Hoards and hoarding from the Alps to the Aegean: a comparative view

The text includes a brief overview on the state-of-the-art of the research on the phenomenon of bronze deposition in the different scholarly environments including the study of continental Europe with the Alps, Italy and the Eastern Mediterranean with the Aegean world. Adopting a comparative approach substantially based on the papers collected in this volume, the author intends to point out the mutual relationships in the phenomenon of hoarding in the different, albeit connected, geographical and cultural regions under scrutiny, with particular reference to the period going from a final phase of the Late Bronze Age or the 12th c. ca. well into the Late Bronze Age/early Iron Age transition.