Late Bronze Age exchange and interaction in the northern Circum-Alpine region: not only across the Alps
Jennings, Benjamin R.
Jennings, Benjamin R.
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Studies of Late Bronze Age exchange and communication networks in the northern Circum-Alpine region, and central Europe as a whole, have typically focused on routes across the Alps and the circulation of high-value manufactured goods from the Italian peninsula to central Europe. Some artefacts certainly support such a movement from north to south, such as amber from the north or Pfahlbauperlen from the Po Plain. However, such objects are far outweighed by the evidence for regional exchange routes in central Europe north of the Alps. Some of these routes extended as far as northern Germany and southern Scandinavia. Whether such exchange routes were direct or down-the-line is open to debate, but it is possible that specific objects known from Switzerland represent the personal possessions of migrant individuals. Over all,
it is evident that Late Bronze Age lake-dwelling communities in Switzerland were significant bronze work manufacturing centres, exporting goods to varied communities and regions across central Europe, but with potentially limited exchange, transfer, and cross fertilization of styles and equipment between eastern and western Switzerland.
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Jennings B (2017) Late Bronze Age exchange and interaction in the northern CircumAlpine
region: not only across the Alps. In: Trefný M and Jennings B (Eds) (2017) Inter-regional contacts during the first millenium B.C. in Europe: Proceedings from the session organized during the 19th meeting of European Association of Archaeologists, held in Pilsen (5th- 9th September 2013). pp 24-45.
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