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KRISTIANSEN, KRISTIAN & LARSSON, THOMAS B. The Rise Of Bronze Age Society: Travels, Transmissions And Transformations.
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge: 2005. 0521843634 / 9780521843638 First Edition (Unstated). h Hardcover, no dustjacket. Brand new book.
Beginning with state formation and urbanization in the Near East c. 3000 BC and ending in Central and Northern Europe c. 1000-500 BC, the Bronze Age marks an heroic age of travels and transformations throughout Europe. Kristian Kristiansen and Thomas Larsson reconstruct the travel and transmission of knowledge that took place between the Near East, the Mediterranean and Europe. They explore how religious, political and social conceptions of Bronze Age people were informed by long-distance connections and alliances between local elites. The contents of book is as follows: Prologue - between Scylla and Charybdis; 1. A theoretical strategy for studying interaction; 2. Odysseus - a Bronze Age archetype; 3. Rulership in the Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean during the Bronze Age; 4. Europe in the early Bronze Age - an archaeological background; 5. Symbolic transmission and social transformation in Bronze Age Europe; 6. The cosmological structure of Bronze Age society; 7. Among gods and mortals, animals and humans; 8. Cosmos and culture in the Bronze Age. Includes an Index. Winner of the 2007 SAA Book Award. "Kristiansen and Larsson bring together an amazing amount and variety of information from as early as 3000 BCE in the Near East to the first millennium in Europe to show that cultural change was a gradual but ever-ongoing process." -Choice
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