Exchange and Cultural Interactions: A study of long-distance trade and cross-cultural contacts in the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age in Central and Eastern Europe: A study of long-distance trade and cross-cultural contacts in the Late Bronze Age and E

The book analyses exchange and trade in their social contexts, during the transition from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age, with a professed interest in long-term changes occurring over a vast area of central and eastern Europe. Different areas of central Europe were united by symbolic and commercial systems. Front Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Table of Contents Acknowledgements The List of Maps The List of Figures Transliteration I. INTRODUCTION II. GENERAL BACKGROUND III. THEORETICAL APPROACHES IV. BETWEEN THEORETICAL INTERPRETATION AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL DATA V. CENTRAL EUROPE AND ITS INTERREGIONAL CONTACTS AT THE BEGINNING OF THE FIRST MILLENNIUM BC (THE HALLSTATT B1-2 PERIOD) VI. SYSTEMS OF EXCHANGE AND CULTURAL INTERACTION IN THE BALTIC REGIONS AND EASTERN EUROPE VII. EXCHANGE AND INTERCULTURAL CONTACTS BETWEEN THE CAUCASUS MOUNTAINS, THE EAST EUROPEAN STEPPES (THE CIMMERIANS), AND THE REGIONS OF CENTRAL EUROPE (THE 9TH-7TH CENTURIES BC) VIII. EXCHANGE, TRADE AND CULTURAL INTERACTIONS BETWEEN THE SCYTHIAN CULTURE AND CENTRAL EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES IX. EXCHANGE AND INTERCULTURAL CONTACTS BETWEEN THE SOUTHERN AND NORTHERN PARTS OF CENTRAL EUROPE, IN THE PERIOD FROM HALLSTATT B3 TO HALLSTATT D X. MODELS AND MODES OF EXCHANGE IN LATE PREHISTORIC EUROPE XI. THE ROLE OF THE LONG-DISTANCE EXCHANGE IN THE TRANSITION FROM THE BRONZE AGE TO THE IRON AGE BIBLIOGRAPHY Maps Figures Andrzej Pydyn. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 71-87, 1st Group) And Index.