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Organizing Bronze age societies : the Mediterranean, Central Europe, and Scandinavia compared /
The Bronze Age was a formative period in European history when the organisation of landscapes, settlements, and economy reached a new level of complexity. This book presents the first in-depth, comparative study of household economy and settlement in three micro-regions: the Mediterranean (Sicily),...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The Bronze Age was a formative period in European history when the organisation of landscapes, settlements, and economy reached a new level of complexity. This book presents the first in-depth, comparative study of household economy and settlement in three micro-regions: the Mediterranean (Sicily), Central Europe (Hungary), and Northern Europe (South Scandinavia). The results are based on ten years of fieldwork in a similar method of documentation, and scientific analyses were used in each of the regional studies, making controlled comparisons possible. The new evidence demonstrates how differences in settlement organisation and household economies were counterbalanced by similarities in the organised use of the landscape in an economy dominated by the herding of large flocks of sheep and cattle. This book's innovative theoretical and methodological approaches will be of relevance to all researchers of landscape and settlement history. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxiv, 303 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511918346 0511918348 9780511779282 0511779283 9780511914577 0511914571 |