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Birds in the Bronze Age

A North European Perspective
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This book provides new insights into the relationship between humans and birds in Northern Europe during the Bronze Age. Joakim Goldhahn argues that birds had a central role in Bronze Age society and imagination, as reflected in legends, myths, rituals, and cosmologies. Goldhahn offers a new theoretical model for understanding the intricate relationship between humans and birds during this period. He explores traces of birds found in a range of archaeological context, including settlements and burials, and analyzes depictions of birds on bronze artefacts and figurines, rock art, and ritual paraphernalia. He demonstrates how birds were used in divinations, and provides the oldest evidence of omens taken from gastric contents of birds - extispicy - ever found in Europe.

Author Biography:

Joakim Goldhahn is Professor of Archaeology at Linnaeus University, Sweden. An internationally known author on the Bronze Age in northern Europe, he has published more than twenty books and anthologies, as well as and numerous articles on topics such as Northern European rock art, Bronze Age burial rituals, bronze and stone smiths as ritual specialists, and war and memory.
Release date NZ
October 24th, 2019
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises; 16 Plates, color; 95 Halftones, black and white
Pages
446
Dimensions
185x260x27
ISBN-13
9781108499095
Product ID
29773363

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