The Rise of Bronze Age Society

Winner of the 2006 SAA Book Award The Bronze Age represents an age of unprecedented social transformations in Europe. In a significant departure, Kristiansen and Larsson argue that much of this transformation was informed by trade, travel and regional interaction. They reconstruct the travels which occurred between the Near East, the Mediterranean and Europe to trace how the religious, political and social conceptions of Bronze Age people were shaped. Integrating two traditionally separate research fields of European and Mediterranean (classical) archaeology, this important work provides a new interpretation of the development of Europe in the Bronze Age.