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A remote analogy?: from Central Australian tjurunga to Irish Early Bronze Age axes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2015
Abstract
Our interpretation of Bronze Age metalwork is based, for the most part, on common-sense ideas of what is functional and what is not, which items were intended to be recovered, which were gifts to other worlds. A more considered source of analogy than our limited experience is available at a certain distance. Remote in terms of measured miles, the analogy is nevertheless effective in expanding current definitions of how ritual is expressed through material culture.
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