Research dealing with the Scandinavian Bronze Age period has often been related to thenotion of a society organized around metal trade, both in terms of social organization andnetworks. The central area for this development has been located to the southernmost partsof Scandinavia. However, the rich southern material in the form of a combination of metals,monumental mounds and longhouses is not relatable to most other parts of the Nordic area.In this paper we outline a study of several co-existing Bronze Ages, with the purpose ofunderstanding the distribution and chronology of the vast and varied archaeological recordof the Nordic area without any reference to a central area in the south. We argue for thepossibility of studying Bronze Age movements, contacts, networks, and social organizationdirectly based on the archaeological material at hand, rather than in relation to the norm setby the southern Bronze Age paradigm. This enables possibilities of studying intersectionsof archaeological material that change in relation to both time and space.