Warriors as a Challenge: Violence, Rock Art, and the Preservation of Social Cohesion During the Nordic Bronze Age

In the Bronze Age, warriors are probably best-known social class. Evidence for warfare and other violent encounters links them to aggression bloodshed that could be translated into status. This made a potential two-fold threat cohesion of their communities: not only did they risk threatening integrity communities as agents death but also challenge local authority cause internal conflict. Here, author presents evidence suggests conflict was major concern Nordic Age societies, in constituted an challenge, proposes may have mitigated this rituals such sacrifice weapons construction narratives through rock art.