The Archaeology of Bronze Age Iberia: Argaric Societies

ISBN-13: 9780367871062 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 190 str.

Gonzalo Jimenez; Sandra Subias; Margarita Romero

Opis

The Archaeology of Bronze Age Iberia offers a much-needed, comprehensive overview of Argaric Bronze Age societies, based on state-of-the-art research. In addition to expounding on recent insights in such areas as Argaric origin and expansion, social practices, and socio-politics, the book offers reflections on current issues in the field,

Spis treści

1. From the 19^th to the 21^st Centuries: A Reappraisal of Argaric Research 2. Time and Space in Argaric Society 3. Argaric Landscapes: Settlements Gain Significance 4. Production, Distribution and Consumption as Social Practices 5. New Ways of Displaying Death: Funerary Rituals 6. Interpretations of Argaric Sociopolitical Strategies

O autorze

Gonzalo Aranda Jiménez is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Prehistory and Archaeology at the University of Granada, Spain. He has conducted archaeological fieldwork in different Copper and Bronze Age settlements, and has published in major scientific journals like Antiquity, Oxford Journal of Archaeology, Journal of Social Archaeology and Trabajos de Prehistoria, as well as book chapters in peer-reviewed volumes.

Sandra Montón Subías is ICREA Research Professor at Pompeu Fabra University, Spain. She is currently co-chairing the EAA working party "Archaeology and Gender in Europe." She has recently published "European Gender Archaeologies in Historical Perspective" in the European Journal of Archaeology and the co-edited volume Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner: Feasting Rituals in the Prehistoric Societies of Europe and the Near East (2011).

Margarita Sánchez Romero is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Prehistory and Archaeology at the University of Granada, Spain. She has worked as a visiting researcher and lecturer at the universities of Bergen (Norway), Helsinki (Finland), Cambridge and Hull (UK), Havana (Cuba), Comahue and Lujan (Argentina) and Los Lagos (Chile).