Bronzization

Heide Wrobel Nørgaard is a Danish-based trained goldsmith and archaeologist whose expertise lies in the combination of scientific methods with traditional archaeological approaches. She is a specialist in the material culture of the Bronze and Early Iron Ages in Northern Europe with a focus on ancient craftsmanship and craft organisation. Nørgaard is curator and researcher at Moesgaard Museum and Aarhus University. She is chair of the European Association of Archaeologists’ newly established Archaeometallurgy Community and recipient of several national and international research grants.Samantha S. Reiter is Senior Researcher in Osteoarchaeology at the National Museum of Denmark. She is co-editor of The European Archaeologist newsletter, a co-chair of the European Association of Archaeologists’ storytelling Community (StoryArch) and a graduate of the Danish Royal Academy of Science’s Communication Academy. She has worked and excavated throughout Europe as well as the Near East, USA and Caribbean in various contexts, though has focussed primarily on European prehistory (especially the Bronze Age).

• List of Figures Tabula Gratulatoria    Introduction: Bronze, the Bronze Age and Bronzization – Samantha Scott Reiter and Heide W. Nørgaard  Helle Vandkilde – A groundbreaking pioneer in Danish archaeology – Katrine Balsgaard Juul Part 1: A Globalised Bronze Age – theoretical reflections on the concept of bronzizationChapter 1: Written in blood? An exploration of the possibility of European Identity in the Bronze Age through examination of political habitus, origin myth, material culture, economics, mobility, aDNA, and linguistics – Samantha S. Reiter Chapter 2: Bronze times, bronze minds: Thinking about ‘Bronzization’ – Laura Ahlqvist Chapter 3: Local practices and global processes: Cornwall in the Bronze Age world – Catherine J. Frieman Chapter 4: Shaft Grave period Greece in the interconnected world of Bronze Age Europe: The need for a ‘glocalized’ perspective – Joseph MaranChapter 5: Did the Egtved girl feel homesick? Reflections on the unanswerable questions to the Bronze Age – Marie-Louise Stig SørensenChapter 6: Coping with crisis: diverging economic and social trajectories in the Nordic Bronze Age – Kristian Kristiansen  Part 2: A Mobile Bronze Age – the Archaeological and Scientific Evidence of MobilityChapter 7: Bronzization and the people: Bioarchaeological perspectives on Bronze Age individuals and populations in Southern Sweden – Anna TornbergChapter 8: Nothing comes from nowhere. A discussion of the European Bronze Age’s cross-cultural communication, transfer of knowledge and trans-cultural artefacts – Paulina Suchowska-DuckeChapter 9: Late Bronze Age ‘Horsification’ connects south Scandinavia, Italy, and Greece – Flemming KaulChapter 10: Bronze Age Russia: cultural receptivity and identity in the Yamnaya and Catacomb communities of the Lower Don region – Dalia Pokutta, Dmitry Zenyuk and Kerstin LidénChapter 11: A network of watercrafts: New perspectives on the Bronze Age boat from Varpelev, Denmark – Ole Thirup Kastholm and Morten RavnChapter 12: Narrating mobility and marital practices in the Early Bronze Age – Philipp W. Stockhammer Part 3: Bronzification Chapter 13: On the diffusion of technological knowledge in prehistory – Svend HansenChapter 14: The Copper Age in the western Baltic – Anne Birgitte Gebauer, Mads Lou Bendtsen and Lasse Vilien SørensenChapter 15: How the ‘bronzification’ of Scandinavia happened: From travelling bronze smiths to communities of practice – Lene Melheim and Heide W. NørgaardChapter 16: Gilded Bronze Networks? The golden artefacts from Arildskov Boest, Denmark – Constanze RassmannChapter 17a: The Nuragic civilization (1800-720 BCE): a fascinating Bronze Age culture in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea – Valentina Matta Chapter 17b: Reflections on four Sardinian bronzes – Søren Dietz Chapter 18: Bronze to Scandinavia – Heide W. Nørgaard, Johan Ling, Daniel Berger, Ernst Pernicka, Zofia Stos Gale and Lene Melheim Part 4: The Coded Bronze Age – Society, Value and WorldviewChapter 19: Take me to your leader: Authority and inequality in Late Bronze Age Britain – Mike Parker PearsonChapter 20: Gender as material expression in the Early and Late Bronze Age compared – Louise FeldingChapter 21: What bronze can’t buy? The morality and ethics of metalwork destruction and deposition in Bronze Age Britain – Neil Wilkin Chapter 22: Fragmenting metalwork in Late Bronze Age Europe – a secondary products revolution?  – Anna Sörman Chapter 23: Images and numbers – Who are the anthropomorphic figures depicted in Nordic Bronze Age rock art? – Christian HornChapter 24: The prince and the myth of the serpent – Some new thoughts on the origin of Nordic Bronze Age mythology within the Nebra hoard – Harald Meller Part 5: The Lived Bronze Age – of Settlements and BurialsChapter 25: Burial mounds and the social practices of the Central European Early Bronze Age – Johannes Müller and Janusz CzebreszukChapter 26: Mound durée: a manifestation of a timeless aristocratic ethos? – Casper SørensenChapter 27: Burning flames – more than barrow building – Jutta KneiselChapter 28: Sampling at Lista, Norway: Inconspicuous fragments of large-scale agrarian history – Christopher PrescottChapter 29: From architectural experiments to timber-consuming monuments: The changing building traditions at the dawn of the Nordic Bronze Age – Silja Arnfridardottir Christensen and Martin Egelund PoulsenChapter 30: The end of an era: a village from the end of the Bronze Age – Tobias Torfing, Anna Thusgaard Kristensen and Jesper Olsen