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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.

Table of Contents:
Chapter 1 Introduction Primary objectives and questions Definition Implementation and acknowledgements Organisation of the book   Chapter 2 An antiquarian biography  The oldest sources  The 1971 excavation  Research methods and reporting  ‘A sensation’  Forgotten finds from Sagaholm  The spearhead   Chapter 3 In the name of science  Anders Wihlborg  Harry Bergenblad  Göran Burenhult  Mats P. Malmer  Jarl Nordbladh  Klavs Randsborg  Summary   Chapter 4 The motifs  Documentation  Technical concepts and terminology  Motifs by slab  The other sandstone slabs in the kerb  Discussion  Technique and motif  Techniques and details on the motifs  Final comments   Chapter 5 The monument  Morphology of the barrow  Profiles  Plans  Parallels  Logistics  History of the sandstone slabs  Why the choice of sandstone?     Chapter 6 Chronology  The Carbon 14 method  Comparative dating  Analogies to barrows  Conclusion   Chapter 7 Narrative and metaphors  Interpreting rock art  A narrative landscape in miniature  Narrative metaphorics of the body  Metaphorics of the burial monument  Regarding the significance of the cup marked stones  Digression – rock engravings   Chapter 8 Beyond Sagaholm  Creation myths, chaos and material culture  The significance of the burial ceremony  Beyond Sagaholm  A scenario  The metaphorics of burial monuments  The metaphorics of the body  The metaphorics of the grave gifts and ornamentations   Chapter 9 Return to Sagaholm  The burial ritual’s rite of passage  Exclusion  Liminal phase  Incorporation References  

About the Author :
Joakim Goldhahn is Professor of Archaeology at the Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden. His main research interests are in the north European Bronze Age, especially the relationship between rock art, land-, mind- and soundscapes, burial rituals, and cosmology as well as archaeologcal theory and historiography.

Review :
This English version of the book is most welcome... well organised and concise.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781785702648
  • Publisher: Oxbow Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxbow Books
  • Height: 280 mm
  • No of Pages: 192
  • Sub Title: North European Bronze Age rock art and burial ritual
  • ISBN-10: 1785702645
  • Publisher Date: 06 Oct 2016
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 220 mm


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