Can you recommend me some good sources in the Nordic Bronze Age?

by PVEntertainment

Pretty much what it says on the tin. I would like some good sources on the Nordic Bronze Age, with a short summary and link to where I can read or buy them. In particular, I’m interested in NBA society, religion, warfare, and art. Thank you very much!

y_sengaku

I'm really not specialized in that period OP asked for (BCE ca. 1750 - BCE ca. 500, at least ca. a millennium before my broad specialty), but I seriously doubt whether any specialist in pre-Historic Nordic Bronze Age is available or covered in this subreddit, so I just try to make a very brief note listing only a few essential academic literatures in English below:

  • Kristiansen, Kristian. Europe before History. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998: Kristiansen is actually a specialist in Bronze Age Scandinavia, and published numerous articles as well as books. You can visit his site at academia.edu to find some interesting articles.
  • Prescott, Cristopher. From Stone Age to Iron Age: a Study from Sogn, Western Norway. Oxford: Hadrian Books, 1995: Prescott's specialty is Neolithic and Bronze Age Norway.

While specialising rather in Iron Age Scandinavia, two leading Iron Age archaeologists in Norway and in Denmark respectively, Lotte Hedeager and Klaus Randsborg, have published some books from really broad perspectives, so their works may be also worth checking.

References:

  • Østmo, Einar & Lotte Hedeager (eds.). Norsk arkeologisk leksikon. Oslo: Pax, 2005.