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Apel, J. & Knutsson, K., 2006. Skilled Production and Social Reproduction. SAU Stone Studies 2. Uppsala.
Per Lekberg
Ground stone hammer axes in
Sweden: production, life cycles and
value perspectives, c. 2350–1700
cal. BC.
Abstract
1700 cal BC) have shown two categories; shorter axes with rounded sec
tions produced through the pounding of natural cobbles from beaches or
quarried stone. The difference in accessibility and controllability of both
raw material and technology between these categories makes it possible to
the previous studies and clusters of such contexts – from a value or wealth
perspective. The accumulation of such value or wealth could then be con
trasted against consumption and deposition habits, and studied with the aim
to understand the contexts, their topographical setting, and thus create a
social topography of the landscape.
Introduction
The social organization of society of eastern central Sweden in this period
of time can be studied in the contextual formation of the landscape and the
ments that in Swedish research tradition are called Late Neolithic. As I will
monising with European Bronze Age studies, thus considering the period
as the Earliest Bronze age of Scandinavia. In fact, that is what I will call it
throughout this paper. The archaeological understanding of the period has
ited the interpretative potential of the few scattered excavations that have
been conducted by leaving them with little or no conceptual framework.
Consequently, archaeological studies on this period have suffered from a
relative lack of source material and a fragmentary, sporadically mapped cul
tural landscape, making it hard to get a grip on the period and to extract
some knowledge from its remains. In this unclear situation, however, a few
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