This article summarizes and discusses recent research into the Danish Bell Beaker phenomenon c.2350-1950 BC. Its focus is on the meaning of material culture here represented by Bell Beakers and bifacial lanceolate flint daggers, both seen from a social perspective. The Bell Beaker pottery is known to have had a very wide distribution. However, questions remain as to why Bell Beakers were only adopted in some regions and what meaning this special pottery had? Similarly the Danish type I daggers, which were manufactured within the context of the Danish Bell Beaker phenomenon in the northern parts of Jutland, had a wide distribution. Daggers of this type, which in general denote male identity, were exported in vast quantities, especially to Norway and the western parts of Sweden. In both case studies the evidence from a Danish Bell Beaker settlement site excavated in recent years - Bejsebakken - plays a major part.
Poterie campaniforme et poignards en silex danois - s'agit-il de l'expression d'identites sociales? Torben Sarauw Cet article propose un resume et une analyse des recherches recentes sur la culture des Gobelets Campaniformes au Danemark (env. 2350-1950 av. JC). Il se concentre sur la signification de la culture materielle, représentée ici par les gobelets campaniformes et les poignards bifaces en silex lanceoles et considérés tous les deux a partir d'un point de vue social. On sait que la poterie campaniforme avait une tres large repartition. Cependant il faut se poser quelques questions: pourquoi les gobelets campaniformes etaient adoptes dans certaines regions seulement, et quelle etait la signification de cette poterie particuliere? De meme, les poignards du type danois I fabriques dans le contexte de la culture campaniforme dans le nord du Jutland, etaient largement repandus. Les poignards de ce type, qui en general ont une connotation male, etaient exportes en grandes quantites, plus particulierement vers la Norvege et les parties occidentales de la Suede. Les constatations faites lors des recentes fouilles d'un village campaniforme - Bejsebakken - jouent une part majeure dans les deux etudes.
Danische Glockenbecherkeramik und Flintdolche - Spiegel sozialer Identitaten? Torben Sarauw Dieser Aufsatz diskutiert und fasst die aktuellen Forschungen zum danischen Glockenbecherphanomen (ca. 2350-1950 v. Chr.) zusammen. Sein Fokus liegt auf der Bedeutung der materiellen Kultur, die hier anhand von Glockenbechern sowie bifazialen blattformigen Flintdolchen untersucht wird, und die beide aus einer sozialen Perspektive betrachtet werden. Die Glockenbecherkeramik ist dafur bekannt, eine weite Verbreitung zu haben. Allerdings sind damit verschiedene Fragen verbunden, z. B. warum Glockenbecher nur in einigen Regionen genutzt wurden und was die Bedeutung dieser besonderen Keramik war. Gleichermaßen waren die danischen Dolche des Typs 1, die im Rahmen des danischen Glockenbecherphanomens in den nordlichen Teilen Jütlands hergestellt wurden, weit verbreitet. Dolche dieses Typs, die generell mit einer mannlichen Identitatssphare in Verbindung gebracht werden, wurden in sehr großer Menge insbesondere nach Norwegen und Westschweden exportiert. In beiden Fallstudien spielen die Beobachtungen von einem unlangst ausgegrabenen danischen Glockenbecherfundplatz- Bejsebakken - eine grundlegende Rolle.
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