Encultured Rocks - Encounter with a Ritual World of the Bronze Age
Autor: | Katherine Hauptman Wahlgren |
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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 |
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