A completely normal practice: The Emergence of Selective Metalwork Deposition in Denmark, North-west Germany, and the Netherlands Between 2350-1500 Bc - Hardcover

Visser, Marieke

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9464280166 ISBN 13: 9789464280166

Verlag: Sidestone Press Dissertations, 2022

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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. Contents PART I. INTRODUCTION AND METHODOLOGY CHAPTER 1. Introduction CHAPTER 2. Methodology and data PART II. DATA AND PATTERNS CHAPTER 3. Selective deposition before 2000 BC CHAPTER 4. Patterns in selective metalwork deposition in LN II CHAPTER 5. Patterns in selective metalwork deposition in period IA CHAPTER 6. Patterns in selective metalwork deposition in period IB PART III. CONCLUSION CHAPTER 7. A completely normal practice: selective metalwork deposition through the ages CHAPTER 8. The selection of objects: cultural biographies CHAPTER 9. Burying things with the dead: creating an image CHAPTER 10. 'Non-burial-gifts': placing things in the landscape Epilogue: a completely normal practice References Nederlandse samenvatting (Dutch summary) Acknowledgements

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Dr Marieke Visser studied Scandinavian Languages and Cultures at Amsterdam University, specialising in rune inscriptions in Sweden, and Archaeology at Stockholm University, where she specialised in the Prehistory of Northern Europe and Osteoarchaeology. In 2015, she started her PhD at Leiden University within the framework of the NWO-funded project Economies of Destruction, the results of which are presented in this book.

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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.

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• Verlag: Sidestone Press Dissertations
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 9464280166
• ISBN 13: 9789464280166
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 270
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