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OXFORD JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGY
Volume 38, Issue 4, Pages 398-419Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/ojoa.12180
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- European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant [706034 (15)]
- Marie Curie Actions (MSCA) [706034] Funding Source: Marie Curie Actions (MSCA)
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Tumlehed is the most well-preserved and complex prehistoric rock painting in the coastal region of south-west Sweden. Originally reported and described in 1974, we re-documented the panel using digital and IR photography, DStretch image enhancement software, and non-destructive PXRF spectroscopy. This re-documentation revealed a more complex image inventory with several previously unknown motifs and image details. The new data provide a better basis for identifying motif categories, the organization of the panel, the chronological sequence, and different frequentation periods. We report on the only known boats with an elk-head stem in southern and western Scandinavian rock art, the emergence of rock art boat depictions in the region, and evidence for long-distance maritime journeys and sea-mammal hunting in the later Stone Age. Comparisons to similar images with shoreline data in Fennoscandia narrow the time range for the date of the painting to 4200-2500 BC.
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