02164nam a22003258a 4500 CR9780511779282 UkCbUP 20171019125149.0 m|||||o||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 100519s2010||||enk s ||1 0|eng|d 9780511779282 (ebook) 9780521764667 (hardback) 9780521748353 (paperback) UkCbUP UkCbUP rda GN778.22.I8 O74 2010 936/.01 22 Organizing Bronze Age Societies : The Mediterranean, Central Europe, and Scandanavia Compared / Edited by Timothy Earle, Kristian Kristiansen. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010. 1 online resource (328 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). 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. Earle, Timothy, editor of compilation. Kristiansen, Kristian, editor of compilation. Print version: 9780521764667 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511779282 226439 226439