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Bronze Age Europe

Back to the Beginning: Reassessing Social and Political Complexity on Crete during the Early and Middle Bronze Age
edited by I. Schoep, P. Tomkins and J. Driessen
Ever since their first discovery, more than a century ago, the Minoan Palaces have dominated scholarship on the Cretan Bronze Age. Opinion long held that their first appearance, seemingly at the beginning of the Middle Bronze Age, marked a pivotal transformation point, during which the simple, egalitarian societies of the Early Bronze Age were transformed into something significantly more complex, hierarchical and civilised. Over the last three ...
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The Dover Bronze Age boat in context: Society and water transport in prehistoric Europe
by Peter Clark
The discovery of the well preserved remains of a Bronze Age boat in Dover in 1992 was one of the most important post-war finds in Britain. The boat was of a stitched oak plank structure, and has been dated to 1550 BC. To mark the tenth anniversary of the boat's discovery, a conference was held in Dover in 2002. This publication brings to a wider audience sixteen of the papers presented there, allowing all those interested in this fascinating ...
Paperback. 'Reprint under consideration' - in practice this may mean that the book goes out of print, but orders will be recorded. Price GB £30.00

Santorini: Volcano, Natural History, Mythology
by Walter L Friedrich, translated by Alexander R McBirney
A completely revised edition of the book originally entitled Fire in the Sea. The eruption of the Santorini (Thera) volcano in the 17th century BC, buried the Bronze Age city of Akrotiri under volcanic ash and brought far-reaching effects to the island and much of the East Mediterranean. Walter Friedrich discusses, with great clarity and with many illustrations, the archaeological, geological, environmental and scientific evidence relating ...
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Excavations at Grimes Graves, Fascicule 4
by A. J. Legge
Subtitled `Animals, environment and the Bronze Age economy' this volume describes the Bronze Age midden deposits found in Shaft X, and discusses and interprets the rich faunal deposits. 88p, 38 line drawings. (British Museum Press 1992)
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Excavations at Grimes Graves 1972-1976, Fascicule 3
by Ian Longworth and others
This report describes the British Museum's excavation in and around Shaft X in the south eastern sector of the site. Dug as a deep mine to extract flint in the Late Neolithic, its fill contained cultural debris of Middle Bronze Age date - largely midden material - rich in Bucket Urn type pottery, worked flint, chalk, bone and antler, and a few bronze objects as well as evidence of metalworking. The report contains a detailed analysis of all this ...
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Bronze Age Settlements in the Low Countries
edited by Stijn Arnoldussen and Harry Fokkens
The Low Countries around the deltas of the river Rhine, Meuse and Scheldt have a long tradition in large scale archaeological research. This book brings together research from thirteen of the largest Bronze Age settlements described by their original excavators. These contributions are preceded by two introductory chapters written by the editors, providing a full overview of the state of Dutch Bronze Age settlement research, the key sites and the ...
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Mountains of Silver and Rivers of Gold: The Phoenicians in Iberia
by Ann Neville
The traditional picture of the Phoenicians in Iberia is that of wily traders drawn there by the irresistible lure of the fabulous mineral wealth of the El Dorado of the ancient world. However, a remarkable series of archaeological discoveries, starting in the 1960s, have transformed our understanding of the Phoenicians and allow us to glimpse a picture of life in the Far West that is far richer, and more complex, than the traditional mercantile ...
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Snail Down
by Nicholas Thomas et al
Snail Down is an Early Bronze Age barrow cemetery on Salisbury Plain, located eight miles north-east of Stonehenge. Thirty-three mounds include examples of almost every type of Wessex barrow: bowl, bell, disc, saucer and pond type have all been excaveted there between 1953-7. The preferred burial rite at the site was cremation and disposal in burial pits. The land surrounding the cemetery is covered with the remains of ancient enclosures, ditches ...
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Excavation and Salvage at Runnymede Bridge, 1978
by Stuart P. Needham
Report on a major rescue excavation of a Late Bronze Age waterfront site with exceptional preservation of deposits buried under the flood silts of the Thames. This volume analyses the stratigraphy, structural evidence and finds from a part of the site that included the foundations of a Late Bronze Age enclosure stockade set in the edge of a contemporary river channel. The well preserved environmental evidence provides a detailed picture of ...
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Corrstown: A Coastal Community. Excavations of a Bronze Age Village in Northern Ireland
by Victoria Ginn and Stuart Rathbone
Corrstown in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, is a highly important Bronze Age site. This came to light during excavations carried out by Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd on behalf of the Northern Ireland Environment Agency in 2002-2003, the results of which are detailed here. A total of 74 Middle Bronze Age roundhouse platforms was identified and organised into pairs or short rows, the majority of which appeared to be contemporary. ...
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