Late Bronze Age cultural and exchange network linking communities along the Atlantic facade of Europe from Iberia to Scandinavia, sharing bronze types, metalworking traditions, and long-distance trade in tin and copper.
Ended around 700 BCE when the Atlantic exchange network collapsed as iron metallurgy spread through Atlantic Europe and the interconnected Late Bronze Age coastal trading system dissolved into regional Iron Age cultures.
The definitive study of Atlantic Europe's prehistoric and early historic connectivity; covers the Atlantic Bronze Age exchange network in depth and sets it in long-term context.
Standard introduction to the European Bronze Age, treating the Atlantic facade as one of its five regional zones — the framework for the Atlantic exchange network.