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- Title
An early medieval symbol carved on a tree trunk: pathfinder or territorial marker?
- Authors
Dreslerová, Dagmar; Mikuláš, Radek
- Abstract
The chance discovery of a carved symbol on a waterlogged tree of the six--ninth century AD may be the earliest mark on a living tree that has so far come to light. Given its rarity, an obvious interpretation remains elusive, but the authors review a wide range of possibilities from analogies ancient and modern. Symbols on trees have been used to mark trails, the ownership of land and resources, and all manner of votive moments from superstitious sign-making, worship of a god, thanks for a successful hunt or the memory of a loving tryst.
- Subjects
CENTRAL Europe; EUROPE; MARKS (Medieval land tenure); LAND tenure; WOOD carving; TRAILS; SIGNS &; symbols; HISTORY
- Publication
Antiquity, 2010, Vol 84, Issue 326, p1067
- ISSN
0003-598X
- Publication type
Article