Sökning: "long-term archaeology"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 58 avhandlingar innehållade orden long-term archaeology.

  1. 1. Tingens och tankarnas landskap : försök i naturumgängets arkeologi med exempel ur Blekinges och Smålands förflutna

    Författare :Björn Nilsson; Arkeologi; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Harry Martinson; poetics of archaeology; culture-nature interaction; symbolic ecology; material studies; environmental policy; Southern Scandinavia; Småland; Blekinge; human ecology; ethno-history; long-term archaeology; Stone Age; GIS; Mörrumsån; archaeology; the past in the past; salmon-fishing; pike-fishing; Arkeologi; Archaeology;

    Sammanfattning : The thesis "Tingens och tankarnas landskap" is about the material traces of man and his activities in the past. The study investigates the possibility and methods of describing man’s interaction with nature. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Changing Landscapes : An Environmental History of Chibuene, Southern Mozambique

    Författare :Anneli Ekblom; Paul Sinclair; Louis Scott; João Morais; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Archaeology; environmental history; archaeology; archaeobotany; paleoecology; vegetation history; pollen analysis; environmental management; environmental insecurity; resource utilisation; landscape; paleclimatology; trade; oral tradition; Mozambique; Vilanculos; Arkeologi; Archaeology subjects; Arkeologiämnen;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis analyses the dynamics of environmental change and its embeddedness in the long term interactions of social history and rainfall variability through the building of an environmental history of the Chibuene locality, the coastal plain of southern Mozambique, 5 km south of the town Vilanculos, from 400 AD to present day. Land-use practices over time are discussed on the basis of vegetation and land-use history based pollen analysis, charcoal influx and diatom analysis. LÄS MER

  4. 3. The awakening of Christianity in Iceland : Discovery of a timber church and graveyard at Þórarinsstaðir in Seyðisfjörður

    Författare :Steinunn Kristjánsdóttir; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Christianization; continuity of cult; Christianity; Paganism; stave-church; timber church; private churches; missionary churches; mission; infiltration; graves; crosses; altar stone; silver ring; coin; weight; tephro-chronology; micro-archaeology; macro-archaeology; long-term processes; metaphors; Viking Age; Early Medieval Times; Thórarinsstadhir; Iceland; Northern Europe;

    Sammanfattning : The central theme of this thesis is the Christianization of Iceland during the period from the late 10th century to the turn of the 12th century. The distinct, though similar, branches of Christianity are traced through the archaeological record, where the excavation of an Early Medieval timber church and graveyard at Thórarinsstadhir in Seydhisfjördhur is used as a basic source. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Rum utan utsikt : Fönster och ljus i medeltida byggnader

    Författare :Linda Qviström; Anders Andrén; Herman Bengtsson; Martin Hansson; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Archaeology; Medieval Archaeology; Post Medieval Archaeology; Windows; Medieval Buildings; Light Openings; Window Glass; View; Interiors; Darkness; Light; Lighting; Light Equipment; Arkeologi; historisk arkeologi; medeltida byggnader; fönster; ljusöppningar; fönsterglas; utsikt; inomhusmiljö; mörker; ljus; belysning; belysningsredskap; Uppland; Gotland; arkeologi; Archaeology;

    Sammanfattning : Windows, light and a view are self-evident parts of contemporary interiors. This was not the case in Scandinavia during the Middle Ages (c. 1050–1520 CE), when closed spaces without wall openings were standard. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Common Knowledge : lowland Maya urban farming at Xuch

    Författare :Christian Isendahl; Luis Alberto Barba Pingarrón; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Archaeology; Ecological settlement archaeology; Maya; urbanism; agriculture; architecture; ceramics; geochemistry; vegetation; soils; archaeoclimatic modelling; Preclassic; Classic; Postclassic; Colonial; Xuch; Puuc; Campeche; Arkeologi; Archaeology subjects; Arkeologiämnen; arkeologi; Archaeology;

    Sammanfattning : During the second half of the first millennium AD, several large urban communities developed in the Puuc region of the northwest Yucatán Peninsula. Investigations of architecture and ceramics at Xuch provide a spatio-chronological framework demonstrating the rapid growth of an urban settlement culminating in the Terminal Classic, and its subsequent decline. LÄS MER