Table of Contents

1. Background to the inquiry; 2. Background to the archaeology; 3. Theoretical context; 4. Regional systems: the social and cultural landscape in Europe in the Late Bronze Age, 1100–750 BC; 5. Regional divergence: the Mediterranean and Europe in the 9th-8th centuries BC; 6. The new economic axis: Central Europe and the Mediterranean 750–450 BC; 7. Transformation and expansion: the Celtic movement, 450–150 BC; 8. The emergence of the European world system in the Bronze Age and Early Iron Age: Europe in the 1st and 2nd millennia BC.

Promotional Information

Examines paradox of politically and economically undiversified European Bronze Age society despite wide trading networks.

About the Author

Kristian Kristiansen is a pre-eminent archaeologist. He is Professor of Archaeology in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden and a prolific author. His main research interests are in the European Bronze Age, archaeological theory and archaeological heritage.

Reviews

' … this book is a substantial advance in the quest for a socially informed history of the era before writing.' The Times Higher Supplement