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Danish razors and Swedish rocks: Cosmology and the Bronze Age landscape

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Richard Bradley
Richard Bradley*
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Department of Archaeology, University of Reading, PO Box 227, Reading RG6 6AB, UK (Email: R.J.Bradley@reading.ac.uk)
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A recent study has suggested that the decorated Bronze Age metalwork of South Scandinavia depicted the path of the sun through the sky during the day and through the sea at night. At different stages in its journey it was accompanied by a horse or a ship. Similar images are found in prehistoric rock art, and this paper argues that, whilst there are important differences between the images in these two media, they also signal some of the same ideas.

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metalworkrock artlandscapecosmologyScandinavia
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Antiquity , Volume 80 , Issue 308 , 1 June 2006 , pp. 372 - 389
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2006

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