Bronze Age Review

The Bronze Age Review is the international journal of research into the archaeology of the British and European Bronze Age.

Bronze Age Review is a free to access, peer-reviewed online journal dedicated to furthering the understanding of the period about 2500 BC - 800 BC in Britain and neighbouring regions.

It is a free and accessible annual outlet for new discoveries and research, publishing interim excavation reports, reviews, databases and articles to provide an invaluable resource for this period.

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Towards a fuller, more nuanced narrative of Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Britain 2500-1500 BC
(2008-11)
Sheridan, Alison
This contribution considers some of the many recent advances in our understanding of Chalcolithic and Bronze Age Britain and uses these to highlight the weak points in our current state of knowledge. Focusing mainly on the period 2500à¢â‚¬“1500 BC, it concentrates on issues of chronology, human movement, the role of metal and monuments as 'drivers' of action, and the potential offered by current studies of artefact manufacture, use and deposition.
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Information, Interaction and Society
(2008-11)
Roberts, Ben
In reviewing the future of Bronze Age research in the final chapter of his immense pan-European survey, Anthony Harding (2000, 435) commented that the sheer scale and density of available data did little to encourage younger scholars. In Britain, the rapid growth of developer funded excavations with PPG 16 since 1990 together with the recording of objects found by metal detectors under the Portable Antiquities Scheme1 since 1997 has produced vast quantities of new information that were simply unimaginable to earlier generations. Where the new data has been integrated into research projects, it has frequently provided insights into previously unexplored areas as well as changing existing frameworks and interpretations (e.g. Bradley 2007; Champion 2007; Roberts 2007; Yates 2007). It is evident that the potential for gaining further ideas into the period 2500-800 BC in Britain is only just starting to be realised. The challenge is therefore, not only to incorporate these new discoveries, but also to explore new questions and approaches that can exploit the increased information and provide fresh insights into our understanding of prehistoric communities. The prevailing intellectual trends within British archaeology are concentrated towards finer, more detailed understandings of sites, landscapes and regions. Whilst the theoretical and methodological advances have been invaluable to the development of the discipline, there is a sense that the many possibilities of re-defining the broader perspectives provided by the new data are being missed.
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Prospects and potential in the archaeology of Bronze Age Britain
(2008-11)
Brück, Joanna
This paper argues that although our discipline focuses increasingly on thematic research programmes, period-based approaches remain a valuable way of understanding the particularities of the social practices we study. Different aspects of the archaeological record - including settlement, burial, landscape and material culture - are examined in turn to identify a series of possible questions for future research.
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Bronze Age pottery and settlements in southern England
(2008-11)
Woodward, Ann
Pottery is often treated as a poor relation in Bronze Age studies. However ceramics have much to offer. During the last forty years a fairly esoteric subject, dominated mainly by detailed analyses of decorative motifs and the construction of elaborate chronological schemes, has been transformed into a powerful source of knowledge which can inform topics as diverse as culinary habits and feasting, the symbolic power of rock inclusions contained in pottery fabrics, and ritual deposition. A summary of recent research directions will pinpoint areas ripe for future study, and the huge potential of settlement studies will also be highlighted.
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A canon for the Bronze Age?
(2008-11)
Brindley, A. L.
Catalogues and databases which are easily accessible to all interested parties regardless of their geographical location, occupation, background or purpose, provide a level playing field for research, publication and debate in the archaeology of the bronze age. The establishment of a canon of reliable, illustrated documentation of as many facets of the Bronze Age as are required, is a prerequisite to the future of our understanding of the Bronze Age.
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The Agenda Gap? Approaches to the Bronze Age in current research frameworks
(2008-11)
Last, Jonathan
It is now 60 years since the first formal consideration of future research directions for the British Bronze Age (and other periods) was published. Its purpose was to ensure archaeologists were 'taking the best advantage of all our opportunities, whether for deliberate field-work or excavation, or for turning chance discoveries to good account', and 'to avoid the wastage involved by any overlapping or misdirecting of our energies' (Hawkes and Piggott 1948, 11). However, it is only in the last fifteen years or so that such frameworks have become a routine part of the research landscape, most notably with the set of Regional Research Frameworks (RRFs) for England and Wales, some of which are now published while others remain under active development. These have similar aims to the 1948 document but sit within a 'research landscape' that has changed profoundly since then. In particular there are concerns with the lack of academic focus and content in work driven by PPG16, and a need to provide academic reference points for cultural resource management (Olivier 1996, 1-2). The RRFs and similar documents - such as the research frameworks for the World Heritage Sites (WHSs) of Stonehenge, Avebury and Orkney (see Darvill 2007) - mean that numerous research topics for the Bronze Age have already been set out in the literature, covering areas of greater or lesser geographical size. Here I attempt a brief review and synthesis of the contents of these frameworks, and an assessment of current priorities in Bronze Age research.
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The Bronze Age climate and environment of Britain
(2008-11)
Brown, Tony
Over the last twenty years there have been tremendous advances in our knowledge of climate change in later British prehistory from a wide variety of proxy-climate sources. This chapter will summarise our present understanding for the period 2000-500 BC and highlight the areas in which further research is required. A secondary aim is to review how much we can infer from these proxy-climate records concerning the wider environment, including the day-today environment of Bronze Age peoples and the stresses imposed upon their societies. This area is far more subjective but lies at the heart of serious, i.e. non-superficial, attempts to relate aspects of change in Bronze Age society to environmental change.
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