Late Bronze Age Flintworking from Ritual Zones in Southern Scandinavia

This book is devoted to flintworking encountered in the so-called cult houses and ritual zones from the Late Bronze Age in southern Scandinavia, where thousands of barrows were built in the period from the Neolithic to the end of the Early Bronze Age. Considerable numbers of the barrows are still distinctly visible in the landscape of the area today. In the Late Bronze Age, the cult houses, as well as other ritual constructions in various forms, were built into the older barrows’ mounds or were located on their edges. The excavated material from Jutland abounds in flint artefacts, which nearly always constitute the predominating category of finds.

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. On The Phenomenon Of Flintworking At The End Of The Bronze Age And Beginning Of The Iron Age

2. Temporal And Spatial Framework. Concept Of The Work. Methods

3. Cult Houses. Definition. Idea. Chronology

4. Specification Of Source Information

5. Diversity Of Cult Features From The Late Bronze Age In Jutland

6. Cult Features With Flint Assemblages From Northern Jutland

7. Issues In Flintworking Technology And Typology

8. Examination Of Wear Traces On Flint Artefacts From Ritual Zones

9. Grydehøj Cult House. Results Of Biological Analyses

10. Ritual Flintworking

11. Concluding Remarks

Bibliography

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