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Ground stone hammer axes in Sweden
ocial siphon-model
polity interaction networks, between this and the local/regional commoners,
and within the regional commoner networks – provides a reasonable expla
nation of diffusion and typological change in time and space, for material
have played an important role in preserving the social system, in the conti
nuity and change of material and immaterial culture within the vast, trans
continental network of cultural dialects that we call the European Bronze
Age. In my view, this cultural network through time and space is not ma
but rather by a new way of life and outlook on the conditions for existence.
Seen this way, the Bronze Age in Scandinavia starts with the introduction
of institutionalised inequality sometime around the MN – LN transition,
subsequently gaining acceptance as a way of life.
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