Picturing the Bronze Age / / edited by Peter Skoglund, Johan Ling and Ulf Bertilsson.

• Superior document: Swedish rock art series ; volume 3
• TeilnehmendeR: Skoglund, Peter, 1967-; Ling, Johan, 1968-; Bertilsson, Ulf,
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford ;, Philadelphia : : Oxbow Books,, 2015.
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Swedish rock art series ; v. 3.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (185 pages) :; illustrations (some color), maps (some color), portraits.

Table of Contents

The Swedish rock art research archives and picturing the Bronze Age : an introduction / Johan Ling, Peter Skoglund and Ulf Bertilsson -- From folk oddities and remarkable relics to scientific substratum : 135 years of changing perceptions on the rock carvings in Tanum, Northern Bohuslan, Sweden / Ulf Bertilsson -- Hyper-masculinity and the construction of gender identities in the Bronze Age rock carvings of southern Sweden / Lynne Bevan -- Mixed media, mixed messages : religious transmission in Bronze Age Scandinavia / Richard Bradley -- Walking on the stones of years : some remarks on the north-west Iberian rock art / R. Fabregas Valcarce and C. Rodriguez-Rellan -- A rock with a view : new perspectives on Danish rock art / Louise Felding -- Rock art and the alchemy of bronze : metal and images in early Bronze Age Scotland / Andrew Meirion Jones -- The "stranger king" (bull) and rock art / Michael Rowlands and Johan Ling -- Trading images : exchange, transformation and identity in Valcamonica rock-art between the Bronze Age and the Iron Age / Alberto Marretta -- Carl georg brunius : a pioneer in Swedish petroglyph research from the early nineteenth century / Jarl Nordbladh -- The maritime factor in the distribution of Bonze Age rock art in Galicia / Manuel Santos-Estevez and Alejandro Guimil-Farina -- The alpine and Scandinavian rock art in the Bronze Age : a common cultural matrix in a web of continental influences / Umberto Sansoni -- Rock art as history : representations of human images in a historical perspective / Peter Skoglund -- Sword-wielders and manslaughter : recently discovered images on the rock carvings of Brastad, western Sweden / Andreas Toreld.