Bronze Age life stories from Hungary (3rd–2nd millennia BC) / Viktória Kiss Budapest: HUN-REN Research Centre for the Humanities Institute of Archaeology, Archaeolingua, 2025. 208 p. , ill. , 24 cm.
ISBN 978-615-5766-79-4

Preface
Pages: 7

Introduction to the world of the Bronze Age as reconstructed using the methods of archaeology and the tools of the third science revolution

Parallel worlds: rulers and the elite in Eurasia in the 3rd–2nd millennia BC
Research into the Bronze Age in Hungary
From objects to trade networks
Complex bioarchaeological research of the way of life, diet, and mobility

Pages: 9–42

Families four millennia ago

Mothers and children
Burial patterns and generations
Multiple burials

Craftspeople, warriors, and the layers of the Bronze Age society

Masters of crafts
Merchants and warriors
Shamans and healers in the Bronze Age?
Social elites in the first millennium of the Bronze Age
The lower strata of society

Pages: 63–100

Reconstructed faces from the Bronze Age
A man from Tiszafüred
A middle-aged woman from Balatonkeresztúr

Pages: 101–108

Society in the 3rd–2nd millennia BC

Chiefdoms in Europe
Chiefdoms and households in the Carpathian Basin

Pages: 109–122

Acknowledgements

Pages: 123–124

Notes

Pages: 125–138

References

Pages: 139–192

Glossary

Pages: 193–196

List of images

Pages: 197–208