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Beyond barrows
The aim of this paper is to describe and reflect upon the functional aspects of the
ritual reuse of Bronze Age monuments that occurred in south-western Sweden in
the Late Iron Age. The often very complex ritual behaviour cannot be labelled
as traces of simple plundering. The archaeological record reveals that the large
barrows and stone settings of the Bronze Age were systematically reused in the
pre-Christian Iron Age rituals to such an extent that the tradition can be defined
as a cultural pattern
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