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Author Vandkilde, Helle.

Title Culture and change in central European prehistory : 6th to 1st millennium BC / Helle Vandkilde
Published Aarhus, Denmark : Aarhus University Press ; Oakville, CT : D. Brown Book Co., 2007

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Description 1 online resource (215 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Online Access with DDA: YBP Pick and Choose
Contents Culture and Change: Interpretive Framework -- First Food Producing Communities -- Social Breakthrough of Copper-based Metallurgy -- Social Integration of Secondary Products -- Elitist Conduct and Commemoration of Warriorhood -- Bronze Metallurgy and Social Hierarchy -- Golden Age of the Sword -- Towards Urbanisation and State Formation: Conclusions
Summary This book is a cohesive overview of Central European prehistory from the introduction of agriculture around 6000 BC to the state-forming processes that began to emerge during the first millennium BC. A complex mosaic of culture, society and processes is mirrored in the material world and in certain periods involves a large part of the Eurasian continent. Culture and change must be understood as both localised and macro-regional: the book is a cultural-historical tale - inspired by, for example, the attempts of French historians to integrate different levels of history. Emphasis is laid on the
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-198) and indexes
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Subject Neolithic period -- Europe, Central
Bronze age -- Europe, Central
HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
Antiquities
Bronze age
Civilization
Neolithic period
Vor- und Frühgeschichte
Einführung
Archeologie.
Cultuurverandering.
SUBJECT Europe, Central -- Civilization. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86003840
Europe, Central -- Antiquities
Subject Central Europe
Europa
Midden-Europa.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9788779349766
8779349765
Other Titles Culture and change