Foreword by the Secretary General of the Council of Europe ..... IX
Directors' Preface ............................................. XI
Introduction
Gods and Heroes of the Bronze Age. Europe at the Time of
Ulysses
Katie Demakopoulou, Christiane Eluère, Jørgen Jensen,
Albrecht Jockenhövel, Jean-Pierre Mohen ...................... 5
Written Sources and Archaelogy: Homer, Linear B Script and
Archaeology
Katie Demakopoulou, Christiane Eluère, Jørgen Jensen,
Albrecht Jockenhövel, Jean-Pierre Mohen ..................... 11
CHAPTER 1 Adventurers, Artisans and Travellers
Editor: Jean-Pierre Mohen
Adventurers, Artisans and Travellers
Jean-Pierre Mohen ........................................... 20
Ötzi - The Man in the Ice
Walter Leitner .............................................. 24
Archaeometry and Research Methods
Jean-Pierre Mohen ........................................... 27
Interaction between the Carpathian Region and the Eastern
Mediterranean during the mid-2nd Millennium BC
Václav Furmánek ............................................. 29
Two Skilled and Prestigious Inventions: Metallurgy and the
Goldsmith's Art
Jean-Pierre Mohen ........................................... 31
Shipwrecks in the Eastern Mediterranean
Katie Demakopoulou .......................................... 35
North-South Exchanges of Raw Materials
Anthony F. Harding .......................................... 38
Hoards and Atlantic Shipwrecks
Stuart Needham .............................................. 43
The Journey as a Rite of Initation
María Luisa Ruiz-Gálvez Priego .............................. 46
Crises in Western European Metal Supply During the Late
Bronze Age: From Bronze to Iron
Lothar Sperber .............................................. 48
CHAPTER 2 The Heroes and their Palaces
Editor: Albrecht Jockenhövel
The Image of Bronze Age Man
Albrecht Jockenhövel ........................................ 54
Bronze Age Settlements and Territories on the Iberian
Peninsula: New Considerations
Susana Oliveira Jorge ....................................... 60
Tell Settlement in the Danube Region
Tibor Kovács ................................................ 65
Aegean Palaces
Katie Demakopoulou .......................................... 66
Settlements in Wetland Areas
Pierre Pétrequin ............................................ 70
Bronze Age Fortresses in Europe: Territorial Security
Albrecht Jockenhövel ........................................ 71
Bronze Age Man
Michael Schultz ............................................. 73
Clothing and Jewellery
Gisela Schumacher-Matthäus .................................. 79
Horses in the Bronze Age
Ute Luise Dietz ............................................. 83
The Boars Tusk and Bronze Setting from Karlsruhe-Neureut
Rolf-Heiner Behrends ........................................ 85
CHAPTER 3 The Heroes: Life and Death
Editor: Jørgen Jensen
The Heroes: Life and Death
Jørgen Jensen ............................................... 88
Funeral Architecture and Burial Customs in the Aegean
Katie Demakopoulou .......................................... 98
The Princes of the Atlantic
Jacques Briard ............................................. 102
The Princely Burials of the Únětice Culture
Helle Vandkilde ............................................ 103
The Chieftain's Grave of Hagenau and Belated Warrior Graves
Andreas Boos ............................................... 106
Oak Coffin-Graves of the Northern European Bronze Age
Jørgen Jensen .............................................. 108
Tree-ring Dating of Bronze Age Oak Coffins from Denmark
Kjeld Christensen .......................................... 110
Bronze Age Stelai and Menhirs of the Iberian Peninsula:
Discourses of Power
Susana Oliveira Jorge ...................................... 114
The Nuragic Bronze Statuettes
Fulvia Lo Schiavo .......................................... 123
Wagon-Graves of the Late Bronze Age
Christopher Pare ........................................... 125
Princely Graves of the Late Bronze Age in the North
Henrik Thrane .............................................. 127
CHAPTER 4 The World of the Gods in the Bronze Age
Editor: Christiane Eluère
The World of the Gods in the Bronze Age
Christiane Eluère ......................................... 132
Cabeço da Mina (Vila Flor, Portugal): A Late Prehistoric
Sanctuary with "Stelai" of the Iberian Peninsula
Susana Oliveira Jorge ...................................... 137
The Rock Sanctuaries of Europe
Emmanuel Anati ............................................. 142
Chalcolithic Stele-Statues of the Alpine Region
Raffaele C. de Marinis ..................................... 145
The Rock Art of the North
Torsten Capelle ............................................ 153
From the Megaron to Stonehenge
Chris Scarre ............................................... 155
The Late Bronze Age Idols of the Danube
Henrietta Todorova ......................................... 158
Cycladic Marble Idols: The Silent Witnesses of an Island
Society in the Early Bronze Age Aegean
Marina Marthari ............................................ 159
Ivory Sculpture of the Aegean
Jean Claude Poursat ........................................ 164
The Golden Treasures of the European Bronze Age
Christiane Eluère .......................................... 168
The Berlin Gold Hat: A Ceremonial Head-dress of the Late
Bronze Age
Wilfried Menghin ........................................... 172
The Golden Cone of Ezelsdorf-Buch: A Materpiece of the
Goldsmith's Art from the Bronze Age
Tobias Springer ............................................ 176
CHAPTER 5 The Birth of Europe
Editor: Katie Demakopoulou
The Birth of Europe
Katie Demakopoulou ......................................... 184
Writing and Technique: The Bole of Writing in the Origin of
Thought and the State
Louis Godart ............................................... 187
Seals and Sealings in the Bronze Age Aegean
Alexandra Alexandri ........................................ 194
The Times of Ulysses
Kurt A. Raaflaub ........................................... 198
Homer, Troy and the Trojan War
Spyros Iakovidis ........................................... 203
Catalogue ..................................................... 207
Literature .................................................... 280
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