Picturing the Bronze Age - an introduction Johan Ling, Peter Skoglund and Ulf Bertilsson From folk oddities and remarkable relics for the educated to scientific substrates for archaeologists - 135 years of changing perceptions of the rock carvings in Northern Bohuslän, Sweden Ulf Bertilsson Hyper-Masculinity and the Construction of Gender Identities in the Bronze Age Rock Carvings of Southern Sweden Lynne Bevan Mixed media, mixed messages: religious transmission in Bronze Age Scandinavia Richard Bradley Walking on the stones of years. Some remarks on the NW Iberian rock art R. Fábregas Valcarce & C. Rodríguez-Rellán A rock with a view: New perspectives on Danish rock art Louise Felding Contested worlds - A chronotopic essay about mortuary monuments and cultural change in Northern Europe in the 2nd millennia BC Joakim Goldhahn Rock art and the alchemy of bronze. Metal and images in Early Bronze Age Scotland Andrew Meirion Jones The Stranger King (Bull) and Rock art Michael Rowlands and Johan Ling Trading images: exchange, transformation and identity in Valcamonica rock-art between the Bronze Age and the Iron Age Alberto Marretta Carl Georg Brunius. A Pioneer in Swedish Petroglyph Research from the Early Nineteenth Century Jarl Nordbladh The maritime factor in the distribution of Bronze Age rock art in Galicia Manuel Santos-Estévez and Alejandro Güimil-Fariña The Alpine and Scandinavian Rock Art in the Bronze Age: a Common Cultural Matrix in a Web of Continental Influences Umberto Sansoni Rock-art as history Representations of human images in a historical perspective Peter Skoglund Sword-Wielders and Manslaughter. Recently Discovered Images on the Rock Carvings of Brastad, Western Sweden Andreas Toreld.