Elemental interplay: the production, circulation and deposition of Bronze Age metalwork in Britain and Ireland.

This paper considers how people were compellingly engaged with, and drew upon, their elemental world in the Bronze Age (c. 2000 - 800 bc). It takes into account the production, circulation and deposition of metalwork and presents a number of themes concerned with the social construction of objects, places and people in the Bronze Age, while exploring how elements are drawn upon to facilitate this. The case study focuses on evidence from Britain and Ireland, although the interpretative themes presented can be applied to a wider geographical dataset. In particular, it considers how elements are interplayed in order to bring about and articulate wider social and material transformations taking place in the Bronze Age. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]