First kings of Europe : from farmers to rulers in prehistoric Southeastern Europe

Weitere Verfasser: Gyucha, Attila , [HerausgeberIn]
Parkinson, William A. , [HerausgeberIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: [Los Angeles, California] : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, 2022.
Umfang/Format: xxi, 235 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm.
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Foreword: From Farmers to Kings
  • Section 1. The Evolution of Leadership and Inequality in Southeast European Prehistory. Introduction: From Farmers to Rulers in Prehistoric Southeastern Europe
  • Social Change and Elites in the Prehistoric Central and Southern Balkans
  • Section 2. Neolithic and Copper Age: First Farmers, Herders, and Leaders. Communities and Monuments in the Making - Neolithic Tells on the Great Hungarian Plain
  • The Emergence of a New Elite in Southeast Europe - People and Ideas from the Steppe Region at the Turn of the Copper and Bronze Ages
  • Section 3. The Age of Bronze: Warriors and Chiefs. Treasures of the Warlords, Bronze Smiths, and Farmers of the Late Bronze Age - Hoard Deposition in Hungary and Transylvania
  • Peace and War in the Bronze Age on the Eastern Frontier of the Carpathian Basin - The Evolution and Manifestation of Social Stratification
  • Weapons and Warriors in the Late Bronze Age of the Northern and Central Balkans
  • Section 4. The Age of Iron: Traders and Aristocrats. Tribal States or Stately Tribes? The Origins of the "Barbarian" Kingdoms of the Southern Balkans
  • Kings of Crossroads - Warriors and Traders of the Hallstatt World of Central Europe and the Iron Age Balkans
  • Arrayed in Gold and Silver - The Lavish Kings of Ancient Thrace.