Bronze age fortified settlements in central Europe

This volume is based on a revised and modified version of a doctoral dissertation devoted to defensive settlements – one of the foremost phenomena of Early Bronze Age in Central Europe. The book offers an aspectual, detailed characterization of sources which prove crucial for the understanding of emergence, development and functioning of fortified settlements in four selected areas of Central Europe: its Alpine region, south-western Greater Poland, the Middle Danube Basin and the Upper Tisza Basin. At present, the trial areas taken into consideration offer the most comprehensive pool of archaeological data, which served the author to conduct an interregional comparative analysis of the aforesaid phenomenon.