Picturing the Bronze Age

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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 gen…

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Full title :Picturing the Bronze Age.

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Publication Date:2015.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxbow books
Place of Publication:Havertown
Language:eng
Publication Date:2015.

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Description:1 online resource (185 pages).

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ISBN:1782978798, 9781782978794
oclc:ocn994400539
LC Classification:N5630
Dewey Decimal:709.013

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Contributors; Chapter 1: The Swedish Rock Art Research Archives and Picturing the Bronze Age -- an introduction; Chapter 2: From folk oddities and remarkable relics to scientific substratum: 135 years of changing perceptions on the rock carvings in Tanum, northern Bohuslän, Sweden; Chapter 3: Hyper-masculinity and the construction of gender identities in the Bronze Age rock carvings of southern Sweden; Chapter 4: Mixed media, mixed messages: religious transmission in Bronze Age Scandinavia.

Chapter 5: Walking on the stones of years. Some remarks on the north-west Iberian rock artChapter 6: A rock with a view: new perspectives on Danish rock art; Chapter 7: Rock art and the alchemy of bronze. Metal and images in Early Bronze Age Scotland; Chapter 8: The 'Stranger King' (bull) and rock art; Chapter 9: Trading images: exchange, transformation and identity in rock art from Valcamonica between the Bronze Age and the Iron Age; Chapter 10: Carl Georg Brunius: An early nineteenth-century pioneer in Swedish petroglyph research.

Chapter 11: Alpine and Scandinavian rock art in the Bronze Age: a common cultural matrix in a web of continental infl…

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