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Latvia as Part of a Sphere of Contacts in the Bronze Age
Volume 13 (2010): At the Origins of the Culture of the Balts, pp. 153–161
Andrejs Vasks  

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Pub. online: 20 June 2010      Type: Article      Open accessOpen Access

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6 January 2010
Revised
23 April 2010
Accepted
20 June 2010
Published
20 June 2010

Abstract

This paper discusses Bronze Age exchange contacts in Latvia. Changes in the directions of contacts and the nature of the exchange are investigated, looking back at the Neolithic for comparison, and at developments in the Early and Late Bronze Age, focussing on the routes by which bronze arrived and the mechanisms by which objects spread. In the Late Neolithic, directional commercial trade is observable, something that is no longer characteristic of the Early Bronze Age, but which appears again in the Late Bronze Age, when bronze-working centres, which had an important role in the regulation of social relations, developed along the River Daugava. During all of these periods, a prestige chain remained in existence.

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Latvia Bronze Age exchange contacts bronze-working social relationships

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