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About this book
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.
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Table of 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
- Part II Birdscapes
- Part III Intra-Actions
- Epilogue
- Appendix I Iconography on Hanging Bowls from North Europe.
- Appendix II Rock Art Panels and Themes Discussed in This Book
- References
- Index