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Bronze Age Metalwork: Techniques and traditions in the Nordic Bronze Age 1500-1100 BC

Bronze Age Metalwork: Techniques and traditions in the Nordic Bronze Age 1500-1100 BC


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Bronze ornaments of the Nordic Bronze Age (neck collars, belt plates, pins and tutuli) were elaborate objects that served as status symbols to communicate social hierarchy. The magnificent metalwork studied here dates from 1500-1100 BC. An interdisciplinary investigation of the artefacts was adopted to elucidate their manufacture and origin, resulting in new insights into metal craft in northern Europe during the Bronze Age. Based on the habitus concept, which situates the craftsmen within their social and technological framework, individual artefact characteristics and metalworking techniques can be used to identify different craft practices, even to identify individual craftsmen. The conclusions drawn from this offer new insights into the complex organisation of metalcraft in the production of prestige goods across different workshops. Several kinship-based workshops on Jutland, in the Lüneburg Heath and Mecklenburg, allow us to conclude that the bronze objects were a display of social status and hierarchy controlled by, and produced for, the elite – as is also seen in the workshops on Zealand. Within the two main metalworking regions, Zealand and central Lower Saxony, workshops can be defined as communities of practice that existed with an extended market and relations with the local elite. Attached craft, in the sense that the craftspeople fully depended on a governing institution and produced artefacts as a manifestation of political expression, was only detected on Zealand between 1500-1300 BC. The investigation presented here showed that overall results could not be achieved when concentrating only on one aspect of metalwork. Highly skilled craft is to be found in every kind of workshop, as well as an intensive labour input. Only when considering skill in relation to labour input and also taking into account signs of apprenticeship and cross-craft techniques, as well as the different categories of mistakes in crafting, can a stable image of craft organisation be created.

Table of Contents:
Preface Introduction Part 1 Material culture Chapter 1: The examined material culture Chapter 2: Presentation and Interpretation of the Examined Material Culture Chapter 3: Archaeological residues of metalcraft within the Nordic Bronze Age Part 2 Archaeological and Scientific Investigation Chapter 1: Bronze Age Metalwork of NBA II/III in Northern Europe Chapter 2: Bronze Age craftsmanship: a research history Chapter 3: Experimental and ethnological research Chapter 4: The Difference within metalworking techniques Chapter 5: Casting techniques and casting moulds Chapter 6: Crafting traces and crafting sequences Chapter 7: Archaeometallurgical investigations Chapter 8: It starts with the model – results of the craft-technical investigation Part 3 Metalcraft in a theoretical light Chapter 1: Theoretical approaches to craft in prehistoric times: a research History Chapter 2: The craftsperson’s habitus Chapter 3: Technological choices Chapter 4: Apprenticeship and Bronze Age craft Chapter 5: A new approach to the study of craft in prehistoric times Part 4 Metalwork within the Nordic Bronze Age Conclusion and Discussion: Chapter 1: Pattern of regional behaviour Chapter 2: Traces of individual behaviour Chapter 3: Traces of interaction groups of craftspeople – Traces of the analytical workshop Chapter 4: The organisation of craft in the Nordic Bronze Age Bibliography Catalogue Table 1: Morphological data Table 2: Skill and production units Table 3: Metal analysis

About the Author :
Heide W. Nørgaard is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies at the University of Aarhus, Denmark, where she graduated and received her PhD in 2014. With the background as an educated goldsmith, she is working with metal artefacts trying to solve craft technical problems from the Bronze to the early Iron Ages in Northern Europe. Heide W. Nørgaard is currently working on reconstructing the earliest metal trading routes towards Scandinavia, based on over 500 lead isotope analysis of the first half of the 2nd millennium BC.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781789690194
  • Publisher: Archaeopress
  • Publisher Imprint: Archaeopress
  • Height: 290 mm
  • No of Pages: 520
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  • Weight: 1870 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1789690196
  • Publisher Date: 27 Nov 2018
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
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  • Spine Width: 28 mm
  • Width: 205 mm


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