2016
DOI: 10.1515/pz-2016-0023
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Crafting Swords. The emergence and production of full-hilted swords in the Early Nordic Bronze Age

Abstract: ZusammenfassungDie Schwerter in Südskandinavien und Norddeutschland wurden bisher zumeist aus einem typologischen Blickwinkel betrachtet. Deshalb werden im vorliegenden Artikel die Vollgriffschwerter der älteren nordischen Bronzezeit in Dänemark und Schleswig-Holstein aus einer herstellungstechnischen Perspektive unter Anwendung von makro- und mikroskopischer Autopsie, Röntgenuntersuchungen, Spurenelement- und Bleiisotopenanalysen untersucht. In Periode I kam das Schwert als Innovation über Importe von Schwert… Show more

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“…While most of the elite of the Early Nordic Bronze Age were buried within burial mounds, often in some kind of stone and/or wooden coffin e.g. [7, 57], the flat graves of this period appear to represent the non-elite, i.e., the commoners [49]. While it is the commoners who represent the largest part of the society, yet they are typically much less visible in the archaeological record than the elite [49].…”
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confidence: 99%
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“…While most of the elite of the Early Nordic Bronze Age were buried within burial mounds, often in some kind of stone and/or wooden coffin e.g. [7, 57], the flat graves of this period appear to represent the non-elite, i.e., the commoners [49]. While it is the commoners who represent the largest part of the society, yet they are typically much less visible in the archaeological record than the elite [49].…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This signaled the beginning of a period of unprecedented burial wealth between 1500–1100 BC when c. 50.000 barrows were constructed in present-day Denmark alone [6]. More than 2000 swords are known from excavated burials, and as they constitute around 10% of the total number of burials, this suggests that a much larger number of swords could have been deposited [7]. There are more Bronze Age swords in present-day Denmark than anywhere else in Europe [8].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…And it is not only in the category of axes that differences in skill can be noticed. More prestigious objects such as swords or neck collars, equally, show well-made and less well-made examples, and even mistakes (Mödlinger, 2011; Nørgaard, 2015; Bunnefeld, 2016), and such variety has also been noted for Late Neolithic flint daggers, where a similar discussion of craft specialization is taking place (Apel, 2008; Olausson, 2008, 2017).…”
Section: Materials Specializationmentioning
confidence: 92%
“…Objects are depicted in the same scale (drawings Apa: after Bader, 1991, Tables 5.25, 6.27;Vulpe, 1970, Tables 18.291, 57.238, 58.299;Tégl as: after Kemenczei, 1991, Tables 1.3, 87.A2;Hajdús amson: after Vulpe, 1970, T A B L E 2 Chemical composition of the bronzes determined with ICP-Q-MS and normalised to 100% in mass% (data: N. Hungary, of the same type as well as another one from Stensgård, Sjaelland, Denmark (Bunnefeld, 2016a, p. 40). Moreover, there were two swords from the hoard find of Nebra, Burgenlandkreis, Germany, and a sword from Rind, Midtjylland, Denmark, all of which are close to the Apa-Hajdús amson type (Bunnefeld, 2016a(Bunnefeld, , 2016bMeller, 2010Meller, , 2013aMeller, , 2013b. Another full-hilted sword from Guldbjerg, Syddanmark, Denmark, in turn belongs to a form close to the Oradea variant, but is typologically also closely related to the other finds (Bunnefeld, 2016a(Bunnefeld, , 2016b.…”
Section: Sample Suitementioning
confidence: 98%