Search for dissertations about: "Greece"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 86 swedish dissertations containing the word Greece.

2. 1. Greek Cisterns : Water and risk in ancient Greece, 600–50 BC

   Author : Patrik Klingborg; Gunnel Ekroth; Henrik Gerding; Michaeol Lindblom; Jutta Stroszeck; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Cisterns; Greece; Water; Risk; Materiality; Water supply; Classical Archaeology and Ancient History; Antikens kultur och samhällsliv;

   Abstract : This study explores cisterns in the Greek world 600–50 BC based on a representative body of archaeological material of 410 cisterns from 49 sites presented in a catalogue, and the literary and epigraphic evidence. The aim is to investigate when and how cisterns were constructed, how they were used and functioned in ancient Greek society and why they were used only at certain times. READ MORE

4. 2. Berbati between Argos and Corinth : the excavations at Pyrgouthi in 1995 and 1997 : from the early Iron Age to the early Roman period

   Author : Arto Penttinen; Pontus Hellström; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : Landscape archaeology; border zone; boundary; Corinthia; Argolid; Early Iron Age Greece; Classical Greece; Hellenistic Greece; Early Roman Greece; pastoralism; transhumance; animal husbandry; ancient agriculture; potters kiln; tower; fortification; antikens kultur och samhällsliv; Classical Archaeology and Ancient History;

   Abstract : This dissertation is based on the finds from the archaeological excavations at Pyrgouthi, Berbati, in the Argolid, Greece, in 1995 and 1997. The excavations focused on a rectangular tower built of heavy polygonal blocks, which was identified as belonging to a farmstead site during an earlier surface survey in the area. READ MORE

5. 3. Holocene environmental changes and climate variability in the Eastern Mediterranean : Multiproxy sediment records from the Peloponnese peninsula, SW Greece

   Author : Christos Katrantsiotis; Stefan Wastegård; Rienk Smittenberg; Jan Risberg; Elin Norström; Sherilyn Fritz; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Mediterranean; Greece; Peloponnese; Holocene; sediments; diatoms; n-alkanes; stable isotopes; tectonics; climate variability; monsoons; NAO; NCP; Physical Geography; naturgeografi;

   Abstract : This thesis presents multiproxy reconstructions of the mid to late Holocene climate and environmental changes in the Peloponnese peninsula, SW Greece. The combined dataset consists of diatom, biomarker and X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (XRF) elemental data in radiocarbon-dated sediment cores taken from the Agios Floros fen and the Gialova Lagoon in SW Peloponnese and the Ancient Lake Lerna in NE Peloponnese. READ MORE

6. 4. Kalaureia 1894 : A Cultural History of the First Swedish Excavation in Greece

   Author : Ingrid Berg; Anders Andrén; Arto Penttinen; Margarita Díaz-Andreu; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Archaeology; classical archaeology; Kalaureia; Poros; Greece; Sanctuary of Poseidon; nineteenth century; history of archaeology; cultural history; microhistory; politics of belonging; colonialism; topography; fieldwork; excavation; representation; historiography; masculinity; identity; heritage; arkeologi; Archaeology;

   Abstract : The excavation of the Sanctuary of Poseidon at Kalaureia in 1894 marks the beginning of Swedish archaeological fieldwork in Greece. During a couple of hot summer months, two philologists from Uppsala University, Sam Wide (1861-1918) and Lennart Kjellberg (1857-1936), worked in the sanctuary together with the architect Sven Kristenson (1858-1937), the Greek foreman Pankalos and around twenty local workmen. READ MORE

7. 5. 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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