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Objects and attitudes: the Lusatian impact on the material and mental culture in south-eastern Sweden in the late Bronze Age

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2017

Tom Carlsson
Tom Carlsson*
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RAÄ, UV Linköping, Järnvägsgatan 8, S-582 22 Linköping, Sweden
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Abstract

This paper examines the cultural influences from the European continent on the material culture of Scandinavian local communities during the late Bronze Age. A connection between the cremation ritual and pottery as ritual equipment is claimed. The paper suggests a close link between religious ritual and the elaborate pottery types that characterise the late Bronze Age; a connection between material culture and mental ideas. The emphasis on pottery during the Bronze Age is thus a product of the change in meaning for pottery. The new pottery styles have an embodied symbolic meaning connected to the new religion with its different ideas and rites. There is also a change from a domestic sphere to a ritual one.

Dieser Beitrag untersucht die kulturellen Einflüsse vom europäischen Kontinent auf die materielle Kultur lokaler skandinavischer Gemeinschaften der späten Bronzezeit. Es wird eine Verbindung behauptet zwischen den Einäscherungsritualen und der Keramik als ritueller Ausrüstung. Der Beitrag legt eine enge Verbindung nahe zwischen religiösem Ritual und den kunstvollen Keramiktypen, die für die späte Bronzezeit typisch sind, d. h. eine Verbindung zwischen materieller Kultur und geistigen Ideen. Die Betonung von Keramik während der Bronzezeit ist demnach ein Produkt des Wandels der Bedeutung von Keramik. Die neuen Keramikstile haben eine verkörperte symbolische Bedeutung, die verbunden ist mit der neuen Religion und ihren anderen Ideen und Riten. Es findet außerdem ein Wandel statt von der häuslichen zur rituellen Sphäre.

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Journal of European Archaeology , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , Autumn 1995 , pp. 43 - 58
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Copyright © European Association of Archaeologists 

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