Organizing Bronze Age Societies
Organizing Bronze Age Societies

Author: Timothy Earle

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-08-30

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 1139491121

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The Bronze Age was a formative period in European history when the organisation of landscapes, settlements, and economy reached a new level of complexity. This book presents the first in-depth, comparative study of household economy and settlement in three micro-regions: the Mediterranean (Sicily), Central Europe (Hungary), and Northern Europe (South Scandinavia). The results are based on ten years of fieldwork in a similar method of documentation, and scientific analyses were used in each of the regional studies, making controlled comparisons possible. The new evidence demonstrates how differences in settlement organisation and household economies were counterbalanced by similarities in the organised use of the landscape in an economy dominated by the herding of large flocks of sheep and cattle. This book's innovative theoretical and methodological approaches will be of relevance to all researchers of landscape and settlement history.

Organizing Bronze Age Societies
Organizing Bronze Age Societies

Author: Timothy K. Earle

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 9781107208599

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In-depth, comparative study of household economy and settlement in three Bronze Age micro-regions: the Mediterranean, Central Europe, and Northern Europe.

Organizing Bronze Age Societies
Organizing Bronze Age Societies

Author: Timothy K. Earle

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 9780511912771

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In-depth, comparative study of household economy and settlement in three Bronze Age micro-regions: the Mediterranean, Central Europe, and Northern Europe.

Mapping Society: Settlement Structure in Later Bronze Age Ireland
Mapping Society: Settlement Structure in Later Bronze Age Ireland

Author: Victoria Ruth Ginn

Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

Published: 2016-01-22

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 1784912441

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This study examines Middle–Late Bronze Age (c. 1750–600 BC) domestic settlement patterns in Ireland. The results reveal a distinct rise in the visibility, and a rapid adaption, of domestic architecture, which seems to have occurred earlier in Ireland than elsewhere in western and northern Europe.

Warfare in Bronze Age Society
Warfare in Bronze Age Society

Author: Christian Horn

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-04-26

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1316949222

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Warfare in Bronze Age Society takes a fresh look at warfare and its role in reshaping Bronze Age society. The Bronze Age represents the global emergence of a militarized society with a martial culture, materialized in a package of new efficient weapons that remained in use for millennia to come. Warfare became institutionalized and professionalized during the Bronze Age, and a new class of warriors made their appearance. Evidence for this development is reflected in the ostentatious display of weapons in burials and hoards, and in iconography, from rock art to palace frescoes. These new manifestations of martial culture constructed the warrior as a 'Hero' and warfare as 'Heroic'. The case studies, written by an international team of scholars, discuss these and other new aspects of Bronze Age warfare. Moreover, the essays show that warriors also facilitated mobility and innovation as new weapons would have quickly spread from the Mediterranean to northern Europe.

Bronze Age Tell Communities in Context: An Exploration into Culture, Society, and the Study of European Prehistory. Part 2
Bronze Age Tell Communities in Context: An Exploration into Culture, Society, and the Study of European Prehistory. Part 2

Author: Tobias L. Kienlin

Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

Published: 2020-12-31

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 1789697514

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This is the second part of a study on Bronze Age tells and on our approaches towards an understanding of this fascinating way of life, drawing on the material remains of long-term architectural stability and references back to ancestral place.

Storage in Ancient Complex Societies
Storage in Ancient Complex Societies

Author: Linda R. Manzanilla

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-05-20

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 1315520958

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The ability to accumulate and store large amounts of goods is a key feature of complex societies in ancient times. Storage strategies reflect the broader economic and political organization of a society and changes in the development of control mechanisms in both administrative and non-administrative—often kinship based—sectors. This is the first volume to examine storage practices in ancient complex societies from a comparative perspective. This volume includes 14 original papers by leading archaeologists from four continents which compare storage systems in three key regions with lengthy traditions of complexity: the ancient Near East, Mesoamerica, and Andes. Storage in Ancient Complex Societies demonstrates the importance of understanding storage for the study of cultural evolution.

Bronze Age Tell Communities in Context: An Exploration Into Culture, Society and the Study of European Prehistory. Part 1
Bronze Age Tell Communities in Context: An Exploration Into Culture, Society and the Study of European Prehistory. Part 1

Author: Tobias L. Kienlin

Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

Published: 2015-07-31

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 1784911488

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This study challenges current modelling of Bronze Age tell communities in the Carpathian Basin in terms of the evolution of functionally-differentiated, hierarchical or 'proto-urban' society under the influence of Mediterranean palatial centres.

Chinese Society in the Age of Confucius (1000-250 BC)
Chinese Society in the Age of Confucius (1000-250 BC)

Author: Lothar von Falkenhausen

Publisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press

Published: 2006-12-31

Total Pages: 580

ISBN-13: 1938770455

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Winner of the 2009 Society for American Archaeology Book Award Chinese Society in the Age of Confucius is based on the most up-to-date archaeological discoveries. It introduces new data, as well as new ways to think about them - modes of analysis that, while familiar to archaeological practitioners in the West and in Japan, are herein applied to evidence from the Chinese Bronze Age for the first time. The treatment of social stratification, clan and lineage organisation, as well as gender and ethnic differences will be of interest to those involved in the general or comparative analysis of grand themes in the Social Sciences.