Creativity in the Bronze Age

Introduction Marie Louise Stig Sorensen, Joanna Sofaer and Lise Bender Jorgensen; Part I. Raw Materials: Creativity and the Properties of Materials: Introduction Marie Louise Stig Sorensen, Joanna Sofaer and Lise Bender Jorgensen; Fibres for Bronze Age textiles Lise Bender Jorgensen and Antoinette Rast-Eicher; Making metals: from copper to bronze Marie Louise Stig Sorensen and Grahame Appleby; Clay Joanna Sofaer; Creativity and the properties of materials: reflections Marie Louise Stig Sorensen, Joanna Sofaer and Lise Bender Jorgensen; Part II. Production Practices: Introduction Lise Bender Jorgensen, Marie Louise Stig Sorensen and Joanna Sofaer; Textile production Lise Bender Jorgensen; The production of metal objects Grahame Appleby and Marie Louise Stig Sorensen; The production of pottery Joanna Sofaer; Case studies; 1. Creativity and spindle whorls at the Bronze Age tell of Szazhalombatta-Foldvar, Hungary Sophie Bergerbrant; 2. Forming metal: the development of moulds Grahame Appleby and Marie Louise Stig Sorensen; 3. Variability in the Chaine Operatoire: the case of Belegis cremation Vessels Sarah Coxon; 4. The production of Scandinavian Bronze Age textiles: skill and creativity Solvi Helene Fossoy; 5. Twisting the Bronze Age Lise Bender Jorgensen; Production practices: reflections Lise Bender Jorgensen, Marie Louise Stig Sorensen and Joanna Sofaer; Part III. Effects: Shape, Motifs, Pattern, Colour, and Texture: Introduction Joanna Sofaer, Lise Bender Jorgensen and Marie Louise Stig Sorensen; Case Studies; 1. Creativity in Bronze Age tailoring: women's blouses from Denmark Helga Rosel-Mautendorfer; 2. The one-edged razor: a vivid medium of creativity and meaning Flemming Kaul; 3. Creativity in middle and late Bronze Age bird-shaped and bird-ornamented ceramic objects in the Carpathian Basin and the lower Danube Region Darko Maricevic and Joanna Sofaer; 4. To decorate a Nordic Bronze Age razor: a design challenge Marie Louise Stig Sorensen and Grahame Appleby; 5. Creativity as sensual cosmology: bird iconography on metalwork in Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Europe Sebastian Becker; 6. Pots and stories: creativity and design in the Bronze Age of the Pannonian Plain Joanna Sofaer; 7. Left-right logic: an innovation of the Nordic Bronze Age Flemming Kaul; 8. Textiles: pattern, structure, texture, and decoration Karina Gromer; 9. Pattern, colour, and texture in encrusted ceramics in the Carpathian Basin Joanna Sofaer and Sanjin Mihelic; 10. Creating effects in Litzenkeramik Karina Gromer, Sanjin Mihelic, Sarah Coxon and Joanna Sofaer; Creativity and effects: reflections Joanna Sofaer, Lise Bender Jorgensen and Marie Louise Stig Sorensen; Conclusion Joanna Sofaer, Marie Louise Stig Sorensen and Lise Bender Jorgensen.