Christian Horn
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3584630 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Christian Horn |
| PRENOMES | Christian |
| SOBRENOME | Horn |
| ASSINATURA | HORN C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Gothenburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8042-3748 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 41 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 91 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2012 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Carving miniature worlds – landscape, environments, and Nordic Bronze Age rock art carvers
This contribution argues that Nordic Bronze Age rock art carvers selected specific panels and created miniatures of real and imagined worlds by placing images close to water flows and accumulations. This is based on the output of agent-based modelling which was used to calculate water flows and accumulations on rock art panels, as well as specific observations on their surface topography and the surrounding landscape. To understand why such minia…
Decorated Standing Stones – The Hagbards Galge Monument in Southwest Sweden
This article focuses on Hagbards galge (in English Hagbard's gallows ), a burial site in south-west Sweden that consists of two stone settings with monumental paired standing stones decorated with rock art. The combination of these different features into one burial site makes the monument unique in a Scandinavian setting. This article aims to contextualize the monument in a European Bronze Age framework. We do this by discussing the stone settin…
Everyone Has to Start Somewhere
Digital technologies have become a core component of archaeological and cultural heritage research and “born digital” data sets are now commonplace within the discipline. Yet, despite significant efforts within the digital community, there exists an increasing dichotomy between approaches that make information and data accessible to wide audience and user groups and those that require a significant depth of specialism to access. Broadly speaking,…
Svenskt HällristningsForskningsArkiv Launches New Website
Storms, ships, and shovels
The Gullåkra wetland is located around 5 km south of the modern city of Lund and around 2.7 km east of the important Iron Age settlement of Uppåkra in Scania, southern Sweden. In the 1840s, a remarkable discovery was made in the wetland: a bronze lur dated to c. 1300 BCE, along with a boat and the bones of a large animal offering. As Bronze Age boats are exceedingly rare, this discovery makes the site highly significant for early Scandinavian mar…
Maritime exchange during the Middle Neolithic
This paper presents a snapshot of a neolithic maritime exchange network centred on the Pitted Ware Culture (PWC) site of Tråsättra (circa 2630 to 2470 BCE), located northeast of modern-day Stockholm, Sweden. We used a combination of Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Atomic Emission Spectrometry (ICP-MA/ES) and thin section analysis to study and source the clays used to produce 19 potsherds and 39 ceramic figurines from the site. Our results showed …
Everything In Its Right Place’—Selective Depositions in Bronze Age Southwest Sweden
Hoards have played a significant role in our narratives of the European Bronze Age, but their purpose and meaning have been the source of much debate. These debates have been positively impacted by studies that investigate the ways in which hoards are connected to specific landscape contexts. In this paper, we discuss the outcome of one such in-depth field study of 62 Bronze Age metalwork deposition locations from the Swedish province of Halland.…
Skin Boats in Scandinavia? Evaluating the Maritime Technologies of the Neolithic Pitted Ware Culture
The Early and Middle Neolithic (3500–2300 [Before Current Era] BCE) Pitted Ware Culture (PWC) was a critical component of the historical trajectory of Scandinavia’s maritime history. The hunter-gatherer societies of the PWC were highly adapted to maritime environments, and they fished, hunted, travelled, and traded across great distances over water. Exactly what boat types they used, however, is still an open question. Understanding the maritime …
Water and the Afterlife – Water-related Resources in the Burial Construction of the Nordic Bronze Age
The waterscape, including the sea, rivers, and lakes, was highly important to communities living during the Nordic Early Bronze Age (1800/1700–1100 bc ). Waterways acted as highways that facilitated journeys, trade, and warfare, enabling maritime warriors and others to distinguish themselves. This is reflected in the maritime location of rock art and important Early Bronze Age burials, which have been used to reconstruct the Nordic Bronze Age cos…
Where are the missing boatyards? Steaming pits as boat building sites in the Nordic Bronze Age
The boat stands out as a prominent symbol of the Nordic Bronze Age, depicted at thousands of rock art sites and on several metal objects throughout Scandinavia. Paradoxically, direct evidence of these boats is scarce, and the locations where boats were constructed remain largely elusive. In this paper, we put forth the proposition that many ostensibly mislabelled cooking pits along the coast might actually be remnants of steaming pits employed in…
Archaeologists just wanna have fun
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Bringing it all together
This paper presents the results of a photogrammetric survey of the rock art panel Tanum 247:1 in Kalleby, which revealed an entirely new boat that had previously been missed in a documentation history over 50 years long. Through the combined use of digital and traditional methods the results could be verified. It is therefore argued that collating documentations, both past and present, can help to create a better picture of Bronze Age rock art ca…
A Boat Is a Boat Is a Boat…Unless It Is a Horse – Rethinking the Role of Typology
Today, it is widely accepted that typology is a biased and inconsistent attempt to classify archaeological material based on the similarity of a predefined set of features. In this respect, machine learning (ML) works similar to typology. ML approaches are often deployed because it is thought that they reduce biases. However, biases are introduced into the process at many points, e.g., feature selection. In a project applying ML to Scandinavian r…
Digital Methods and Typology
An introduction to the Special Issue on Digital Methods and Typology, which briefly presents the topic covered in the volume, together with the hosted papers
Water Flows and Water Accumulations on Bedrock as a Structuring Element of Rock Art
The paper proposes a new method to quantify the flow of water and water accumulation zones on bedrock panels. This can be used to investigate how water influences the placement of rock art. The analysis is based on photogrammetric models on which water flows and accumulations were modelled using a NetLogo simulation and the SAGA hydrology package. To test the hypothesis that water was a structuring element in the creation of rock art, case studie…
La apropiación local de ideales guerreros en la Europa de la Edad del Bronce Final
Este estudio ofrece nuevos datos sobre la apropiación local de los ideales asociados al guerrero en Europa durante la Edad del Bronce Final a través del nuevo estudio de los grabados de Cancho Roano y Arroyo Tamujoso 8, situados en el Suroeste de la península ibérica, de sus soportes y contextos paisajísticos. Emplea tecnologías digitales de vanguardia para identificar algunos de los particularismos más distintivos de esa iconografía, revelando d…
Warriors as a Challenge
In the Bronze Age, warriors are probably the best-known social class. Evidence for warfare and other violent encounters links them to aggression and bloodshed that could be translated into social status. This made warriors a potential two-fold threat to the social cohesion of their communities: not only did they risk threatening the integrity of communities as agents of death but also they could challenge local authority and cause internal confli…
Bohuslän Rock Art
Augmenting the Stone
Sweden has some of the best-preserved Bronze Age rock art in the world, with more than 20,000 rock art sites. While there is no clear evidence indicating the origin of this tradition, in the World Heritage area of Tanum some of the rock art is enhanced with red colour. However, the practice flattens the more complex time-depth of the engravings and cements faulty interpretations, thus alternative ways for visualising the rock art are being consid…
Harm’s Way
Warfare has been recognized as an important factor in past societies, but the way it contributes to change is still not very well understood. When it comes to an- cient war, archaeology faces a problem: we are rarely able to address the intentions behind wars. This article seeks to take a look at the micro-scale of warfare and address what, and how, it contributed to change. To achieve this it was necessary to take a close-up look at combat, weap…
Artificial Intelligence, 3D Documentation, and Rock Art—Approaching and Reflecting on the Automation of Identification and Classification of Rock Art Images
Rock art carvings, which are best described as petroglyphs, were produced by removing parts of the rock surface to create a negative relief. This tradition was particularly strong during the Nordic Bronze Age (1700–550 BC) in southern Scandinavia with over 20,000 boats and thousands of humans, animals, wagons, etc . This vivid and highly engaging material provides quantitative data of high potential to understand Bronze Age social structures and …
Trouble in Paradise? – Violent Conflict in Funnel‐beaker Societies
The archaeology of warfare and violent conflict has made many advances over the past three decades. However, the Funnel‐beaker Culture (TRB) is mostly absent from these discussions and the presence of warriors is assigned to the succeeding periods. This contribution takes a new look at a conspicuous object from northern TRB contexts: the so‐called thick flint points or halberds (dan. dolkstaver). Their functionality as a specialized weapon is dis…
Places of Memory
A New Bronze Age Mega-fort in Southeastern Europe
A newly discovered network of later Bronze Age fortified sites of unusually large size are discussed, with a primary focus on results of excavations at the site of Gradište Iđoš. Closely associated with the rivers Mureš, Tisza, and Danube, these sites are located in the southeast of the Carpathian Basin in central Europe. On current evidence, the main period of construction and occupation took place between 1400–1100 b.c., probably constituting s…
Weapon and tool use during the Nordic Bronze Age
The article is based on wear analysis carried out on 101 bladed objects including swords, spears, daggers, and knives. They are dating mostly to the Early Nordic Bronze Age. Wear marks vary over time and for each object category. The data are discussed to investigate the implications of the variation in the wear patterns. It is argued that a true specialization of the combat roles of swords and spears occurs first during the advanced Early Bronze…
Artificial Intelligence, 3D Documentation, and Rock Art—Approaching and Reflecting on the Automation of Identification and Classification of Rock Art Images
Rock art carvings, which are best described as petroglyphs, were produced by removing parts of the rock surface to create a negative relief. This tradition was particularly strong during the Nordic Bronze Age (1700–550 BC) in southern Scandinavia with over 20,000 boats and thousands of humans, animals, wagons, etc . This vivid and highly engaging material provides quantitative data of high potential to understand Bronze Age social structures and …
Transforming the Rocks – Time and Rock Art in Bohuslän, Sweden
Human representations are one of the most important groups of depictions in rock art in southern Scandinavia. These humans have long been discussed as complete, stable, and temporally-fixed images. The results of a new survey challenge this view. Recording rock art with Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) enabled us to discern a possible sequence of production of individual human representations, their bodily features, and associated objects…
A New Bronze Age Mega-fort in Southeastern Europe
A newly discovered network of later Bronze Age fortified sites of unusually large size are discussed, with a primary focus on results of excavations at the site of Gradište Iđoš. Closely associated with the rivers Mureš, Tisza, and Danube, these sites are located in the southeast of the Carpathian Basin in central Europe. On current evidence, the main period of construction and occupation took place between 1400–1100 b.c., probably constituting s…
Using the Capability Approach to Conceptualise Inequality in Archaeology
Warriors as a Challenge
In the Bronze Age, warriors are probably the best-known social class. Evidence for warfare and other violent encounters links them to aggression and bloodshed that could be translated into social status. This made warriors a potential two-fold threat to the social cohesion of their communities: not only did they risk threatening the integrity of communities as agents of death but also they could challenge local authority and cause internal confli…
Dents in our confidence
Water Flows and Water Accumulations on Bedrock as a Structuring Element of Rock Art
The paper proposes a new method to quantify the flow of water and water accumulation zones on bedrock panels. This can be used to investigate how water influences the placement of rock art. The analysis is based on photogrammetric models on which water flows and accumulations were modelled using a NetLogo simulation and the SAGA hydrology package. To test the hypothesis that water was a structuring element in the creation of rock art, case studie…
Harm’s Way
Warfare has been recognized as an important factor in past societies, but the way it contributes to change is still not very well understood. When it comes to an- cient war, archaeology faces a problem: we are rarely able to address the intentions behind wars. This article seeks to take a look at the micro-scale of warfare and address what, and how, it contributed to change. To achieve this it was necessary to take a close-up look at combat, weap…
Tales of Hoards and Swordfighters in Early Bronze Age Scandinavia
This article focuses on the complexity of Early Bronze Age weapon depositions. While some of the deposited weapons have been disabled by intentional breakage, others seem to be more or less unused. A plausible explanation for the variability is that the surrender of lethal weapons to land or water was a means of coping with their power or agency – their individuality. We suggest that weapons, in their capacity as extensions of warriors’ bodies, m…
Exploring the dimensions of Chalcolithic settlements in the southern Levant - A geomagnetic survey on Tel Tsaf, Israel
An evaluation of the visualisation and interpretive potential of applying GIS data processing techniques to 3D rock art data
Rock art provides a tangible visual link to past communities and has significant value in building our under-standing of prehistoric societies. Its recording and interpretation has long provided a window to intangibleaspects of society, such as belief systems and folk narratives. Petroglyphic rock art has traditionally been re-corded through simple rubbing, or frottage, and the majority of interpretations and narratives to date have beenbased on …
By All Means Necessary – 2.5D and 3D Recording of Surfaces in the Study of Southern Scandinavian Rock Art
Southern Scandinavia is Europe’s richest region in terms of figurative rock art. It is imperative to document this cultural heritage for future generations. To achieve this, researchers need to use the most objective recording methods available in order to eliminate human error and bias in the documentation. The ability to collect more data is better, not only for documentation, but also for research purposes. Recent years have seen the wider int…
Combat and ritual — Wear analysis on metal halberds from the Danish Isles and the Cimbrian Peninsula
Everyone Has to Start Somewhere
Digital technologies have become a core component of archaeological and cultural heritage research and “born digital” data sets are now commonplace within the discipline. Yet, despite significant efforts within the digital community, there exists an increasing dichotomy between approaches that make information and data accessible to wide audience and user groups and those that require a significant depth of specialism to access. Broadly speaking,…
Svenskt HällristningsForskningsArkiv Launches New Website
Skin Boats in Scandinavia? Evaluating the Maritime Technologies of the Neolithic Pitted Ware Culture
The Early and Middle Neolithic (3500–2300 [Before Current Era] BCE) Pitted Ware Culture (PWC) was a critical component of the historical trajectory of Scandinavia’s maritime history. The hunter-gatherer societies of the PWC were highly adapted to maritime environments, and they fished, hunted, travelled, and traded across great distances over water. Exactly what boat types they used, however, is still an open question. Understanding the maritime …
La apropiación local de ideales guerreros en la Europa de la Edad del Bronce Final
Este estudio ofrece nuevos datos sobre la apropiación local de los ideales asociados al guerrero en Europa durante la Edad del Bronce Final a través del nuevo estudio de los grabados de Cancho Roano y Arroyo Tamujoso 8, situados en el Suroeste de la península ibérica, de sus soportes y contextos paisajísticos. Emplea tecnologías digitales de vanguardia para identificar algunos de los particularismos más distintivos de esa iconografía, revelando d…
Trouble in Paradise? – Violent Conflict in Funnel‐beaker Societies
The archaeology of warfare and violent conflict has made many advances over the past three decades. However, the Funnel‐beaker Culture (TRB) is mostly absent from these discussions and the presence of warriors is assigned to the succeeding periods. This contribution takes a new look at a conspicuous object from northern TRB contexts: the so‐called thick flint points or halberds (dan. dolkstaver). Their functionality as a specialized weapon is dis…
Zum Ursprung der Stabdolche und stabdolchartiger Waffen in Europa
Stabdolche gelten nach wie vor in weiten Teilen der europäischen Forschung als relativ kurzlebige Erscheinung der Frühbronzezeit. In diesem Beitrag wird für eine erste Nachweisbarkeit von Stabdolchen aus Kupfer und Kupferlegierungen in der ersten Hälfte des 4. Jts. v. Chr. plädiert. Im Weiteren wird aufgezeigt, dass die Idee, Klingen und Spitzen stabdolchartig zu schäften, bereits im vierten und frühen dritten Jts. v. Chr. von Zentralitalien bis …
Guest Editors' Preface
This volume brings together three contributions to the 2007 conference on ‘Concept Types and Frames’ held in Düsseldorf in August 2007 (CTF07).1 The conference was a broad interdisciplinary meeting attended by scholars from the fields of semantics, computational linguistics, philosophy, psychology, neurology and other areas. Its aim was to bring together these disciplines to jointly contribute to a very ambitious enterprise: a general theory of c…
Weapons, fighters and combat
This article deals with the use-wear analysis of 204 weapons of Period I of the Early Nordic Bronze Age. The analysed sample contained 154 spearheads and 50 swords and was made up of approximately one-third of the contemporaneous weapons in Southern Scandinavia. The use-wear analysis was undertaken with a source critical view on corrosion and other taphonomic processes. The information obtained was used to see how use-wear and taphonomic processe…
Tales of Hoards and Swordfighters in Early Bronze Age Scandinavia
This article focuses on the complexity of Early Bronze Age weapon depositions. While some of the deposited weapons have been disabled by intentional breakage, others seem to be more or less unused. A plausible explanation for the variability is that the surrender of lethal weapons to land or water was a means of coping with their power or agency – their individuality. We suggest that weapons, in their capacity as extensions of warriors’ bodies, m…
Using the Capability Approach to Conceptualise Inequality in Archaeology
Richard Davis . The Late Bronze Age spearheads of Britain (Prähistorische Bronzefunde Abteilung V, 7 Band). 2015. viii+267 pages, 163 plates, 19 b&w illustrations, 19 tables. Stuttgart
Richard Davis . The Late Bronze Age spearheads of Britain (Prähistorische Bronzefunde Abteilung V, 7 Band). 2015. viii+267 pages, 163 plates, 19 b&w illustrations, 19 tables. Stuttgart: Steiner; 978-3-515-11246-8 hardback €78 & $117. - Volume 90 Issue 353
Zum Ursprung der Stabdolche und stabdolchartiger Waffen in Europa
Stabdolche gelten nach wie vor in weiten Teilen der europäischen Forschung als relativ kurzlebige Erscheinung der Frühbronzezeit. In diesem Beitrag wird für eine erste Nachweisbarkeit von Stabdolchen aus Kupfer und Kupferlegierungen in der ersten Hälfte des 4. Jts. v. Chr. plädiert. Im Weiteren wird aufgezeigt, dass die Idee, Klingen und Spitzen stabdolchartig zu schäften, bereits im vierten und frühen dritten Jts. v. Chr. von Zentralitalien bis …
Combat and ritual — Wear analysis on metal halberds from the Danish Isles and the Cimbrian Peninsula
Dents in our confidence
Transforming the Rocks – Time and Rock Art in Bohuslän, Sweden
Human representations are one of the most important groups of depictions in rock art in southern Scandinavia. These humans have long been discussed as complete, stable, and temporally-fixed images. The results of a new survey challenge this view. Recording rock art with Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) enabled us to discern a possible sequence of production of individual human representations, their bodily features, and associated objects…
Prehistoric Warfare and Violence
Warfare in Bronze Age Society
Prehistoric Warfare and Violence
Fast Like a War Canoe
By All Means Necessary – 2.5D and 3D Recording of Surfaces in the Study of Southern Scandinavian Rock Art
Southern Scandinavia is Europe’s richest region in terms of figurative rock art. It is imperative to document this cultural heritage for future generations. To achieve this, researchers need to use the most objective recording methods available in order to eliminate human error and bias in the documentation. The ability to collect more data is better, not only for documentation, but also for research purposes. Recent years have seen the wider int…
Weapon and tool use during the Nordic Bronze Age
The article is based on wear analysis carried out on 101 bladed objects including swords, spears, daggers, and knives. They are dating mostly to the Early Nordic Bronze Age. Wear marks vary over time and for each object category. The data are discussed to investigate the implications of the variation in the wear patterns. It is argued that a true specialization of the combat roles of swords and spears occurs first during the advanced Early Bronze…
Exploring the dimensions of Chalcolithic settlements in the southern Levant - A geomagnetic survey on Tel Tsaf, Israel
An evaluation of the visualisation and interpretive potential of applying GIS data processing techniques to 3D rock art data
Rock art provides a tangible visual link to past communities and has significant value in building our under-standing of prehistoric societies. Its recording and interpretation has long provided a window to intangibleaspects of society, such as belief systems and folk narratives. Petroglyphic rock art has traditionally been re-corded through simple rubbing, or frottage, and the majority of interpretations and narratives to date have beenbased on …
Places of Memory
A New Bronze Age Mega-fort in Southeastern Europe
A newly discovered network of later Bronze Age fortified sites of unusually large size are discussed, with a primary focus on results of excavations at the site of Gradište Iđoš. Closely associated with the rivers Mureš, Tisza, and Danube, these sites are located in the southeast of the Carpathian Basin in central Europe. On current evidence, the main period of construction and occupation took place between 1400–1100 b.c., probably constituting s…
Bohuslän Rock Art
Augmenting the Stone
Sweden has some of the best-preserved Bronze Age rock art in the world, with more than 20,000 rock art sites. While there is no clear evidence indicating the origin of this tradition, in the World Heritage area of Tanum some of the rock art is enhanced with red colour. However, the practice flattens the more complex time-depth of the engravings and cements faulty interpretations, thus alternative ways for visualising the rock art are being consid…
Harm’s Way
Warfare has been recognized as an important factor in past societies, but the way it contributes to change is still not very well understood. When it comes to an- cient war, archaeology faces a problem: we are rarely able to address the intentions behind wars. This article seeks to take a look at the micro-scale of warfare and address what, and how, it contributed to change. To achieve this it was necessary to take a close-up look at combat, weap…
Artificial Intelligence, 3D Documentation, and Rock Art—Approaching and Reflecting on the Automation of Identification and Classification of Rock Art Images
Rock art carvings, which are best described as petroglyphs, were produced by removing parts of the rock surface to create a negative relief. This tradition was particularly strong during the Nordic Bronze Age (1700–550 BC) in southern Scandinavia with over 20,000 boats and thousands of humans, animals, wagons, etc . This vivid and highly engaging material provides quantitative data of high potential to understand Bronze Age social structures and …
Trouble in Paradise? – Violent Conflict in Funnel‐beaker Societies
The archaeology of warfare and violent conflict has made many advances over the past three decades. However, the Funnel‐beaker Culture (TRB) is mostly absent from these discussions and the presence of warriors is assigned to the succeeding periods. This contribution takes a new look at a conspicuous object from northern TRB contexts: the so‐called thick flint points or halberds (dan. dolkstaver). Their functionality as a specialized weapon is dis…
Bringing it all together
This paper presents the results of a photogrammetric survey of the rock art panel Tanum 247:1 in Kalleby, which revealed an entirely new boat that had previously been missed in a documentation history over 50 years long. Through the combined use of digital and traditional methods the results could be verified. It is therefore argued that collating documentations, both past and present, can help to create a better picture of Bronze Age rock art ca…
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