Existe uma Idade do Bronze Atlantico?

Existe uma Idade do Bronze Atlantico? SUSANA OLIVEIRA JORGE (ed.). Existe uma Idade do Bronze Atlantico?(Trabalhos de Arqueologia 10). 294 pages, illustrated. 1998. Lisbon:Institute Portuges de Arqueologia; 972-97903-0-2 ISSN ISSNabbr.International Standard Serial Number 0871-25 paperback. Dr FORENBAHER assesses the evidence of arrowheads, larger points,and blades in an attempt to work out how political centralization andsocial hierarchies developed during the Copper Age of Portugal. He showsthat technical specialization and economic centralization changedcomparatively little but that the relatively rare larger points requiredspecial skills and much preparation. Found almost exclusively inburials, they may have signalled a strategic role in social development(cf. TAFFINDER, above). The treatise is cogently argued and backed upwith ample data. The Council of Europe's travelling exhibition on `Gods andheroes' evidently seeks to show strands of ancient tradition commonacross the subcontinent. The big book of DEMAKOPOULOU et al. presentsthe catalogue along with 50 nicely illustrated notes by archaeologistsand other scholars (established ones and rising stars) covering physicalanthropology and clothing, domestic life among villagers andaristocrats, burials, travel -- `Otzi' and others tracing routes byfoot or horseback to bind peoples to (or attack) each other -- shrines,stelae and religious offerings, iconography, and the emergence of thestate in the Aegean. The book provides some context for the exhibits butmost of the emphasis is on noteworthy finds rather than sites andlandscapes. In contrast to FORENBAHER, the authors seem not to have beenbriefed to pay much attention to social change. Dr OLIVEIRA JORGE presents 25 papers of various lengths and five ofthe discussions from a meeting in 1995, also sponsored by the Council ofEurope Council of Europe,international organization founded in 1949 to promote greater unity within Europe and to safeguard its political and cultural heritage by promoting human rights and democracy. The council is headquartered in Strasbourg, France. , about whether there was a distinct Bronze Age Bronze Age,period in the development of technology when metals were first used regularly in the manufacture of tools and weapons. Pure copper and bronze, an alloy of copper and tin, were used indiscriminately at first; this early period is sometimes called the of `AtlanticEurope' (11 of the papers in English, 7 Portuguese, the othersFrench and Spanish). Most of the attention falls in the west, of course,but, logically enough, there is reference to Central Europe Central Europe is the region lying between the variously and vaguely defined areas of Eastern and Western Europe. In addition, Northern, Southern and Southeastern Europe may variously delimit or overlap into Central Europe. too. UnlikeGods and heroes, much of the discussion here turned on commensurability com��men��su��ra��ble?adj.1. Measurable by a common standard.2. Commensurate; proportionate.3. Mathematics Exactly divisible by the same unit an integral number of times. Used of two quantities. of different classes of evidence, on processes of exchange, and oncultural identity; but, while discourse between archaeologists fromvarious traditions of thought was fruitful, there were problems ofdefinition. On the whole, the papers were broadly researched and verythoughtful; but the discussions make less sense to the reader than theywould have to the participants, partly because not all of the papersgiven at the time are reproduced here. Dr TUSA TUSA Tabata USATUSA Transportadores Universales SA (Spain)TUSA Tonka United Soccer Association (Minnesota, USA)TUSA Turkish Student AssociationTUSA Third United States Army has assembled data on finds from the Early Bronze Agecemetery at Marcita-Castelvetrano, Sicily, to produce a well-illustratedand elegantly designed book. Along with brief descriptions of the siteand its environment and a note on the skull in one of the burials, thegreater part of this useful volume is devoted to descriptions of abeaker pottery assemblage with accompanying stone tools and ornaments. Pottery, metal utensils, and ornaments and finds of other materialsfrom two Late Bronze Age cemeteries in Bavaria are presented,illustrated in detail, and discussed by Herr WIRTH along with acatalogue raisonne ca��ta��logue rai��son��n��?n. pl. ca��ta��logues rai��son��n��sA publication listing titles of articles or literary works, especially the contents of an exhibition, along with related descriptive or critical material. of bone fragments by M. Kunter. The finds are treatedby type, with substantial assessments of the construction and forms ofthe pottery; and the grave assemblages are listed separately too. Theburials at Haunstetten were distinctly more generously accompanied thanthose at Friedberg. The author suggests that the community from theformer flourished by exploiting trade along the Lech Lech(lĕkh), river, c.175 mi (280 km) long, rising in Vorarlberg, W Austria, and flowing NE into S Germany past Augsburg to the Danube River. The Wertach River is its chief tributary. valley. He isconcerned to refine the chronologies of Muller-Karpe and L. Sperber. Heprovides a summary in French. GALATY & PARKINSON present 10 articles and a couple of notes inan effort to span the disciplinary divide between archaeological andanthropological approaches to the interpretation of Mycenaean`palaces'. There are discussions of room functions, palace plans,and finds from single sites and comparison among different ones, andthere are a couple of assessments of palaces' roles in thesurrounding territories. J.T. Killen comments on some of the otherpapers with information from tablets in Linear B. J.F. Cherry & J.L.Davis remark on the emergence of common ground among some of thearticles, not least by virtue of respectful attention to empiricaldetail rather than general analogies and theorizing.