ABSTRACT The text discusses the possibilities of Bronze Age petroglyphs working as vitalist contraptions produced to harvest or affect certain animacies in coastal milieus. As primarily magical devices, a wider range of properties of the petroglyphs becomes important besides their figurative and representational facets. For example, the mediality and physicality of the motifs, including aspects of size, embellishment, and symmetry, as well as relations between the motifs, the rock and the water. A case study based on the dense concentration of rock art in the Boglösa area of central eastern Sweden suggests, considering these aspects in full, that the petroglyphs are most likely to have worked as magic contraptions. Cut into the bedrock at the water’s edge, they utilize the resilience of rock for permanence while either being consecrated by water or employed as contraptions to affect a particular body of water.

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岩画作为“装置”——青铜时代群岛中的生命力和活力技术

摘要 本文讨论了青铜器时代岩画作为生命论装置的可能性，用于收获或影响沿海环境中的某些生物。作为主要的魔法装置，岩画的更广泛的属性变得重要，除了它们的比喻和代表性方面。例如，主题的中间性和物理性，包括大小、装饰和对称性等方面，以及主题、岩石和水之间的关系。一项基于瑞典中东部 Boglösa 地区岩画密集的案例研究表明，全面考虑这些方面，岩画最有可能作为魔法装置发挥作用。切入水边的基岩，