Levels of Narrativity in Scandinavian Bronze Age Petroglyphs

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ID6045249
AutoresMette Ranta (0000-0002-2160-3770, Lund University, autor correspondente), Peter Skoglund (0000-0002-3021-5913, Department of Archaeology), Anna Cabak Rédei (0000-0003-4246-3153, Cognitive Research (United States)), Torsten Persson (0000-0002-3559-8781, Lund University), Tomas Persson (0000-0002-7117-9023)
Ano2019
Volume29
Fascículo3
Páginas497-516
Data de publicação2019-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCambridge Archaeological Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0959-7743 • E-ISSN: 1474-0540
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0959774319000118
OpenAlexW2909567551
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10
Referências citadas21

In Europe, Scandinavia holds the largest concentration of rock art (i.e. petroglyphs), createdc.5000–first centurybc, many of them showing figurative and seemingly narrative representations. In this paper, we will discuss possible narratological approaches applied to these images. We might reasonably distinguish between three levels of pictorial narrativity: representations of (i) single events, understood as the transition from one state of affairs to another, usually involving (groups of) agents interacting; (ii) stories, e.g. particular sequences of related events that are situated in the past and retold for e.g. ideological or religious purposes; and (iii) by implication, master-narratives deeply embedded in a culture, which provide and consolidate cosmological explanations and social structures. Some concrete examples of petroglyphs will be presented and analysed from narratological and iconographical perspectives. We will as a point of departure focus on (i), i.e. single events, though we shall also further consider the possibility of narrative interpretations according to (ii) and (iii

Aesthetics · Art · Ideology · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Narrativity · Political science · Politics · Situated · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · Computer Science · History · Language and cultural evolution · Law · Philosophy