Bronze is the defining metal of the European Bronze Age and has been at the center of
archaeological and science-based research for well over a century. Archaeometallurgical …

Mid and late-Holocene climate shifts are considered to have profoundly shaped
demographic developments and adaptive responses of communities globally. Yet their …

As exemplified by Viking and Bronze Age societies in northern Europe, we model the
political dynamics of raiding, trading, and slaving as a maritime mode of production. It …

Abstract European Bronze Age swords had high functional and symbolic value, and
therefore they are an interesting case for approaching questions of provenance and trade in …

This article presents the results of a comprehensive provenance study based on a combined
geochemical-isotopic and archaeological approach, comprising 98 analyses of 97 copper …

The rich and long-lasting Nordic Bronze Age was dependent throughout on incoming flows
of copper and tin. The crucial turning point for the development of the NBA can be …

Based on 550 metal analyses, this study sheds decisive light on how the Nordic Bronze Age
was founded on metal imports from shifting ore sources associated with altered trade routes …

Why do people destroy objects and materials that are important to them? This book aims to
make sense of this fascinating, yet puzzling social practice by focusing on a period in history …

Since the mid-1970s a Bronze Age assemblage of metal objects has been recovered from
the seabed off the south Devon coast at Salcombe, southwest England. The assemblage …

This paper aims at reconstructing the population dynamics during the Neolithic and Bronze
Age, c. 4500–500 cal. BC, in north-western Central Europe. The approach is based on the …