Sökning: "burial grounds"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 11 avhandlingar innehållade orden burial grounds.
1. Där människor, handling och tid möts : En studie av det förromerska landskapet på Gotland
Sammanfattning : This thesis is concerned with the pre-Roman Iron Age on Gotland (500 BC–AD). The remains studied comprise artefacts, fossil field systems, ring-forts, burial localities, and places for iron-making, and more. The author focuses on the landscape formed by these remains, in an attempt to understand the people and society behind them. LÄS MER
2. Den yngre järnålderns gravskick i Uppland : Framväxten av den arkeologiska bilden och en materialitet i förändring
Sammanfattning : This thesis examines archaeological approaches to burials and changing mortuary practices during the Late Iron Age (c. 500-1100 AD) in central Eastern Sweden. Understanding the change in mortuary practices is fundamental to the study of the Late Iron Age. LÄS MER
3. Excavating the Digital Landscape : GIS analyses of social relations in central Sweden in the 1st millennium AD
Sammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER
4. Fragmenterade platser, ting och människor : Stenkonstruktioner och depositioner på två gravfältslokaler i Södermanland ca 1000–300 f Kr
Sammanfattning : It is generally considered that cairns and stone constructions of different shapes and sizes make up the grave monuments of the Late Bronze Age (1000–300 BC) in the province of Södermanland in Sweden. However, these “monuments” often contain only small amounts of burnt bone, and often no human remains at all. LÄS MER
5. On Death in the Mesolithic : Or the Mortuary Practices of the Last Hunter-Gatherers of the South-Western Iberian Peninsula, 7th–6th Millennium BCE
Sammanfattning : The history of death is entangled with the history of changing social values, meaning that a shift in attitudes to death will be consistent with changes in a society’s world view.Late Mesolithic shell middens in the Tagus and Sado valleys, Portugal, constitute some of the largest and earliest burial grounds known, arranged and maintained by people with a hunting, fishing, and foraging lifestyle, c 6000–5000 cal BCE. LÄS MER