Picturing the Bronze Age

Johan Ling is a researcher and lecturer at the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History in Gothenburg. His research interests are primarily in rock art, its chronology and landscapes, particularly the relationship between rock art and shore displacement in Bronze Age Sweden; and in the use of lead isotope analyses on bronze items to investigate the possibility of copper extraction in Sweden at that time. Peter Skoglund is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Gothenburg. His main research interest is Scandinavian Bronze Age material culture, especially regional variations in material culture and the relationship between local material expressions and external influences, with particular reference to monuments, rock art and trees. His latest research involves the application of new dating evidence for the chronological and geographical framework of rock art in South and Central Sweden and its social and ritual significance. Ulf Bertilsson is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Gothenburg with research interests in the interpretation of Bronze Age rock art and particularly its cosmological referents. He has been a key player in the establishment and development of the Swedish rock art archive held by the university.

Picturing the Bronze Age – an introduction

Johan Ling, Peter Skoglund and Ulf Bertilsson

From folk oddities and remarkable relics for the educated to scientific substrates for archaeologists – 135 years of changing perceptions of the rock carvings in Northern Bohuslän, Sweden

Ulf Bertilsson

Hyper-Masculinity and the Construction of Gender Identities in the Bronze Age Rock Carvings of Southern Sweden

Lynne Bevan

Mixed media, mixed messages: religious transmission in Bronze Age Scandinavia

Richard Bradley

Walking on the stones of years. Some remarks on the NW Iberian rock art

R. Fábregas Valcarce & C. Rodríguez-Rellán

A rock with a view: New perspectives on Danish rock art

Louise Felding

Rock art and the alchemy of bronze. Metal and images in Early Bronze Age Scotland

Andrew Meirion Jones

The Stranger King (Bull) and Rock art  

Michael Rowlands and Johan Ling  

Trading images: exchange, transformation and identity in Valcamonica rock-art between the Bronze Age and the Iron Age

Alberto Marretta

Carl Georg Brunius. A Pioneer in Swedish Petroglyph Research from the Early Nineteenth Century Jarl Nordbladh

The maritime factor in the distribution of Bronze Age rock art in Galicia

Manuel Santos-Estévez and Alejandro Güimil-Fariña

The Alpine and Scandinavian Rock Art in the Bronze Age: a Common Cultural Matrix in a Web of Continental Influences

Umberto Sansoni

Rock-art as history Representations of human images in a historical perspective

Peter Skoglund

Sword-Wielders and Manslaughter. Recently Discovered Images on the Rock Carvings of Brastad, Western Sweden

Andreas Toreld