Papers by Richard J Bradley
Trabajos de Prehistoria, 1999
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Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 2017
The Scandinavian landscape is littered with postglacial outcrops, many of which carry engraved mo... more The Scandinavian landscape is littered with postglacial outcrops, many of which carry engraved motifs. Although drawings of ships are most often discussed, this paper focuses on representations of feet. In Northern Europe ship motifs are often associated with cosmologies based on the movement of the sun. This paper investigates whether drawings of feet could have been associated with the same worldview. A number of interpretations are offered of the images at two sites in different parts of Sweden: Järrestad 13:1 and Boglösa 138:1.
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Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 1993
Page 1. RICHARD BRADLEY, JAN HARDING, STEPHEN RIPPON and MARGARET MATHEWS A ... forestry. The clo... more Page 1. RICHARD BRADLEY, JAN HARDING, STEPHEN RIPPON and MARGARET MATHEWS A ... forestry. The closest counterpart to this area was in Galloway, 150 km to the south east (Fig. 1). This area was investigated in 1991. ...
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Palaeoecological analysis of peat deposits from a small bog at Lingården, southern Sweden, have b... more Palaeoecological analysis of peat deposits from a small bog at Lingården, southern Sweden, have been used to examine the nature and timing of vegetation changes and anthropogenic activity associated with a nearby rock carving located close to the edge of the wetland. This study is the first of its type to investigate the environmental context of rock carvings in southern Sweden. Debate has tended to focus on chronology and iconography, with little consideration of the environmental relationships of rock carvings and how vegetation may help construct a site within its surrounding landscape. The pollen evidence from Lingården demonstrates that the rock carving was located in an isolated semi-wooded setting during the late Bronze Age. This is in stark contrast to several other pollen studies from the Bjäre Peninsula that record widespread woodland clearance and agricultural activity from the late Neolithic eBronze Age transition. The results of this study support hypotheses that suggest complex rock carvings, such as Lingården, were separated from settled areas. This sense of separation and isolation is reinforced by the vegetation surrounding the rock carving. This paper also discusses the relationship between charcoal in the pollen sequence and evidence that the decorated outcrop had been burnt.
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Oxford Journal of Archaeology 17.3, pp. 287-308, 1998
A view on the character of the 2 main styles defined within the Post-Paleolithic rock art in NW I... more A view on the character of the 2 main styles defined within the Post-Paleolithic rock art in NW Iberia, the so-called Schematic and the Galician group of carvings. The differences between those are outlined and also some convergences found in an area where both artistic groups overlap
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