Recycling Ideas: Bronze Age Metal Production In Southern Norway (Bar International)

The aim of the study is to examine technological, cognitive and symbolic aspects of metallurgy in southern Norway from the Bronze Age (i.e. 1700-500 cal. BC to the beginning of the Late Neolothic, i.e. c. 2400 cal. BC. Two sets of ideas are scrutinized: 1) ideas that have governed and still govern archaeological concepts of the Bronze Age, and 2) ideas that moulded Bronze Age mentality, arising, it is argued, from physical experience with metallurgy.

• • Author: Anne Lene Melheim
• • Publisher: British Archaeological Reports
• • Publication Date: Apr 30, 2015
• • Number of Pages: 279 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1407313681
• • ISBN-13: 9781407313689