Search for dissertations about: "symbolic use of animals"
Found 5 swedish dissertations containing the words symbolic use of animals.
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1. Waste management, animals and society : A social zooarchaeological study of Bronze Age Asine
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2. Bringing home animals : Final-stage Jomon and Okhotsk Culture food technologies
Abstract : In this thesis, organic residues preserved in ancient pottery are used to reconstruct diversity andchange in the foodways of Late Holocene hunter-gatherer communities in coastal northern Hokkaido(1750 BCE–1250 CE). The Late Holocene period of this region is very dynamic, and characterised by numerous migrations and cultural replacements. READ MORE
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3. Ubiquitous Cognitive Computing: A Vector Symbolic Approach
Abstract : A wide range of physical things are currently being integrated with the infrastructure of cyberspace in a process that is creating the so-called Internet of Things. It is expected that Internet-connected devices will vastly outnumber people on the planet in the near future. READ MORE
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4. Tracking Wild Boar and Hunters : Osteology of Wild Boar in Mesolithic South Scandinavia
Abstract : This thesis deals with the hunting of wild boar during the Mesolithic in South Scandinavia and the relationship between humans and wild game. The study is based on an analysis of osteological remains from sites in Scania, Sweden, dating from the Late Maglemose Culture to the Early Ertebølle Culture. READ MORE
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5. The birds in the Iliad. Identities, interactions and functions
Abstract : As the topic of this study embraces and entwines what is routinely divided into two separate categories, “nature” and “culture”, the birds in the Iliad challenge modern scientific division and in some ways, our thinking. They are simultaneously birds, signs and symbols. READ MORE