The Early Bronze Age
Before written history: early metallurgy, the wheel, proto-cities and long-distance trade networks that laid the groundwork for the first civilisations.
Articles on The Early Bronze Age (3)
Bell Beaker Pottery: The Cup That Tracked a Continent-Wide Migration
Bell Beaker pottery spread from Iberia across Europe after 2750 BC, and ancient DNA has shown it carried both...
Writing and Trade: How Bronze Age Bookkeeping Invented the Written Word
Long before literature or law, writing began as a bookkeeping tool, invented from clay tokens used to track...
Proto-Cities before Writing: Jericho, Çatalhöyük, and the Trypillia Mega-Sites
Long before cuneiform or hieroglyphs, Jericho, Çatalhöyük, and Ukraine's Trypillia mega-sites show how large...
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