The Rise of Bronze Age Society Travels, Transmissions and Transformations [Paperback]

This 2005 book presents a significant interpretation of the social transformation in Bronze Age Europe.Winner of the 2006 SAA Book Award The Bronze Age represents an age of unprecedented social transformations in Europe. In a significant departure, Kristiansen and Larsson argue that much of this transformation was informed by trade, travel and regional interaction. They reconstruct the travels which occurred between the Near East, the Mediterranean and Europe to trace how the religious, political and social conceptions of Bronze Age people were shaped. Integrating two traditionally separate research fields of European and Mediterranean (classical) archaeology, this important work provides a new interpretation of the development of Europe in the Bronze Age.Winner of the 2006 SAA Book Award The Bronze Age represents an age of unprecedented social transformations in Europe. In a significant departure, Kristiansen and Larsson argue that much of this transformation was informed by trade, travel and regional interaction. They reconstruct the travels which occurred between the Near East, the Mediterranean and Europe to trace how the religious, political and social conceptions of Bronze Age people were shaped. Integrating two traditionally separate research fields of European and Mediterranean (classical) archaeology, this important work provides a new interpretation of the development of Europe in the Bronze Age.Winner of the 2006 SAA Book Award Beginning with state formation and urbanization in the Near East c. 3000 BC and ending in Central and Northern Europe c. 1000-500 BC, the Bronze Age marks an heroic age of travels and transformations throughout Europe. Kristian Kristiansen and Thomas Larsson reconstruct the travel and transmission of knowledge that took place between the Near East, the Mediterranean and Europe. They explore how religious, political and social conceptions of Bronze Age people were informed by long-distance connections and alliances between local l³=