AiD Frauen der Mittelbronzezeit reich an Schmuck reich an Status? (original) (raw)

Schmuckkollektionen an der mittleren Donau

In the last decade our findings for women´s jewellery in the early Middle Ages extended considerably. Nevertheless, several issues remain open that require further research. In the article I want to show new insights of three jewellery groups in the region of South Moravia and West Slovakia – women´s luxurious jewellery (known before as Veligrad jewellery), Danube jewellery and Nitra jewellery. We first follow the development of the terminology of above-mentioned jewellery groups and their dating. In the article we also suggest new ways of chronology. We also emphasize the need to work with the complete jewellery collections, not just with single types of earrings.

M. Siegmann: Landpomeranzen oder voll im Trend!? Schmuck und Modebewusstsein der Frauen von Liebenau, Kr. Nienburg/Weser und Dörverden, Kr. Verden. In: O. Heinrich-Tamaska u.a. (Hrsg.), Dunkle Jahrhunderte in Mitteleuropa? Studien zu Spätantike und Frühmittelalter Band 1 (Hamburg 2009), S. 135-158.

2009

Female Fashion on the middle Weser: a complexe interaction between ‘native’ and ‘foreign’ elements and influences, metallic jewellery, beads, weapons, fashions and funerary rites. In Liebenau and Dörverden, too, the women had Access to the normal supraregional accessories to fashion. However, they consciously selected from the products on offer and preserved their own identity over the centuries.