Bronze Age Textiles - Men, Women and Wealth

Zusatztext [T]he book accomplishes what it sets out to do! which is to start the debate on the economic and social importance of textiles during prehistory that goes outside the specialist realm. Informationen zum Autor Klavs Randsborg is Professor of World Archaeology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His research covers the Scandinavian, European and Mediterranean Neolithic, the Bronze and Iron Ages, Classical and Near Eastern Antiquity, the Roman Period, the Migration Period, the Viking Age and the Early Middle Ages as well as African archaeology and Global topics. He is a member of the permanent council of UNESCO. [T]he book accomplishes what it sets out to do, which is to start the debate on the economic and social importance of textiles during prehistory that goes outside the specialist realm. -- Magarita Gleba, University College London The Historian Zusammenfassung Bronze Age Textiles uses amazingly preserved garments and textiles, along with other artifacts to examine Bronze age society across Europe.

Product details

• Authors: Klavs Randsborg, Klavs (University of Copenhagen Randsborg, Randsborg Klavs
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.04.2011
• EAN: 9780715640784
• ISBN: 978-0-7156-4078-4
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 220 mm x 14 mm
• Series: Debates in Archaeology; Continnuum-3PL
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; prehistory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Northern Europe, Scandinavia, Archaeology by period / region, Prehistoric archaeology