The Oxford Handbook of the European Bronze Age

The Handbook is a wide-ranging survey of a crucial period in prehistory during which many social, economic, and technological changes took place. Written by specialists in the field, the book provides coverage both of the themes that characterize the period, and of the specific developments that took place in the various countries of Europe. Preface; List of illustrations; List of tables; 1 Harry Fokkens and Anthony Harding: Introduction; Part I: Themes in Bronze Age archaeology; 2 Benjamin W Roberts, Marion Uckelmann and Dirk Brandherm: Old Father Time: the Bronze Age chronology of Western Europe; 3 Volker Heyd: Europe 2500 to 2200 BC: Between expiring ideologies and emerging complexity; 4 Marc Vander Linden: A little bit of history repeating itself: a brief review of theories on the Bell Beaker phenomenon; 5 Joanna Bruck and Harry Fokkens: Bronze Age settlements; 6 Mads Kahler Holst: Burials; 7 Richard Bradley: Hoards and the deposition of metalwork; 8 Timothy Darvill: Monuments and monumentality in Bronze Age Europe; 9 Mike Parker Pearson, Peter Marshall, Josh Pollard, Colin Richards, Julian Thomas, and Kate Welham: Stonehenge; 10 Janet Montgomery and Mandy Jay: The contribution of skeletal isotope analysis to understanding the Bronze Age in Europe; 11 Joanna Bruck and David Fontijn: The myth of the chief: prestige goods, power and personhood in the European Bronze Age; 12 Marie Louise Stig Sorensen: Identity, gender and dress in the European Bronze Age; 13 Nick Thorpe: Warfare in the European Bronze Age; 14 Joakim Goldhahn: Rethinking Bronze Age cosmology a North European perspective; 15 Joakim Goldhahn and Johan Ling: Bronze Age rock art in Northern Europe contexts and interpretations; 16 Geoffroy de Saulieu: Rock carvings and Alpine statue-menhirs, from the Chalcolithic to the Middle Bronze Age: reflections on social process; 17 Robert Johnston: Bronze Age fields and land division; 18 Laszlo Bartosiewicz: Animals in Bronze Age Europe; 19 Hans-Peter Stika and Andreas G. Heiss: Plant cultivation in the Bronze Age; 20 Anthony Harding: Trade and exchange; 21 Robert Van de Noort: Seafaring and riverine navigation in the Bronze Age of Europe; 22 Marion Uckelmann: Land transport in the Bronze Age; 23 Tobias L. Kienlin: Copper and bronze: Bronze Age metalworking in context; 24 William O Brien: Bronze Age copper mining in Europe; 25 Barbara Armbruster: Gold and gold working of the Bronze Age; 26 Joanna Sofaer, Lise Bender Jorgensen and Alice Choyke: Craft production: ceramics, textiles and bone; 27 Julian Henderson: Glass and faience; 28 Anthony Harding: Salt production in the Bronze Age; 29 Christopher Pare: Weighing, commodification and money; Part II: The Bronze Age by region; 30 Benjamin W. Roberts: Britain and Ireland in the Bronze Age: farmers in the landscape, or heroes on the high seasa; 31 Harry Fokkens and David Fontijn: The Bronze Age in the Low Countries; 32 Claude Mordant: The Bronze Age in France; 33 Vicente Lull, Rafael Mico, Cristina Rihuete Herrada and Roberto Risch: Bronze Age Iberia; 34 Vicente Lull, Rafael Mico, Cristina Rihuete Herrada and Roberto Risch: The Bronze Age in the Balearic Islands; 35 Anna Maria Bietti Sestieri: Peninsular Italy; 36 Anna Maria Bietti Sestieri: The Bronze Age in Sicily; 37 Fulvia Lo Schiavo: The Bronze Age in Sardinia; 38 Franco Nicolis: Northern Italy; 39 Philippe Della Casa: Switzerland and the Central Alps; 40 Albrecht Jockenhovel: Germany in the Bronze Age; 41 Henrik Thrane: Scandinavia; 42 Janusz Czebreszuk: The Bronze Age in the Polish Lands; 43 Lubos Jiran, Milan Salas and Alexandra Krenn-Leeb: The Czech Lands and Austria in the Bronze Age; 44 Klara Markova with Gabor Ilon: Slovakia and Hungary; 45 Biba Terzan, with Snjezana Karavanic: The Western Balkans in the Bronze Age; 46 Kristina Mihovilic: Castellieri-Gradine of the Northern Adriatic; 47 Nikolaus Boroffka: Romania, Moldova and Bulgaria; 48 Hermann Parzinger: Ukraine and Russia in the Bronze Age