Search for dissertations about: "crete"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 12 swedish dissertations containing the word crete.
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1. The double axe in Minoan Crete : a functional analysis of production and use
Abstract : This study examines the production and use of Minoan double axes with the aim of finding out what working activities they were used for. The double axe has earlier been associated with a woodworker, a carpenter, a stonemason and a butcher. READ MORE
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2. Minoan games and game boards
Abstract : The old, world-wide phenomenon of playing board games has received little attention among scholars studying the ancient cultures. This thesis collects and analyses game-related material from Bronze Age Crete, defines the field of research and provides a framework with definitions and typologies. READ MORE
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3. STRUCTURE AND INTERACTION IN CRETAN LEAPING DANCES : CONNECTING ETHNOGRAPHY AND COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS
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4. Between tradition and modernity : The occupational choices of young people in rural Crete
Abstract : The aim of this study is to investigate the occupational orientations and choices of young people in rural Crete, a society, which is in constant change as it finds itself caught between tradition and modernity. To achieve this, the study looks into two cases: the case of Anogia, a small mountainous cattle-raising village, and the case of Archanes, which is a farming village on a plain. READ MORE
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5. Imprints of Roman Imperium : Bronze Coinages in the Republican Eastern Provinces
Abstract : This study concerns bronze coinages of the Roman Republican provinces in the eastern Mediterranean during the 1st century BC. The Eastern Mediterranean is conventionally thought to include the areas east of the Adriatic Sea, which during the Hellenistic period included various kingdoms that had emerged from the fragmented empire of Alexander the Great. READ MORE