The Nordic Bronze Age (1500–1100 BC): Craft Mobility and Contact Networks in Metal Craft

2018 ◽  
Vol 93 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-120
Author(s):  
Heide Wrobel Nørgaard

Zusammenfassung In einer umfassenden Studie zu den Schmuckbronzen der Nordischen Bronzezeit konnten individuelle Handwerker, deren Werkstätten und die jeweiligen Einflussbereiche, von einer handwerkstechnischen Perspektive aus, bestimmt werden. Das gewonnene Wissen zu regionsspezifischen Techniken, unterschiedlichen Fähigkeiten und Fertigkeiten der Handwerker wie auch Indizien handwerkstechnischer Beziehungen führten zu einem bisher nicht dagewesenen Verständnis bronzezeitlichen Metallhandwerks. Bronzezeitliches Handwerk ist deutlich komplexer organisiert als angenommen, neben verwandtschaftlich organisiertem Handwerk konnten sowohl Handwerksgemeinschaften, als auch autoritär organisierte Werkstätten definiert werden. Das Miteinbeziehen von Merkmalen ungelernter wie professioneller Arbeit, Anzeichen von fachübergreifendem Wissenstransfer und innovativem Arbeiten erlaubten es ein Modell zu erstellen, mit dem die Organisation bronzezeitlichen Handwerks in Nordeuropa visualisiert werden kann. Der Schwerpunkt dieses Artikels liegt auf der Darstellung des Wissensaustausches zwischen den einzelnen definierten Werkstätten im Raum der Nordischen Bronzezeit. Hierzu werden spezifische Spuren regionaler Technologien und Dekorelemente miteinander verglichen. Neben den Charakteristika der einzelnen Werkstätten können so auch die Beziehungen zu anderen Werkstätten dargestellt, wie auch kulturell-soziale Handlungen interpretiert werden. Im vorliegenden Artikel werden Vergleiche aus der Ethnoarchäologie und der klassischen Archäologie herangezogen, um speziell für die Nordische Bronzezeit die Möglichkeit wandernder Handwerker zu diskutieren.

2021 ◽  
pp. 43-110
Author(s):  
S. Arnoldussen ◽  
H. Steegstra

This contribution deals with the bronze bracelets found in the Netherlands that are datable between the Late Neolithic and the Middle Iron Age (n=176). We study their context (hoards, funerary contexts, settlements and stray finds), and we relate the specifics of their form and decoration to regional and supraregional traditions. First, we study their role as social signifiers (in reconstructions) of prehistoric identities across those scales, discussing how particular Bronze Age ‘costumes’ or ‘ornament sets’ may have been kept from graves and deposited in alternate ways. Then, we study later prehistoric arm-rings for their potential to indicate the scale, orientation and longevity of supraregional contact networks into which the later prehistoric communities of the Netherlands were integrated.


1979 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-55
Author(s):  
Alex Morrison
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1998 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
John A Atkinson ◽  
Camilla Dickson ◽  
Jane Downes ◽  
Paul Robins ◽  
David Sanderson

Summary Two small burnt mounds were excavated as part of the programme to mitigate the impact of motorway construction in the Crawford area. The excavations followed a research strategy designed to address questions of date and function. This paper surveys the various competing theories about burnt mounds and how the archaeological evidence was evaluated against those theories. Both sites produced radiocarbon dates from the Bronze Age and evidence to suggest that they were cooking places. In addition, a short account is presented of two further burnt mounds discovered during the construction of the motorway in Annandale.


2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nur Masalha

The Concept of Palestine is deeply rooted in the collective consciousness of the indigenous people of Palestine and the multicultural ancient past. The name Palestine is the most commonly used from the Late Bronze Age (from 1300 BCE) onwards. The name Palestine is evident in countless histories, inscriptions, maps and coins from antiquity, medieval and modern Palestine. From the Late Bronze Age onwards the names used for the region, such as Djahi, Retenu and Cana'an, all gave way to the name Palestine. Throughout Classical Antiquity the name Palestine remained the most common and during the Roman, Byzantine and Islamic periods the concept and political geography of Palestine acquired official administrative status. This article sets out to explain the historical origins of the concept of Palestine and the evolving political geography of the country. It will seek to demonstrate how the name ‘Palestine’ (rather than the term ‘Cana'an’) was most commonly and formally used in ancient history. It argues that the legend of the ‘Israelites’ conquest of Cana'an’ and other master narratives of the Bible evolved across many centuries; they are myth-narratives, not evidence-based accurate history. It further argues that academic and school history curricula should be based on historical facts/empirical evidence/archaeological discoveries – not on master narratives or Old Testament sacred-history and religio-ideological constructs.


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