‘Macedonian bronzes’ refers to a pretty copious category of Iron Age bronze objects, dated mainly between 8th and 6th centuries BC. The majority of them are considered being used as jewelry with an emphasized symbolical i.e. magical and religious purpose. It is believed that they primarily belonged to the Paeonians, but also to other populations living in Macedonia and its surroundings. Even though this monograph encompasses the typology, the chronology, distribution and other material aspects of these items, mainly, its focus is the spiritual culture of the people who created and used them, especially their symbolical, magical, mythical, religious and the global semiotical system. Besides these finds, while revealing the aforementioned aspects, the author uses written historical sources referring to relevant periods and territories, but also to related phenomena of other cultures from the Indo-European and the Mediterranean areal.
Apart from the basic text in 8 chapters, this book contains 389 tables with catalogued illustrations, a bibliography and English summary in 75 pages.
This monograph contains a vast illustrative material to which we often refer in the very text and whose mechanical review makes the reading difficult. Therefore, we provided a possibility to hyperlink the images by clicking the number of the exact table marked in blue, whereupon it shows in a separate window, without leaving the text page. A prerequisite for this is to have the illustration folders in the same folder with the PDF of the whole monograph, without replacing or renaming the folders and the files.