Landscape, History and Monuments – A Material Culture Perspective (original) (raw)

In this paper I discuss the biography of a south Swedish local landscape during the late Neolithic and the Bronze Age (2400–500 BC). It is argued that changes in material culture occur in an extensive geographical framework, but since both landscape and people’s historical experiences varies from region to region, new material expressions will occur when the novel ideas are incorporated in a local landscape. To be able to grasp these relationships we must study the biography of the material culture since monuments and artifacts were often made of, or constructed by, material with a biography connected to the everyday life in the surrounding landscape.