This major new study by one of Europe's leading prehistorians
presents and discusses a series of rock art engravings from a
Bronze Age barrow in Ljungarum parish, Joenkoeping Lan, situated in
the central part of southern Sweden. Sagaholm contains the largest
group of rock engravings discovered in a burial context in northern
Europe. Joachim Goldhahn addresses a number of aspects of the use
of rock engravings in burial rituals during the Middle Bronze Age
(c. 1600-1100 BC), combining the antiquarian and scientific history
of this extraordinary find. In order to understand the meaning and
significance of the rock art in the barrow, the author presents a
theoretical argument that the art is meaningfully composed and can
been seen as the result of an active symbolic praxis which mirrors
a metaphorical way of thinking. Special concern is given to the
frequent horse motifs at Sagaholm, and it is argued that they, and
the morphology of this particular barrow, can be seen as a metaphor
for a new and exotic cosmology that reached southern Scandinavia
during the Middle Bronze Age. It is further suggested that this
extraordinary find points to a (re)interpretation of Scandinavian
Bronze Age rock art as an important part of burial ritual, linked
to certain beliefs about the regeneration of life.
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