Europe Before History

ISBN-13: 9780521784368 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 540 str.

Kristian Kristiansen; Colin Renfrew; Clive Gamble

Opis

The societies of the European Bronze Age produced elaborate artifacts and were drawn into a wide trade network extending over the whole of Europe, yet they were economically and politically undiversified. Kristian Kristiansen attempts to explain this paradox using a world-systems analysis, and provides a rich body of evidence to support his case. The result is a coherent overview of this period of European prehistory that addresses some of the larger questions raised in the study of the period.

Recenzje

' … this book is a substantial advance in the quest for a socially informed history of the era before writing.' The Times Higher Supplement

Spis treści

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.