"The Rise of Bronze Age Society: Travels, Transmissions and Transformations" by Kristian Kristiansen and Thomas B. Larsson
CamUn Press | 2005 | ISBN: 0521843634 | 463 pages | PDF | 13 MB

Authors reconstruct the travel and transmission of knowledge that took place between the Near East, the Mediterranean and Europe. They explore how religious, political and social conceptions of Bronze Age people were informed by long-distance connections and alliances between local elites.

Contents
Prologue: between Scylla and Charybdis 
1 A theoretical strategy for studying interaction 
2 Odysseus : a Bronze Age archetype 
3 Rulership in the Near East and the eastern Mediterranean during the Bronze Age 
4 Europe in the Early Bronze Age : an archaeological background 
5 Symbolic transmission and social transformation in Bronze Age Europe 
6 The cosmological structure of Bronze Age society 
7 Among gods and mortals. animals and humans 
8 Cosmos and culture in the Bronze Age