Kristian Kristiansen (Sweden Goeteborgs Universitet), Thomas B. Larsson (Sweden Umea Universitet)

The Rise of Bronze Age Society

Travels, Transmissions and Transformations

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Presents a significant new interpretation of the social transformation in Bronze Age Europe.

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The Bronze Age represents an age of unprecedented social transformations in Europe and this book argues that much of this was informed by trade, travel and regional interaction. This important 2005 work integrates European and Classical archaeology to present a significant interpretation of the social development of prehistoric Europe.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 189mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 966g
• ISBN-13: 9780521604666
• ISBN-10: 0521604664
• Artikelnr.: 15102442

Autorenporträt

Kristian Kristiansen is Professor at the Department of Archaeology, University of Gothenburg. His previous publications include Europe before History (Cambridge University Press, 1999) and Social Transformation in Archaeology (2000) (with Mike Rowlands). He was the co-founder and first president of the European Association of Archaeologists and is a member of the Swedish Academy of History and Letters.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue - between Scylla and Charybdis; 1. A theoretical strategy for studying interaction; 2. Odysseus - a Bronze Age archetype; 3. Rulership in the Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean during the Bronze Age; 4. Europe in the early Bronze Age - an archaeological background; 5. Symbolic transmission and social transformation in Bronze Age Europe; 6. The cosmological structure of Bronze Age society; 7. Among gods and mortals, animals and humans; 8. Cosmos and culture in the Bronze Age.

Rezensionen

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