Europe Between The Oceans by Barry Cunliffe
9000 BC-AD 1000
An archaeological synthesis that reframes Europe’s past from 9000 BC to AD 1000 through its surrounding seas, showing how coasts and waterways enabled mobility, trade, migration, and cultural exchange from Mesolithic foragers and Neolithic seafarers to Bronze Age networks, classical worlds, and Viking expansions. Using material evidence, it highlights how islands, estuaries, and maritime routes shaped settlement, technology, identity, and resilience amid climatic and environmental change, revealing a continent knit together by its littoral zones rather than divided by land.
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- Published
- 2008
- Nationality
- British
- Length
- Moderate
- Pages
- 480–520
- Original Language
- English
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