, East Mediterranean, Near East, Low Countries, Bad Buchau, Carpathian Basin, Fort Harrouard, Lower Saxony, Black Patch, Mount Gabriel, Bender Jorgensen, Ewart Park, Shaugh Moor, Val Camonica, Lower Austria, North Brabant, Corded Ware, Heathery Burn, Hut Platform, Carp's Tongue, Czech Republic, Flag Fen, Langdon Bay, Oakley Down New!
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This book is concerned with the history of human societies and the course of human interactions in Europe during the period that is traditionally called the Bronze Age, that is to say in absolute years the period of time between about 2500 and 800 BC. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
vroege ijzertijd, dendro dates, hoard deposition, artefactual record, edad del bronce, disc barrows, bronze hoards, bronze ancien, ring ingots, posebna izdanja, mould fragments, burnt mounds, crucible fragments, flat cemeteries, socketed axes, inhumation cemeteries, stone moulds, tell settlements, artefact types, rock panels, artefact studies, female graves, barrow burial, post rings, faience beads Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bronze Age, Copper Age, East Mediterranean, Near East, Low Countries, Bad Buchau, Carpathian Basin, Fort Harrouard, Lower Saxony, Black Patch, Mount Gabriel, Bender Jorgensen, Ewart Park, Shaugh Moor, Val Camonica, Lower Austria, North Brabant, Corded Ware, Heathery Burn, Hut Platform, Carp's Tongue, Czech Republic, Flag Fen, Langdon Bay, Oakley Down New!
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- The Coming of the Age of Iron by Theodore A. Wertime in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Craft Specialization and Social Evolution: In Memory of V. Gordon Childe (University Museum Monograph) by Bernard Wailes in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Archaeology of the Cultural Landscape: Field Work and Research in a South Swedish Rural Region (Acta Archaeological Lundensia) by Lars Larsson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Archaeological Formation Processes: The Representativity of Archaeological Remains from Danish Prehistory (th-arc) by Kristian Kristiansen in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Bronze Age in Europe: An Introduction to the Prehistory of Europe C. 2000-700 Bc by John M. Coles in Front Matter, and Back Cover
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- Our Troth: History and Lore by Kveldulf Gundarsson on page 45, and Back Matter
- The Rise of Bronze Age Society: Travels, Transmissions and Transformations by Kristian Kristiansen in Back Matter
- The Archaeology of Syria: From Complex Hunter-Gatherers to Early Urban Societies (c.16,000-300 BC) (Cambridge World Archaeology) by Peter M. M. G. Akkermans in Front Matter
- Ethnoarchaeology in Action (Cambridge World Archaeology) by Nicholas David in Front Matter
- The Archaeology of Micronesia (Cambridge World Archaeology) by Paul Rainbird in Front Matter
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