Syftet med uppsatsen har varit att analysera utformningen och geografiska placering av hällbildsvoltigörer inom Västra Götaland för att förstå den eventuella relation hällvoltigörerna kan ha haft till bronsålderns metallhandelsnätverk. Det primära källmaterialet består av uppgifter om dels bronsvoltigören från Grevensvænge, Själland dels hällbildsvoltigörer i Fornsök och Svenskt Hällristnings Forsknings Arkivs som bilddatabas som kunnat styrkas av dokumentation och verifierats att figuren omfattas av uppsatsens definition av voltigör.  De kvantitativa metoder som har använts har huvudsakligen varit för att göra en jämförande analys av de parametrar som ingår i vissa analysteman. Det har inte gått att inom ramarna för en uppsats på denna nivå utläsa något påvisbart samband med metallhandelns handelsvägar. / The purpose of this essay has been to analyze the design and geographical location of rock image voltigeurs within Västra Götaland in order to understand the possible relationship the rock voltigeurs may have had to the Bronze Age metal trade network. The primary source material consists of information about the bronze vaulter from Grevensvænge, Zealand, and the rock image vaulters in Fornsök and the Swedish Rock Art Research Archive as an image database that could be substantiated by documentation and verified that the figure falls within the essay's definition of vault. Quantitative methods that have been used have mainly been to make a comparative analysis of the parameters included in certain analysis themes. It has not been possible to infer any demonstrable relationship with the trade routes of the metal trade within the framework of an essay at this level.

Previous studies have established that when a subject’s attention is directed to a specific body part, the subject is able to move that body part faster than a body part their attention was not drawn to. This is known as the body compatibility effect, and it has been shown that this effect only occurs when viewing upright images of the human body. In this study, we presented control subjects and expert acrobats with inverted and upright stimuli. We hypothesized that the amount of time the acrobats spent inverted would result in the acrobats exhibiting body compatibility effects for both upright and inverted stimuli. Compatibility effects were observed in the upright condition for both groups, but neither group exhibited any compatibility effects in the inverted position. Unexpectedly the acrobats responded significantly faster to incongruent trials compared to the control subjects, leading to the conclusion that there must be some form of priming occurring concurrently with the body compatibility task allowing the acrobats to respond faster than the control participants.