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Levels of Narrativity in Scandinavian Bronze Age Petroglyphs
Sichuan Univ, China;Lund University, Sweden;Stockholm University, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2160-3770
Linnaeus University, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Department of Cultural Sciences.
Lund University, Sweden;Copenhagen Business Sch, Denmark.
Lund University, Sweden.
2019 (English)In: Cambridge Archaeological Journal, ISSN 0959-7743, E-ISSN 1474-0540, Vol. 29, no 3, p. 497-516Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

In Europe, Scandinavia holds the largest concentration of rock art (i.e. petroglyphs), created c. 5000-first century BC, many of them showing figurative and seemingly narrative representations. In this paper, we will discuss possible narratological approaches applied to these images. We might reasonably distinguish between three levels of pictorial narrativity: representations of (i) single events, understood as the transition from one state of affairs to another, usually involving (groups of) agents interacting; (ii) stories, e.g. particular sequences of related events that are situated in the past and retold for e.g. ideological or religious purposes; and (iii) by implication, master-narratives deeply embedded in a culture, which provide and consolidate cosmological explanations and social structures. Some concrete examples of petroglyphs will be presented and analysed from narratological and iconographical perspectives. We will as a point of departure focus on (i), i.e. single events, though we shall also further consider the possibility of narrative interpretations according to (ii) and (iii).

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Cambridge University Press, 2019. Vol. 29, no 3, p. 497-516
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Archaeology
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Humanities, Archaeology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-87056DOI: 10.1017/S0959774319000118ISI: 000475364600008Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85063988642OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-87056DiVA, id: diva2:1339972
Available from: 2019-08-01 Created: 2019-08-01 Last updated: 2022-01-18Bibliographically approved

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