Search for dissertations about: "Monuments"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 31 swedish dissertations containing the word Monuments.

  2. 6. The tomb of Caecilia Metella: tumulus, tropaeum and thymele

    Author : Henrik Gerding; Antikens kultur och samhällsliv; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Mundus; Spatial concepts; Punctuation marks; Via Appia; Late Republican Rome; Prosopography; Three-dimensional documentation; Sepulchral architecture; Circular monuments; Cylindrical tombs; Ancient history; Roman architecture; Buildings archaeology; Katabasis; Crassus; Augustus; Spolia Opima; Archaeology; Arkeologi;

    Abstract : The present thesis constitutes a close study of a single architectural monument, the tomb of Caecilia Metella. This is a well-preserved cylindrical tomb situated on the Via Appia outside Rome, and it is generally associated with sepulchral buildings of the traditional tumulus type. READ MORE

  4. 7. Changing Landscapes and Persistent Places : An Exploration of the Bjäre Peninsula

    Author : Jenny Nord; Arkeologi; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; European landscape convention; Bronze Age landscape; landscape archaeology; historic landscape characterisation; place and space; landscape memories; rock-carvings; cupmarks; mortuary monuments; burial mounds; burial cairns; stonesettings; communication; chronology; management issues; cultural biography; intangible values; long term stability; long term change;

    Abstract : Changing Landscapes and Persistent Places is a study of the cultural landscape on the Bjäre peninsula in northwest Skåne. The many Bronze Age remains that give the landscape its distinctive character are the starting point for an attempt to increase our understanding of the historical depth of today’s landscape. READ MORE

  5. 8. Monumental Past: The Life-histories of Megalithic Monuments in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Germany)

    Author : Cornelius Holtorf; Department of Archaeology Lampeter University of Wales; []
    Keywords : Archaeology; Arkeologi;

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  6. 9. Kings at Karnak : a study of the treatment of the monuments of royal predecessors in the early New Kingdom

    Author : Gun Björkman; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Historical cultures; Historiska kulturer;

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  7. 10. The Presence of the Absent. Memorials and Places of Ritual

    Author : Anna Petersson; Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljö; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; memorial; death; cemetery; space; profane; praesentia; symbol; place; private; sacred; public; ritual; body;

    Abstract : Memorials and places of ritual, such as funeral monuments, roadside memorials and cemeteries, can be said to reveal the politics of religious space as in the tension between sacred and secular and between private and public interests. At the same time they also reflect a given society’s religious structures, cultural differences and social orderings, as well as the changes in these matters over time. READ MORE