ABSTRACT
The Bronze Age shows many similarities with contemporary globalization. With the note that the scale diered tremendously between then and now, a comparative perspective is in tune with recent scholarship on ancient globalizations (Jennings 2011). The advantage of comparison with recent globalization is its thorough theorization by a plethora of social science scholars, and yet the Bronze Age was not globalization in the sense of enfolding the entire globe (cf. Robertson 2003, this volume). Due to this major dierence in geographical reach the term bronzization (Vandkilde 2016) is employed to conceptualize how the Bronze Age was an overarching phenomenon knit by one crucial resource and maintained by innumerable interconnecting activities over several hundred years.
