Author Description

Ten papers, plus an introduction, from a session at the European Association of Archaeologists Fifth Annual Meeting in Bournemouth in 1999. Contents: Les objets et le sens (Marcel Otte) ; Things moving around a landscape: The symbolism of South Scandinavian Mesolithic portable art (George Nash) ; Fertility rituals: The Kangjiashimenzi petroglyphs and the Cucuteni dancers (Jeannine Davis-Kimball) ; Beer and beakers: A tentative analysis (Marc M Vander Linden) ; Stone axes as tools, valuable and symbols (3300-1900BC) (Jan Turek) ; Houses, bodies, pots, quernstones: Meaning and metaphor in the English Later Bronze Age (Joanna Brueck) ; Food as a ritual object in ancient Italy (Marina Ciaraldi) ; Late Viking period pagan burial in Gotland: The symbolic code (Martin Rundkvist) ; Scandinavian warrior on the Volga river: Version of reconstruction of destiny