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Cosmology

Trundholm Chariot

The Trundholm sun chariot was found in a drained bog in Trundholm Mose in northwestern Zealand, Denmark. It was made in the Early Bronze Age around 1400 BC and is a masterpiece of Bronze Age metalworking. It depicts the sun drawn on its daily journey by a divine horse. The myth of the journey of the sun across the sky was an important element of Bronze Age cosmology, in which the framework of existence was an eternal cycle with its constant alternation of light and darkness. Continue reading →

Amber Necklace

This Early Bronze Age amber necklace comes from the Upton Lovell G2e barrow (burial mound) in Wiltshire, one of the richest Bronze Age burials yet discovered in Wessex. It was excavated by William Cunnington in 1803 and may have belonged to a woman. The necklace originally contained over 1,000 amber beads with spacers. Continue reading →

Introduction to module

Human history needs to be told through things. Texts help but they only reach back into the shallows of our past. In this module we go further to investigate deep human history through the wonderful things left behind. Our aim is to unite the entire span of our evolutionary history by investigating forty wonderful things described for you by experts. The story starts two and a half million years ago with the first stone tools. Continue reading →