Organizing Bronze Age Societies
The Mediterranean, Central Europe, and Scandanavia Compared
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- Timothy Earle, Northwestern University, Illinois
- Kristian Kristiansen, Göteborgs Universitet, Sweden
- Date Published: August 2010
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521748353
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The Bronze Age was a formative period in European history when the organization 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 organization and household economies were counterbalanced by similarities in the organized use of the landscape in an economy dominated by the herding of large flocks of sheep and cattle. The eight chapters in this book provide a new, contextualized understanding of the social and economic complexity of the Bronze Age. Its innovative theoretical and methodological approaches will be of relevance to all researchers of landscape and settlement history.
Read more- First systematic comparison between Bronze Age societies in the Mediterranean, Central and Northern Europe
- Introduces a novel materialist theoretical approach
- Defines for the first time the full complexity of Bronze Age economies
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"Recommended." -Choice
See more reviews"For archaeologists, the benefits will be longer in coming, but with final publication by this able team, there is much to look forward to." -Anthony Harding, The American Journal of Archaeology
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- Date Published: August 2010
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521748353
- length: 328 pages
- dimensions: 252 x 180 x 16 mm
- weight: 0.59kg
- contains: 70 b/w illus. 1 map 16 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: theory and practice in the late prehistory of Europe Timothy Earle and Kristian Kristiansen
2. The palaeo-environment of Bronze Age Europe Charles French
3. Regional settlement pattern Magnus Artursson
4. Settlement structure and organization Timothy Earle and Michael J. Kolb
5. Households Marie Louise Sørensen
6. Subsistence strategies Maria Vretemark, Hans-Peter Stika and Brigitta Berzsényi
7. Technology and craft Joanna Sofaer
8. Organizing Bronze Age societies: concluding thoughts Timothy Earle and Kristian Kristiansen.Instructors have used or reviewed this title for the following courses
- Comparative Archaeology
- Minoan and Mycenaean Art and Archaeology
- The Ancient Built Environment
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