Organizing Bronze Age Societies: The Mediterranean, Central Europe, and Scandanavia Compared - Softcover

Earle, Timothy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521748356 ISBN 13: 9780521748353

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

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.

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Book Description:

The Bronze Age was a formative period in European history, when the organisation of landscapes, settlements, and economy reached new levels 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).

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0521748356
• ISBN 13: 9780521748353
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 340