Traditionen, Innovationen und Technologietransfer – zur Herstellungstechnik und Funktion älterbronzezeitlicher Schwerter in Niedersachsen

Bunnefeld, Jan‐Heinrich; Schwenzer, Stefan

doi:10.1515/pz.2011.012

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“…Artefacts of the Ølby burial, sword #273, neck collar #274 and belt plate #275 are highlighted. (B) compares NBA II artefacts with artefacts of proved Slovakian provenance (data taken from [ 8 , 50 , 51 ]). The Ølby neck collar #274 and the spearhead from Ullerslev #272 are probably made of Slovakian low-impurity copper.…”

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“…A significant group (marked) can, at the present state of research, only be defined, but not provenanced. The sheet-tubes (VM1680) from Vognserup Mose [ 8 ] and the octagonal-hilted sword MA-071206 [ 51 ] are highlighted, plotting an area where several Welsh deposits are present. The ore data are from: Hron Valley, Slovakia [ 27 , 28 ], Inn Valley and Buchberg, Alpine region [ 29 , 30 ], Italy AATV mining region [ 32 , 73 – 75 ].…”

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Shifting networks and mixing metals: Changing metal trade routes to Scandinavia correlate with Neolithic and Bronze Age transformations

2021

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Based on 550 metal analyses, this study sheds decisive light on how the Nordic Bronze Age was founded on metal imports from shifting ore sources associated with altered trade routes. On-and-off presence of copper characterised the Neolithic. At 2100–2000 BC, a continuous rise in the flow of metals to southern Scandinavia begins. First to arrive via the central German Únětician hubs was high-impurity metal from the Austrian Inn Valley and Slovakia; this was complemented by high-tin British metal, enabling early local production of tin bronzes. Increased metal use locally fuelled the leadership competitions visible in the metal-led material culture. The Únětice downfall c.1600 BC resulted for a short period in a raw materials shortage, visible in the reuse of existing stocks, but stimulated direct Nordic access to the Carpathian basin. This new access expedited innovations in metalwork with reliance on chalcopyrite from Slovakia, as well as opening new sources in the eastern Alps, along an eastern route that also conveyed Baltic amber as far as the Aegean. British metal plays a central role during this period. Finally, from c.1500 BC, when British copper imports ceased, the predominance of novel northern Italian copper coincides with the full establishment of the NBA and highlights a western route, connecting the NBA with the southern German Tumulus culture and the first transalpine amber traffic.

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“…Finally, we have a third group with octagonal-hilted swords of southern German origin, but also produced in Denmark by migrant smiths, as they employed a specific casting method different from that of the Nordic smiths (von Quillfeldt 1995; Bunnefeld & Schwenzer 2011). Like the warriors they do not have any of the paraphernalia of the ritual chiefs, and they share the same international distribution as the flange-hilted sword.…”

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Connected Histories: the Dynamics of Bronze Age Interaction and Trade 1500–1100bc

Kristiansen

Suchowska-Ducke

2015

Proc. Prehist. Soc.

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The Bronze Age was the first epoch in which societies became irreversibly linked in their co-dependence on ores and metallurgical skills that were unevenly distributed in geographical space. Access to these critical resources was secured not only via long-distance physical trade routes, making use of landscape features such as river networks, as well as built roads, but also by creating immaterial social networks, consisting of interpersonal relations and diplomatic alliances, established and maintained through the exchange of extraordinary objects (gifts). In this article, we reason about Bronze Age communication networks and apply the results of use-wear analysis to create robust indicators of the rise and fall of political and commercial networks. In conclusion, we discuss some of the historical forces behind the phenomena and processes observable in the archaeological record of the Bronze Age in Europe and beyond.

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“…This fact is reflected in publications concerned with use-wear analysis. The corpus of studies on swords following Kristiansen's (1978Kristiansen's ( , 1984Kristiansen's ( , 2002 works is impressive (Bridgford 1997, York 2002, Quilliec 2008, Bunnefeld and Schwenzer 2011, Colquhoun 2011, Matthews 2011, Molloy 2011. In contrast, papers analysing use-wear on spears are scant (Schauer 1979, Anderson 2011.…”

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Weapons, fighters and combat: spears and swords in Early Bronze Age Scandinavia

Horn¹

2013

Danish Journal of Archaeology

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This article deals with the use-wear analysis of 204 weapons of Period I of the Early Nordic Bronze Age. The analysed sample contained 154 spearheads and 50 swords and was made up of approximately one-third of the contemporaneous weapons in Southern Scandinavia. The use-wear analysis was undertaken with a source critical view on corrosion and other taphonomic processes. The information obtained was used to see how use-wear and taphonomic processes influence each other. Use-wear analysis was employed to evaluate statements regarding the functionality, or rather non-functionality, of Early Bronze Age weaponry. According to the results, spears and swords were not only functional but also very frequently used. Further deductions can be made from the material. Despite a difference in the scale of fighting, spears and swords show essentially the same kind of combat wear. It is argued that this relates to essentially similar styles of fighting that employ both cutting and stabbing movements and are perhaps most appropriately termed 'fencing'. This style of fighting possibly emerged from frequent encounters of sword and spear fighters in the closely interconnected world of Southern Scandinavia during Period I of the Early Bronze Age. In these engagements, a partial homogenising effect of warfare and fighting becomes visible. Yet, it is not the only effect that accompanies combat and war. Diversification and homogenisation are not mutually exclusive or contradictive. Accordingly, they took place simultaneously and helped develop fighting styles and weapon technologies.

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Traditionen, Innovationen und Technologietransfer – zur Herstellungstechnik und Funktion älterbronzezeitlicher Schwerter in Niedersachsen

Cited by 19 publications

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Shifting networks and mixing metals: Changing metal trade routes to Scandinavia correlate with Neolithic and Bronze Age transformations

Shifting networks and mixing metals: Changing metal trade routes to Scandinavia correlate with Neolithic and Bronze Age transformations

Connected Histories: the Dynamics of Bronze Age Interaction and Trade 1500–1100bc

Weapons, fighters and combat: spears and swords in Early Bronze Age Scandinavia

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