Both terms require a definition. For the purposes of this chapter thresholds are found where
different elements were brought into contact with one another and where it was possible for …

The Bronze Age is frequently framed in social evolutionary terms. Viewed as the period
which saw the emergence of social differentiation, the development of long-distance trade …

Why do people destroy objects and materials that are important to them? This book aims to
make sense of this fascinating, yet puzzling social practice by focusing on a period in history …

Bronze Age Worlds brings a new way of thinking about kinship to the task of explaining the
formation of social life in Bronze Age Britain and Ireland. Britain and Ireland's diverse …

During the mid-third millennium BC, people across Europe started using an international
suite of novel material culture including early metalwork and distinctive ceramics known as …

Bronze Age metalwork deposition fascinates me. It is a collective practice that spanned
Europe whereby people gathered large quantities of material, often in good condition, and …

The research project Crisis or continuity: Hoarding in Iron Age and Roman Britain with
special reference to the third century AD (hereafter IARCH) arose from debate surrounding …

Warfare is increasingly considered to have been a major field of social activity in prehistoric
societies, in terms of the infrastructures supporting its conduct, the effects of its occurrence …

I do not think I can do this foreword and thank-you list in cool and emotionless academic
words. This is from the heart, as one person may write a body of research, but it'sa whole …

This paper explores the character of weaponry from the western and central Balkan
Peninsula, a region that constitutes a crossroad between Aegean and Urnfield Bronze Age …