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Rock Art Through Time

Scanian rock carvings in the Bronze Age and Earliest Iron Age

Peter Skoglund (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

144 Seiten

2016
Oxbow Books (Verlag)
978-1-78570-164-1 (ISBN)

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As in many other areas in south Scandinavia, the region surrounding the city of Simrishamn in south-east Scania has a great many Bronze Age mounds that are still visible in the landscape, and records from the museums demonstrate that the area is rich in bronze metalwork. Nevertheless, it is the figurative rock art that makes this region stand out as distinct from surrounding areas that lack such images. The rock art constitutes a spatially well-defined tradition that covers the Bronze Age and the earliest Iron Age, c. 1700–200 BC and, although the number of sites is comparatively small, a characteristic and unusual feature is the large representation of various kinds of metal axes. Significantly these images are tightly distributed inside the core zone of metal consumption in southernmost Scandinavia. This beautifully illustrated new addition to the Swedish rock Art series presents a detailed reassessment of the Simrishamn rock art and examines the close relationship between iconography displayed on metals and that found in rock art. In so doing it raises some important questions of principle concerning the current understanding of the south Scandinavian rock art tradition.

Peter Skoglund is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Gothenburg. His main research interest is Scandinavian Bronze Age material culture, especially regional variations in material culture and the relationship between local material expressions and external influences, with particular reference to monuments, rock art and trees. His latest research involves the application of new dating evidence for the chronological and geographical framework of rock art in South and Central Sweden and its social and ritual significance.

Introduction

Rock art in south-east Scania

Earlier research on rock art in south-east Scania

Methods used in the present project

Rock art chronology

Time and periodization

Reading landscapes through excavations

Interpreting rock art

The ordering of images

Images and narratives

Outline of this study

The chronological framework

The data – an overview

Phase 1, 1700–1400 BC

Phase 2, 1400–1100 BC

Phase 3, 1100–800 BC

Phase 4, 800–200 BC

Chronology on site level

Summary and perspectives

Rock art and long-distance trade, 1700–1400 BC

Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	187 x 220 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
ISBN-10	1-78570-164-9 / 1785701649
ISBN-13	978-1-78570-164-1 / 9781785701641
Zustand	Neuware