Waste or What?

Rubbish Pits or Ceremonial Deposits at the Pryssgården site in the Late Bronze Age

Authors

  • Ulf Stålbom Central Board of National Antiquities, Excavations Department Linköping

Abstract

The article discusses ways to reveal attitudes to the spatial organization of a settlement site in the Late Bronze Age. The "waste problem" is an important part of this organization. The article therefore focuses on an attempt to analyse the finds and waste material from the site. An element of ritual and ceremonial deposits on the site is emphasized. Studying Bronze Age society at large is a way to search for patterns and attitudes which must also have been significant for everyday life at a settlement site in Östergötland.

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Published

1998-01-01

Issue

Vol. 3 (1997)

Section

Articles