The rise of Bronze Age society: travels, transmissions and transformations

Prologue - between Scylla and Charybdis 1. A theoretical strategy for studying interaction 2. Odysseus - a Bronze Age archetype 3. Rulership in the Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean during the Bronze Age 4. Europe in the early Bronze Age - an archaeological background 5. Symbolic transmission and social transformation in Bronze Age Europe 6. The cosmological structure of Bronze Age society 7. Among gods and mortals, animals and humans 8. Cosmos and culture in the Bronze Age.