The Rise of Bronze Age Society: Travels, Transmissions and Transformations - Softcover

Kristiansen, Kristian; Larsson, Thomas B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521604664 ISBN 13: 9780521604666

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2006

Synopsis

Winner of the 2006 SAA Book Award Beginning with state formation and urbanization in the Near East c. 3000 BC and ending in Central and Northern Europe c. 1000-500 BC, the Bronze Age marks an heroic age of travels and transformations throughout Europe. Kristian Kristiansen and Thomas Larsson reconstruct the travel and transmission of knowledge that took place between the Near East, the Mediterranean and Europe. They explore how religious, political and social conceptions of Bronze Age people were informed by long-distance connections and alliances between local elites.

About this title

Book Description:

Winner 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.

About the Author:

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.

Thomas Larsson is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Umeå. He is the co-editor of Approaches to Swedish Archaeology (with Hans Lundmark) (British Archaeological Reports, 1989) and monographs on the Scandinavian Bronze Age including The Bronze Age Metalwork in Southern Sweden: Aspects of Social and Spatial Organization 1800-500 BC (1986).

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0521604664
• ISBN 13: 9780521604666
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464