Bronze Age connections
Subtitle: cultural contact in prehistoric Europe
By: edited by Peter Clark.
Contributors: Clark, Peter.
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; Oakville
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781842173480
Subjects: Bronze age -- Europe -- Congresses; Acculturation -- Europe -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses; Intercultural communication -- Europe -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses; Excavations (Archaeology) Europe -- Congresses; Naval history, Ancient -- Congresses; Seafaring life -- Europe -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses; Boats and boating -- Europe -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses; Europe -- Antiquities -- Congresses; Europe -- History, Naval -- Congresses; Europe -- Commerce -- History -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Notes: Presentations from a conference held Sept. 2006 in Dover, England.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Building new connections / Peter Clark; title: Encompassing the sea : "maritories" and Bronze Age maritime interactions / Stuart Needham; title: From Picardy to Flanders : transmanche connections in the Bronze Age / Jean Bourgeois and Marc Talon; title: British immigrants killed abroad in the seventies : the rise and fall of a Dutch culture / Liesbeth Theunissen; title: The Canche Estuary (Pas-de-Calais, France) from the early Bronze Age to the emporium of Quentovic : a traditional trading place between south east England and the continent / Michel Philippe; title: Looking forward : maritime contacts in the first millennium BC / Barry Cunliffe; title: Copper mining and production at the beginning of the British Bronze Age : new evidence for   Beaker/EBA prospecting and some ideas on scale, exchange, and early smelting technologies / Simon Timberlake; title: The demise of the flint tool industry / Chris Butler; title: Land at the other end of the sea? : metalwork circulation, geographical knowledge, and the significance of British/Irish imports in the Bronze Age of the Low Countries / David Fontijn; title: The master(y) of hard materials : thoughts on technology, materiality, and ideology occasioned by the Dover boat / Mary W. Helms; title: Exploring the ritual of travel in prehistoric Europe : the Bronze Age sewn-plank boats in context / Robert Van de Noort; title: In his hands and in his head : the Amesbury archer as magician / Andrew Fitzpatrick.