Discoveries: Bronze Age in Europe
- ISBN-10
- 0810928825
- ISBN-13
- 9780810928824
- Series
- Discoveries
- Category
- History / Europe / General
- Pages
- 160
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000-11-01
- Publisher
- Harry N. Abrams
- Authors
- Jean-Pierre Mohen, Christiane Eluère
Description
"Archaeologists date the Bronze Age in Europe from about the 5th to the 1st millennium BC. That span of time saw dramatic changes in civilizations from the Atlantic Ocean to the Black Sea, and from Scandinavia to the Aegean. The discovery of bronze, an alloy of copper and tin, was remarkable technological development, permitting the casting of much stronger tools and weapons. Across Europe, the peoples of the Bronze Age forged metal and traded its products, raised monolithic standing stones, practiced similar funerary and religious rites, and decorated their products with the same motifs and symbols. From Cretan palaces to Swiss lakeside dwellings, a common culture arose. As they explore the epic of the Bronze Age, the archaeologists Jean-Pierre Mohen and Christiane Eluere take us back beyond the borders of history."--BOOK JACKET.
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