ERC Advanced Grant · 2024
Disruptive Economies and Macrolithic Technologies in the Euro-Mediterranean Bronze Age
Between 3000 and 1500 BCE, a relatively small number of Mediterranean and European societies underwent deep changes, leading to large-scale, centralised, and highly unequal economic and political entities. Most of these Early Bronze Age “innovative regions” are identified with the rise of a warrior elite or aristocracy, craft specialisation, agricultural intensification, and expanding exchange networks. What caused the rapid emergence and, centuries later, sudden collapse of these “disruptive societies” is one of history’s most important open questions, particularly in view of their triggering effect on the development of statehood beyond Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt. CORNERSTONES will…
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