Was There a 3.2 ka Crisis in Europe? A critical comparison of climatic, environmental, and archaeological evidence for radical change during the bronze age–iron age …

B Molloy - Journal of Archaeological Research, 2023 - Springer
The globalizing connections that defined the European Bronze Age in the second
millennium BC either ended or abruptly changed in the decades around 1200 BC. The …

Resilience, innovation and collapse of settlement networks in later Bronze Age Europe: New survey data from the southern Carpathian Basin

B Molloy, D Jovanović, C Bruyere, M Estanqueiro… - PLoS one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Societies of the later Early to Middle Bronze Age (ca. 2200–1600 BC) in the Carpathian
Basin exhibited complex, hierarchical and regionally influential socio-political organisation …

The state of the debate: Nuragic metal trade in the Bronze Age and Early Iron Age

V Matta, H Vandkilde - Open Archaeology, 2023 - degruyter.com
This study examines the role of the Nuragic metal trade in the Mediterranean setting,
seeking to advance the debate on this subject. Published metal-related data are considered …

Long-term demographic trends in prehistoric Italy: Climate impacts and regionalised socio-ecological trajectories

A Palmisano, A Bevan, A Kabelindde, N Roberts… - Journal of world …, 2021 - Springer
The Italian peninsula offers an excellent case study within which to investigate long-term
regional demographic trends and their response to climate fluctuations, especially given its …

Establishing the middle sea: the late bronze age of Mediterranean Europe (1700–900 BC)

F Iacono, E Borgna, M Cattani, C Cavazzuti… - Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract The Late Bronze Age (1700–900 BC) represents an extremely dynamic period for
Mediterranean Europe. Here, we provide a comparative survey of the archaeological record …

Stone-working and the earliest steel in Iberia: Scientific analyses and experimental replications of final bronze age stelae and tools

RA Gonzalez, B Asmus, P Baptista, R Mataloto… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The south-western Iberian stelae from the Final Bronze Age (FBA) and Early Iron Age (EIA)
have long been the centre of archaeological interest. These monuments show …

[HTML][HTML] The dynamics of Mediterranean Africa, ca. 9600–1000 BC: An interpretative synthesis of knowns and unknowns

C Broodbank, G Lucarini - Journal of Mediterranean …, 2019 - journal.equinoxpub.com
Mediterranean Africa forms a crucial junction between the wider Saharan zone and the rest
of the Mediterranean. In contrast to its well-investigated history from the first millennium BC …

Network science and island archeology: Advancing the debate

H Dawson - The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Island archeology is increasingly using network science to make sense of patterns of
connectivity in the past. This article advocates in favor of a greater dialogue between these …

Connectivity and disconnectivity in the Roman Empire

S Ramgopal - The Journal of Roman Studies, 2022 - cambridge.org
The last quarter-century has witnessed a transformation in approaches to the study of
mobility in the Roman Empire. Social scienti c frameworks, especially network analysis and …

The Etruscans: setting new agendas

CR Potts, CJ Smith - Journal of Archaeological Research, 2021 - Springer
The Etruscans, who dominated central Italy for much of the first half of the first millennium
BC, are ripe for new analysis: the quantity of data for their culture is now substantial, wide …