Abstract
Bronze Age Warfare in Barbaric Europe - Current Trends and Perspectives in the Future
Highlights
Object of the present work will be the review of the work, the state of the art and future research horizons on the warfare in the Bronze Age in the parts of Europe not affected by State-owned societies such as the Aegean civilizations: these include all the European regions that between the end of the third millennium and the first quarter of the first millennium BC know a chiefdom societies and that Jaques Briard has defined “barbaric Europe” (1976)
The beginning of what will be the great debate on the nature of the prehistoric war, or ritual or real, coincides with the first two real works focused on the violence in prehistoric society, by is theory by Clastres [2] who denied the real violence in the prehistoric societies, as Leroi Gourán [3], where hunting violence was linked to violence of the war, and the reply to tinted out by Lehoerff [4]
On the warfare in Bronze Age Europe, a vision will be made on studies concerning in particular the weapons, the defensive architectures, the warrior figure and the social aspects and all that it composes the “warfare”, on data and related theories
Summary
Investigation on Bronze Age period, when some tools are exclusively created for fight and the warrior societies are emerging, is always young. Scholars there were mainly interested on the origins of violence in mankind, on the fighting in the Neolithic or, if Bronze Age, on the wars in the empires of the Near East or in the Minoan civilization. The warfare in the European Bronze Age up to a decade ago, it was dealt marginally. Violence and warfare in Bronze Age in “barbarian Europe”, to use an expression by Jaques Briard, can be defined as a “fashion” since the mid-2000s. Will be discuss what the commonly accepted theories and what remain subject of doubt and debate to draw a perspective for the future
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