Bronze Age Maritime and Warrior Dynamics in Island East Asia

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The book explores the implications of recent interdisciplinary studies on the Bronze Age, particularly focusing on long-distance trade and political decentralization. It introduces the concept of 'bronzisation' as a form of proto-globalization and examines its applicability to East Asia, particularly Island East Asia. The author analyzes maritime interactions and warrior culture within a comparative Eurasian context, arguing that Bronze Age trade fostered decentralized complexity in regions outside major alluvial states. The notion of the 'barbarian niche' is introduced to model premodern Eurasian history.