The Oxford Handbook of the European Bronze Age

The Oxford Handbook of the European Bronze Age is a wide-ranging survey of a crucial period in prehistory during which many social, economic, and technological changes took place. Written by expert specialists in the field, the book provides coverage both of the themes that characterize the period, and of the specific developments that took place in the various countries of Europe. After an introduction and a discussion of chronology, successive chapters deal with settlement studies, burial analysis, hoards and hoarding, monumentality, rock art, cosmology, gender, and trade, as well as a series of articles on specific technologies and crafts (such as transport, metals, glass, salt, textiles, and weighing). The second half of the book covers each country in turn. From Ireland to Russia, Scandinavia to Sicily, every area is considered, and up to date information on important recent finds is discussed in detail. The book is the first to consider the whole of the European Bronze Age in both geographical and thematic terms, and will be the standard book on the subject for the foreseeable future.

1 - Introduction
2 - Old Father Time: the Bronze Age chronology of Western Europe
3 - Europe 2500 to 2200 BC: Between expiring ideologies and emerging complexity
4 - A little bit of history repeating itself: a brief review of theories on the Bell Beaker phenomenon
5 - Bronze Age settlements
6 - Burials
7 - Hoards and the deposition of metalwork
8 - Monuments and monumentality in Bronze Age Europe
9 - Stonehenge
10 - The contribution of skeletal isotope analysis to understanding the Bronze Age in Europe
11 - The myth of the chief: prestige goods, power and personhood in the European Bronze Age
12 - Identity, gender and dress in the European Bronze Age
13 - Warfare in the European Bronze Age
14 - Rethinking Bronze Age cosmology a North European perspective
15 - Bronze Age rock art in Northern Europe contexts and interpretations
16 - Rock carvings and Alpine statue-menhirs, from the Chalcolithic to the Middle Bronze Age: reflections on social process
17 - Bronze Age fields and land division
18 - Animals in Bronze Age Europe
19 - Plant cultivation in the Bronze Age
20 - Trade and exchange
21 - Seafaring and riverine navigation in the Bronze Age of Europe
22 - Land transport in the Bronze Age
23 - Copper and bronze: Bronze Age metalworking in context
24 - Bronze Age copper mining in Europe
25 - Gold and gold working of the Bronze Age
26 - Craft production: ceramics, textiles and bone
27 - Glass and faience
28 - Salt production in the Bronze Age
29 - Weighing, commodification and money
30 - Britain and Ireland in the Bronze Age: farmers in the landscape, or heroes on the high seasa
31 - The Bronze Age in the Low Countries
32 - The Bronze Age in France
33 - Bronze Age Iberia
34 - The Bronze Age in the Balearic Islands
35 - Peninsular Italy
36 - The Bronze Age in Sicily
37 - The Bronze Age in Sardinia
38 - Northern Italy
39 - Switzerland and the Central Alps
40 - Germany in the Bronze Age
41 - Scandinavia
42 - The Bronze Age in the Polish Lands
43 - The Czech Lands and Austria in the Bronze Age
44 - Slovakia and Hungary
45 - The Western Balkans in the Bronze Age
46 - Castellieri-Gradine of the Northern Adriatic
47 - Romania, Moldova and Bulgaria
48 - Ukraine and Russia in the Bronze Age