Bronze Age Europe (Archaeology)

Un habitat de l’âge du Bronze à Castidetta-Pozzone (Sartène)

by Kewin Peche-Quilichini

Co-authored with J. Cesari & P. Nebbia
Stantari, 29, 2012, pp. 55-56

Tim Kerig/Jutta Lechterbeck (2004) Laminated sediments, human impact, and a multivariate approach: a case study in linking palynology and archaeology (Steisslingen, Southwest Germany). Quaternary International 113 (2004) 19–39.

by tim kerig

Quaternary International 113 (2004) 19–39

Situated in the Alpine Foreland, Lake Steisslingen provides sediments covering the last 16,000 sidereal years. The... more Situated in the Alpine Foreland, Lake Steisslingen provides sediments covering the last 16,000 sidereal years. The exceptional
value as an environmental archive is due to large laminated sections, found in several long cores. Counting of organic varves allowed
the establishment of a detailed varve-based age model. A high-resolution pollen analysis for the period 5457 BC to 813 AD was
carried out and compared with an archaeological mapping of a 5km radius around Lake Steisslingen. The combined interpretation
of the palynological and archaeological evidence facilitates a reconstruction of the settlement history and the evolution of the
landscape over the last eight millenia. Several important aspects of vegetational and settlement history are illuminated: The
mathematical ordination method of correspondence analysis is used to extract the main dimension of explanation from the pollen
data. A single curve is generated and thought to reflect human impact. The validity of this assumed proxy is tested against the
vegetational and archaeological evidence of the micro-scale area since Neolithic times. From the Steisslingen example, we conclude
that human impact is the most important and, in a mathematical sense, continuous factor in vegetational development of those
landscapes, which are settled since prehistoric times.

Sondeo arqueológico en la boca de la Galería 53. Cueva de Arrikrutz (Oñati, Gipuzkoa). Primeros resultados y dataciones radiocarbónicas

by Alvaro Arrizabalaga

Arrizabalaga, A.; Iriarte, M.J. (2002) “Sondeo arqueológico en la boca de la Galería 53. Cueva de Arrikrutz (Oñati, Gipuzkoa). Primeros resultados y dataciones radiocarbónicas”, Munibe (Antropologia-Arkeologia) 54, 117-124, Donostia.

For Gods or Men? A Reappraisal of the Function of European Bronze Age Shields

by Barry Molloy

in Antiquity

Martial Minoans: War as social process, practice and event in Bronze Age Crete

by Barry Molloy

in Annual of the British School at Athens. In press 2012.

Breve aproximación al conocimiento del yacimiento arqueológico de Closos de Can Gaià

by David Javaloyas Molina

Draft only.
Published in: Prehistoria de las Islas Baleares. Registro arqueológico y Evolución social Antes de la Edad del Hierro.

Prehistory of the Balearic Islands Archaeological Record and Social Evolution before the Iron Age
Coordinador y Editor Víctor M. Guerrero Ayuso
BAR International Series 1690. 2007

Breve estudio de los principales aspectos arqueológicos del yacimiento arqueológico de la Edad del Bronce "Els... more Breve estudio de los principales aspectos arqueológicos del yacimiento arqueológico de la Edad del Bronce "Els Closos de Can Gaià"

Más información en: www.closos.org

Más que una casa. Los navetiformes de la Edad del Bronce Balear

by David Javaloyas Molina

Draft only.
Published in: En Belarte, C. (Ed.) “El espacio doméstico y la organización de la sociedad en la protohistoria del Mediterráneo occidental (Ier milenio aC). ArqueoMediterrània vol. 11, Tarragona: ICAC. ISBN: 978-84-936769-1-9

Resumen

Tradicionalmente los navetiformes, el edificio más común en los asentamientos de la Edad del Bronce... more Resumen

Tradicionalmente los navetiformes, el edificio más común en los asentamientos de la Edad del Bronce en Mallorca y Menorca, se han interpretado como casas. Sin embargo, estas visiones han fallado a la hora de considerar las principales características de estas construcciones. Entre éstas encontramos una prolongada ocupación a lo largo de varios siglos, una cambiante división espacial interna, diferentes visibilidades y accesos del exterior al interior así como diferentes actividades realizadas en el interior.
Se defiende que estos edificios no deben entenderse como una estructura física estática en la que la gente vivía sino que eran un elemento esencial en la configuración de la vida social de esas comunidades. Se propone que los navetiformes tuvieron un papel activo y cambiante en la constitución de los grupos domésticos y las relaciones entre los grupos que conformaban la comunidad. En este artículo se replantean los conceptos de casa, espacio público y espacio doméstico en relación con los navetiformes partiendo de la premisa de que son problemáticos y tienen diferentes significados en diferentes lugares y  momentos.

Abstract

Traditionally navetiformes, the most common construction in the settlements of Mallorca and Minorca during the Bronze Age, have been interpreted as regular houses. However, these views have failed to consider properly the main characteristics of these constructions. These include their often extending long-term occupation, over several centuries, a dynamic internal spatial division, inside/outside visibility and access as well as a range of activities carried out indoors. We argue that these buildings should not be seen as a static physical structure where the
people lived but that they were an essential element in shaping the social life of those communities. We propose that the navetiformes had an active and changing role in the constitution of domestic groups and in the relationships between the groups making up the community.
In this paper we want to rethink the concepts of house, domestic and public space in relation
to these navetiformes, because are problematic and have multiple meanings in any culture and time.

Une connaissance de l’âge du bronze transfigurée par l’archéologie préventive

by cyril marcigny

Brun P. et Marcigny C., 2012 – Une connaissance de l’âge du bronze transfigurée par l’archéologie préventive, in. Nouveaux champs de la recherche archéologique, Archéopages, hors série 10 ans, p. 132-139

Una ojeada a la hipótesis de la hipermovilidad de los ‘pastores de excisión y boquique’ a la luz de los documentos de ‘El Pelambre’.

by Carlos Fernández-Rodríguez

F.J. Abarquero, G. Delibes, C. Fernández, MªL. González & J.A. López (2009). “Una ojeada a la hipótesis de la hipermovilidad de los ‘pastores de excisión y boquique’ a la luz de los documentos de ‘El Pelambre’”. En MªL. González (ed.). “El Pelambre” Villaornate, León. El Horizonte Cogotas I de la Edad del Bronce y el período Tardoantiguo en el valle medio del Esla. Grupo TRAGSA. pp. 291-301.

Bronzezeitliche Funde aus der Ljubljanica : Opfer, Überreste von Bestattungen oder zufällige Verluste?. Archäol. Korrespondenzbl., 2004, 34, hf. 1, p. 37-50.

by Andrej Gaspari

Chapple, R. M. 2011 'Review: Past Times, Changing Fortunes: Proceedings of a Public Seminar on Archaeological Discoveries on National Road Schemes, August 2010' Blogspot post

by Robert M Chapple

Depósitos con fauna en yacimientos del Bronce Medio en la Cuenca del Tajo

by Corina Liesau von Lettow-Vorbeck

C. Liesau y C. Blasco (2006). En: N. Ferreira Bicho (Ed.): IV Congresso de Arqueología Peninsular. Faro. Universidad do Algarve: 81-92.

This paper presents the preliminary results of a pit located in a pit-settlement in the valley of the river Jarama... more This paper presents the preliminary results of a pit located in a pit-settlement in the valley of the river Jarama (San Fernando de Henares, Madrid). Teh contents of the pit revealed an important deposit of the five known domestic animals with special emphasis on the cow related to the bone findings and number of individuals. The characteristics of the archaeological context and the skeletal portions seem to indicate a ritual act of the deposit. The type of the pottery associated to the faunal remains and the dating of one pottery fragment TL(3451 BP) from this pit assign it to the local Middle Bronze Age called Protocogotas Horizon

Una punta de lanza de Cardona (Bages, Barcelona) Thomas X. Schuhmacher i Alfons Fíguls i Alonso

by Alfons Fíguls i Alonso

In 2000, a fairly well-conserved point of spear was found by accident in a vineyard of La Roqueta (Cardona). It is a... more In 2000, a fairly well-conserved point of spear was found by accident in a vineyard of La Roqueta (Cardona). It is a fragment of a point of a spear with a hollow circular tube. This communication does not only deal with the study of this fragment but also with others found in the Iberian Peninsula and their chronology.

Digitizing, inventorying, reviewing and analyzing the "Bronze Age barrows database" of East and West Flanders (Belgium)

by Jeroen De Reu

De Reu J., Bats M., Bourgeois J., Antrop M., Court-Picon M., De Maeyer P., De Smedt P., Finke P., Van Meirvenne M., Verniers J., Werbrouck I., Zwertvaegher A., Crombé P., 2010.
Lunula, Archaeologia protohistorica, 18: 43-47.

Bronze and Iron Age landscapes in Sandy Flanders (NW-Belgium): a geoarchaeological approach

by Jeroen De Reu

De Reu J., Bats M., De Smedt P., Bourgeois J., Antrop M., Court-Picon M., De Maeyer P., Finke P., Van Meirvenne M., Verniers J., Werbrouck I., Zwertvaegher A., Crombé P., 2010.
Lunula, Archaeologia protohistorica, 18: 17-22.

Een GIS benadering van de bronstijdgrafheuvel in Zandig-Vlaanderen: enkele voorlopige resultaten (België)

by Jeroen De Reu

De Reu J., Bats M., Crombé P., Antrop M., Court-Picon M., De Maeyer P., De Smedt P., Finke P., Van Meirvenne M., Verniers J., Werbrouck I., Zwertvaegher A., Bourgeois J., 2011
Lunula, Archaeologia protohistorica, 19: 3-8

Back to the Beginning for the Early and Middle Bronze Age on Crete.

by Peter Tomkins

Co-authored with I. Schoep. To be published in I. Schoep, P. Tomkins and J. Driessen. in press. Back to the Beginning. Reassessing Social and Political Complexity on Crete during the Early and Middle Bronze Age. Oxford: Oxbow.

The Multiple Temporalities of a Burial Monument: The Tumulus at Hrib

by Adrienne Frie

Published in Field Notes: A Journal of Collegiate Anthropology 4(1): 129-143 (May 2012)
Copyright ©2012 by Field Notes: A Journal of Collegiate Anthropology

Tumuli are often analyzed as a coherent whole in the hope of discerning patterns that indicate social processes... more Tumuli are often analyzed as a coherent whole in the hope of discerning patterns that indicate social processes inhered in the monument. However, in the search for patterning too often the mound is analytically flattened, and examined as if it was created all at once with a coherent plan. In the following, I will focus on the tumulus at Hrib, an Iron Age tumulus in the Bela krajina region of Slovenia, and undertake a multiscalar analysis that considers temporal distinctions, interment ritual, grave goods, and gender to draw more nuanced conclusions about the social activities that led to the formation of this tumulus. The first level of analysis is the scale of individual ritual, where choices about how to appropriately dispose of and adorn the body are negotiated. Second is the social context of death and burial, which takes place at an intra-generational scale – that is, how death may resonate with the living community, and how the social relations of the living are affected by death. The final scale is the consideration of the tumulus as a whole at a multi-generational scale, and how cemeteries are places with continuous social impact, even when distinct memories of those interred have faded. This shift in the scale of analysis of the tumulus at Hrib illuminates that social distinctions were marked according to an external/internal binary, where material culture and social practices, including grave goods and funerary ritual, expressed social differences internally, while the external appearance of the mound projected unity.

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by Nenad M. Djurdjević

Property Relations in the Bronze Age of South-western Europe: an Archaeological Analysis of Infant Burials from El Argar (Almeria, Sapin)

by Roberto Risch

LULL, V., MICÓ, R., RIHUETE, C. y RISCH, R. (2005), "Property Relations in the Bronze Age of South-western Europe: an Archaeological Analysis of Infant Burials from El Argar (Almeria, Sapin)", Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , 71, pp. 247-268.