entity · network_france_1_atlantic_bronze
Atlantic Bronze Age networks
Also known as: Atlantic Bronze Age, Atlantic façade exchange networks
Overlapping metalwork, maritime and riverine exchange networks along Atlantic Europe.
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: proposed. This is separate from specialist review.
Confidence describes the stated assessment; it does not certify expert approval. How review works.
Chronology
Dating intervals may describe uncertainty or phases; their width alone does not establish event duration.
1600 BCE–800 BCE
Precision: approximate
- informs · supports distribution
Le temps des élites en Gaule atlantique: chronologie des mobiliers et rythmes de constitution des dépôts métalliques dans le contexte européen — Pierre-Yves Milcent (2012)Defines a changing Atlantic interaction field rather than a polity.
Locator: Chapters on Atlantic metalwork phases and deposit formation - informs · contextualizes
The Bronze Age in France — Claude Mordant (2013)Places western France within a wider Atlantic Bronze Age synthesis.
Locator: Atlantic province discussion
Research description
This is an analytical network label for recurrent similarities and circulation from Iberia to Britain and Ireland, with western France as a major connective zone. It is not an ancient self-designation, a unitary people, or a fixed territory.
Properties and assignments
A label’s definition and the evidence for assigning it here are separate.
Analytical label, not an ethnicity
A modern archaeological grouping that must not be equated with a named people.
Why does this record have this property?
The property prevents a changing circulation field from being rendered as an ethnic population.
Interaction network, not a polity
A circulation or interaction field without demonstrated territorial government.
Why does this record have this property?
Time-variable object and deposit distributions support networks rather than borders.
- Le temps des élites en Gaule atlantique: chronologie des mobiliers et rythmes de constitution des dépôts métalliques dans le contexte européen
supports distribution · Atlantic maps and chronology
Long-distance material connection
Material analysis or distribution indicates movement beyond the immediate locality.
Why does this record have this property?
The property supports circulation without assuming direct voyages for each object.
- Le temps des élites en Gaule atlantique: chronologie des mobiliers et rythmes de constitution des dépôts métalliques dans le contexte européen
supports distribution · Atlantic corpus
Boundary deliberately not digitized
Available evidence does not justify a polygon or frontier.
Why does this record have this property?
Time-variable distributions and network character make a political-looking boundary misleading.
Evidence and sources
- supports · supports distribution
Le temps des élites en Gaule atlantique: chronologie des mobiliers et rythmes de constitution des dépôts métalliques dans le contexte européen — Pierre-Yves Milcent (2012)Defines a changing Atlantic interaction field rather than a polity.
Locator: Chapters on Atlantic metalwork phases and deposit formation - supports · contextualizes
The Bronze Age in France — Claude Mordant (2013)Places western France within a wider Atlantic Bronze Age synthesis.
Locator: Atlantic province discussion
Referenced records
- Geography assertion for network_france_1_atlantic_bronze · geography assertion