Picturing the Bronze Age (Swedish Rock Art Series) by Johan Ling,Peter Skoglund,Ulf Bertilsson

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By Johan Ling,Peter Skoglund,Ulf Bertilsson

Pictures from the Bronze Age are a number of, brilliant and complicated. there's no different prehistoric interval that has produced the sort of wide variety of pictures spanning from rock paintings to collectible figurines to ornament on bronzes and gold. Fourteen papers, with a geographical assurance from Scandinavia to the Iberian Peninsula, study a variety of themes reflecting the various kinds and expressions of Bronze Age imagery encompassing vital subject matters together with faith, materiality, mobility, interplay, strength and gender.

Contributors discover particular components of rock paintings in a few aspect corresponding to the illustration of the human shape; photographs of manslaughter; and gender identities. the connection among rock artwork imagery and its position at the one hand, and metalwork and networks of exchange and alternate of either fabrics and ideas at the different, are thought of. smooth and historic perceptions of rock paintings are mentioned, specifically the altering perceptions that experience constructed in the course of virtually a hundred and fifty years of documented examine.

Picturing the Bronze Age relies on a global workshop with an identical identify held in Tanum, Sweden in October 2012.

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