The rise of Bronze Age society : travels, transmissions and transformations /
Kristiansen, Kristian,1948-
Larsson, Thomas B.
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,
2005.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-424) and index.
Prologue: between Scylla and Charybdis -- A theoretical strategy for studying interaction -- Odysseus: a Bronze Age archetype -- Rulership in the near east and the eastern Mediterranean during the Bronze Age -- Europe in the early Bronze Age: an archaeological background -- Symbolic transmission and social transformation in Bronze Age Europe -- The cosmological structure of Bronze Age society -- Among gods and mortals, animals and humans -- Cosmos and culture in the Bronze Age -- Epilogue: towards a new culture history.
Bronze age.
Prehistoric peoples.
Religion, Prehistoric.
Rites and ceremonies, Prehistoric.
Antiquities, Prehistoric.