Culture and change in Central Europe Prehistory
6th to 1st millennium BC
- ISBN: 9788779342453
- Editorial: Aarhus University Press
- Fecha de la edición: 2007
- Lugar de la edición: Aarhus. Dinamarca
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 25 cm
- Nº Pág.: 240
- Idiomas: Inglés
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 eventful boom periods where innovations and cross-cultural interaction intensified in such a way that history's mainly reproductive pattern was broken. Important turning points are attached, among other things, to the first production of food, copper - and bronze metallurgy, and the sword as a weapon and symbol. These technical innovations were part of a complicated interaction with social and cultural processes, which in many cases are connected in a pattern that can be followed in time and space.