Mapping human mobility during the third and second millennia BC in present-day Denmark

We present results of the largest multidisciplinary human mobility investigation to date of skeletal remains from present-day Denmark encompassing the 3rd and 2nd millennia BC. Through a multi-analytical approach based on 88 individuals from 37 different archaeological localities in which we combine strontium isotope and radiocarbon analyses together with anthropological investigations, we explore whether there are significant changes in human mobility patterns during this period. Overall, our data suggest that mobility of people seems to have been continuous throughout the 3rd and 2nd millennia BC. However, our data also indicate a clear shift in mobility patterns from around 1600 BC onwards, with a larger variation in the geographical origin of the migrants, and potentially including more distant regions. This shift occurred during a transition period at the beginning of the Nordic Bronze Age at a time when society flourished, expanded and experienced an unprecedented economic growth, suggesting that these aspects were closely related

Bronze Age Identities : Costume, Conflict and Contact in Northern Europe 1600-1300 BC

This dissertation deals with male and female social identities during the Middle Bronze Age (1600-1300 BC) in southern Scandinavia and northern Germany. South Scandinavian Bronze Age research has traditionally focused on the male sphere, while women have seldom been seriously considered or analysed in terms of their roles, power or influences on society. This study addresses the imbalance through discussing the evidence for gender relations, social structures and identity. The topic will be approached using case studies from different areas of northern Europe and from a variety of angles (e.g. costume and appearance, age, violence, long distance contacts), always drawing on the rich material from burials. How people presented themselves varied not only between different areas, but also over time. Groups that treated material culture in a fairly similar way during Period IB (c. 1600-1500 BC) start treating it in different ways during Period II (c. 1500-1300 BC). In southern Scandinavia during Period II the material culture is fairly similar on the whole, but the different geographical groups use the artefacts in different ways. The level of violence seems to have fluctuated in the area during the Middle Bronze Age, with some areas showing more signs of violence at certain times. On the other hand the view on ageing seems to have been fairly similar over a large part of central and northern Europe, and from age 14 one seems to have been regarded as an adult. The dissertation also shows that long distance contacts were important and wide-ranging, and people seem to have moved across large areas of Europe, even if the visible exogamous marriage pattern seems to have decreased in distance from Period IB to Period II. In conclusion, although there seems to have been a general European pattern concerning e.g. the view on age, the archaeological record reveals many local variations in how this was expressed, e.g. on the body

Bogs, bones and bodies: the deposition of human remains in northern European mires (9000 BC–AD 1900)

Bog body studies have focused on rich individual biographies, largely neglecting broader spatial and temporal trends. Here, the authors present the first large-scale overview of well-dated human remains from northern European mires, based on a database of 266 sites and more than 1000 bog mummies, bog skeletons and disarticulated/partial skeletal remains. Analysis demonstrates fluctuating depositions of human remains between the Early Neolithic and early modern times, significant and shifting spatial clustering, and variation in site characteristics (e.g. preservation, use frequency, cause of death). The results emphasise previously unrecognised activity phases and highlight issues with categorising motives, especially around ritual violence

Counterpoint : essays in archaeology and heritage studies in honour of Professor Kristian Kristiansen /

Includes bibliographical references.A heritage of conflict, and conflicts of heritage / John Carman -- Wrapping up. Female clothing and jewellery in the nordic Bronze Age / Kristian Kristiansen.Catchments, settlement chambers and demography: case studies and general theory in the Greek landscape from prehistory to early modern times / John Bintliff -- Expecting the unexpected: Százhalombatta-Földvár surprises once again / Magdolna Vicze -- Seeds from the fire: charred plant remains from Kristian Kristiansen's excavations in Sweden, Denmark, Hungary And Sicily / Hans-Peter Stika and Andreas G. Heiss -- 'Zone 4' - Bronze Age settlement in Thy, north-west Denmark: an update on an old discussion about a boom and possible subsequent crisis / Jens-Henrik Bech and Karen Margrethe Hornstrup -- Herder communities: longhouses, cattle and landscape organization in the Nordic early and middle Bronze Age / Mads Kähler Holst and Marianne Rasmussen -- Fields / Chris Gosden -- The nature of focal places / Joel Berglund -- Rituals, hoards and wetlands. Zoomorphic sceptres and the unicorn / Leo S. Klejn -- Bronze age horses: beyond dualist explanations / Kristin Armstrong Oma --^Expansion and social change at the time of Varna / John Chapman -- What distinguishes Caucasian megaliths from European ones? / Viktor Trifonov -- Bronze Age megalomania / Henrik Thrane -- Making history: ritual variation in pre-Christian Viking age reuse of Bronze Age monuments in Halland, south-western Sweden / Tore Artelius -- Materiality and social concerns. The 3M: materiality, materialism and materialization / Timothy Earle -- Cosmologies in clay: Swedish helmet bowls in the middle Bronze Age of the Carpathian Basin / Joanna Sofaer -- In small things remembered: scale, materiality and miniatures in the British early Bronze Age / Andrew Jones -- Drinking in times of crisis: alcohol and social change in late Bronze Age Italy / Cristiano Iaia -- The culture of the early Iron Age in the south-western regions of Poland in the light of new research / Bogusław Gediga -- Having an axe to grind: an examination of tradition in the Sicilian Iron Age / Christian Mühlenbock --^Golden nodes - linking memory to time and place / Elisabeth Arwill-Nordbladh -- A choreography of furniture: the art of sitting, standing up and lying down / Jarl Nordbladh -- The playful archaeologist: an approach to gaming remains from Bronze Age Mohenjo-Daro / Elke Rogersdotter -- A sword for the chief - a conversation with Kristian / Marie Louise Stig Sørensen -- Technology and craftsmanship. Missed innovation: the earliest copper daggers in northern central Europe and southern Scandinavia / Johannes Müller -- The flintknapper and the bronzesmith / Deborah Olausson -- A zooarchaeological perspective on the origins of metallurgy in the north European plain: butchering marks on bones from central Poland / Arkadiusz Marciniak And Haskel Greenfield -- Travels, transmissions and transformations - and textiles / Marie-Louise Nosch, Ulla Mannering, Eva Andersson Strand and Karin Margarita Frei --^Lady of the battle and of the horse: on anthropomorphic gods and their cult in late Bronze Age Scandinavia / Jeanette Varberg -- Budsene for better and for worse: diffractions of the lives of farmer women in the late Bronze Age / Tove Hjørungdal -- Bronze Age voyaging and cosmologies in the making: the helmets from Viksø revisited / Helle Vandkilde -- Bronze Age hoards and their role in social structure: a case study from south-west Zealand / Svend Hansen -- An archaeological outline of ritual dynamics and social space / Alexander Gramsch and Thomas Meier -- Violent death and wetlands: skeletal remains from Gotland / Sophie Bergerbrant, Christina Fredengren, Petra Molnar and Camilla Löfqvist -- From foot to fact: new light on the Fræer bog find / Ulla Mannering and Niels Lynnerup -- Symbols of identity: a phenomenon from the migration period based on an example from Finnestorp / Bengt Nordqvist --^Leaving safe harbours: movement to immobility, homogeneity to diversification. A comparative archaeological sequence from the western Pacific / Matthew Spriggs -- Mysterious raw material from the far north: amber in Mycenaean culture / Janusz Czebreszuk -- The importance of foreign young men / Anders Andrén -- Problematizing the past. Genes and agents: closing the theoretical gap / John C. Barrett -- Human-thing evolution: the selection and persistence of traits at Çatalhöyük, Turkey / Ian Hodder -- Beaker period Europe - fighting, feuding or the enemy within? / Nick Thorpe -- Italy in late Bronze Age europe: from margin to counterpoint / Emma Blake -- Recurrent themes: indo-europeans in Norwegian archaeology / Christopher Prescott -- Collapse or resilience? Archaeology, metaphor and global warming / Orri Vésteinsson -- On rivers, mountains, seas and ideas - or what vast spaces and long lines mean to culture and history / Carsten Paludan-Müller --^Petrographic, LA-ICP-MS and XRD analyses of Hallstatt ceramics from a Scythian age settlement in north Hungary / Attila Kreiter, Szabolcs Czifra, Éva Széles, Mária Tóth and Orsolya Viktorik -- A Bronze Age ship made of stone: record and analysis of a ship setting from Lau, Gotland / Peter Skoglund and Joakim Wehlin -- Ships in stone: ship-like stone settings, war canoes and sailing ships in Bronze Age southern Scandinavia / Magnus Artursson -- There was snow in the Bronze Age - the role of winter in spreading innovations in the Bronze Age / Jussi-Pekka Taavitsainen And Timo Kuokkanen -- Travel and transmission. Boundaries, flows and connectivities: mobility and stasis in the Bronze Age / Michael Rowlands and Johan Ling -- Archaeology from the Dutch twilight zone / Harry Fokkens, Patrick Valentijn and David Fontijn -- Dilmun: beyond the southern frontier of Mesopotamia / Flemming Hojlund --^Rock art. Deer, goats, suns, faces and geometric designs: symbols of power in prehistoric pottery from Atlantic Europe / M. Pilar Prieto Martínez -- Violence and virility / Christian Horn -- Footprints on the rock faces - following the tracks of cosmological archetypes and pictograms for millennia of prehistory / Ulf Bertilsson -- Rock art ships as a method for dating / Lasse Bengtsson -- Rock art, agency and society / Per Cornell and Johan Ling -- Round and round we go - with concentric circles / Flemming Kaul -- An epos carved in stone: three heroes, one giant twin, and a cosmic task / Lene Melheim -- Graves and burial monuments. Setting her even straighter: further notes on the osteology and necrodynamics of the mesolithic burial from Barum, Scania, Sweden / Torbjörn Ahlström -- Local logic, passage graves and the neolithic landscape of Falbygden / Tony Axelsson -- Towards a border - traces of megalithic ritual in the Norwegian fjord country / Einar Østmo --^Tabula gratulatoria -- Preface -- Introduction -- Kristian Kristiansen bibliography -- Beyond academia. Family life / Niels Hedeager Kristiansen -- Six periodic encounters with Kristian Kristiansen / Joakim Goldhahn -- On the organization of European Archaeology / Willem J.H. Willems -- 'The EAA is up and running': behind the scenes of the inaugural meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists / Predrag Novaković -- Landscape, demography and subsistence economy. Changes during the late mesolithic in the central Scandinavian inland / Per Persson -- The stone age flood in Denmark and Mesopotamia / Anders Fischer -- Vegetarians or meat eaters? Enamel [delta]13c and neolithic diet at the Frälsegården Passage Tomb, central Sweden / Karl-Göran Sjögren and T. Douglas Price -- The steppe and the Caucasus during the Bronze age: mutual relationships and mutual enrichments / Natalia Shishlina --^Tales from the beech forest: laser scanning project at Monte Cimino (Italy) Hillfort / Serena Sabatini, Christopher Sevara, Martin Fera, Jakob Kainz and Petra Schneidhofer -- Construction archaeology, fieldwork and theory / Marianne Lönn and Håkan Petersson -- Restoration of megalithic tombs in Denmark / Torben Dehn, Svend Illum Hansen and Jørgen Westphal -- The route to a history of the cultural landscape: a Danish record of prehistoric and historic roads, tracks and related structures / Jette Bang -- Heritage studies. Cultural heritage: values and ownership / Zbigniew Kobyliński -- The management of heritage sites - in need of a vital spark? / Maria Persson and Anita Synnestvedt -- From nuclear missile hangar to pigsty: an archaeological photo-essay on the 1962 world crisis / Mats Burström, Anders Gustafsson and Håkan Karlsson -- Heritage futures and the future of heritage / Cornelius Holtorf and Anders Högberg --^Theoria est ancilla rationis politicae? The Neolithic revolution in the archaeological research of socialist Hungary / Eszter Bánffy -- Venezuela: revolution, history and cultural identity / Iraida Vargas Arenas and Mario Sanoja Obediente -- Sherlock against Lestrade: a study in scale / Fredrik Fahlander -- Archaeology in the making: the human face of pasts-in the-present / Michael Shanks -- Practices of archaeology. Time traveller: Montelius and the British Bronze Age after 100 years / Richard Bradley -- Antiquarianism reconsidered: semi-professional antiquarians and antiquarian field practice -- In Sweden in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries / Ola Wolfhechel Jensen and Åsa Jensen -- Visiting museums - a personal story / Lise Bender Jørgensen -- Reflections and hypotheses on underwater prehistory in the central Mediterranean / Sebastiano Tusa --