Research Catalog

Title

Gods and heroes of the European Bronze Age / Katie Demakopoulou ... [et al.].

Publication

London ; New York : Thames & Hudson, 1999.

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Additional Authors

• Dēmakopoulou, Kaitē.
• Nationalmuseet (Denmark)
• Council of Europe.
• Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.
• Galeries nationales du Grand Palais (France)
• Ethnikon Archaiologikon Mouseion (Greece)
• Council of Europe. Art Exhibition (25th : 1999-2000 : Denmark). Gods and Heroes of the Bronze Age. Europe at the Time of Ulysses.

Description

xi, 303 p. : ill. (some col.), maps; 29 cm.

Summary

"The Bronze Age is one of the most important periods in the prehistory of Europe. Beginning around the mid-3rd millennium BC, its legacy can be found in spectacular monuments and artifacts across the continent, from Wessex in Britain to Knossos and Mycenae in Greece, and Troy in Asia Minor, extending to Maikop in the Caucasus. It was an age that saw the spread of a new technology - metallurgy - which was to have profound effects on the development of civilization in Europe. The use of bronze for tools and weapons was accompanied by other great transformations, such as specialized craftsmanship, a rise in exchange and trade, and increasing social stratification and political organization. Another innovation was the first appearance of writing in Europe - the Bronze Age thus also witnessed the birth of European history." "Gods and Heroes of the European Bronze Age is published to accompany a major exhibition that includes more than 250 of the finest objects from sites in twenty-three European countries."--Jacket.

Subject

• Bronze age > Europe > Exhibitions
• Prehistoric peoples > Europe > Exhibitions
• Religion, Prehistoric > Europe > Exhibitions
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Europe > Exhibitions
• Art, Prehistoric > Europe > Exhibitions
• Europe > Antiquities > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs
• Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• Catalog of an exhibition held at the National Museum of Denmark and three other museums between 1998 and 2000.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 280-294).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Gods and heroes of the Bronze Age / Katie Demakopoulou ... [et al.] -- Written sources and archaeology / Katie Demakopoulou ... [et al.] -- Adventurers, artisans and travellers / Jean-Pierre Mohen -- Ötzi / Walter Leitner -- Archaeometry and research methods / Jean-Pierre Mohen -- Interaction between the Carpathian region and the eastern Mediterranean during the mid-2nd millennium BC / Václav Furmánek -- Two skilled and prestigious inventions / Jean-Pierre Mohen -- Shipwrecks in the eastern Mediterranean / Katie Demakopoulou -- North-South exchanges of raw materials / Anthony F. Harding -- Hoards and Atlantic shipwrecks / Stuart Needham -- The journey as a rite of initiation / María Luisa Ruiz-Gálvez Priego -- Crises in western European metal supply during the Late Bronze Age / Lothar Sperber.
• The image of Bronze Age man / Albrecht Jockenhövel -- Bronze Age settlements and territories on the Iberian Peninsula / Susana Oliveira Jorge -- Tell settlement in the Danube Region / Tibor Kovács -- Aegean palaces / Katie Demakopoulou -- Settlements in wetland areas / Pierre Pétrequin -- Bronze Age fortresses in Europe / Albrecht Jockenhövel -- Bronze Age man / Michael Schultz -- Clothing and jewellery / Gisela Schumacher-Matthäus -- Horses in the Bronze Age / Ute Luise Dietz -- The boar's tusk and bronze setting from Karlsruhe-Neureut / Rolf-Heiner Behrends -- The heroes / Jørgen Jensen -- Funeral architecture and burial customs in the Aegean / Katie Demakopoulou -- The princes of the Atlantic / Jacques Briard.
• The princely burials of the Úněctice culture / Helle Vandkilde -- The chieftain's grave of Hagenau and related warrior graves / Andreas Boos -- Oak coffin-graves of the northern European Bronze Age / Jørgen Jensen -- Tree-ring dating of Bronze Age oak coffins from Denmark / Kjeld Christensen -- Bronze Age stelai and menhirs of the Iberian Peninsula / Susana Oliveira Jorge -- The Nuragic bronze statuettes / Fulvia Lo Schiavo -- Wagon-graves of the Late Bronze Age / Christopher Pare -- Princely graves of the Late Bronze Age in the North / Henrik Thrane -- The world of the gods in the Bronze Age / Christiane Eluère -- Cabeço da Mina (Vila Flor, Portugal) / Susana Oliveira Jorge -- The rock sanctuaries of Europe / Emmanuel Anati -- Chalcolithic stele-statues of the Alpine region / Raffaele C. de Marinis.
• The rock art of the North / Torsten Capelle -- From the Megaron to Stonehenge / Chris Csarre -- The Late Bronze Age idols of the Danube / Henrietta Todorova -- Cycladic marble idols / Marina Marthari -- Ivory sculpture of the Aegean / Jean Claude Poursat -- The golden treasures of the European Bronze Age / Christiane Eluère -- The Berlin gold hat / Wilfied Menghin -- The golden cone of Ezelsdorf-Buch / Tobias Springer -- The birth of Europe / Katie Demakopoulou -- Writing the technique / Louis Godart -- Seals and sealings in the Bronze Age Aegean / Alexandra Alexandri -- The times of Ulysses / Kurt A. Raaflaub -- Homer, Troy and the Trojan War / Spyros Iakovidis.

ISBN

0500019150

LCCN

^^^98074860^

OCLC

40609819

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library