Positioning the Bronze Age in Social Theory and Research Context
Title | Positioning the Bronze Age in Social Theory and Research Context PDF eBook |
Author | Anna Gröhn |
Publisher | |
Pages | 454 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN |
Picturing the Bronze Age
Title | Picturing the Bronze Age PDF eBook |
Author | Johan Ling |
Publisher | Oxbow Books |
Pages | 185 |
Release | 2015-02-28 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1782978828 |
Pictures from the Bronze Age are numerous, vivid and complex. There is no other prehistoric period that has produced such a wide range of images spanning from rock art to figurines to decoration on bronzes and gold. Fourteen papers, with a geographical coverage from Scandinavia to the Iberian Peninsula, examine a wide range of topics reflecting the many forms and expressions of Bronze Age imagery encompassing important themes including religion, materiality, mobility, interaction, power and gender. Contributors explore specific elements of rock art in some detail such as the representation of the human form; images of manslaughter; and gender identities. The relationship between rock art imagery and its location on the one hand, and metalwork and networks of trade and exchange of both materials and ideas on the other, are considered. Modern and ancient perceptions of rock art are discussed, in particular the changing perceptions that have developed during almost 150 years of documented research. Picturing the Bronze Age is based on an international workshop with the same title held in Tanum, Sweden in October 2012.
The Rise of Bronze Age Society
Title | The Rise of Bronze Age Society PDF eBook |
Author | Kristian Kristiansen |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 470 |
Release | 2005-12-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521843638 |
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New Perspectives on the Bronze Age
Title | New Perspectives on the Bronze Age PDF eBook |
Author | Sophie Bergerbrant |
Publisher | Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
Pages | 460 |
Release | 2017-04-30 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1784915998 |
This collection of articles helps to explain why the Bronze Age has come to hold such a fascination within modern archaeological research. By providing new theoretical and analytical perspectives on the evidence new interpretative avenues have opened, it situates the history of the Bronze Age in both a local and a global setting.
Ancient Scandinavia
Title | Ancient Scandinavia PDF eBook |
Author | Theron Douglas Price |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 521 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0190231971 |
Ancient Scandinavia provides a comprehensive overview of the archaeological history of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden.
Late Bronze Age Flintworking from Ritual Zones in Southern Scandinavia
Title | Late Bronze Age Flintworking from Ritual Zones in Southern Scandinavia PDF eBook |
Author | Mirosław Masojć |
Publisher | Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 2016-07-10 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1784913804 |
This book is devoted to flintworking encountered in the so-called cult houses and ritual zones from the Late Bronze Age in southern Scandinavia, where thousands of barrows were built in the period from the Neolithic to the end of the Early Bronze Age
The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Rock Art
Title | The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Rock Art PDF eBook |
Author | Bruno David |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 1185 |
Release | 2018-10-17 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0190844957 |
Rock art is one of the most visible and geographically widespread of cultural expressions, and it spans much of the period of our species' existence. Rock art also provides rare and often unique insights into the minds and visually creative capacities of our ancestors and how selected rock outcrops with distinctive images were used to construct symbolic landscapes and shape worldviews. Equally important, rock art is often central to the expression of and engagement with spiritual entities and forces, and in all these dimensions it signals the diversity of cultural practices, across place and through time. Over the past 150 years, archaeologists have studied ancient arts on rock surfaces, both out in the open and within caves and rock shelters, and social anthropologists have revealed how people today use art in their daily lives. The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Rock Art showcases examples of such research from around the world and across a broad range of cultural contexts, giving a sense of the art's regional variability, its antiquity, and how it is meaningful to people in the recent past and today - including how we have ourselves tended to make sense of the art of others, replete with our own preconceptions. It reviews past, present, and emerging theoretical approaches to rock art investigation and presents new, cutting-edge methods of rock art analysis for the student and professional researcher alike.