Bronze age burial mounds in northern and central Europe: Their origins and the development of diversity in time and space

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Beteiligte Personen:
  • Knopf, Thomas
  • Steinhaus, Werner
  • Fukunaga, Shin'ya
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Archaeopress
Erscheinungsjahr:
2018
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  • Research on Bronze Age burials has a long tradition in Scandinavian and German Archaeology (Steffgen 1999; Endrigkeit 2014). In northern Germany and southern Scandinavia, the so called Nordic Circle (Nordischer Kreis), some burial mounds are connected with an oral tradition and assigned real or fictitious historical characters, or are known as ‘King’s hills’; perhaps explaining why the study of these monument types has such a long tradition. Tales about buried kings or even little people living in the burial mounds have been in existence since the 17th century, but of course these stories are far away from reality (Lehmann 2004)….
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  • info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
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Forschungsinformationssystem der UHH

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