Search for dissertations about: "Iron Age archaeology"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 51 swedish dissertations containing the words Iron Age archaeology.

2. 11. The soil as a source material in archaeology. : Theoretical considerations and pragmatic applications

   Author : Johan Linderholm; Roger Engelmark; Martin Bell; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Environmental archaeology; Geoarchaeology; Prehistory; Soil phosphate; Magnetic susceptibility; Soil chemistry; Site formation processes; Soil erosion; Archaeology subjects; Arkeologiämnen; Archaeology; arkeologi;

   Abstract : This thesis deals with questions on various applications using soils and sediments as sources of information in archaeological research. Human environmental impact on soils and sediments, in terms of pollution, is a well known phenomenon as the industrialisation intensified during historical times and onwards and has left strong pollutive marks. READ MORE

4. 12. Iron Age Keys, Locks, and Chests: Exploring Locking Practices and Social Identities at Birka, Helgö, Lovö, Sanda, and Vallhagar

   Author : Emma Nordström; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Arkeologi; Archaeology; Nycklar; Keys; Lås; Locks; Kistor; Chests; Låsande; Locking practices; Sociala identiteter; Social identities; Järnålder; Iron Age; Vikingatid; Viking Age;

   Abstract : The use of keys, locks, and chests in the Scandinavian Iron Age is a subject overshadowed by the assumed connection between keys and the housewife with her administrative role on the farm. The key is sometimes even seen as the very symbol of this role. READ MORE

5. 13. Excavating the Digital Landscape : GIS analyses of social relations in central Sweden in the 1st millennium AD

   Author : Daniel Löwenborg; Paul Sinclair; Julian D. Richards; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; landscape archaeology; GIS; Iron Age; Västmanland; burial grounds; Vendel Period; Viking Age; territorial organisation; watersheds; statistical analysis; chronology; discriminant analysis; GWR; spatial analysis; perception; topography; AD 536; Fimbulvinter; property rights; crisis; historical ecology.; Archaeology; Arkeologi; Archaeology; Arkeologi;

   Abstract : This thesis presents a number of GIS based landscape analyses that together aim to explore aspects of the social development in Iron Age Västmanland, central Sweden. From a perspective where nature and culture are seen as integrated in the landscape, differences in the relations to the physical landscape are interpreted as reflecting social organisation. READ MORE

6. 14. Living on Another Shore : Early Scandinavian Settlement on the North-Western Estonian Coast

   Author : Felicia Markus; Anders Kaliff; Göran Hoppe; Kerstin Cassel; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Archaeology; Estonia; Estonian Swedes; Scandinavian settlement; Iron Age; early Medieval Period; colonisation; ethnic identity; migration; Baltic Sea; contacts; Christianisation; Arkeologi; Archaeology subjects; Arkeologiämnen; arkeologi; Archaeology;

   Abstract : Prior to the Second World War, there was a Swedish-speaking population settled on the north-western Estonian coasts. The early history of this group is largely unknown. No colonisation is mentioned in the written sources. The earliest such sources that mention Swedes originate in the late thirteenth century. READ MORE

7. 15. Pastoral pasts in the Amboseli landscape : An archaeological exploration of the Amboseli ecosystem from the later Holocene to the colonial period

   Author : Anna Shoemaker; Paul Lane; Andrew Reid; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Pastoralism; Amboseli; Historical Archaeology; Eastern Africa; Eastern African Iron Age; Maasai; Pastoral Archaeology; Usable Pasts; Archaeology; Arkeologi;

   Abstract : The Amboseli ecosystem, home of Amboseli National Park, is renowned for its extraordinary biodiversity, and has long drawn the attention of conservationists and ecologists hoping to safeguard the healthy functioning of this Kenyan rangeland and the pastoral traditions that have brought this landscape into being. There is major concern currently however, as present day Amboseli pastoral livelihoods are said to be in decline owing to rangelands being settled, fenced, and converted to farmland. READ MORE