In the darkest of days exploring human sacrifice and value in southern scandinavian prehistory
Foreword Rane WillerslevIntroduction. A view to a kill: Tracing human sacrifice through Scandinavian prehistory Matthew J. Walsh, Sean O'Neill and Lasse Sorensen1. Sacrifice in the Danish Neolithic Lasse Sorensen and Paul Otto Nielsen, National Museum of Denmark2. Attendant sacrifices in the ea...
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Oxbow Books
2024
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Prehistory
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| Zusammenfassung: | Foreword Rane WillerslevIntroduction. A view to a kill: Tracing human sacrifice through Scandinavian prehistory Matthew J. Walsh, Sean O'Neill and Lasse Sorensen1. Sacrifice in the Danish Neolithic Lasse Sorensen and Paul Otto Nielsen, National Museum of Denmark2. Attendant sacrifices in the early Nordic Bronze Age? Matthew J. Walsh and Samantha S. Reiter, National Museum of Denmark3. Bog bodies, rituals, sacrifice and value Mads Ravn, Vejle Museum4. The bog bodies of Denmark: Sacrifice or execution? A forensic medical and archaeological perspective on the Danish bog bodies Niels Lunnerup and Pauline Asingh, University of Copenhagen and Aarhus University5. Naked or clothed? Iron Age bog bodies and the value of clothing Ulla Mannering, National Museum of Denmark6. Six human skulls in a bog: Svennum - a first century AD sacrificial bog Sidsel Wahlin, Vendsyssel Historiske Museum7. Swedish wetland deposits Christina Fredengren, Stockholm University8. Wetland deposits in Norway Merete Moe Henriksen, NTNU University Museum9. Thrown stone for flesh and bone? 'White' stones in sacrificial context in Iron Age Scandinavia Matthew J. Walsh, Marianne Moen and Pernille Pantmann, KHM, Uio, Museum Nordsjaelland10. Human sacrifices and human remainsγ - the ultimate offerings? Pernille Pantmann, Museum Nordsjaelland11. A ceremonial centre for human sacrifice at Kaupang? Contemporaneous multiple burials correlate with increasing ritual charge Sean O'Neill, KHM, UiO12. Human Sacrifice in Old Norse Skaldic Poetry Klas Wikstroem af Edholm, Stockholm University13. Viking Age ritual killings: Sacrifice and similar Bo Jensen, Copenhagen University14. Regulated deviancy - ritual executions at Viking Age Tisso as indications of a complex judicial culture Mads Dengso Jessen and Jesper Olsen, National Museum of Denmark This book collects recent works on the subjects of sacrificial offerings, ritualised violence and the relative values thereof in the contexts of Scandinavian prehistory from the Neolithic to the Viking era. The volume builds on a workshop hosted at the National Museum of Denmark in 2018 which inaugurated the beginning of the research project 'Human Sacrifice and Value: The limits of sacred violence' and was supported by the Museum of Cultural History at the University of Oslo. The volume brings together research and perspectives that attempt to go beyond the who, what and where of most archaeological and anthropological investigations of sacrificial violence to address both the underlying and explicit forms of value associated with such events.The volume re-opens investigations into notions of value relating to diverse evidence and suggested evidence for human sacrifice and related ritualised violence. It covers a broad spectrum of issues relating to novel interpretations of the existing archaeological materials, but with a focus on the study of value and value dynamics in these diverse ritual contexts, engaging in questions of identity, cosmology, economics and social relations. Cases span from the Scandinavian Late Neolithic and Nordic Bronze Age, through to the well-known wetland deposits and bog bodies of the Iron Age, to Viking era executions, 'deviant' burials and contemporaneous double/multiple graves, exploring the implications for the transformation of sacrificial practices across Scandinavian prehistory.Each contribution attempts to untangle the myriad forms of value at play in different incarnations of human offerings, and provide insights into how those values were expressed, e.g., in the selection and treatment of victims in relation to their status, personhood, identity and life-history |
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| Beschreibung: | Interessenniveau: 06, Professional and scholarly: For an expert adult audience, including academic research. (06) |
| Beschreibung: | xxvi, 118 Seiten, 41 Tafeln Illustrationen, Karten, Diagramme |
| ISBN: | 9781789258592 978-1-78925-859-2 |