Year: 1994
Type: book-review
Abstract: 30-page chapter focuses on the use of the ceremonial wagon.Here Pare examines not only the burial contexts, but also symbols such as water birds and horse trappings that are regularly associated with wagons.He shows that the wagon was both an object of special cult significance, and a sign of elevated social status.Pictorial representations and models from central Europe, Greece, and Italy emphasize these special meanings of the wagon.The volume concludes with an extensive catalogue of all of the wagon finds and plates illustrating objects described.The text is copiously illustrated with line drawings and photographs and with distribution maps.All of the illustrations are of excellent quality and show the details needed by the scholar.This book will probably be the standard reference work on Early Iron Age wagons for the foreseeable future.The author has done an excellent job in pulling together all of the information and discussing it lucidly and comprehensively, and the publisher has produced a very attractive and well-illustrated volume.The principal audience for this book will be archaeologists working in later European prehistory.The connections with the Mediterranean world will make the book of interest to classical archaeologists, and it will be important for those concerned with the history of technology, especially transportation technology.
Source: American Journal of Archaeology
DOI: 10.2307/506657
Author: Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway
Institution: Bryn Mawr College
Language: German
Topic: Classical Antiquity Studies
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W78727428