Search for dissertations about: "pottery"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 28 swedish dissertations containing the word pottery.

  2. 1. Shaping an identity : Pitted Ware pottery and potters in southeast Sweden

    Author : Ludvig Papmehl-Dufay; Kerstin Lidén; Mats Larsson; Ole Stilborg; Andrew Jones; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Pitted Ware culture; pottery; middle Neolithic; Öland; Köpingsvik; Ottenby Royal Manor; cultural identity; pottery design; pottery technology; pottery use; Archaeology; Arkeologi; Archaeology; North European; Archaeology;

    Abstract : The thesis is concerned with pottery and culture during the Middle Neolithic (c. 3300 – 2300 cal BC) in southeast Sweden. Its purpose is to investigate and discuss the significance of pottery in the Pitted Ware culture, particularly on the island of Öland in the Baltic Sea. READ MORE

  4. 2. ATHENIAN POTTERY AND CYPRIOTE PREFERENCES

    Author : Niki Eriksson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Attic; black figure; context; Cyprus; find-spots; geography; history; iconography; microarchaeology; pattern; pottery shapes; provenances; red figure; religion; seriality; social practices; structualization.;

    Abstract : Attic Black Figure and Red Figure pottery was continuously imported in Cyprus for about 300 years; the first imports are noted ca 580/575 BC, and the last ca 325/300 BC, at about the same time (294 BC) as Cyprus was annexed by Ptolemy I and the city-kingdoms of Cyprus ceased to exist. The material presented in this thesis amounts to 895 pieces of pottery and every possible effort was made to include all known pottery found in Cyprus. READ MORE

  5. 3. Breaking and Making Bodies and Pots : Material and Ritual Practices in Sweden in the Third Millennium BC

    Author : Åsa Maria Larsson; Anders Kaliff; Jan Storå; Joanna Sofaer; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Middle Neolithic; Late Neolithic; Pitted Ware culture; Battle Axe culture; Corded Ware culture; pottery; pottery technology; craft; chaîne opératoire; mortuary archaeology; mortuary house; burial; ritual; defleshing; cremation; secondary mortuary practice; osteology; ethnoarchaeology; culture; culture change; identity; ethnicity; practice; cognition; body; embodiment; Archaeology; North European; Arkeologi; nordeuropeisk; arkeologi; Archaeology;

    Abstract : In South Sweden the third millennium BC is characterised by coastal settlements of marine hunter-gatherers known as the Pitted Ware culture, and inland settlements of the Battle Axe culture. This thesis outlines the history of research of the Middle Neolithic B in general and that of the pottery and burial practices in particular. READ MORE

  6. 4. Early pottery in Greece : a technological and functional analysis of the evidence from Neolithic Achilleion, Thessaly

    Author : Claude Björk; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Vaser; Teknisk analys; Achilleion; Neolitisk tid;

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  7. 5. Shards of Iron Age Communications. A ceramological study of internal structures and external contacts in the Gudme-Lundeborg Area, Funen during the Late Roman Iron Age

    Author : Ole Stilborg; Arkeologi; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; local; Funen; Gudme-Lundeborg Area; trading site; cemetery; settlement; Late Roman Iron Age; material systems; Things; communication; Pottery; ceramology; import; center; Archaeology; Arkeologi;

    Abstract : The objective of ceramology is to describe pottery craft traditions; the potters, their production, social organisation and the use of the products. Through this the human actions surrounding the pottery are studied. READ MORE