The emergence of open, disturbed grazing landscapes across Early Bronze Age Northern Europe coincided with a boom in the building of monumental barrows, often placed in linear arrangements. The co-emergence of landscape and monument forms suggests an intimate link between cosmology, communities and pasture, which has not featured prominently in prehistoric narratives. We propose and explore a framework of ‘ancestral commons’ to recognize how these landscapes were always both cosmological and practical, with the ancestral presence acting as a key undergirding to potentially fraught issues of grazing rights and maintenance of pasture. We explore specific examples of pastures and linear arrangements of barrows across Neolithic and Bronze Age Europe to explore the institutional entanglements of communities, ancestral infrastructures and landscape forms, such as heathlands. We argue that such complexes were connected to new forms of communities of living and dead, and of landscapes and associated landscape practices, through which a shared sense of the past and ancestral affiliation could be communicated and consolidated.

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祖先公地理论化：青铜时代北欧宇宙学、社区和景观利用的纠葛


早期青铜时代北欧出现了开阔、受干扰的放牧景观，同时也出现了巨大的手推车建造热潮，这些手推车通常呈线性排列。景观和纪念碑形式的共同出现表明宇宙学、社区和牧场之间存在密切联系，而这种联系在史前叙事中并没有突出。我们提出并探索了一个“祖先公地”的框架，以认识到这些景观总是既具有宇宙性又具有实用性，而祖先的存在是解决潜在的放牧权和牧场维护问题的关键基础。我们探索新石器时代和青铜时代欧洲牧场和线性排列的手推车的具体例子，以探索社区、祖先基础设施和景观形式（如荒地）的制度纠葛。我们认为，这些综合体与新形式的生者和死者社区以及景观和相关景观实践相关，通过它们可以传达和巩固对过去和祖先归属的共同意识。