Bronze Age Worlds. A Social Prehistory of Britain and Ireland

Abstract

The book is a comprehensive presentation of the Bronze Age society of Britain and Ireland and con-sists of three main parts: ‘Gifts’, ‘Dwellings’ and ‘Landmarks’ with kinship as core in the narratives. Johnston starts by introducing the theoretical and terminological foundations of his work. He criticizes approaches that use terms that describe and categor-ize a Bronze Age society in general and favours instead a relational approach that keeps the classifi-cation of societies open and works in a descriptive way. He favours a perspective emphasizing relations and open dialogue between scientific and social enquiries, providing the premises for his work. Johnston's book therefore provides a well of examples and descriptions, and this book review is a reflection of that. indicate