Author : France. Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques
Publisher : Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques - CTHS
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 25,71 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Archaeology
ISBN :
Author : Anthony Harding
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 35,95 MB
Release : 2013-06-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0191007331
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 : A. F. Harding
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 23,53 MB
Release : 2000-05-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521367295
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 : Kristian Kristiansen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 20,76 MB
Release : 2005-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521843638
Publisher Description
Author : International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 22,34 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Bronze age
ISBN :
Volume 11.
Author : Kristian Kristiansen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 10,42 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521784368
This is a survey of European prehistory addressing questions raised in the study of the Bronze Age.
Author : Marie Louise Stig Sørensen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 14,36 MB
Release : 2023-01-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1009247417
This volume offers new insights into the radical shift in attitudes towards death and the dead body that occurred in temperate Bronze Age Europe. Exploring the introduction and eventual dominance of cremation, Marie-Louise Stig Sørenson and Katharina Rebay-Salisbury apply a case-study approach to investigate how this transformation unfolded within local communities located throughout central to northern Europe. They demonstrate the deep link between the living and the dead body, and propose that the introduction of cremation was a significant ontological challenge to traditional ideas about death. In tracing the responses to this challenge, the authors focus on three fields of action: the treatment of the dead body, the construction of a burial place, and ongoing relationships with the dead body after burial. Interrogating cultural change at its most fundamental level, the authors elucidate the fundamental tension between openness towards the 'new' and the conservative pull of the familiar and traditional.
Author : Dirk Brandherm
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 34,10 MB
Release : 2023-08-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1803275405
Eight papers, ranging from the Chalcolithic in Northwest Africa and Iberia to the Iron Age in Central Europe, shed light on issues as diverse as the principles of chronology building, the role of alleged ‘defensive’ enclosures, pottery studies, use-wear analysis of Iron Age weaponry and the Hallstatt/La Tène transition in the eastern Alps.
Author : Victoria Ginn
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,15 MB
Release : 2014-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 184217813X
Identity is relational and a construct, and is expressed in a myriad of ways. For example, material culture and its pluralist meanings have been readily manipulated by humans in a prehistoric context in order to construct personal and group identities. Artefacts were often from or reminiscent of far-flung places and were used to demonstrate membership of an (imagined) regional, or European community. Earthworks frequently archive maximum visual impact through elaborate ramparts and entrances with the minimum amount of effort, indicating that the construction of identities were as much in the eye of the perceivor, as of the perceived. Variations in domestic architectural style also demonstrate the malleability of identity, and the prolonged, intermittent use of particular places for specific functions indicates that the identity of place is just as important in our archaeological understanding as the identity of people. By using a wide range of case studies, both temporally and spatially, these thought processes may be explored further and diachronic and geographic patterns in expressions of identity investigated.
Author : Sarunas Milisauskas
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 26,33 MB
Release : 2011-08-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1441966331
European Prehistory: A Survey traces humans from their earliest appearance on the continent to the Rise of the Roman Empire, drawing on archaeological research from all over Europe. It includes the Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Ages. Throughout these periods, the major developments are explored using a wide range of archaeological data that emphasizes aspects of agricultural practices, gender, mortuary practices, population genetics, ritual, settlement patterns, technology, trade, and warfare. Using new methods and theories, recent discoveries and arguments are presented and previous discoveries reevaluated. This work includes chapters on European geography and the chronology of European prehistory. A new chapter has been added on the historical development of European archaeology. The remaining chapters have been contributed by archaeologists specializing in different periods. The second edition of European Prehistory: A Survey is enhanced by a glossary, three indices and a comprehensive bibliography, as well as an extensive collection of maps, chronological tables and photographs.
