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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Jane Dickins
Jane Dickins*
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Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3DZ, England
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Abstract

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.

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Antiquity , Volume 70 , Issue 267 , March 1996 , pp. 161 - 167
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1996

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