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Sagaholm : North European Bronze Age rock art and burial ritual

Title: Sagaholm : North European Bronze Age rock art and burial ritual / Joakim Goldhahn.
Author: Goldhahn, Joakim
Publication: Oxford ; Havertown, PA : Oxbow Books, 2016.

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Description

viii, 140 pages : illustrations (some color), maps; 28 cm

Summary

"Major new appraisal of the symbolism and meaning of a major group of Middle Bronze Age rock art engravings from a well-known Swedish burial context which considers these engravings as an important part of burial ritual, linked to certain beliefs about the regeneration of life. 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"--Provided by publisher.

Uniform Title

Sagaholm. English

Alternative Title

Sagaholm.
North European Bronze Age rock art and burial ritual
Bronze Age rock art and burial ritual

Subjects

Genre/Form

History.

Note

Originally published in Swedish in 1999 as: Sagaholm : hällristningar och gravritual.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-136) and index.

Contents

Foreword / by Richard Bradley -- Prologue -- Abstract -- Introduction -- An antiquarian biography -- In the name of science -- The motifs -- The monument -- Chronology -- Narrative and metaphors -- Beyond Sagaholm -- Return to Sagaholm.

Call Number

JFF 16-2164

ISBN

9781785702648
1785702645

LCCN

2016031760
40026642554

OCLC

935193740

Author

Goldhahn, Joakim, author.

Title

Sagaholm : North European Bronze Age rock art and burial ritual / Joakim Goldhahn.

Publisher

Oxford ; Havertown, PA : Oxbow Books, 2016.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-136) and index.

Other Form:

Online version: Goldhahn, Joakim, author. Sagaholm Oxford ; Havertown, PA : Oxbow Books, 2016 9781785702655 (DLC) 2016036918

Other Standard Identifier

40026642554

Research Call Number

JFF 16-2164

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