The Rise of Bronze Age Society: Travels, Transmissions and TransformationsWinner of the 2006 SAA Book Award The Bronze Age represents an age of unprecedented social transformations in Europe. In a significant departure, Kristiansen and Larsson argue that much of this transformation was informed by trade, travel and regional interaction. They reconstruct the travels which occurred between the Near East, the Mediterranean and Europe to trace how the religious, political and social conceptions of Bronze Age people were shaped. Integrating two traditionally separate research fields of European and Mediterranean (classical) archaeology, this important work provides a new interpretation of the development of Europe in the Bronze Age. |
Contents
A theoretical strategy for studying interaction | 4 |
Odysseus a Bronze Age archetype | 32 |
Rulership in the Near East and the eastern Mediterranean during the Bronze Age | 62 |
Europe in the Early Bronze Age an archaeological background | 108 |
Symbolic transmission and social transformation in Bronze Age Europe | 142 |
The cosmological structure of Bronze Age society | 251 |
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The Rise of Bronze Age Society: Travels, Transmissions and Transformations Kristian Kristiansen,Thomas B. Larsson No preview available - 2005 |
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Aegean amber Anatolia archaeological Arinna axes barrows Bohuslän Bronze Age societies Carpathians central Europe centres centuries BC chapter chariot chiefdoms chiefly chiefs complex context cosmological Crete cult dated decorated demonstrated Denmark Divine Twins Early Bronze Age east Mediterranean Eastern Egypt Egyptian elite European evidence exchange female foreign formation framework frescos goddess gods Hajdúsámson historical Hittite hoard horns horse Hyksos iconography images important institutions interaction interpretative Iron Age king Kivik Kristiansen Kuhrt Late Bronze Age later linked long-distance Marinatos material culture Mediterranean metal Minoan Montelius period Mycenae Mycenaean mythology myths networks Nordic Bronze Age northern Europe organisation origin palaces political prestige regional religion religious rock art role Sagaholm Scandinavia second millennium BC settlements shaft grave Sherratt similar Sintashta social south Scandinavia southern steppe structure suggest sun-disc sun-goddess Sweden symbolic texts theoretical third millennium tion trade tradition transformation transmission travels tumulus Tumulus Culture warrior