Wood charcoal from Santorini (Thera): new evidence for climate, vegetation...

Antiquity;  September 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Bronze Age climate in the Aegean Palaeoclimatic reconstructions for the Bronze Age Aegean based on pollen analytical investigations...olive trees) occurring only towards the end of the Bronze Age and the beginning of the historical periods (c...

Bronze Age finds stun digs director

Belfast Telegraph;  August 23, 2003 ;     392 words ...THE amount of material recovered at a Bronze Age archaeological dig in Mid-Ulster was...could turn out to show evidence of a Bronze Age (2000-1500BC) house. The more southerly...period we are talking about here is the Bronze Age, between 2000BC and 1500BC. "Throughout...

WHEN EXPEDIENCY BROACHES RITUAL INTENTION: THE FLOW OF METAL BETWEEN...

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute;  June 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ...The current interpretation of Bronze Age metalwork deposits relies on an opposition...metal through the exchange systems of Bronze Age Europe, it is argued that flexibility...recovery. For much of the twentieth century Bronze Age metalwork was exploited by archaeologists...

The Bronze Age of La Mancha. (La Mancha, Spain)

Antiquity;  March 1, 1993 ;     700+ words ......of La Mancha has revealed a density of Bronze Age settlement that had previously been completely...could be attributed to a mobile 'folk'. Bronze Age components on the Meseta were considered...massive stone constructions dating to the Bronze Age was noted by local antiquaries (e.g...

Bronze Age Corpse Found In Glacier

The Washington Post;  September 27, 1991 ;     700+ words ......understanding of human existence in the Bronze Age. A German couple stumbled upon the corpse...first discovery of an intact corpse of a Bronze Age man, together with the utensils of daily...incomparable," Stuart Needham, curator of Bronze Age relics at the British Museum in London...

Zebu: harbingers of doom in Bronze Age western Asia?(desertification)

Antiquity;  June 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Collapse and climate in the Bronze Age A major area of study in recent years...in the middle and at the close of the Bronze Age, that is at approximately 3000, 2200...accepted, evidence for the collapse of Bronze Age societies. The first of these punctuations...

I found a field of goldMan with the metal detector unearths greatest haul...

The Daily Mail (London, England);  February 24, 2006 ;     700+ words ......Instead, he found the largest number of Bronze Age gold pieces ever found in the UK. There...Dr Stuart Needham, Curator of European Bronze Age Collections at the British Museum, carried...large number of gold objects from the Bronze Age being discovered in a single location...

Experts astounded by scale of Bronze Age ring fort.

Irish Independent (Dublin, Republic of Ireland);  January 2, 2008 ;     459 words ...Experts astounded by scale of Bronze Age ring fort A LONG-neglected ring fort is now promising to help rewrite Bronze Age history in Ireland. The ring or hill...monument and, potentially, a major Bronze Age tourist centre of the future. The...

Bronze Age

The Concise Oxford Companion to Classical Literature;      83 words ...Bronze Age, in mainland Greece, the period from c...The various periods into which the Greek Bronze Age is subdivided for more precise reference...Similar subdivisions of the Cretan Bronze Age are known as Minoan I, II, etc. In Italy...

A 4,000-year-old find opens up Bronze Age

The Boston Globe;  September 27, 1991 ;     700+ words ......stunning array" of details about life in Bronze Age Europe from the body of a 4,000 year...an Austrian glacier, an expert on the Bronze Age said yesterday. However, scientists warned...and artifacts have been found from the Bronze Age, the period from about 2,000 BC to 700...

David Thomas Yates. Land, Power and Prestige: Bronze Age Field Systems in...

Antiquity;  December 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......THOMAS YATES. Land, Power and Prestige: Bronze Age Field Systems in Southern England. xii...into the dynamic exchange systems of Bronze Age Europe and the Aegean. Thus the areas...the greatest concentrations of later Bronze Age metalwork in Europe, much of it imported...

BRONZE AGE ARTIFACT FOUND NEAR HOSPITAL.(News/National/International)

Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  May 10, 1998 ;     218 words ......hospital has helped uncover a unique Bronze Age discovery. The 3,000-year-old bronze...found again in my lifetime.'' Only 40 Bronze Age bronze shields have been found in Europe...original context. The British Museum has six Bronze Age shields, three similar to this, but none...

Bronze Age skeletons found near Stonehenge

International Herald Tribune;  May 23, 2003 ;     467 words ......find that dates to the beginning of the Bronze Age. The bones, dug up by Wessex Archaeology...the remains of the Amesbury Archer, a Bronze Age man who was believed to have been a leader...which flourished in the Alps during the Bronze Age, as well as flint tools, one flint ...

Long-term change in prehistoric Cyprus.(Cyprus Before, History: From the...

Antiquity;  September 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......the earliest settlers to the end of the Bronze Age. xvii+279 pages, 70 figures, 29 b&...KESWANI. Mortuary Ritual and Society in Bronze Age Cyprus (Monographs in Mediterranean Archaeology...epi-Palaeolithic through to the end of the Late Bronze Age, in c. 1050 BC. The author ...

Dan II. A Chronicle of the Excavations and the Late Bronze Age "Mycenaean"...

Near Eastern Archaeology;  September 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......Chronicle of the Excavations and the Late Bronze Age "Mycenaean" Tomb By Avraham Biran and...lavishly-illustrated publication of Late Bronze Age Tomb 387, preceded by a brief review...functions), the City Walls of the Middle Bronze Age and Iron Age II eras; Area B1-evidence...