Initially, the aim of this study was to examine technological,
cognitive and symbolic aspects of metallurgy in southern Norway in
the Bronze Age, i.e. 1700-500 cal. BC. To contextualize and
understand the Norwegian data material, the scope was soon widened
geographically as well as chronologically. As a result, evidence
from the whole Nordic region has been considered and the time frame
extended to the beginning of the Late Neolithic, i.e. c. 2400 cal.
BC. In unexpected ways, the investigation ended up as an
exploration of ideas, ideas belonging to the present as well as
ideas belonging to the past. Basically, two sets of ideas are
scrutinized: 1) ideas that have governed and still govern
archaeological concepts of the Bronze Age, and 2) ideas that
moulded Bronze Age mentality, arising, it is argued, from physical
experience with metallurgy. In keeping with this, the 'webs of
significance' - a phrase borrowed from Clifford Geertz (1973) - are
to be understood as, on the one hand, the changing scientific
discourses within which current archaeological ideas about Bronze
Age metallurgy have evolved, and on the other, the prehistoric
contexts and relations which gave meaning to metallurgy in the
Bronze Age.
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