Nils Anfinset

This book aims to understand the process of the Bronze Age societies of Northern Europe, which are often regarded as the periphery and a bleak contrast to the Central European Bronze Age. The Bronze Age is the first "globalised" period with new types of societies and new modes of exchange and trade. In this context, there is considerable local variation...

The fifth and fourth millennia BCE saw major cultural changes in the southern Levant and Northeast Africa: the spread of agriculture; developments in animal husbandry; increased contact between cultures; and the use of alloy bronze. Metal, Nomads and Culture Contact integrates archaeological data from across the Chalcolithic period to contextualise these changes. The book examines the introduction of metal to...