Danish razors and Swedish rocks: cosmology and the Bronze Age landscape.

From: Antiquity | Date: June 1, 2006| Author: Bradley, Richard | Copyright information

Introduction: Cosmology and landscape

Ideas about prehistoric landscapes have changed during recent years as part of a more general concern with studying meaning and experience in the past. Today the term 'landscape' refers as much to the significance of places as it does to the distribution of resources (Bender 1993; Tilley 1994; Ashmore & Knapp 1999; Ucko & Layton 1999). People's attachment to particular landscapes is social as well as economic, and for that reason it ...

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