Horses, Fish and Humans: Interspecies Relationships in the Nordic Bronze Age

Jacob Kveiborg; Laura Elisabeth Bjørnevad-Ahlqvist; Helle Vandkilde

doi:10.37718/CSA.2020.04

Horses, Fish and Humans: Interspecies Relationships in the Nordic Bronze Age

Jacob Kveiborg^*, Laura Elisabeth Bjørnevad-Ahlqvist, Helle Vandkilde

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Abstract

In this article, we identify and discuss Nordic Bronze Age interspecies relationships through a relational approach that is open to ontologies that differ from our own. Drawing on bronze objects, faunal remains and rock art recovered from a multitude of Nordic Bronze Age sites (1700–500 BC), we outline the complex evolution and interactions of significant socioeconomic and cosmological elements such as the horse, the sun, the warrior, the sea and fish,
and their relationships to life and death. We suggest that these elements may be seen as interconnected parts of an entangled whole, which represents a specific Nordic Bronze Age cosmology, which developed between 1600 and 1400 BC, and combined local, archaic world views and foreign influences.

Original language	English
Journal	Current Swedish Archaeology
Volume	28
Pages (from-to)	75-98
Number of pages	24
ISSN	1102-7355
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.37718/CSA.2020.04
Publication status	Published - 2020

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