First Kings of Europe: From Farmers to Rulers in Prehistoric Southeastern Europe
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Over a span of four millennia, early agricultural villages gave rise to Europe's first kingdoms and monarchies, the first complex state organizations. These kingdoms replaced smaller, more egalitarian social structures with complex state organizations led by royal individuals invested in power.
In this wonderfully illustrated book, which accompanies the First Kings of Europe exhibition, scholars synthesize archaeological data and present artifacts from the most important museum collections across south-eastern Europe to illustrate the evolution of political hierarchy, power, and status in this region from the Neolithic to the Iron age.
From the rich burials of the famous Copper Age necropolis at Varna to the lavish tombs of Thracian kings and the Illyrian elite, troves of gold and silver ornaments, bronze and iron weaponry, rich metal hoards and magnificent ceremonial vessels reveal the roles of technology, trade, ritual, and warfare in developments toward marked sociopolitical inequalities. Many of the objects in the associated exhibition have never been displayed outside their countries of origin, and in this volume, they come together in a wonderfully illustrated co-publication with Chicago’s Field Museum.
In this wonderfully illustrated book, which accompanies the First Kings of Europe exhibition, scholars synthesize archaeological data and present artifacts from the most important museum collections across south-eastern Europe to illustrate the evolution of political hierarchy, power, and status in this region from the Neolithic to the Iron age.
From the rich burials of the famous Copper Age necropolis at Varna to the lavish tombs of Thracian kings and the Illyrian elite, troves of gold and silver ornaments, bronze and iron weaponry, rich metal hoards and magnificent ceremonial vessels reveal the roles of technology, trade, ritual, and warfare in developments toward marked sociopolitical inequalities. Many of the objects in the associated exhibition have never been displayed outside their countries of origin, and in this volume, they come together in a wonderfully illustrated co-publication with Chicago’s Field Museum.
- Hardcover
- 235 pages
- Written by Attila Gyucha and William A. Parkinson