Almost 250 Bronze Age objects from across Europe are illustrated in this stunning book. Highlighting the major artistic and cultural and technological achievements of the period, the world renowned contributors discuss the advent of bronze metallurgy and technological development in the working of other metals, the use of new and foreign raw materials, new ideologies in artistic expression and higher levels of skill and craftmanship displayed. A superb book which we highly recommend. Also available in French.

Gods and Heroes of the European Bronze Age

Arts & Photography

Eluère, Christiane

Jensen, Jörgen

Mohen, Jean-Pierre

Demakopoulous, Katie

Kemakopoulous, Katie

Jockenhovel, Albrecht

History & Criticism

Thames and Hudson

Crisp, clean pages; used like new.

The Bronze Age in Europe (New Horizons) /anglais

History

Ancient Civilizations

Thames&Hudson

Covering the best-known sites - Avebury, Stonehenge, Carnac and Knowth- and also less famous European examples, this well illustrated book considers the special significance -religious, cultural, architectural and scientific- of these enigmatic Neolithic stone structures, that over the centuries have never ceased to exert an atmosphere of magic and mystery.

Discoveries: Megaliths (Discoveries Series)

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Harry N. Abrams

Achilles, Odysseus, and the other heroes of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey fought with shields and swords of bronze. What was the world like in those mythic days, when the rival Greek cities of Troy and Mycenae battled for supremacy, and, far to the west, unknown engineers raised the megaliths of Stonehenge? What do we know of even earlier times, when the settled peoples of Europe first replaced their crude stone tools with those made of refined metal, and crafted ornaments of beaten copper and gold? 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.

Discoveries: The Bronze Age in Europe

Explores the most ancient forms of stone buildings, where vast stones were moved over sometimes huge distances to form great monuments

World of Megaliths

Americas

FACTS ON FILE+

Les sociétés de la préhistoire

Taborin, Yvette

HACHETTE EDUC

L'Europe de l'âge du bronze: Le temps des héros

Reference

Gallimard]

Vous avez tous 400,000 ans (French Edition)

Foreign Language Study & Reference

J.-C. Lattès

Les mythes et les légendes qui entourent les alignements de Carnac relèvent d'une intuition vérifiée par les hypothèses actuelles : leur fonction était bien sacrée. L'ouvrage invite donc à découvrir ces temples du Néolithique, leur signification, la société qui les a générés et les hommes qui les ont construits, il y a 6000 ans. Il évoque également les acquis des dernières recherches sur le site ainsi que le projet de restauration, de mise en valeur et de visite thématique qui renouvelle l'intérêt d'une promenade parmi les menhirs.

Les Alignements de Carnac, (version anglaise)

Travel

Europe

PATRIMOINE

Prehistoric Art: The Mythical Birthing of Humanity

Terrail

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