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 === Locations of offerings: ===
-Sacrifice, rockart and quarries were undertaken on specifically chosen locations. Often these are remote or almost unreachable places. In fact material resources close at hand were often ignored; materials from distant or hard to reach places were favored. Sacrificial hoards were in different locations for **men and women**, **tools and weapons** (land and water respectively) and for certain groups, especially shepherds, smiths and 'ritual specialists' (including shamans). The **smiths** offerings are often half-melted raw materials poured into rock fissures. Sacrificial sites in bogs became more extravagant and often featured special wooden platforms. Many sacred sites would be obvious landmarks and especially in Scandinavia could even be seen from boats. So traveling through the landscape was also traveling through a symbolic space.
+Sacrifice, rockart and quarries were undertaken on specifically chosen locations. Often these are remote or almost unreachable places. In fact material resources close at hand were often ignored; materials from distant or hard to reach places were favored. Sacrificial hoards were in different locations for **men and women**, **tools and weapons** (land and water respectively) and for certain groups, especially shepherds, smiths and 'ritual specialists' (including shamans). The **smiths** offerings are often half-melted raw materials poured into rock fissures. Sacrificial sites in bogs became more extravagant and often featured built-for-purpose wooden platforms. Many sacred sites would be obvious landmarks and especially in Scandinavia could even be seen from boats. So traveling through the landscape was also traveling through a symbolic space.
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 === Locations of images: ===
-Rockart could also differ for certain groups; naturalistic images are found in public settings, abstract art is found in remote places. These are interpreted as more sacred so the abstract images only speak to the initiated. Locations for paintings and carvings are often quite specific, but vary widely. This includes, slopes so offerings could be put on petroglyps, in water flowing from higher ground, in rock that had high levels of quartz, depictions of gods on massive outcrops, remote places for the initiated few or the traveler/hunter/shepherd or even natural theaters that could accommodate large audiences.
+Rockart could also differ for certain groups; naturalistic images are found in public settings, abstract art is found in remote places. The latter are interpreted as more sacred so the abstract images only speak to the initiated. Locations for paintings and carvings are often quite specific, but vary widely. This includes, slopes so offerings could be put on the petroglyps, in water flowing from higher ground, in rocks that had high levels of quartz, depictions of gods on massive outcrops, remote places for the initiated few i.e. the traveler/hunter/shepherd or even natural theaters that could accommodate large audiences.
 === Monuments as reenacment spaces: ===
-In some cases monuments would be organized so participants in ceremonies would need to move around these spaces in a prescribed order, or as ways to experience the way the world was made or **reenact creation myths**. Spaces were created to form something like a model of the universe, through which a path was taken and specific offerings or 'votive deposits' are made. At Roughting Linn (UK) a large rock serves as a 'picture walk' you walk around.
+In some cases monuments would be organized so participants in ceremonies would need to move around these spaces in a prescribed order; as a physical means to experience the way the world was made or **reenact creation myths**. Spaces were created to form something like a model of the universe, through which a path was taken and specific offerings or 'votive deposits' were made. At Roughting Linn (UK) a large rock serves as a 'picture walk' you walk around.
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