My understanding of the Bronze Age of North Europe is that places such as Apalle or Vistad do not represent conventional settlements. Both sites belong to a growing number of local and regional centers dated to the LBA that have been uncovered during the last decades – such as Voldtofte and Kirkebjerget on Fuen in Denmark, with its specialized production of bronze lurs; Södra Kristineberg in Scania, with gold and silver crafting; and Hallunda in Södermanland and Hunn in Østfold, with specialized production of metal objects and ceramics.1 At many of these regional centers, we find archaeological traces of elaborated ritualized practices.2 On the LBA settlement at Hallunda, for example, bronze crafting took place on a conspicuous hilltop that overlooked a contemporaneous settlement. On the hilltop, some furnaces had been placed in a stone-framed cult house (Figure 42). The bronze crafting took place surrounded by dead ancestors in the form of approximately thirty preserved stone settings, each containing one or more cremation burials. Some of these burials contained exotic artifacts and rock art.3