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Bronze Age Travellers
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This paper reconstructs the geographical and social horizons of some typical Bronze Age travellers and wanderers, the institutions that supported them, and distances covered. From this, we may deduce that they travelled along well-trodden paths in familiar landscapes and with familiar destinations of social peers along the route. The same was true of maritime journeys, where destinations were marked by coastal cairns along the route and safe natural harbours for resting. In their vicinity, we often find rock art panels whose motifs point to ceremonies when meeting your peers and celebrating guest-friendship. These peers all belonged to the chiefly elites of free farmers, whether warriors, traders, craft specialists, learned persons, whether male or female, children, teenagers, or grown-ups.
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“Similarly, this applies to the northern part of the study area, which had active connections with northwestern and central Europe (Kristiansen 2022), forming a trans-Mediterranean and European network stretching from the British Isles and Scandinavia to the Levant, the Near East, and West Africa.”
From Modelling land and water based movement corridors in the western Mediterranean: a least cost path analysis from chalcolithic and early bronze age ivory records (2024) · cites this paper as Kristiansen 2022
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Bilotti, G., Kempf, M., & Morillo Leon, J. M. (2024) · Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences · doi:10.1007/s12520-024-02029-x · Cited by 18
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- Kristiansen, K.
- Venue
- Rethinking Migrations in Late Prehistoric Eurasia
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- British Academy
- Published
- 2022-12-22
- Pages
- 89-109
- Cited by
- 5
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- 0
- Language
- en
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