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Of maces and men. Symbols in a landscape of cultural diversity

In English

Författare

Summary, in English

Norms and conventions have applied to most of our material culture. This seems to be especially obvious regarding Neolithic flint axes. The distinction between the unpolished and the polished flint axe is one aspect of the symbolism that is inherent in or ascribed to the axes when they become maces, with an important position in social life. The individuals and the society become not only owners of axes but also holders of maces. Maces and man became interacting entities. Never, or very rarely, was an unpolished axe deposited in a grave, while it was fully accepted as part of a hoard. It is reasonable to work on the assumption that the Neolithic societies gave at least some parts of their material culture characteristics similar or corresponding to the human members. Axes, like humans, were integrated into everyday life, being involved in ceremonies dependent on regularly recurring characteristics. Interaction between the human and the material cultural sphere, or at least some of the material culture, seems to be much closer or even more integrated than has usually been assumed.

Avdelning/ar

Publiceringsår

2004

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

71-78

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Journal of Nordic Archaeological Science

Volym

14

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Arkeologiska forskningslaboratoriet, Stockholms universitet

Ämne

  • Archaeology

Nyckelord

  • landscape
  • Southern Scandinavia
  • Neolithic
  • axes

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1650-1519