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A Land Apart: Environments and Rock Art in Northernmost Bohuslän, Sweden

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

John Coles
John Coles
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Fursdon Mill Cottage, Cadbury, Exeter EX5 5JS, UK. E-mail: .
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Abstract

This paper focuses on a distinctive region of granite ridges and forests in the parish of Hogdal, well north of the World Heritage rock art area in Bohuslän. In the later second millennium BC, a wide lake, left by the receding sea, provided the setting here for an arc of rock-carving sites along its shoreline. A second group of sites lies near the entrance to a major fjord to the south. The two areas contain Bronze Age imagery remarkable for its variety of scale, subject and artistry. The paper describes recording and analysis work undertaken in 2006 and 2007, offers commentaries on changing environments, chronology, site conditions and preservation, and provides a discussion of Bronze Age imagery and society.

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Research Article
Information
The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 88 , September 2008 , pp. 1 - 36
Copyright
Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 2008

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