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An interpretation of the Nebra disc

Emília Pásztor, Curt Roslund, 2007. Antiquity 81, 267–278.

Reads the disc (just over 320 mm across) as a cosmological and shamanistic device of a local warrior society rather than a precise image of the sky.

MYS0D2SB2RA3J2F · mystery · click to copyMNebra Sky DiscArticledoi: 10.1017/S0003598X00095168Checked against the original0

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The symbolic, non-calendrical answer.

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Pásztor, E., & Roslund, C. (2007). An interpretation of the Nebra disc. Antiquity 81, 267–278. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00095168
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