Bronze Age Identities

Abstract

The material component of ethnic identity is difficult to isolate but can be tracked by carefully identifying distinctive cultural markers and their meaning. In the case of Bronze Age Europe, we can identify local, regional, and interregional identities, each linked to different material symbols and institutions with different social and political functions. It reflects complex societies with correspondingly complex identities that served different roles in Bronze Age societies. In a globalized world of connectivity, new regional cultural and perhaps ethnic identities, such as Nordic or Atlantic, emerged to counterbalance international networks and trade. Likewise, local cultural boundaries would seem to correspond to local polities and ethnic groups. Thus, the growth of international trade networks and travels, paradoxically, helped local identities to crystallize.

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