Sökning: "Burial customs"
Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 17 avhandlingar innehållade orden Burial customs.
6. Tjärby – Lokala sedvänjor och långväga kontakter. Förromerskt grav- och byggnadsskick ur ett halländskt perspektiv
Sammanfattning : The main purpose of the thesis is to present, penetrate and analyse occurrences at two sites dated to Pre-Roman Iron Age. These events are regarded in the comparative light of their contemporary local, regional and interregional context. The sites comprise one burial site and a neighbouring settlement site at Tjärby in southern Halland. LÄS MER
7. Under runristad häll : Tidigkristna gravmonument i 1000-talets Sverige
Sammanfattning : This thesis examines transformations in burial and commemorative practices during the late Viking Age and early Middle Ages based on early Christian grave monuments (in sw. often named Eskilstunakistor); the first examples of churchyard memorials known in south central Sweden. LÄS MER
8. Barshalder 1 : A cemetery in Grötlingbo and Fide parishes, Gotland, Sweden, c. AD 1-1100. Excavations and finds 1826-1971
Sammanfattning : The prehistoric cemetery of Barshalder is located along the main road on the boundary between Grötlingbo and Fide parishes, near the southern end of the island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea. The cemetery was used from c. AD 1-1100. LÄS MER
9. Materialising Modern Cemeteries : Archaeological narratives of Assistens cemetery, Copenhagen
Sammanfattning : This doctoral thesis examines the encounter between the dead and the living within 19th and 20th century landscape cemeteries. It shows how the relationship unfolds through the materiality and practices occurring within them. LÄS MER
10. Krigarna i Odins sal : Dödsföreställningar och krigarkult fornnordisk religion
Sammanfattning : The crucial question in this study concerns the relationship between the motifs of Valhall and Othin in the epically worked out myths, and the more vague and intuitive religious beliefs. Archaeological remains as well as Old Norse literature constitute the source material. LÄS MER