Textual Perspectives on Prehistoric Contacts: Some Considerations on Female Death Demons, Heroic Ideologies and the Notion of Elite Travel in European Prehistory

In 2005, Kristiansen and Larsson proposed a reconstruction of the European Bronze Age as an epoch characterised by a heroic ideology and long-distance travels of warrior-aristocrats. The present article comments on the general plausibility of this hotly debated theory from an inter-...

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Main Author: Egeler, Matthias 1980- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Institute for the Study of Man 2009
In: The journal of Indo-European studies
Year: 2009, Volume: 37, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 321-349
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)

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