📚 The Bronze Age

The alloy that made kings: metallurgy, long-distance trade, and the first literate societies of Europe and the Near East.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject bronze age in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Dawn of the gods [by] Jacquetta Hawkes	Jacquetta Hawkes	1968	16
	1177 B.C.	Eric H. Cline	2014	10
	Everyday life in the new stone, bronze and early iron ages	Marjorie Quennell	1922	9
	Studies in ancient Greek society	George Derwent Thomson	1949	9
	Greece in the bronze age	Emily Vermeule	1964	9
	In search of the Trojan War	Wood, Michael	1985	9
	The Celtic Empire	Peter Berresford Ellis	1990	9
	Stone Tools and Society	Mark Edmonds	1995	9
	The bronze age in Ireland	George Coffey	1913	8
	Life and Death in the Bronze Age	Cyril Fox	1959	8
	Tracing Prehistoric Social Networks through Technology	Ann Brysbaert	2014	7
	The birth of China	Herrlee Glessner Creel	1936	6
	Studies in ancient Greek society	George Thomson	1949	6
	Local Societies in Bronze Age Northern Europe	Nils Anfinset	2014	6
	Mycenae	Heinrich Schliemann	1878	5
	The bronze age and the Celtic world	Harold Peake	1922	5
	The Bronze age	V. Gordon Childe	1930	5
	Bronze age cultures in central and eastern Europe	Marija Alseikaitė Gimbutas	1965	5
	Igbo-Ukwu	Thurstan Shaw	1970	5
	Aegean from Bronze Age to Iron Age	Oliver Dickinson	2006	5
	Tools, textiles and contexts	Eva B. Andersson Strand	2014	5
	Fresh sidelights on the Indus Valley and the bronze age Orient	F. A. Khan	1955	4
	Camonica Valley	Emmanuel Anati	1960	4
	Histoire de la Grèce à l'âge de bronze	Jean Zafiropulo	1964	4
	The Hyksos	John Van Seters	1966	4
	Die südschweizerischen Grabfunde der älteren Eisenzeit und ihre Chronologie	Margarita Primas	1967	4
	Early Greece	M. I. Finley	1970	4
	Antropomorfne figurine bronzanog doba u Jugoslaviji	Zagorka Letica	1973	4
	The coming of the Greeks	Robert Drews	1988	4
	The mummies of Ürümchi	E. J. W. Barber	1999	4

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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