Arkæologi

The article sets out to analyse Danish rock carvings in their archaeological context and landscape
setting. Rock carvings in different contexts would have contained different meaning to the
contemporary society. Analyses show that Danish rock carvings on free standing boulders are
set in a ‘closed’ landscape setting with low visibility to the surroundings and therefore seem
to require a local knowledge of the area in order to be recognized. Rock carvings in burial
contexts or on bedrock are placed in an open landscape setting where burials and rituals have
taken place presumably to secure the world order and the power of the local elite.

I denne rapport afrapporteres de arkæologiske undersøgelser, der fandt sted i Vatnahverfi i Sydgrønland sommeren 2007 indenfor rammerne af Danmarks Nationalmuseums projekt: Ressourceudnyttelse, Mobilitet og Kulturel Identitet – Den norrøne bosætning i Vatnahverfi, Sydgrønland ca. AD 985-1450.

Travel, Trade & Alliances In The Bronze Age.
The Egtved Girl was buried in Egtved, Denmark 1370 BC. Famous for her well-preserved grave, she has become an icon for the Danish Bronze Age and the object of continuous archaeological study. The latest groundbreaking research has revealed that the she was not local from the Egtved area but instead grew up far from present day Denmark, and travelled long distances in her short life. The Egtved Girl is thus directly linked to the trade and alliance networks that existed across Europe and the Middle East in the Bronze Age. This article wishes to sum up the Egtved Girl’s fascinating story and bring new perspectives to understanding her identity and social role in the Bronze Age.

So far, the archaeological research gives a
good overview of the woolen textiles of the
Early Bronze Age, especially the finds from
the oak coffin burials. There are, however,
still questions to ask about the production
and manufacturing of wool, and how
this can be seen in the material culture.
Objects connected to textile production
from settlement contexts in Denmark are
still very sparse, loom weights and spindle
whorls are not many to list. Of course, the
conservation conditions and the missing
knowledge of the material may explain
the absence of such finds. However,
a re-assessment
of the objects from different
Early Bronze Age settlements from
Museum Sønderjylland actually shows
that the textile production seems to have
been more common than suggested until
now – at least locally

Through a multi-scalar approach using archaeological and statistical methods this paper investigates identity through a comparative study of 270 female gendered burials from Jutland, Funen, Bornholm and Northern Germany. The understanding of the societal structure in the Bronze Age is based on a binary gender system and the variation within these gender categories is emphasised as highly significant for our understanding of gendered social roles in the Early Nordic Bronze Age (NBA). This paper demonstrates that elite women in Early NBA (c.1600–1100 BCE) held high social standing as well as holding multi-facetted social roles, reflecting both status and identity but with a change in status observed from NBA period II to III (c. 1300 BCE onwards). Network investigations of the female graves revealed that one armring in particular was dominant in the material and is seen a key identity marker for Early Nordic Bronze Age women. Further, it is concluded that analyses of object-type combi...

I dag har man mulighed for at vælge mellem mange versioner af fortiden alt efter livsstil og underholdningsværdi – det være sig modediæter som stenalderkost, fantastiske tolkninger om pyramidebyggende rumvæsner eller romaner bygget på alternativ historieforskning. Disse teorier har populær gennemslagskraft, men møder skepsis hos den etablerede videnskab. Hvordan skal professionelle fagfolk stille sig over for disse fænomener – er der blot tale om harmløse fortællinger, med lige så stor legitimitet som fortællinger baseret på etablerede videnskabelige metoder, eller er der tale om skadelig misinformation, der bør imødegås? Denne artikel søger, gennem et case study af en specifik ”alternativ” teori om Odin og de nordiske folks oprindelse, at diskutere denne problemstilling.

Review of: Alexandra Pesch & Michaela Helmbrecht (eds.) Gold foil figures in focus. A Scandinavian find group and related objects and images from ancient and medieval Europe. Advanced studies in ancient iconography I. Papers from an international and interdisciplinary workshop organized by the Centre for Baltic and Scandinavian Archaeology (ZBSA) in Schleswig, Schloss Gottorf, October 23rd-25th 2017. Schriften Des Museums Für Archäologie Schloss Gottorf. Ergänzungsreihe Band 14. München 2019