The Rise of Bronze Age Society: Travels, Transmissions and Transformations

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 elites.

Author: Kristian Kristiansen, Thomas B. Larsson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 01/01/2006
Pages: 464
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.13lbs
Size: 9.68h x 7.26w x 1.08d
ISBN: 9780521604666

Review Citation(s):
Choice 07/01/2006 pg. 2037

About the Author
Kristiansen, Kristian: - Kristian Kristiansen is Professor at the Department of Archaeology, University of Gothenburg. His previous publications include Europe before History (Cambridge University Press, 1999) and Social Transformation in Archaeology (2000) (with Mike Rowlands). He was the co-founder and first president of the European Association of Archaeologists and is a member of the Swedish Academy of History and Letters.Larsson, Thomas B.: - Thomas Larsson is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Umeå. He is the co-editor of Approaches to Swedish Archaeology (with Hans Lundmark) (British Archaeological Reports, 1989) and monographs on the Scandinavian Bronze Age including The Bronze Age Metalwork in Southern Sweden: Aspects of Social and Spatial Organization 1800-500 BC (1986).

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