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Connected Histories: the Dynamics of Bronze Age Interaction and Trade 1500–1100 bc

Kristiansen, Kristian, Suchowska-Ducke, Paulina·2015·Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society
DOI 10.1017/ppr.2015.17
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The Bronze Age was the first epoch in which societies became irreversibly linked in their co-dependence on ores and metallurgical skills that were unevenly distributed in geographical space. Access to these critical resources was secured not only via long-distance physical trade routes, making use of landscape features such as river networks, as well as built roads, but also by creating immaterial social networks, consisting of interpersonal relations and diplomatic alliances, established and maintained through the exchange of extraordinary objects (gifts). In this article, we reason about Bronze Age communication networks and apply the results of use-wear analysis to create robust indicators of the rise and fall of political and commercial networks. In conclusion, we discuss some of the historical forces behind the phenomena and processes observable in the archaeological record of the Bronze Age in Europe and beyond.

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  • The archaeological evidence from the Late Bronze Age suggests that far-reaching networks had been established across temperate Europe and the Mediterranean, and that the societies of the time were well-connected and mobile.

    “The archaeological evidence from this period suggests that far-reaching networks had been established across temperate Europe and the Mediterranean, and that the societies of the time were well-connected and mobile (Bouzek, 1985;Gale, 1991;Cline, 2009;Kristiansen and Suchowska-Ducke, 2015;Kiriatzi and Knappett, 2016).”

    From Exploratory network reconstruction with sparse archaeological data and XTENT (2022) · cites this paper as Kristiansen and Suchowska-Ducke, 2015

  • Regarding Naue II as an indicator of far-reaching connectivity, there is indirect evidence for strong interdependencies across Europe.

    “Regarding Naue II as an indicator of far-reaching connectivity, there is indirect evidence for strong interdependencies across Europe (Kristiansen and Suchowska-Ducke, 2015).”

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Kristiansen, K., & Suchowska-Ducke, P.
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Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society
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Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Published
2015-11-26
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81
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361-392
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  • 0079-497X
  • 2050-2729
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10.1017/ppr.2015.17
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