Encultured Rocks - Encounter with a Ritual World of the Bronze Age

Autor: Katherine Hauptman Wahlgren
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Current Swedish Archaeology. 6:85-97
ISSN: 2002-3901
1102-7355
DOI: 10.37718/csa.1998.07
Popis: There is an intriguing rock-carving place at Flyhov in the province of Västergötland, southern Sweden. The carved images appear on a series of flat rocks in connection to a number of pointed oval hollows, that are linked to each other in rows suggestive of boats joined together stem by stem. It is argued that the hollowed-out boats in the rock made this a significant place for rock-carvings. Certain phenomena of nature were ritually important during the Bronze Age, and some elements like rock and water may have had a transformative character. Metaphoric understanding of images is used to inspire interpretations of the meaning of the Bronze Age rock-carvings.
Databáze: OpenAIRE