Nordic late bronze age razors: «very like a whale»

• Main Author: Warmenbol, Eugène
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Archéologie et techniques des fouilles; Bronze Age; Course of the sun; Denmark; Iconography; Northern Germany; Sperm whale; The Beaches; The Handle
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/242980

Sperm whales do not belong to the North Sea, but could be observed, even from very close, as they frequently strand on the beaches. The animal seems to have given his very typical outline to the decorated Late Bronze Age razors from Scandinavia and Northern Germany. One has to «read» these systemati...