Bronze Age trade and exchange through the Alps: inflluencing cultural variability?
dc.contributor.author | Jennings, Benjamin R. | * |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-10-07T12:21:15Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-10-07T12:21:15Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Jennings BR (2015) Bronze Age trade and exchange through the Alps: inflluencing cultural variability?. In: Menotti, Francesco (Ed.) The End of The Lake-Dwellings in the Circum-Alpine Region. Oxford: Oxbow Books: 211-235. | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10454/9548 | |
dc.description | Yes | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | After more than 3500 years of occupation in the Neolithic and Bronze Age, the many lake-dwellings’ around the Circum-Alpine region ‘suddenly’ came to an end. Throughout that period alternating phases of occupation and abandonment illustrate how resilient lacustrine populations were against change: cultural/environmental factors might have forced them to relocate temporarily, but they always returned to the lakes. So why were the lake-dwellings finally abandoned and what exactly happened towards the end of the Late Bronze Age that made the lake-dwellers change their way of life so drastically? The new research presented here draws upon the results of a four-year-long project dedicated to shedding light on this intriguing conundrum. Placing a particular emphasis upon the Bronze Age, a multidisciplinary team of researchers has studied the lake-dwelling phenomenon inside out, leaving no stones unturned, enabling identification of all possible interactive socio-economic and environmental factors that can be subsequently tested against each other to prove (or disprove) their validity. By re-fitting the various pieces of the jigsaw a plausible, but also rather unexpected, picture emerges. | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | Swiss National Science Foundation | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.relation.isreferencedby | http://www.oxbowbooks.com/oxbow/the-end-of-the-lake-dwellings-in-the-circum-alpine-region.html | en_US |
dc.rights | (c) 2015 Oxbow Books. Full-text reproduced with permission from the publisher. | en |
dc.subject | Bronze Age; Alpine region; Cultural change; Object biographies; Lake-dwellings | en_US |
dc.title | Bronze Age trade and exchange through the Alps: inflluencing cultural variability? | en_US |
dc.status.refereed | Yes | en_US |
dc.type | Book chapter | en_US |
dc.type.version | Accepted manuscript | en_US |
refterms.dateFOA | 2018-07-25T14:36:55Z |