Bronze Age Imagery - Through Water and Fire
The article focuses on representations or indications of water and fire in the late Bronze Age imagery, primarily on one figurative theme that occurs in rock art and that composes the single and dominant motif on hanging-vessels. It is argued that this theme represents the act of creation. The cosm...
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Svenska Arkeologiska Samfundet
2003-12-01
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| Online Access: | https://193.10.12.85:443/csa/article/view/841 |
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The article focuses on representations or indications of water and fire in the late Bronze Age imagery, primarily on one figurative theme that occurs in rock art and that composes the single and dominant motif on hanging-vessels. It is argued that this theme represents the act of creation. The cosmological functions of water and ftre are seen as complementary actants that play different roles in space and cosmology as they are related to other archaeological materials and elements.
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| spelling | doaj.art-57aac2daa6274a028290a57e3e9f88cf2023-03-24T02:26:32ZengSvenska Arkeologiska SamfundetCurrent Swedish Archaeology1102-73552002-39012003-12-0111110.37718/CSA.2003.03Bronze Age Imagery - Through Water and FireÅsa Fredell0Department of Archaeology, Gothenburg University The article focuses on representations or indications of water and fire in the late Bronze Age imagery, primarily on one figurative theme that occurs in rock art and that composes the single and dominant motif on hanging-vessels. It is argued that this theme represents the act of creation. The cosmological functions of water and ftre are seen as complementary actants that play different roles in space and cosmology as they are related to other archaeological materials and elements. https://193.10.12.85:443/csa/article/view/841Late Bronze Agefigurative imageryhanging-vesselsrock artcosmologyspace |
| spellingShingle | Åsa Fredell Bronze Age Imagery - Through Water and Fire Current Swedish Archaeology Late Bronze Age figurative imagery hanging-vessels rock art cosmology space |
| title | Bronze Age Imagery - Through Water and Fire |
| title_full | Bronze Age Imagery - Through Water and Fire |
| title_fullStr | Bronze Age Imagery - Through Water and Fire |
| title_full_unstemmed | Bronze Age Imagery - Through Water and Fire |
| title_short | Bronze Age Imagery - Through Water and Fire |
| title_sort | bronze age imagery through water and fire |
| topic | Late Bronze Age figurative imagery hanging-vessels rock art cosmology space |
| url | https://193.10.12.85:443/csa/article/view/841 |
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