Sökning: "Ecological settlement archaeology"

Hittade 5 avhandlingar innehållade orden Ecological settlement archaeology.

  1. 1. Living on Another Shore : Early Scandinavian Settlement on the North-Western Estonian Coast

    Författare :Felicia Markus; Anders Kaliff; Göran Hoppe; Kerstin Cassel; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Archaeology; Estonia; Estonian Swedes; Scandinavian settlement; Iron Age; early Medieval Period; colonisation; ethnic identity; migration; Baltic Sea; contacts; Christianisation; Arkeologi; Archaeology subjects; Arkeologiämnen; arkeologi; Archaeology;

    Sammanfattning : Prior to the Second World War, there was a Swedish-speaking population settled on the north-western Estonian coasts. The early history of this group is largely unknown. No colonisation is mentioned in the written sources. The earliest such sources that mention Swedes originate in the late thirteenth century. LÄS MER

  3. 2. 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

  4. 3. Patrones de Asentamiento Precolombino del Altiplano Boliviano : Lugares Centrales de la Región de Quillacas, Departamento de Oruro, Bolivia

    Författare :Marcos Rodolfo Michel López; Frands Herschend; Christian Isendahl; John Janusek; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Bolivia; Andean central places; socio-dynamic units; social construction; ayullus; Tiwanaku; Quillacas- Azanaques; markas; Archaeology; Arkeologi;

    Sammanfattning : Archaeology in Bolivia has two strong tendencies: nationalism and regionalism. The proposal aims for an academic reconstruction and expansion of this science in order to develop new scientific criteria, that can be institutionalized and become normative to the whole country to cover the expectations of different regions with regard to its past. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Den hemliga sjön – en resa till det småländska inlandet för 9 000 år sedan

    Författare :Carl Persson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; behavioral archaeology; coast-inland; colonization; cognition; intrasite-patterning; flint; lithic analysis; ; Maglemose culture; ; mesolithic; paleoecology; structuralism; transcendental social; use-wear analysis; GIS analysis;

    Sammanfattning : The thesis is based on the excavation of a Stone Age site approximately 9,300 years old located in the south Swedish inland. Although the site delivered very few finds it was a site of considerable potential merit. The landscape in the forested region was to a considerable extent untouched by human activity. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Resilient Landscapes: socio-environmental dynamics in the Shashi-Limpopo Basin, southern Zimbabwe c. AD 800 to the present

    Författare :Munyaradze Manyanga; Paul Sinclair; Alinah Segobye; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :Archaeology; Shashi-Limpopo Basin; landscapes; perceptions; floodplains; wetlands; drylands; ecology; socio-political complexity; local knowledge; climate change; seasonal variability; resilience; southern Africa; Arkeologi; arkeologi; Archaeology;

    Sammanfattning : The general perception today is that the Shashi-Limpopo Basin in southern Africa is hot and dry and not conducive to human habitation. Today there is no doubt that the Shashi-Limpopo Basin has been home to many communities throughout the pre-historical period. LÄS MER