A remote analogy?: from Central Australian tjurunga to Irish Early Bronze Age axes

• Autores: Jane Dickins
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 70, Nº 267, 1996, págs. 161-167
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Our interpretation of Bronze Age metalwork is based, for the most part, on common-sense ideas of what is functional and what is not, which items were intended to be recovered, which were gifts to other worlds. A more considered source of analogy than our limited experience is available at a certain distance. Remote in terms of measured miles, the analogy is nevertheless effective in expanding current definitions of how ritual is expressed through material culture.