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Why did Bronze Age Europeans deliberately bury valuable metals they could recycle, never to recover them? This scholarly work explores the paradox of destruction in Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Europe (c. 2300-500 BC), when the rise of metal-based economies coincided with the systematic burial of scarce bronze and other recyclable materials across the landscape. Rather than viewing these practices as wasteful, the book examines how deliberate destruction of valuable objects functioned as a complex social mechanism that created meaning, status and value within Bronze Age societies. Published by Routledge, this study challenges conventional economic assumptions and offers new insights into how ancient European communities understood wealth, power and social obligation through the intentional removal of resources from circulation.

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Routledge academic publication examining Bronze Age and Early Iron Age destructive practices across Europe from c. 2300-500 BC.

Explores the paradox of burying scarce, recyclable metals in the landscape as a deliberate social and economic strategy.

Challenges conventional interpretations of Bronze Age economies by reframing destruction as a value-creating practice.

Analyses how metal-based economies emerged alongside systematic burial of bronze and other valuable materials.

Provides new theoretical framework for understanding wealth, status and social obligation in ancient European societies.

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30 July 2019
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