Gods and Heroes of Bronze Age Europe
Author : Jørgen Jensen
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 16,28 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Art, Prehistoric
ISBN : 9789607254702
Author : Jørgen Jensen
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 16,28 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Art, Prehistoric
ISBN : 9789607254702
Author : Kaitē Dēmakopoulou
Publisher :
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 44,38 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780500019153
Features text and accompanying photographs of artifacts recovered from the bronze age in Europe, including figurines, jewelry, weapons, and armor
Author : Sharon Paice MacLeod
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 26,13 MB
Release : 2013-12-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0786471387
This book is an exploration of the spiritual traditions of ancient Europe, focusing on the numinous presence of the divine feminine in Russia, Central Europe, France, Britain, Ireland and the northern regions. Drawing upon research in archaeology, history, sociology, anthropology and the study of religions to connect the reader with the myths and symbols of the European traditions, the book shows how the power of European goddesses and holy women evolved through the ages, adapting to climate change and social upheaval, but continually reflecting the importance of living in an harmonious relationship with the environment and the spirit world. From the cave painting of southern France to ancient Irish tombs, from shamanic rituals to Arthurian legends, the divine feminine plays an essential role in understanding where we have come from and where we are going. Comparative examples from other native cultures, and quotes from spiritual leaders around the world, set European religions in context with other indigenous cultures.
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Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 20,50 MB
Release : 1999
Category :
ISBN : 9780500019153
Author : Mark Haughton
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 36,95 MB
Release : 2024-11-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1040186106
This book explores and critiques the underlying assumption that a binary gender system and patriarchal norms were universal in Bronze Age Europe through a careful analysis of burial practice in Ireland and Scotland. Gender and Society on the Margins of Bronze Age Europe makes a decisive and critical intervention in the debate around the nature of gender in the European Bronze Age. Tacking between scales, from the detail of local practice to a major analysis of recently excavated and analysed skeletons, it argues that binary gender was far from universal in Bronze Age Europe, and consequently questions its broader importance. Unlike bronze technology, shared widely between communities across Europe, binary gender was an optional or negotiable part of Bronze Age life. The book goes on to assess the huge implications of this evidence firstly, for the history of gender, as it indicates that there was no simple linear trajectory to binary gender and patriarchy and secondly, by demonstrating that interconnectivity in Bronze Age Europe did not result in fundamental social and ideological agreement, undermining the idea of a shared Bronze Age society. At its core, the book reimagines how gender archaeology can be conducted, inspired by the sub-discipline’s radical origins and following a method rooted in the detail of local practice. This book is essential reading for scholars and students of the European Bronze Age, gender (pre)history, and gender archaeology. It connects with major themes in theoretical thinking across the humanities, particularly relating to posthumanism, assemblage theory, embodiment and gender.
Author : Kristian Kristiansen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 32,29 MB
Release : 2005-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521843638
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Author : Vicki Noble
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 14,96 MB
Release : 2003-06-19
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1591438667
The first book to seriously study the double goddess that figures prominently in Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures. • Offers an important symbol for modern women seeking to reconnect with their ancient, integral sense of self and wholeness. • Presents an archetype for the sacred potential of female bonding, whether between mother and daughter, teacher and student, friends, or lovers. • Illustrated with 149 examples of double goddess images. Numerous figures depicting two women in intimate relation with one another, or as a single body with two heads, have been discovered in important centers of early civilizations such as Catal Huyuk and Gozo. These have been routinely ignored by scholars or dismissed as mere dolls with no sacred connotations whatsoever. Vicki Noble shows, to the contrary, that this double goddess is an ancient icon that can considerably expand our understanding of female sovereignty, as well as provide contemporary women with a way to reconnect with the integral sense of self and wholeness enjoyed by their ancestors. Ancient Goddess religion was informed by the organic cycles of nature--the dual poles of Life and Death. The double goddess represents phenomena such as the Earth-Moon pair, the Upper-Underworld pair, the Summer and Winter poles of the seasonal year, and the dual poles of the female biological reality of menstruation and ovulation--the dark and the light. The double goddess in all her varied forms also depicts the vast array of potential relationships women can form with themselves and each other. This book is a celebration of an archetype that not only empowers women, but also teaches them how to share that power with each other.
Author : Emmet John Sweeney
Publisher : Algora Publishing
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 45,75 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Greece
ISBN : 0875866824
Early Greek history as found in the textbooks leaves spurious "dark age" gaps where the evidence fails to match historians' fixed ideas. Dramatic claims regarding everything from the Trojan War to the "Mask of Agamemnon" are argued in detail from both an archaeological and a literary perspective, unraveling historical conundrums that have stumped classicists for generations.
Author : Joanna Sofaer
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 42,81 MB
Release : 2018-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1784917559
The papers in this volume view Bronze Age objects through the lens of creativity in order to offer fresh insights into the interaction between people and the world, as well as the individual and cultural processes that lie behind creative expression.
Author : Helle Vandkilde
Publisher : Aarhus Universitetsforlag
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 41,80 MB
Release : 2007-12-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8779349765
This book is a cohesive overview of Central European prehistory from the introduction of agriculture around 6000 BC to the state-forming processes that began to emerge during the first millennium BC. A complex mosaic of culture, society and processes is mirrored in the material world and in certain periods involves a large part of the Eurasian continent. Culture and change must be understood as both localised and macro-regional: the book is a cultural-historical tale - inspired by, for example, the attempts of French historians to integrate different levels of history. Emphasis is laid on the eventful boom periods where innovations and cross-cultural interaction intensified in such a way that history's mainly reproductive pattern was broken. Important turning points are attached, among other things, to the first production of food, copper- and bronze metallurgy, and the sword as a weapon and symbol. These technical innovations were part of a complicated interaction with social and cultural processes, which in many cases are connected in a pattern that can be followed in time and space.