Table of Contents

Preface
List of illustrations
List of tables
1: Harry Fokkens and Anthony Harding: Introduction
Part I: Themes in Bronze Age archaeology
2: Benjamin W Roberts, Marion Uckelmann and Dirk Brandherm: Old Father Time: the Bronze Age chronology of Western Europe
3: Volker Heyd: Europe 2500 to 2200 BC: Between expiring ideologies and emerging complexity
4: Marc Vander Linden: A little bit of history repeating itself: a brief review of theories on the Bell Beaker phenomenon
5: Joanna Brück and Harry Fokkens: Bronze Age settlements
6: Mads Kähler Holst: Burials
7: Richard Bradley: Hoards and the deposition of metalwork
8: Timothy Darvill: Monuments and monumentality in Bronze Age Europe
9: Mike Parker Pearson, Peter Marshall, Josh Pollard, Colin Richards, Julian Thomas, and Kate Welham: Stonehenge
10: Janet Montgomery and Mandy Jay: The contribution of skeletal isotope analysis to understanding the Bronze Age in Europe
11: Joanna Brück and David Fontijn: The myth of the chief: prestige goods, power and personhood in the European Bronze Age
12: Marie Louise Stig Sørensen: Identity, gender and dress in the European Bronze Age
13: Nick Thorpe: Warfare in the European Bronze Age
14: Joakim Goldhahn: Rethinking Bronze Age cosmology a North European perspective
15: Joakim Goldhahn and Johan Ling: Bronze Age rock art in Northern Europe contexts and interpretations
16: Geoffroy de Saulieu: Rock carvings and Alpine statue-menhirs, from the Chalcolithic to the Middle Bronze Age: reflections on social process
17: Robert Johnston: Bronze Age fields and land division
18: László Bartosiewicz: Animals in Bronze Age Europe
19: Hans-Peter Stika and Andreas G. Heiss: Plant cultivation in the Bronze Age
20: Anthony Harding: Trade and exchange
21: Robert Van de Noort: Seafaring and riverine navigation in the Bronze Age of Europe
22: Marion Uckelmann: Land transport in the Bronze Age
23: Tobias L. Kienlin: Copper and bronze: Bronze Age metalworking in context
24: William O Brien: Bronze Age copper mining in Europe
25: Barbara Armbruster: Gold and gold working of the Bronze Age
26: Joanna Sofaer, Lise Bender Jørgensen and Alice Choyke: Craft production: ceramics, textiles and bone
27: Julian Henderson: Glass and faience
28: Anthony Harding: Salt production in the Bronze Age
29: Christopher Pare: Weighing, commodification and money
Part II: The Bronze Age by region
30: Benjamin W. Roberts: Britain and Ireland in the Bronze Age: farmers in the landscape, or heroes on the high seasa
31: Harry Fokkens and David Fontijn: The Bronze Age in the Low Countries
32: Claude Mordant: The Bronze Age in France
33: Vicente Lull, Rafael Micó, Cristina Rihuete Herrada and Roberto Risch: Bronze Age Iberia
34: Vicente Lull, Rafael Micó, Cristina Rihuete Herrada and Roberto Risch: The Bronze Age in the Balearic Islands
35: Anna Maria Bietti Sestieri: Peninsular Italy
36: Anna Maria Bietti Sestieri: The Bronze Age in Sicily
37: Fulvia Lo Schiavo: The Bronze Age in Sardinia
38: Franco Nicolis: Northern Italy
39: Philippe Della Casa: Switzerland and the Central Alps
40: Albrecht Jockenhövel: Germany in the Bronze Age
41: Henrik Thrane: Scandinavia
42: Janusz Czebreszuk: The Bronze Age in the Polish Lands
43: Lubos Jirán, Milan Salas and Alexandra Krenn-Leeb: The Czech Lands and Austria in the Bronze Age
44: Klára Marková with Gábor Ilon: Slovakia and Hungary
45: Biba Terzan, with Snjezana Karavanic: The Western Balkans in the Bronze Age
46: Kristina Mihovilic: Castellieri-Gradine of the Northern Adriatic
47: Nikolaus Boroffka: Romania, Moldova and Bulgaria
48: Hermann Parzinger: Ukraine and Russia in the Bronze Age

About the Author

Anthony Harding, Professor of Archaeology, University of Exeter, Harry Fokkens, Chair of European Prehistory, Leiden University

Reviews

This handbook provides a multitude of voices on, and entry points into, a complex historical epoch we are perhaps only just beginning to understand. It is now the starting point for anyone interested in knowing more about the European Bronze Age
*Kristian Kristiansen, Antiquity*

...an invaluable reference for students and professionals alike, but is also accesible enough for an interested reader to enjoy.
*Polly Heffer, Current World Archaeology*

...indispensible... for anyone seeking to contextualise their Bronze Age findings or research, this volume should be an early port of call.
*Carleton Jones, Irish Archaeology*