Heide W Nørgaard
Biographic Data
| ID | 73024 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Heide W Nørgaard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Heide W |
| FAMILY NAME | Nørgaard |
| SIGNATURE | NØRGAARD H W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Moesgaard Museum |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9349-7516 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Engaging Dirt
The Hastrup hoard
We present one of the largest Late Nordic Bronze Age hoard found in recent times from Hastrup, Denmark. • Archaeometallurgical analyses reveal the use of mixed copper sources, originating from multiple Alpine regions. • Certain artefacts, appear to have been made from a single batch of copper, indicating production within the same workshop. • We suggest the Hastrup hoard as comprising female garment ornaments, likely to have held ritual significa…
Theory and experiment
We can define at least three levels of experiments in archaeology. First, those who aim to reconstruct the prehistoric working processes based on original conditions. Second, the ones that seek to understand techniques, tools and prehistoric craft in general. They often are executed under modern conditions. And, third, experiments that aim to expand the researcher’s knowledge guided by prehistoric evidence. Finally, a fourth category, often used …
Metal-for-Amber in the European Bronze Age
Baltic amber is often considered the principal Scandinavian commodity exchanged for metal from ore-rich regions in Europe. If correct, this may explain the astonishing metal wealth of the Nordic Bronze Age and the modest social consumption of amber locally. The hypothesis of a metal-for-amber principle behind the trade is here for the first time assessed on scales from micro to macro. Amber finds were charted across Europe, and the result was the…
Contrasts of the Nordic Bronze Age
Bc
This article presents the results of a comprehensive investigation of Fårdrup and Valsømagle-type shafthole axes from Denmark and southern Sweden. The combination of artefact style and typology with trace element and lead isotope data in the analysis has provided new insights into the chronological relationship between these two axe types. This way, we open a new window to long-standing debates surrounding these artefact types. Did Fårdrup and Va…
Anthropomorphised warlike beings with horned helmets
Horned-helmet imagery continues to raise questions about what is local and what is global in Bronze Age Europe. How similar is the imagery found on Sardinia, in southwestern Iberia and southern Scandinavia in material appearance, medium of representation, and sociocultural setting? Does it occur at the same point in time? Does it spring from or transmit a shared idea? Analysis reveals intriguing patterns of similarity and difference between the t…
The bronze cup from Dohnsen in the light of old and new evidence
The bronze cup found in Dohnsen (Lower Saxony, Northern Germany) in the 1950s is an enigmatic artefact that bears striking similarities with the metalwork of the Late Aegean Bronze Age. We provide an accurate review of the primary sources of information on the cup's find history and context, and present the results of previously unpublished chemical and Pb isotope analyses. The latter suggest that the vessel might have been produced from Central …
The Mountain Sanctuary of Matzanni in Sardinia
The Matzanni Project tracks the role of the large mountain sanctuary of Matzanni-Vallermosa (southwestern Sardinia) in a scalar network from the local to, potentially, the Bronze Age global. Exploitation of metals in the mountainous setting of the sanctuary constitutes a major research focus together with understanding how metal extraction and religion may have intersected
On the trail of Scandinavia’s early metallurgy
The rich and long-lasting Nordic Bronze Age was dependent throughout on incoming flows of copper and tin. The crucial turning point for the development of the NBA can be pinpointed as the second phase of the Late Neolithic (LN II, c. 2000-1700 BC) precisely because the availability and use of metal increased markedly at this time. But the precise provenance of copper reaching Scandinavia in the early second millennium is still unclear and our kno…
Ølby Woman
The Early Nordic Bronze Age oak coffin burials include some of Europe’s best preserved human remains. Although traditional typological examinations thereof have not always found clear foreign references, recent provenance investigations from Egtved and Skrydstrup suggest that the two women were of non-local provenance. In order to investigate potential mobility patterns and how these might or might not be related to the archaeological evidence, w…
Bronze Age Metalwork
Bronze ornaments of the Nordic Bronze Age (neck collars, belt plates, pins and tutuli) were elaborate objects that served as status symbols to communicate social hierarchy. The magnificent metalwork studied here dates from 1500-1100 BC. An interdisciplinary investigation of the artefacts was adopted to elucidate their manufacture and origin, resulting in new insights into metal craft in northern Europe during the Bronze Age. Based on the habitus …
The Nordic Bronze Age (1500–1100 BC)
In einer umfassenden Studie zu den Schmuckbronzen der Nordischen Bronzezeit konnten individuelle Handwerker, deren Werkstätten und die jeweiligen Einflussbereiche, von einer handwerkstechnischen Perspektive aus, bestimmt werden. Das gewonnene Wissen zu regionsspezifischen Techniken, unterschiedlichen Fähigkeiten und Fertigkeiten der Handwerker wie auch Indizien handwerkstechnischer Beziehungen führten zu einem bisher nicht dagewesenen Verständnis…
Portable XRF on Prehistoric Bronze Artefacts
Bronze Age metal workshops are identifiable through mistakes and traces of the crafting process on metal artefacts (Nørgaard 2018). During a study on bronze artefacts of the Nordic Bronze Age, the question arose if these workshops are also unique in their metal –the trace elemental composition of the artefacts –as the theoretical assumption of a technical fingerprint suggests. A case study tested scientific devices that can be used to collect dat…
Portable XRF on Prehistoric Bronze Artefacts
Two different scientific analyses-one destructive and one non-destructive-were conducted on two separate groups of bronze ornaments dating from 1500-1100 BC to investigate, amongst other traits, the metal composition of their copper-tin alloys. One group of artefacts was sampled, and polished thin sections were analysed using a scanning electron microscope (SEM). Results from the corrosion crust of copper-tin alloys, and the change measured withi…
Metalcraft within the Nordic Bronze Age
Portable XRF on Prehistoric Bronze Artefacts
Bronze Age metal workshops are identifiable through mistakes and traces of the crafting process on metal artefacts (Nørgaard 2018). During a study on bronze artefacts of the Nordic Bronze Age, the question arose if these workshops are also unique in their metal –the trace elemental composition of the artefacts –as the theoretical assumption of a technical fingerprint suggests. A case study tested scientific devices that can be used to collect dat…
Ølby Woman
The Early Nordic Bronze Age oak coffin burials include some of Europe’s best preserved human remains. Although traditional typological examinations thereof have not always found clear foreign references, recent provenance investigations from Egtved and Skrydstrup suggest that the two women were of non-local provenance. In order to investigate potential mobility patterns and how these might or might not be related to the archaeological evidence, w…
Portable XRF on Prehistoric Bronze Artefacts
Two different scientific analyses-one destructive and one non-destructive-were conducted on two separate groups of bronze ornaments dating from 1500-1100 BC to investigate, amongst other traits, the metal composition of their copper-tin alloys. One group of artefacts was sampled, and polished thin sections were analysed using a scanning electron microscope (SEM). Results from the corrosion crust of copper-tin alloys, and the change measured withi…
The bronze cup from Dohnsen in the light of old and new evidence
The bronze cup found in Dohnsen (Lower Saxony, Northern Germany) in the 1950s is an enigmatic artefact that bears striking similarities with the metalwork of the Late Aegean Bronze Age. We provide an accurate review of the primary sources of information on the cup's find history and context, and present the results of previously unpublished chemical and Pb isotope analyses. The latter suggest that the vessel might have been produced from Central …
Metalcraft within the Nordic Bronze Age
Metal-for-Amber in the European Bronze Age
Baltic amber is often considered the principal Scandinavian commodity exchanged for metal from ore-rich regions in Europe. If correct, this may explain the astonishing metal wealth of the Nordic Bronze Age and the modest social consumption of amber locally. The hypothesis of a metal-for-amber principle behind the trade is here for the first time assessed on scales from micro to macro. Amber finds were charted across Europe, and the result was the…
Anthropomorphised warlike beings with horned helmets
Horned-helmet imagery continues to raise questions about what is local and what is global in Bronze Age Europe. How similar is the imagery found on Sardinia, in southwestern Iberia and southern Scandinavia in material appearance, medium of representation, and sociocultural setting? Does it occur at the same point in time? Does it spring from or transmit a shared idea? Analysis reveals intriguing patterns of similarity and difference between the t…
Metalcraft within the Nordic Bronze Age
Portable XRF on Prehistoric Bronze Artefacts
Bronze Age metal workshops are identifiable through mistakes and traces of the crafting process on metal artefacts (Nørgaard 2018). During a study on bronze artefacts of the Nordic Bronze Age, the question arose if these workshops are also unique in their metal –the trace elemental composition of the artefacts –as the theoretical assumption of a technical fingerprint suggests. A case study tested scientific devices that can be used to collect dat…
Portable XRF on Prehistoric Bronze Artefacts
Two different scientific analyses-one destructive and one non-destructive-were conducted on two separate groups of bronze ornaments dating from 1500-1100 BC to investigate, amongst other traits, the metal composition of their copper-tin alloys. One group of artefacts was sampled, and polished thin sections were analysed using a scanning electron microscope (SEM). Results from the corrosion crust of copper-tin alloys, and the change measured withi…
Bronze Age Metalwork
Bronze ornaments of the Nordic Bronze Age (neck collars, belt plates, pins and tutuli) were elaborate objects that served as status symbols to communicate social hierarchy. The magnificent metalwork studied here dates from 1500-1100 BC. An interdisciplinary investigation of the artefacts was adopted to elucidate their manufacture and origin, resulting in new insights into metal craft in northern Europe during the Bronze Age. Based on the habitus …
The Nordic Bronze Age (1500–1100 BC)
In einer umfassenden Studie zu den Schmuckbronzen der Nordischen Bronzezeit konnten individuelle Handwerker, deren Werkstätten und die jeweiligen Einflussbereiche, von einer handwerkstechnischen Perspektive aus, bestimmt werden. Das gewonnene Wissen zu regionsspezifischen Techniken, unterschiedlichen Fähigkeiten und Fertigkeiten der Handwerker wie auch Indizien handwerkstechnischer Beziehungen führten zu einem bisher nicht dagewesenen Verständnis…
On the trail of Scandinavia’s early metallurgy
The rich and long-lasting Nordic Bronze Age was dependent throughout on incoming flows of copper and tin. The crucial turning point for the development of the NBA can be pinpointed as the second phase of the Late Neolithic (LN II, c. 2000-1700 BC) precisely because the availability and use of metal increased markedly at this time. But the precise provenance of copper reaching Scandinavia in the early second millennium is still unclear and our kno…
Ølby Woman
The Early Nordic Bronze Age oak coffin burials include some of Europe’s best preserved human remains. Although traditional typological examinations thereof have not always found clear foreign references, recent provenance investigations from Egtved and Skrydstrup suggest that the two women were of non-local provenance. In order to investigate potential mobility patterns and how these might or might not be related to the archaeological evidence, w…
The Mountain Sanctuary of Matzanni in Sardinia
The Matzanni Project tracks the role of the large mountain sanctuary of Matzanni-Vallermosa (southwestern Sardinia) in a scalar network from the local to, potentially, the Bronze Age global. Exploitation of metals in the mountainous setting of the sanctuary constitutes a major research focus together with understanding how metal extraction and religion may have intersected
Anthropomorphised warlike beings with horned helmets
Horned-helmet imagery continues to raise questions about what is local and what is global in Bronze Age Europe. How similar is the imagery found on Sardinia, in southwestern Iberia and southern Scandinavia in material appearance, medium of representation, and sociocultural setting? Does it occur at the same point in time? Does it spring from or transmit a shared idea? Analysis reveals intriguing patterns of similarity and difference between the t…
The bronze cup from Dohnsen in the light of old and new evidence
The bronze cup found in Dohnsen (Lower Saxony, Northern Germany) in the 1950s is an enigmatic artefact that bears striking similarities with the metalwork of the Late Aegean Bronze Age. We provide an accurate review of the primary sources of information on the cup's find history and context, and present the results of previously unpublished chemical and Pb isotope analyses. The latter suggest that the vessel might have been produced from Central …
Bc
This article presents the results of a comprehensive investigation of Fårdrup and Valsømagle-type shafthole axes from Denmark and southern Sweden. The combination of artefact style and typology with trace element and lead isotope data in the analysis has provided new insights into the chronological relationship between these two axe types. This way, we open a new window to long-standing debates surrounding these artefact types. Did Fårdrup and Va…
Theory and experiment
We can define at least three levels of experiments in archaeology. First, those who aim to reconstruct the prehistoric working processes based on original conditions. Second, the ones that seek to understand techniques, tools and prehistoric craft in general. They often are executed under modern conditions. And, third, experiments that aim to expand the researcher’s knowledge guided by prehistoric evidence. Finally, a fourth category, often used …
Metal-for-Amber in the European Bronze Age
Baltic amber is often considered the principal Scandinavian commodity exchanged for metal from ore-rich regions in Europe. If correct, this may explain the astonishing metal wealth of the Nordic Bronze Age and the modest social consumption of amber locally. The hypothesis of a metal-for-amber principle behind the trade is here for the first time assessed on scales from micro to macro. Amber finds were charted across Europe, and the result was the…
Contrasts of the Nordic Bronze Age
Engaging Dirt
The Hastrup hoard
We present one of the largest Late Nordic Bronze Age hoard found in recent times from Hastrup, Denmark. • Archaeometallurgical analyses reveal the use of mixed copper sources, originating from multiple Alpine regions. • Certain artefacts, appear to have been made from a single batch of copper, indicating production within the same workshop. • We suggest the Hastrup hoard as comprising female garment ornaments, likely to have held ritual significa…
Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (12 works) · Archaeology (11 works) · Bronze Age (10 works) · History (10 works) · Bronze (9 works) · Geography (8 works) · History (8 works) · Ancient history (7 works) · Historical and Archaeological Studies (7 works) · Art (6 works)