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A completely normal practice: the emergence of selective metalwork deposition in Denmark, north-west Germany, and the Netherlands between 2350-1500 BC
This book aims to acquire a better understanding of these ideas and conventions. By systematically investigating the objects and places that people selected for metalwork depositions, the logic behind the practice of selective metalwork deposition is unravelled.
This book focuses specifically on the emergence of the practice in Denmark, northern Germany, and the Netherlands, a non-metalliferous region that has not been studied as a whole before,...Show moreIn Bronze Age Europe, an enormous amount of metalwork was buried in the ground and never retrieved. Patterns in these finds show that this was a deliberate practice: people systematically deposited valuable metal objects in specific places in the landscape, even in non-metalliferous regions. Although this practice seems puzzling from our modern perspective, these patterns demonstrate that this is not simply a matter of irrational human behaviour. Instead, there were supra-regionally shared ideas and conventions behind this practice.
This book aims to acquire a better understanding of these ideas and conventions. By systematically investigating the objects and places that people selected for metalwork depositions, the logic behind the practice of selective metalwork deposition is unravelled.
This book focuses specifically on the emergence of the practice in Denmark, northern Germany, and the Netherlands, a non-metalliferous region that has not been studied as a whole before, despite striking similarities in the archaeological record. Starting from the first introduction of metal, the emergence and development of selective metalwork depositions is examined and followed over time. In addition to a new chronological and geographical depth to research on metalwork depositions, this book provides a detailed catalogue of the metalwork from the research area.
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- All authors
- Visser, K.M.
- Supervisor
- Fontijn, D.R.
- Co-supervisor
- Bourgeois, Q.P.J.
- Committee
- Vandkilde, H.; Versluys, M.J.; Kuijpers, M.H.G.; Fokkens, H.; Gijn, A.L. van; Arnoldussen, S.
- Qualification
- Doctor (dr.)
- Awarding Institution
- Department of World Archaeology, Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University
- Date
- 2021-12-09
- Publisher
- Leiden: Sidestone Press
- ISBN (print)
- 9789464280159
- ISBN (electronic)
- 9789464280173
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- This research was part of the Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) funded project ‘Economies of Destruction’ (no. 277 60 001)