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Sweden    Tanum, Kalleby Långemyr EuroPreArt - European Prehistoric Art

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Keywords: Bronze Age, Carving, Rock art, Human figures, Lurplayers, Ship figures, Weapon.
Institution: Gotland University College, Visby, Sweden.  http://www.hgo.se/
Record
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Gotland University - Sweden
 
Location
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Country:

Sweden

Locality:

Kalleby raä 248

Region:

Bohuslän

Area:

Tanum

 

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Photo of the three famous lurplayers at Kalleby (photo Ragnar Utne, Fredrikstad, in Hygen & Bengtsson 1999:53).
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Copyright. No commercial use of EuroPreArt content is allowed. Specific © for pictures and drawings is mentioned in the captions or owned by each Author or Institution.
Disclaim. The EuroPreArt project fully endorses the most recent documentation policies. It must be outlined the absolute forbidding of any disruptive method and the necessity of a total respect for archaeological sites. It is also to be noticed that no substances shall be applied to rock art for recording purposes. Some pictures of the EuroPreArt records are related to past recording techniques and may not fully match these policies. They are an historical documentation. Please refer to local archaeological official authorities for any recording purpose. Please take a look also over EuroPreArt guidelines.
 
Environment & Surface

Altitude:

25 m
Open-air   Shelter   Cave Portable   Megalithic

Geography:
2 groups of carvings situated in the S part of the Tanum plain, sloping panels facing E.

Proximity:

Carvings situated in an area with other smaller panels and graves.

Geology:

Surface:

Smooth wide surface.

Dimensions:
 Width 10.00 m.

 

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Art        

Description:

Engravings   Paintings   Painted engravings   High or low-relief   Sculpture
The Kalleby area consists of a number of panels, with many interesting figures. The most famous group of carvings is found at Kalleby Långemyr. At the base of the panel there are three lurplayers with horned helmets, carved above a ship figure. There are also ship figures with 2 huge male figures, one with a battle-axe, carved above ship figures. Further away, a tiny male figure with a spear in vertical position. To the left and below, another group with ship figures, snakelike windings and a horned male figure with a sword-hilt and a raised hand - "the wizard". On another panel there are three lurplayers with helmets and swords, below this group a double-lined ship figure with a strange tree-like figure on the deck, and to the right one more lurplayer .

Figures:
Ship figures, male figures/lurplayers, weapon (spear, sword), cup marks.

Chronology:

Palaeolithic   Epipalaeolithic - Mesolithic   Neolithic   Copper Age   Bronze Age   Iron Age   Roman   Middle Age   Modern   Unknown
The rock carvings of Southern Scandinavia are generally dated to the middle and later part of the Bronze Age, c. 1500-500 BC. Occasionally, more absolute dating of single panels or figures can be made, based on typological or stylistic features of the image, and by comparisons with identifiable objects.

Notes:

The Kalleby Långemyr rock carvings are situated in the area of Tanum, which in 1995 was included in UNESCO´s World Heritage List. Kalleby has a line of engravings in which the male figures are drawn in a distinctive manner which shows them to be the work of one and the same artist. The famous scene with the lurplayers have been interpreted as a part in the religious ceremonies of the Bronze Age. In the Danish peat bogs have yielded up several lurs which are still perfectly playable (Bertilsson 1089:241).
 
Bibliography        





European total bibliography, by EuroPreArt partnersTotal (Europe)
Sweden EuroPreArt general bibliography, by Gotland University College, Visby, Sweden.General (country)
Specific Tanum, Kalleby Långemyr bibliography, by Gotland University College, Visby, Sweden.Specific (site)
Rock Art Studies: A Bibliographic worldwide Database (external link). Compiled by Leigh Marymor. Copyright (C) 2001-2002 by the Library, University of California, Berkeley Bibliographic
Rock Art
Database

 

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Conservation        

Status:

Public   Private   Park   Classified site

Risk:

The "Lurplayer-panel" is severely damaged by illegal casting. The condition of the rock carvings in Tanum is deteriorating drastically, and the cause is to be found in the changes of the environment caused by man. Essential factors accelerating the weathering are acid rain, humic acid created in newly planted scientifically managed forests, and environmentally caused changes of the vegetation on the surface of the rocks (Milstreau & Prøhl 1999:16).

Conservation:

Good   Quite good   Mediocre   Bad

Intervention:

Problems concerning conservation and preservation, registration and documentation of rock carvings in Scandinavia are discussed by several departments, i.e. Riksantikvaren in Norway, Riksantikvarieämbetet in Sweden, several universities and research departments. Different methods are tested, for example covering of carved surfaces, measuring of temperature and different contents in water and air and also the composition in the granite. Hollows and cracks in the rock surface can be repaired and carefully filled in.

 

By          

Compiler:

Li Winter 2001.

Institution:

Gotland University College, Visby, Sweden.  http://www.hgo.se/
 
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EuroPreArt, European Prehistoric Art, is a web-based archaeological project funded by the European Union which aims to establish a lasting data-base of European prehistoric art documentation, to launch the base of an European institutional network and to contribute to the awareness of the diversity and richness of European Prehistoric Art.
It is proposed by: Instituto Politécnico de Tomar (IPT, Portugal), CUEBC - European University Centre for Cultural Heritage (Italy - Europe), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (España), Asociación Cultural Colectivo Barbaón (España), Université de Liège (Belgique), Gotland University College (Sverige), University College Dublin (Eire), Cooperativa Archeologica Le Orme dell'Uomo (Italia), Study Centre and Museum of Prehistoric Art of Pinerolo (Italia), The European Centre for Prehistoric Research in the Alto Ribatejo (Portugal), ArqueoJovem - a youth NGO (Portugal).
Instituto Politécnico de Tomar - Portugal CUEBC - European University Centre for Cultural Heritage, Ravello - Italy CSIC - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid - Spain Orme dell'Uomo - Footsteps of Man, Valcamonica - Italy Asociación Cultural Colectivo Barbaón, Extremadura -Spain Liège University - Belgium Gotland University - Sweden University College Dublin - Ireland CeSMAP - Centro Studi e Museo d'Arte Preistorica. Pinerolo, Italy Arqueo Jovem

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