Heads and Tails – Minds and Bodies
Reconsidering the Late Bronze Age Vestby Hoard in Light of Symbolist and Body Perspectives
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 7174752 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Julie Lund (0000-0002-5224-0730, University of Oslo, autor de correspondencia), Lene Melheim (University of Oslo) |
| Año | 2011 |
| Volumen | 14 |
| Número | 3 |
| Páginas | 441-464 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2011-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | European Journal of Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 1461-9571 • E-ISSN: 1741-2722 |
| Editorial | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1179/146195711798356692 |
| OpenAlex | W2057261224 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 8 |
| Referencias citadas | 34 |
A pair of animal heads of the Faardal type is central in our reinterpretation of the Late Bronze Age Vestby hoard from eastern Norway. After a period of use and circulation, the heads were mounted on bodies belonging to a different animal species. We argue that the making of the animal figurines and the other high-quality objects of the hoard can only be properly understood against the backdrop of Scandinavian Bronze Age cosmology. This line of thought extends to the presence of a tin bead necklace, which we interpret as a lunar calendar. By combining a ‘body perspective’ – including understandings of body techniques, operational sequences and the ‘sociality’ of objects – with a ‘symbolist perspective’ – including symbol systems, cosmology and intentionality – we put the head back onto the body, so to speak. We also scrutinize the premises for earlier interpretations of the objects' ‘life stories’ and reinterpret their trajectories. This influences the understanding of the act of hoarding, and finally leads to a discussion of how hoarding was also somehow related to the ‘birth’ of the artefacts
Aesthetics · Ancient history · Art · Bronze · Foraging · Hoard · Hoarding (animal behavior · Linguistics · Literature · Materiality (auditing · Period (music · Perspective (graphical · Reinterpretation · Sociality · Symbol (formal · Visual arts · Zoology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Historical and Archaeological Studies · History · Philosophy · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Ecology
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| Obras citantes distintas | 7 |
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| Citas por año | 0,67 |
| Intervalo de citas | 2014 - 2022 (9) |
| Velocidad de citación | historical |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 8 |