First Kings of Europe: From Farmers to Rulers in Prehistoric Southeastern Europe [Hardcover]

Scholars analyze and interpret data and artifacts from the most important museum collections in central Europe and the Balkans that illustrate the evolution of political hierarchy in this region beginning in the Copper Age. Over a span of four millennia, early agricultural villages gave rise to Europe's first kingdoms and monarchies, the first complex state organizations.In this wonderfully illustrated book, which accompanies an international exhibition, scholars synthesize archaeological data and present artifacts from the most important museum collections across south-eastern Europe to illustrate the evolution of political hierarchy, power and status in this region from the Neolithic to the Iron age.