Europe Before History

Informationen zum Autor Kristian Kristiansen Klappentext Examines paradox of politically and economically undiversified European Bronze Age society despite wide trading networks. Zusammenfassung European Bronze Age societies produced elaborate artifacts and were drawn into a European-wide trade network! yet they were economically and politically undiversified. Kristian Kristiansen offers an interesting explanation of this paradox. The result is a coherent overview that addresses some of the larger questions raised about the period. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Background to the inquiry; 2. Background to the archaeology; 3. Theoretical context; 4. Regional systems: the social and cultural landscape in Europe in the Late Bronze Age, 1100-750 BC; 5. Regional divergence: the Mediterranean and Europe in the 9th-8th centuries BC; 6. The new economic axis: Central Europe and the Mediterranean 750-450 BC; 7. Transformation and expansion: the Celtic movement, 450-150 BC; 8. The emergence of the European world system in the Bronze Age and Early Iron Age: Europe in the 1st and 2nd millennia BC.

Product details

• Authors: Kristian Kristiansen, Kristian (Goeteborgs Universitet Kristiansen, Kristian (Goteborgs Universitet Kristiansen
• Assisted by: Clive Gamble (Editor), Colin Renfrew (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.1999
• EAN: 9780521784368
• ISBN: 978-0-521-78436-8
• Dimensions: 189 mm x 246 mm x 29 mm
• Series: New Studies in Archaeology
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history