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Exposer l’âge du Bronze
2021
Exhibitions about the Bronze Age in France are quire a recent affair and only eighteen temporary exhibitions, most with their own catalogue, have been curated since 1986. This conference has given us the opportunity to overviev, the exhibitions that have given eirher a regional perspective of the Bronze Age or have focused on a particular theme. ln the last few years, several exhibitions have highlighred non-funerary metal deposits. The museography and public ourreach have varied for each exhibition, but ail have dealt with the difficult question of recontextualisation and how we understand and interpret archaeological data. This is particularly relevant, as the public still knows lirrle o…
Déposer les armes : quelles modalités d’abandon pour les épées de l’âge du Bronze dans les sociétés atlantiques et nord-alpines ?
2020
Swords are amongst the most significant objects of the Bronze Age. Beyond their defensive function, they have a developed symbolic dimension, which seems of great importance in Bronze Age society. Swords represent rightly or wrongly, the warrior figure. Swords change and develop during the Bronze Age, with a greater variability and an increasing frequency. In this paper, we aim to examine the discovery contexts of these objects and to observe the rhythm and the patterns of their occurrences in the land hoards, as wet finds and as funerary deposits. Through this very symbolic object, we want to question the visibility of the warrior, which varies greatly through time and space: sometimes omn…