Bronze Age Cultures in France
Cambridge University Press, 2/12/2015
EAN 9781107475427, ISBN10: 1107475422
Paperback, 444 pages, 24.4 x 17 x 2.5 cm
Language: English
Originally published in 1957, this book presents a comprehensive study of Bronze Age cultures in France, in their later phases from the thirteenth to the seventh century BC, placing emphasis on the role of 'Tumulus and Urnfield culture'. Avoiding an overly broad approach, the text focuses in the main on eastern and north-eastern France 'as it was there that the new cultures first rooted, and thence new ideas were diffused'. Numerous illustrative figures are included and notes are incorporated throughout. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the Bronze Age, archaeology and the prehistory of the French region.
List of plates
List of text-figures
Preface
Introduction. The background
early and middle Bronze Age
1. France in the middle Bronze Age
periods III and IV
2. The end of the middle Bronze Age
the transition, period V
3. The first urnfields
late Bronze I
4. Late Bronze II
5. Late Bronze III
6. Urnfield influence in the West
6. The late Bronze Age in the south of France
8. The late Bronze Age chronology of the south
9. Summary and retrospect
Epilogue
Lists
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Appendix D
Bibliography
Index.