Title Birds in the Bronze Age : a North European perspective / Joakim Goldhahn

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019 ©2019

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Description 1 online resource (xxvii, 419 pages) Contents Cover; Half-title; Dedication; Title page; Copyright information; Contents; List of Plates; List of Figures; List of Tables; Lines of Flight: A Foreword; Some Notes to the Reader; Prologue; Part I Lift-Off; One Strange Birds; Introduction; The Ontological Turn; Four Modes of Identification; From the Art of Worldings to the Worldings of Art; Meeting the Universe of Birds Halfway; Strange Birds?; Assembling Bronze Age Birds: Outlining the Book; Two Bird Divinations in the Ancient World; The Earliest Sources; Ancient Greece; The Romans; Bird Watchers in North Europe? Bird Watchers in the Bronze Age?Three The Hvidegård Burial Revisited; Introduction; The Excavation; The Burial; The Finds; The Cloak; The Bones; ''In Small Things Remembered''; The Gizzard Stones; Conclusions; Part II Birdscapes; Four Bronze Birds; Introduction; Bird Iconography; Bronze Lurs; Birds and Bronze Age Religion; Birds in the Eye of the Beholder; The Fluidity of Razor Birds; The Hanging Bowls; The Beak People; The ''Owl-Goddesses''; Deductions; Five Birds for the Living; Introduction; The Elusive Birds; Economic Specialism -- Fowling; Danish Bronze Age Settlements; Apalle in Uppland The Twitcher's EyeSix Birds for the Dead; Introduction; Odensala Prästgård; Birds for the Dead: A Second Prelude; Bronze Age Megalomania; Bredrör on Kivik in Scania, Sweden; Håga in Uppland, Sweden; Blå Rör on Öland, Sweden; Boat-Shaped Stone Geoglyphs; ''Defense That Goes on the Offensive''; Abbekås in Scania, Sweden; Tåby in Östergötland; The Talon from Brandstrup in Tilst, Jutland; Kildehuse II from Odense, Fuen, Denmark; Birds on Cremation Urns; Carried by Wings to the Far Side; Kumla at Uppsala in Uppland; Skedala in Halland, Sweden; Aalstrup Hede on Jutland An Unusual Context from SkultorpBurials Associated with Ritual Paraphernalia; Simunde from Gotland, Sweden; Molkhaug from Austre Bore in Rogaland; Maglehøj from Zealand; Closing; Seven Birds on the Rocks; Introduction; Birds on Rocks; Assembling the Rock Birds; The Media and the Message; The Razor Birds from Jörlov; Boat and Birds; Birds and Ritual Paraphernalia; Birds and the Sun; Human-Bird Intra-Actions; The Beak People 2.0; Metamorphoses; Plates; Inferences; Part III Intra-Actions; Eight Rethinking Bronze Age Worldings; The Flux of Bronze Age Worldings; Birds in Bronze Age Worldings Intra-Actions, Cosmogony and EschatologyThe Beak People 3.0; Outro; Nine The Animacy of Rocks; Introduction; Set in Stone; Unfolded by the Sun; Documentation of Art and the Art of Documentation; Canvases as Art; Deduction; Ten Bird Intra-Actions; From Humans and Birds to Birds and Humans; North European Birdlore; Wood Fowl; Waterfowl; Geese; Swans; Mallards; Big Waders -- Common Crane; Raptors -- Eagles; Corvids -- Ravens; Raptors 2.0 -- ''Grey-Foot''; Deductions; Eleven Cave Birds: Becoming Bird; Introduction; Cave Paintings in Northernmost Europe; Solsemhulen; The Sensory World of Caves Summary This book provides new insights into the relationship between humans and birds in Northern Europe during the Bronze Age. Joakim Goldhahn argues that birds had a central role in Bronze Age society and imagination, as reflected in legends, myths, rituals, and cosmologies. Goldhahn offers a new theoretical model for understanding the intricate relationship between humans and birds during this period. He explores traces of birds found in a range of archaeological context, including settlements and burials, and analyzes depictions of birds on bronze artefacts and figurines, rock art, and ritual paraphernalia. He demonstrates how birds were used in divinations, and provides the oldest evidence of omens taken from gastric contents of birds - extispicy - ever found in Europe Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 18, 2019) Subject Birds -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History Bronze age -- Europe. Human-animal relationships -- Europe -- History Animals and civilization -- Europe -- History Animals and civilization Birds -- Social aspects Bronze age Human-animal relationships Europe Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781108615150 1108615155 1108599583 9781108599580

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