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Picturing the Bronze Age /

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 Penins...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2015.
Colección:Swedish rock art series ; v. 3.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • The Swedish rock art research archives and picturing the Bronze Age : an introduction / Johan Ling, Peter Skoglund and Ulf Bertilsson
  • From folk oddities and remarkable relics to scientific substratum : 135 years of changing perceptions on the rock carvings in Tanum, Northern Bohuslän, Sweden / Ulf Bertilsson
  • Hyper-masculinity and the construction of gender identities in the Bronze Age rock carvings of southern Sweden / Lynne Bevan
  • Mixed media, mixed messages : religious transmission in Bronze Age Scandinavia / Richard Bradley
  • Walking on the stones of years : some remarks on the north-west Iberian rock art / R. Fábregas Valcarce and C. Rodríguez-Rellán
  • A rock with a view : new perspectives on Danish rock art / Louise Felding
  • Rock art and the alchemy of bronze : metal and images in early Bronze Age Scotland / Andrew Meirion Jones
  • The "stranger king" (bull) and rock art / Michael Rowlands and Johan Ling
  • Trading images : exchange, transformation and identity in Valcamonica rock-art between the Bronze Age and the Iron Age / Alberto Marretta
  • Carl georg brunius : a pioneer in Swedish petroglyph research from the early nineteenth century / Jarl Nordbladh
  • The maritime factor in the distribution of Bonze Age rock art in Galicia / Manuel Santos-Estévez and Alejandro Güimil-Fariña
  • The alpine and Scandinavian rock art in the Bronze Age : a common cultural matrix in a web of continental influences / Umberto Sansoni
  • Rock art as history : representations of human images in a historical perspective / Peter Skoglund
  • Sword-wielders and manslaughter : recently discovered images on the rock carvings of Brastad, western Sweden / Andreas Toreld.