A completely normal practice. The emergence of selective metalwork deposition in Denmark, north-west Germany and the Netherlands between 2350-1500 BC

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In Bronze Age Europe, communities deliberately deposited prestigious metalwork on a massive scale in the landscape. The NWO VICI Economies of Destruction project aims to understand this puzzling practice by reconstructing how it emerged and developed between ca. 2350-1500 BC. This subproject deals with the region Denmark, north-west Germany and the Netherlands (north of the main river area). All metal objects from this region and time period were recorded in a database in order to identify patterns in the practices under investigation. The focus is on the choices that people made when they deposited metalwork: what they actually did. The results are published in the thesis "A Completely Normal Practice". The uploaded dataset contains the database and metadata.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.17026/DANS-ZK9-CY6C
Metadata Access https://archaeology.datastations.nl/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=doi:10.17026/DANS-ZK9-CY6C
Provenance
Creator K.M. Visser
Publisher DANS Data Station Archaeology
Contributor KM Visser
Publication Year 2021
Rights DANS Licence; info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess; https://doi.org/10.17026/fp39-0x58
OpenAccess false
Contact KM Visser (Leiden University)
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Discipline Ancient Cultures; Archaeology; Humanities