Chasing Bronze Age Rainbows, Studies on hoards and related phenomena in prehistoric Europe in honour of Wojciech Blajer
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ISBN: 978-83-66579-01-9
Description: softcover, 532 pp. (24x17 cm), figs.
Condition: new
Weight: 1070g.
Chasing Bronze Age Rainbows, Studies on hoards and related phenomena in prehistoric Europe in honour of Wojciech Blajer, ed. by M. S. Przybyla, K. Dziegielewski, Krakow 2019
Bronze Age hoards of metal artefacts have been the focus of Professor Wojciech Blajer’s interest since the early days of his academic career. This is why his scientific pupils, friends and colleagues, among them renowned European scholars specializing in the Bronze Age archaeology, decided to devote him a jublee book focused on this topic. The collection is presented to the reader as 22 papers, in which hoards and the interpretation of the phenomenon of hoarding are analysed at different levels and from different perspectives. The volume opens with Part One: Hoards as a multifaceted phenomenon in Bronze and Early Iron Age Euorpe, a group of studies which, referring to phenomena repetitively recorded in Bronze and Iron Age hoards or to changes in cultural picture related with hoarding, address anew the long discussed issue of the reasons behind burying deposits of metal objects. Part Two: Hoards from regional perspectives considers analyses of individual hoards, or their groups, performed from the perspective of archaeology of selected regions of Europe, from the Carpathian Basin to northern Poland. Part Three: Inside a hoard – focus on a single assemblage comprises analyses of selected deposits, including those which focus on the reconstruction of the deposition process. This brings the reader back to the issue of interpretation of hoards, addressed in the first part of the book, although this time the issue is approached from a much more holistic and particular perspective. While in parts two and three hoards are discussed in the context of the place of their discovery, in the last part (Part Four: Beyond hoards – focus on a single find category) the emphasis is placed on their formal rather than regional contexts. This part is a compilation of texts on selected categories of metal objects, with a focus on their occurrence in hoards.
Word of introduction by Marcin S. Przybyła and Karol Dzięgielewski
Bibliography of Professor Wojciech Blajer for 1981–2019
Part One: Hoards as a multifaceted phenomenon in Bronze and Early Iron Age Europe
Hélène Blitte: The diversity of Bronze Age hoards in Europe: Some thoughts about a social practice and its variations
Dirk Brandherm: Überlegungen zur intentionellen Beschädigung und Fragmentierung von Hortbronzen
Kristian Kristiansen: Baltic interaction during early Period IV of the Nordic Bronze Age: a travelling bronze smith behind the deposition of the Grisby hoard from Bornholm?
Jan Chochorowski: Markers of ‘foreigners’ in Černotín type hoards. A contribution to discussion on the phenomenon of ‘culture shock’ in Late Bronze Age Central Europe
Henryk Głąb, Elżbieta Haduch, Małgorzata Kołodziej: Appendix 1
Marcin Maciejewski: In the midst of Godelier, Facebook and bloody forays. Several comments on metal and its availability in the Bronze and Early Iron Ages
Part two: Hoards from regional perspectives
Maciej Kaczmarek: Early Bronze Age hoards from the Wielkopolska-Kujawy Plain in context of the cultural milieu
Josip V. Kobal’: The Stefkowa hoard and its connections with the upper Tisa basin
Botond Rezi, Florin Gogâltan: The bronze hoard from Breaza (Mureș County). Selective deposition in Transylvania at the beginning of the Late Bronze Age
Jacek Gackowski, Łukasz Kowalski: The Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age metal hoards from the Chełmno land: A new insight into the metalworking capacity of the local bronzesmiths
Elżbieta Małgorzata Kłosińska: Some thoughts regarding the research on the metal finds from the Early Iron Age in the lower Pilica River basin
Part three: Inside a hoard – focus on a single assemblage
Ioan Bejinariu: Bronze hoards and tumulus tombs in north-western Romania. The bronze hoard from Aghireș (Sălaj county, Romania)
János Gábor Tarbay: On selection in “common hoards”. The Szajla hoard and some related finds from Late Bronze Age Carpathian Basin
Michał Bugaj, Kamil Kajkowski: New discovery of a late Bronze Age sword from Bytów, Pomorskie Voivodeship
Karol Dzięgielewski, Armand Zyzman, Wiesław Koszkul, Janusz Kozana, Aldona Garbacz-Klempka: Deposit of bronze ornaments from the Early Iron Age at site 7 in Ludwinowo, Kujavia (central Poland) and its ambiguous ceramic context
Part four: Beyond hoards – focus on a single find category
Jerzy Ginalski, Piotr N. Kotowicz, Marcin S. Przybyła, Robert Wyrostkiewicz: Supposed Bronze Age hoard of golden artefacts from the defensive settlement on the “Horodyszcze” hill in Trepcza (Polish Carpathians)
Mária Novotná: Einige Bemerkungen zu den Elitenbestattungen mit Wagen und Pferdegeschirr in der frühen und älteren Urnenfelderzeit
Albrecht Jockenhövel: Tüllenmeißel in bronze- und ältereisenzeitlichen Gräbern Alteuropas. Zur frühen Geschichte eines Werkzeugs
Oliver Dietrich: Gusskerne für Tüllenbeile aus rumänischen Horten
Regine Maraszek: Features of fragmentation of swords – new details of Late Bronze Age metalwork in central Germany
Justyna Baron, Radosław Jarysz, Dagmara Łaciak, Jeannette L. Łucejko, Marcin Maciejewski: Nice bronzes in ugly pots. On the containers of the Bronze Age metal deposits from Karmin in SW Poland
Elena Miroššayová: Bronze bracelets from the Slovak Karst
Bernhard Sicherl: Anmerkungen zu eisenzeitlichen Fibeln in Vorratsgruben
Description: softcover, 532 pp. (24x17 cm), figs.
Condition: new
Weight: 1070g.
Chasing Bronze Age Rainbows, Studies on hoards and related phenomena in prehistoric Europe in honour of Wojciech Blajer, ed. by M. S. Przybyla, K. Dziegielewski, Krakow 2019
Bronze Age hoards of metal artefacts have been the focus of Professor Wojciech Blajer’s interest since the early days of his academic career. This is why his scientific pupils, friends and colleagues, among them renowned European scholars specializing in the Bronze Age archaeology, decided to devote him a jublee book focused on this topic. The collection is presented to the reader as 22 papers, in which hoards and the interpretation of the phenomenon of hoarding are analysed at different levels and from different perspectives. The volume opens with Part One: Hoards as a multifaceted phenomenon in Bronze and Early Iron Age Euorpe, a group of studies which, referring to phenomena repetitively recorded in Bronze and Iron Age hoards or to changes in cultural picture related with hoarding, address anew the long discussed issue of the reasons behind burying deposits of metal objects. Part Two: Hoards from regional perspectives considers analyses of individual hoards, or their groups, performed from the perspective of archaeology of selected regions of Europe, from the Carpathian Basin to northern Poland. Part Three: Inside a hoard – focus on a single assemblage comprises analyses of selected deposits, including those which focus on the reconstruction of the deposition process. This brings the reader back to the issue of interpretation of hoards, addressed in the first part of the book, although this time the issue is approached from a much more holistic and particular perspective. While in parts two and three hoards are discussed in the context of the place of their discovery, in the last part (Part Four: Beyond hoards – focus on a single find category) the emphasis is placed on their formal rather than regional contexts. This part is a compilation of texts on selected categories of metal objects, with a focus on their occurrence in hoards.
Word of introduction by Marcin S. Przybyła and Karol Dzięgielewski
Bibliography of Professor Wojciech Blajer for 1981–2019
Part One: Hoards as a multifaceted phenomenon in Bronze and Early Iron Age Europe
Hélène Blitte: The diversity of Bronze Age hoards in Europe: Some thoughts about a social practice and its variations
Dirk Brandherm: Überlegungen zur intentionellen Beschädigung und Fragmentierung von Hortbronzen
Kristian Kristiansen: Baltic interaction during early Period IV of the Nordic Bronze Age: a travelling bronze smith behind the deposition of the Grisby hoard from Bornholm?
Jan Chochorowski: Markers of ‘foreigners’ in Černotín type hoards. A contribution to discussion on the phenomenon of ‘culture shock’ in Late Bronze Age Central Europe
Henryk Głąb, Elżbieta Haduch, Małgorzata Kołodziej: Appendix 1
Marcin Maciejewski: In the midst of Godelier, Facebook and bloody forays. Several comments on metal and its availability in the Bronze and Early Iron Ages
Part two: Hoards from regional perspectives
Maciej Kaczmarek: Early Bronze Age hoards from the Wielkopolska-Kujawy Plain in context of the cultural milieu
Josip V. Kobal’: The Stefkowa hoard and its connections with the upper Tisa basin
Botond Rezi, Florin Gogâltan: The bronze hoard from Breaza (Mureș County). Selective deposition in Transylvania at the beginning of the Late Bronze Age
Jacek Gackowski, Łukasz Kowalski: The Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age metal hoards from the Chełmno land: A new insight into the metalworking capacity of the local bronzesmiths
Elżbieta Małgorzata Kłosińska: Some thoughts regarding the research on the metal finds from the Early Iron Age in the lower Pilica River basin
Part three: Inside a hoard – focus on a single assemblage
Ioan Bejinariu: Bronze hoards and tumulus tombs in north-western Romania. The bronze hoard from Aghireș (Sălaj county, Romania)
János Gábor Tarbay: On selection in “common hoards”. The Szajla hoard and some related finds from Late Bronze Age Carpathian Basin
Michał Bugaj, Kamil Kajkowski: New discovery of a late Bronze Age sword from Bytów, Pomorskie Voivodeship
Karol Dzięgielewski, Armand Zyzman, Wiesław Koszkul, Janusz Kozana, Aldona Garbacz-Klempka: Deposit of bronze ornaments from the Early Iron Age at site 7 in Ludwinowo, Kujavia (central Poland) and its ambiguous ceramic context
Part four: Beyond hoards – focus on a single find category
Jerzy Ginalski, Piotr N. Kotowicz, Marcin S. Przybyła, Robert Wyrostkiewicz: Supposed Bronze Age hoard of golden artefacts from the defensive settlement on the “Horodyszcze” hill in Trepcza (Polish Carpathians)
Mária Novotná: Einige Bemerkungen zu den Elitenbestattungen mit Wagen und Pferdegeschirr in der frühen und älteren Urnenfelderzeit
Albrecht Jockenhövel: Tüllenmeißel in bronze- und ältereisenzeitlichen Gräbern Alteuropas. Zur frühen Geschichte eines Werkzeugs
Oliver Dietrich: Gusskerne für Tüllenbeile aus rumänischen Horten
Regine Maraszek: Features of fragmentation of swords – new details of Late Bronze Age metalwork in central Germany
Justyna Baron, Radosław Jarysz, Dagmara Łaciak, Jeannette L. Łucejko, Marcin Maciejewski: Nice bronzes in ugly pots. On the containers of the Bronze Age metal deposits from Karmin in SW Poland
Elena Miroššayová: Bronze bracelets from the Slovak Karst
Bernhard Sicherl: Anmerkungen zu eisenzeitlichen Fibeln in Vorratsgruben