The Rise of Bronze Age Society

Prologue: Between Scylla and Charybdis; a theoretical strategy for studying interaction; Odysseus: a Bronze age archetype; Rulership in the Near East and the eastern Mediterranean during the Bronze age; Europe in the Early bronze age: an archaeological background; Symbolic transmission and social transformation in Bronze age Europe; The cosmological structure of bronze age society; Among gods and mortals, animals and humans; Cosmos and culture in the Bronze age; Epilogue: towards a new culture history.