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Contents 8 Acknowledgements 11 Introduction 12 Chapter summary 14 PART I 16 1. Rock art in prehistoric Scandinavia 17 Dating rock art and issues of chronology 18 Mesolithic art 18 Neolithic art 21 Bronze Age art 22 Early Iron Age art 24 Ships across different media 26 Bronze razors 26 Ship settings 26 Key interpretations: trends and themes 30 2. Rock art in a maritime landscape 37 Relocating the sea 37 Bronze Age environmental change 38 Bronze Age environmental perceptions 39 Rock art in a maritime landscape: key theories 40 PART II 48 3. Data collection and methodology 49 Methodology 49 Data structures and integration process 49 Dates 50 Motifs 51 Motif quantities 52 Motif categories 53 Site study areas 55 ScanGIS map data 57 Summary 59 4. Ships and water 60 Motif distributions 60 Motif occurrences 62 Motifs and water 63 Scandinavia 64 Uppland: central eastern Sweden 85 North Trøndelag and South Trøndelag: central Norway 93 Østfold and Bohuslän: southeast Norway/western Sweden 100 Hordaland and Rogaland: southwest Norway 108 Denmark and Skåne (detail of Simris): southern Scandinavia 115 Ships and water: data summary 121 Part III 128 5. Rock art, agency and environmental change 12

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Author
Courtney Nimura
Publisher
Casemate Publishers; Oxbow Books
Published
2015
Language
EN
Category
nonfiction

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