Birds in the Bronze Age - A North European Perspective

Shows how archaeologists gain knowledge about past ontologies, and explores the role that birds played in Bronze Age economy, ritual and religion.

List of contents

Part I. Liftoff: 1. Strange birds; 2. Bird divination in the ancient world; 3. The Hvidegard burial revisited; Part II. Birdscapes: 4. Bronze birds; 5. Birds of the living; 6. Birds of the dead; 7. Birds of the rocks; Part III. Intra-actions: 8. Rethinking Bronze Age worldings; 9. The animacy of the rocks; 10. Bird intra-actions; 11. Cave birds: becoming bird.

About the author

Joakim Goldhahn is Professor of Archaeology at Linnaeus University, Sweden. An internationally known author on the Bronze Age in northern Europe, he has published more than twenty books and anthologies, as well as and numerous articles on topics such as Northern European rock art, Bronze Age burial rituals, bronze and stone smiths as ritual specialists, and war and memory.

Summary

This book provides new insights about the relationship between humans and birds in Northern Europe during the Bronze Age. It argues that birds as well as humans have an agency of their own which was contemplated in everyday practices as well as in histories, legends, myths and Bronze Age cosmologies.

Product details

• Authors: Joakim Goldhahn, Goldhahn Joakim
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2019
• EAN: 9781108499095
• ISBN: 978-1-108-49909-5
• No. of pages: 446
• Subjects: Guides > Nature; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Northern Europe, Scandinavia, Archaeology by period / region, bronze age, Prehistoric archaeology, Environmental archaeology