Complexity and Autonomy in Bronze Age Europe

Archaeolingua Series Maior 31

Budapest, Archaeolingua, 2014
Keménykötés | Hardback
407 oldal, színes és fekete-fehér illusztrációkkal | 407 pages with colored and grayscale images

ISBN 978 963 9911 52 9

Table of contents // Tartalomjegyzék

Description

This work asks what kind of social differentiations emerged in European Bronze Age societies and what changes were associated with this transition. It is clear that during this period large fortified settlements became increasingly common, great inequalities in access to metals and exotic goods appear, and warrior iconography permeates material culture. But the specific forms of political and economic complexity in these societies, such as tribute payments, difference in craft production and household consumption are often unknown. Focusing on Bronze Age settlement and household economies in the Körös Region of the Great Hungarian Plain, this book establishes a more complete picture of these societies.