Mette's article bears the title "Frühe Grenzziehungen", which translates into Early Border drawing. The opening paragraph outlines the essence of the article's subject matter: "One of the most basic forms of social statements is that of border drawing. How we do it relies primarily on our understanding of self awareness, how we define ourselves in the world, and how we set up limits towards others, which people we identify with, which rules apply where and under which circumstances."

Bronze age borders

Løvschal goes on to detail examples of the earliest archeological evidence of physical border drawing along the North Sea coast spanning a time period from bronze age to the ice age. The last part of the article touches upon border drawing as symbols of power, where the grave mounds of bronze age  Scandinavia are mentioned as examples along with Stone Henge in Salisbury Plain in Southern England.

Mette Løvschal's border drawing research project is affiliated with the "Technologies of the Mind" project under the stewardship of Andreas Roepstorff. The intention of Løvschal's project is "to bring a longterm perspective into the cognitive debate by examining how borders occur in the landscape and how they develop over time", says Mette Løvschal.

The newly published article from "Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte" can be read in full (in German) by clicking the link in the section below.