Table of Contents

Part I. Liftoff: 1. Strange birds; 2. Bird divination in the ancient world; 3. The Hvidegard burial revisited; Part II. Birdscapes: 4. Bronze birds; 5. Birds of the living; 6. Birds of the dead; 7. Birds of the rocks; Part III. Intra-actions: 8. Rethinking Bronze Age worldings; 9. The animacy of the rocks; 10. Bird intra-actions; 11. Cave birds: becoming bird.

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Shows how archaeologists gain knowledge about past ontologies, and explores the role that birds played in Bronze Age economy, ritual and religion.

About the Author

Joakim Goldhahn is Professor of Archaeology at Linnaeus University, Sweden. An internationally known author on the Bronze Age in northern Europe, he has published more than twenty books and anthologies, as well as and numerous articles on topics such as Northern European rock art, Bronze Age burial rituals, bronze and stone smiths as ritual specialists, and war and memory.