Search for dissertations about: "Settlement archaeology"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 50 swedish dissertations containing the words Settlement archaeology.

2. 21. Gene : on the origin, function and development of sedentary Iron Age settlement in northern Sweden

   Author : Per H. Ramqvist; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; sedentary; settlement; colonization; internal development; origin; development; three-aisled long-houses; house construction; room division; inter-regional structure; iron forging; bronze casting; Järnåldern;

   Abstract : This thesis deals with questions concerning the sedentary settlement in central Norrland: its origins, function and development. This type of settlement appears at the start of our calendar. The material comprises an almost fully excavated farmstead from the Early Iron Age (1-600 A.D. READ MORE

4. 22. Swahili Social Landscapes : Material expressions of identity, agency, and labour in Zanzibar, 1000–1400 CE

   Author : Henriette Rødland; Neil Price; Stephanie Wynne-Jones; Paul Lane; Thomas Vernet-Habasque; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Swahili; social composition; agency; production; inequality; Archaeology; Arkeologi;

   Abstract : This thesis explores the social and productive landscapes of Tumbatu and Mkokotoni, two neighbouring Swahili sites in the Zanzibar Archipelago, Tanzania, which are dated to the 11th to 15th centuries CE. Emerging on the East African coast around the 7th century CE, the Swahili culture has traditionally been associated with vast Indian Ocean trade networks, stone towns, and a cosmopolitan hierarchical Islamic society, within which social status was negotiated through imported prestige goods and stone architecture. READ MORE

5. 23. Positioning the Bronze Age in Social Theory and Research Context

   Author : Anna Gröhn; Arkeologi; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; social theory; practice theory; landscape; European cultural heritage; Stora Köpinge; Archaeology; longhouses; Arkeologi; Scandinavia; Bronze Age;

   Abstract : The thesis investigates the theoretical background and the research context within which interpretations of the Nordic Bronze Age have been formed in Scandinavian archaeology. A theoretical analysis that emphasises theories of social practice and phenomenological perspectives is presented. READ MORE

6. 24. The roads in-between : causeways and polyagentive networks at Ichmul and Yo'okop, Cochuah Region, Mexico

   Author : Johan Normark; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; agency; architecture; becoming; Bergson; causeway; Cochuah; culture critique; Deleuze; difference; duration; event horizon; evolution; humanocentrism; Ichmul; ideology; in-between; index; materialtiy; Maya; Mexico; multiplicity; neo-materialism; network; polyagency; polyagent; posthumanism; practice; rhizome; road; sakbe; settlement archaeology; technoscience; temporality; Terminal Classic; virutality; Yo okop;

   Abstract : This dissertation has two aims: (1) To characterize and abandon the humanocentric archaeology that relies upon quasi-objects and to develop the polyagentive archaeology that relies upon actualizations of the virtual. (2) To exemplify the latter approach by studying how causeways (sakbeob) in the Maya area relate to temporality and materialtiy at, and around, the two neighbouring sites of Ichmul and Yo'okop in the Cochuah region of southeast Yucatan and west-central Quintana Roo in Mexico. READ MORE

7. 25. The Common Thread, Textile Production during the Late Iron Age and Viking Age

   Author : Eva Andersson; Arkeologi; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Haithabu; Birka; Scania; Viking Age; Late Iron Age; household production; textile valuables; sail cloth; bone needle; loom weight; textile production; spindle whorl; Archaeology; Arkeologi;

   Abstract : The initial aim of the present PhD thesis was to develop the method of classification for textile tools to facilitate the study of textile production in an archaeological context. The thesis consists of five separate projects and a concluding summary. The study covers the late Iron Age, mainly the Viking Period. READ MORE