Organizing Bronze Age Societies by Timothy Earle, Kristian Kr... - 9780521764667

Organizing Bronze Age SocietiesThe Mediterranean, Central Europe, and Scandanavia Compared\nAuthor(s): Timothy Earle, Kristian Kristiansen\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521764667, 978-0521764667\nSynopsis\nThe Bronze Age was a formative period in European history when the organisation of landscapes, settlements, and economy reached a new level of complexity. This book presents the first in-depth, comparative study of household economy and settlement in three micro-regions: the Mediterranean (Sicily), Central Europe (Hungary), and Northern Europe (South Scandinavia). The results are based on ten years of fieldwork in a similar method of documentation, and scientific analyses were used in each of the regional studies, making controlled comparisons possible. The new evidence demonstrates how differences in settlement organisation and household economies were counterbalanced by similarities in t.