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The Bronze Age of Europe is a crucial formative period that
underlay the civilisations of Greece and Rome, fundamental to our
own modern civilisation. A systematic description of it appeared in
2013, but this work offers a series of personal studies of aspects
of the period by one of its best known practitioners. The book is
based on the idea that different aspects of the Bronze Age can be
studied as a series of "lives": the life of people and peoples, of
objects, of places, and of societies. Each of these is taken in
turn and a range of aspects presented that offer interesting
insights into the period. These are based on recent research (for
instance on the genetic history of the Old World) as well as on
fundamental earlier studies. In addition, there is a consideration
of the history of Bronze Age studies, the "life of the Bronze Age".
The book provides a novel approach to the Bronze Age based on the
personal interests of a well-known Bronze Age scholar. It offers
insights into a period that students of other aspects of the
ancient world, as well as Bronze Age specialists and general
readers, will find interesting and stimulating.
The Oxford Handbook of the European Bronze Age is a wide-ranging
survey of a crucial period in prehistory during which many social,
economic, and technological changes took place. Written by expert
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.
After an introduction and a discussion of chronology, successive
chapters deal with settlement studies, burial analysis, hoards and
hoarding, monumentality, rock art, cosmology, gender, and trade, as
well as a series of articles on specific technologies and crafts
(such as transport, metals, glass, salt, textiles, and weighing).
The second half of the book covers each country in turn. From
Ireland to Russia, Scandinavia to Sicily, every area is considered,
and up to date information on important recent finds is discussed
in detail. The book is the first to consider the whole of the
European Bronze Age in both geographical and thematic terms, and
will be the standard book on the subject for the foreseeable
future.
This Element provides a concise account of the archaeology of salt
production in ancient Europe. It describes what salt is, where it
is found, what it is used for, and its importance for human and
animal health. The different periods of the past in which it was
produced are described, from earliest times down to the medieval
period. Attention is paid to the abundant literary sources that
inform us about salt in the Greek and Roman world, as well as the
likely locations of production in the Mediterranean and beyond. The
economic and social importance of salt in human societies means
that salt has served as a crucial aspect of trade and exchange over
the centuries, and potentially as a means of individuals and
societies achieving wealth and status.
These essays, in honour of John Coles, reflect his interests in
experimental archaeology and in the exploration of wetland sites.
Contents include: Palaeolithic Archaeology: Radiocarbon dating and
the origins of anatomically modern populations in Europe ( P
Mellars ); The Chauvet cave dates ( J Clottes ); The archaeology of
Scotland: The Hidden landscape: the Neolithic of Tayside ( G J
Barclay ); The stony limits - rock carvings in passage graves and
in the open air ( R Bradley ); Evidence, North and South, in the
earlier Neolithic ( R J Mercer ); The birth of the Scottish Bronze
Age ( J N Graham Ritchie ); Drinking, driving, death and display:
Scottish Bronze Age artefacts since Coles ( A Sheridan ). Bronze
Age archaeology: Bronze Age landscapess in Southern Europe ( G
Barker ); From Skane to Scotstown: some notes on amber in Bronze
Age Ireland ( G Eogan ); Swords, shields and scholars: Bronze Age
warfare, past and present ( A Harding ); Gold reflections ( J J
Taylor ); Rise and fall: the deposition of Bronze Age weapons in
the Thames valley and the Fenland ( R Thomas ); Bronze Age
settlement in south Scandinavia - territorality and organisation (
H Thrane ); Experimental Archaeology: Getting to grips with music's
prehistory: experimental approaches to function, design and
operational wear in excavated musical instruments ( G Lawson );
Experimental ship archaeology in Denmark ( O Crumli-Pedersen );
Wood-tar and pitch experiments at Biskupin Museum ( W Piotrowski );
The nature of experiment in archaeology ( P J Reynolds ). Wetland
Archaeology: Somerset and the Sweet conundrum ( B Coles ); Paths,
tracks and roads in early Ireland: viewing people rather than the
trees ( B Raftery ); Underwater medieval sites on Lake Paladru
(Isere, France): from rescue excavations to cultural project ( M
Colardelle & E Verdel ). Epilogue: Of weapons and wetlands ( T
Champion ). J M Coles - a bibliography.
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