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Sagaholm : North European Bronze Age rock art and burial ritual / Joakim Goldhahn.
Author
Goldhahn, Joakim
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Uniform title
Sagaholm.
English
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2016.
Description
viii, 140 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 28 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
GN778.22.S8 G6513 2016
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Subject(s)
Bronze age
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Sweden
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Jönköpings län
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Excavations (Archaeology)
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Sweden
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Jönköpings län
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Mounds
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Sweden
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Jönköpings län
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Cairns
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Sweden
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Jönköpings län
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Petroglyphs
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Sweden
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Jönköpings län
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Art, Prehistoric
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Sweden
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Jönköpings län
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Grave goods
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Sweden
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Jönköpings län
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Burial
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Sweden
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Jönköpings län
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History
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Social archaeology
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Sweden
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Jönköpings län
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Jönköpings län (Sweden)
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Antiquities
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Summary note
"Major new appraisal of the symbolism and meaning of a major group of Middle Bronze Age rock art engravings from a well-known Swedish burial context which considers these engravings as an important part of burial ritual, linked to certain beliefs about the regeneration of life. This major new study by one of Europe's leading prehistorians presents and discusses a series of rock art engravings from a Bronze Age barrow in Ljungarum parish, Jönköping Län, situated in the central part of southern Sweden. Sagaholm contains the largest group of rock engravings discovered in a burial context in northern Europe. Joachim Goldhahn addresses a number of aspects of the use of rock engravings in burial rituals during the Middle Bronze Age (c. 1600-1100 BC), combining the antiquarian and scientific history of this extraordinary find. In order to understand the meaning and significance of the rock art in the barrow, the author presents a theoretical argument that the art is meaningfully composed and can been seen as the result of an active symbolic praxis which mirrors a metaphorical way of thinking. Special concern is given to the frequent horse motifs at Sagaholm, and it is argued that they, and the morphology of this particular barrow, can be seen as a metaphor for a new and exotic cosmology that reached southern Scandinavia during the Middle Bronze Age. It is further suggested that this extraordinary find points to a (re)interpretation of Scandinavian Bronze Age rock art as an important part of burial ritual, linked to certain beliefs about the regeneration of life"--Provided by publisher.
Notes
Originally published in Swedish in 1999 as: Sagaholm : hällristningar och gravritual.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-136) and index.
Language note
Translated from the Swedish.
Contents
Foreword / by Richard Bradley
Prologue
Abstract
Introduction
An antiquarian biography
In the name of science
The motifs
The monument
Chronology
Narrative and metaphors
Beyond Sagaholm
Return to Sagaholm.
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ISBN
9781785702648 ((paperback))
1785702645 ((paperback))
LCCN
2016031760
OCLC
935193740
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40026642554
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