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

• 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

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

• 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

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

• 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