Contrasts of the Nordic Bronze Age

Essays in Honour of Christopher Prescott

Edited by K. I. Austovoll Edited by M. H. Eriksen Edited by P. D. Fredriksen Edited by L. Melheim Edited by L. Prosch-Danielsen Edited by L. Skogstrand

Book cover: Contrasts of the Nordic Bronze Age

Extent: 284, 284 pages

Publisher: Brepols Publishers

Subjects: European Prehistory

Series: Archaeology of Northern Europe

Series volume number: 1

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(January 2021)

ISBN: 9782503588773

Price: $138.00

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This innovative volume draws on a range of materials and places to explore the disparate facets of Bronze Age society across the Nordic region through the key themes of time and trajectory, rituals and everyday life, and encounters and identities.


This innovative volume draws on a range of materials and places to explore the disparate facets of Bronze Age society across the Nordic region through the key themes of time and trajectory, rituals and everyday life, and encounters and identities. The Bronze Age in Northern Europe was a place of diversity and contrast, an era that saw movements and changes not just of peoples, but of cultures, beliefs, and socio-political systems, and that led to the forging of ontological ideas materialized in landscapes, bodies, and technologies. Drawing on a range of materials and places, the innovative contributions gathered here in this volume explore the disparate facets of Bronze Age society across the Nordic region through the key themes of time and trajectory, rituals and everyday life, and encounters and identities. The contributions explore how and why society evolved over time, from the changing nature of sea travel to new technologies in house building, and from advances in lithic production to evolving burial practices and beliefs in the afterlife. This edited collection honours the ground-breaking research of Professor Christopher Prescott, an outstanding figure in the study of the Bronze Age north, and it takes as its inspiration the diversity, interdisciplinarity, and vitality of his own research in order to make a major new contribution to the field, and to shed new light on a Bronze Age full of contrasts and connections.

  • Edited by K. I. Austovoll
  • Edited by M. H. Eriksen
  • Edited by P. D. Fredriksen
  • Edited by L. Melheim
  • Edited by L. Prosch-Danielsen
  • Edited by L. Skogstrand