A completely normal practice

Marieke Visser • Boek • paperback

• Samenvatting
  In Bronze Age Europe, an enormous amount of metalwork was buried in the ground and never retrieved. Patterns in the archaeological finds show that this was a deliberate practice: people systematically deposited valuable metal objects in specific places in the landscape, even in non-metalliferous regions. Although this practice seems strange and puzzling from our modern perspective, these patterns demonstrate that it was not simply a matter of irrational human behaviour. Instead, there were supra-regionally shared ideas and conventions behind this practice. This book aims to acquire a better understanding of these ideas and conventions. By systematically investigating the objects and places that people selected for metalwork depositions, the logic behind the practice of selective metalwork deposition is unravelled. This research focuses specifically on the emergence of the practice in Denmark, northern Germany, and the Netherlands, a region without sources of copper and tin that has not been studied as a whole before, despite striking similarities in the archaeological record. Starting from the first introduction of metal to the research area, the emergence and development of selective metalwork depositions is examined and followed over time. For thousands of years, deliberately depositing metal objects in the landscape was a completely normal thing to do. We are now beginning to catch a glimpse of the logic behind this human behaviour. This research does not only add a new chronological and geographical depth to the field of metalwork depositions, but it also provides a detailed catalogue of the metalwork from the research area.
• Productinformatie
  Binding : Paperback
  Distributievorm : Boek (print, druk)
  Formaat : 180mm x 256mm
  Aantal pagina's : 290
  Uitgeverij : Sidestone Press Dissertations
  ISBN : 9789464280159
  Datum publicatie : 12-2021
  
• Inhoudsopgave
  PART I. INTRODUCTION AND METHODOLOGY CHAPTER 1. Introduction 1.1 Introduction: the Torsted hoard 1.2 The Torsted hoard: not an isolated case 1.3 Conventional interpretation models of hoards 1.4 Ritual interpretations of Bronze Age depositions and the Scandinavian research tradition 1.5 The Scandinavian school of archaeology: emergence and characteristics 1.6 An economic approach to ritual depositions: ritual consumption of metalwork 1.7 Ritual interpretations: problems and challenges 1.8 Interpreting Bronze Age depositions: the European debate 1.9 Approach: patterns and practices 1.10 State of affairs 1.11 Aim and research questions CHAPTER 2. Methodology and data 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Theoretical framework 2.3 Data selection and collection 2.4 Quality of the data 2.5 Database structure and variables 2.6 Network science 2.7 Research area 2.8 Chronology 2.9 Structure of the thesis PART II. DATA AND PATTERNS CHAPTER 3. Selective deposition before 2000 BC 3.1. Introduction 3.2. The introduction, disappearance, and reappearance of metal: a thousand-year gap? 3.3. Selective deposition in the Funnelbeaker Culture: an overview 3.4. Selective deposition in the Single Grave Culture: an overview 3.5. Patterns in selective deposition in the Bell Beaker period 3.6. Discussion CHAPTER 4. Patterns in selective metalwork deposition in LN II 4.1. Introduction 4.2. Flint and metal daggers 4.3. Halberds 4.4. Axes and chisels 4.5. Ornaments 4.6. Unconventional hoards – unconventional events 4.7. Discussion CHAPTER 5. Patterns in selective metalwork deposition in period IA 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Flint and metal daggers 5.3 Axes and chisels 5.4 Spearheads 5.5 Ornaments 5.6 Ösenringe 5.7 Hoards: unconventional events 5.8 Discussion CHAPTER 6. Patterns in selective metalwork deposition in period IB 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Flint and metal daggers and swords 6.3 Axes and chisels 6.4 Spearheads 6.5 Ornaments 6.6 Hoards and burials 6.7 Discussion PART III. CONCLUSION CHAPTER 7. A completely normal practice: selective metalwork deposition through the ages 7.1 ‘Deviating beginnings’ 7.2 The gap? 7.3 The reinvention 7.4 The big rise 7.5 Prelude to the finale 7.6 The grand finale: the Nordic Bronze Age and Sögel-Wohlde period 7.7 Epilogue CHAPTER 8. The selection of objects: cultural biographies 8.1 Objects: developments over time 8.2 Foreign vs. local styles 8.3 Persistent vs. new objects 8.3.2 New objects 8.4 The use lives of objects 8.5 Conclusion CHAPTER 9. Burying things with the dead: creating an image 9.1 Barrows and metalwork: social inequality? 9.2 Creating an image of the dead: a case study 9.3 Burial gifts and conventions: an overview 9.4 LN II: from burials to wetlands… 9.5 Period IA: …and back again to burials 9.6 Period IB: warrior burials and regional practices 9.7 Conclusion CHAPTER 10. ‘Non-burial-gifts’: placing things in the landscape 10.1 The selection of landscape settings: an overview 10.2 Hoards vs. single object deposits 10.3 Hoards in LN II: international contacts and the community 10.4 Hoards in period IA: regional practices and the community 10.5 Hoards in period IB: shared ideas and regional interpretations 10.6 Conclusion Epilogue: a completely normal practice References Nederlandse samenvatting (Dutch summary) Acknowledgements
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