Author: Timothy K. Earle
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780511917363
Category : Bronze age
Languages : en
Pages : 329
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In-depth, comparative study of household economy and settlement in three Bronze Age micro-regions: the Mediterranean, Central Europe, and Northern Europe.
Author: Timothy Earle
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139491121
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Bronze Age was a formative period in European history when the organisation 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 organisation and household economies were counterbalanced by similarities in the organised use of the landscape in an economy dominated by the herding of large flocks of sheep and cattle. This book's innovative theoretical and methodological approaches will be of relevance to all researchers of landscape and settlement history.
Author: Timothy K. Earle
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780511912771
Category : Bronze age
Languages : en
Pages : 329
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In-depth, comparative study of household economy and settlement in three Bronze Age micro-regions: the Mediterranean, Central Europe, and Northern Europe.
Author: Kristian Kristiansen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521843638
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 470
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Author: Christian Horn
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107185564
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
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The Bronze Age represents the global emergence of a militarized society with a martial culture that constructed the warrior as a 'Hero' and warfare as 'Heroic'. The book takes a fresh look at warfare and its role in reshaping Bronze Age society from the Mediterranean to northern Europe.
Author: Tobias L. Kienlin
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1789697514
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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This is the second part of a study on Bronze Age tells and on our approaches towards an understanding of this fascinating way of life, drawing on the material remains of long-term architectural stability and references back to ancestral place.
Author: Victoria Ruth Ginn
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1784912441
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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This study examines Middle–Late Bronze Age (c. 1750–600 BC) domestic settlement patterns in Ireland. The results reveal a distinct rise in the visibility, and a rapid adaption, of domestic architecture, which seems to have occurred earlier in Ireland than elsewhere in western and northern Europe.
Author: A. F. Harding
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521367295
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 576
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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: Lothar von Falkenhausen
Publisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
ISBN: 1938770455
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 580
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Winner of the 2009 Society for American Archaeology Book Award Chinese Society in the Age of Confucius is based on the most up-to-date archaeological discoveries. It introduces new data, as well as new ways to think about them - modes of analysis that, while familiar to archaeological practitioners in the West and in Japan, are herein applied to evidence from the Chinese Bronze Age for the first time. The treatment of social stratification, clan and lineage organisation, as well as gender and ethnic differences will be of interest to those involved in the general or comparative analysis of grand themes in the Social Sciences.
Author: Linda R. Manzanilla
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315520958
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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The ability to accumulate and store large amounts of goods is a key feature of complex societies in ancient times. Storage strategies reflect the broader economic and political organization of a society and changes in the development of control mechanisms in both administrative and non-administrative—often kinship based—sectors. This is the first volume to examine storage practices in ancient complex societies from a comparative perspective. This volume includes 14 original papers by leading archaeologists from four continents which compare storage systems in three key regions with lengthy traditions of complexity: the ancient Near East, Mesoamerica, and Andes. Storage in Ancient Complex Societies demonstrates the importance of understanding storage for the study of cultural evolution.
