Sökning: "Late Neolithic"

Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 27 avhandlingar innehållade orden Late Neolithic.

1. 16. The use of stone and hunting of reindeer : a study of stone tool manufacture and hunting of large mammals in the central Scandes c. 6000-1 BC

   Författare :Lena Holm; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; High mountains; hunter-gatherers; use of resources; stone tool manufacture; reindeer hunting; landscape use; seasonality;

   Sammanfattning : The thesis raises questions concerning prehistoric conditions in a high mountain region in central Scandinavia; it focuses on the human use of stone and on hunting principally of reindeer. An analysis of how the stone material was utilized and an approach to how large mammals were hunted result in a synthesis describing one interpretation of how the vast landscape of a region in the central Scandinavian high mountains was used. LÄS MER

3. 17. The soil as a source material in archaeology. : Theoretical considerations and pragmatic applications

   Författare :Johan Linderholm; Roger Engelmark; Martin Bell; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Environmental archaeology; Geoarchaeology; Prehistory; Soil phosphate; Magnetic susceptibility; Soil chemistry; Site formation processes; Soil erosion; Archaeology subjects; Arkeologiämnen; Archaeology; arkeologi;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis deals with questions on various applications using soils and sediments as sources of information in archaeological research. Human environmental impact on soils and sediments, in terms of pollution, is a well known phenomenon as the industrialisation intensified during historical times and onwards and has left strong pollutive marks. LÄS MER

4. 18. Boplatsvallen som bostad i Norrbottens kustland 5000 till 2000 före vår tideräkning : en studie av kontinuitet och förändring

   Författare :Erik Norberg; Thomas B Larsson; Mika Lavento; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Semi-subterranean house; dwelling; settlement; history; land upheaval; meter above sea; Archaeology; Arkeologi;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis focuses on the use of the semi-subterranean house on the coast of Norrbotten during the period 5000–2000 BC. The term semi-subterranean house (in Swedish boplatsvall) became a new category of prehistoric remains in Norrbotten during the 1980s. LÄS MER

5. 19. The allure of the exotic : The social use of non-local raw materials during the Stone Age in Sweden

   Författare :Jacqueline Taffinder; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Archaeology; Arkeologi; Archaeology subjects; Arkeologiämnen; arkeologi; Archaeology;

   Sammanfattning : By use of ethnoarchaeological method this thesis attempts to investigate the social roles of non-local raw materials. Personal ornaments are studied in a world-wide range of ethnographic contexts, attention being focused on the origin of raw materials used to make these objects and the social use they assume in the 64 different societies analysed. LÄS MER

7. 20. Gränser i livet - gränser i landskapet : Generationsrelationer och rituella praktiker i södermanländska bronsålderslandskap

   Författare :Susanne Thedéen; Bo Petre; Stig Welinder; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Bronze Age; East Central Sweden; Landscapes; Cosmology; Life Course; Gender; Children; Passage Rituals; Mortuary Practices; Cultural Construction of Age; Cairns; Heaps of Fire-Cracked Stones; Razors; Pins; Archaeology subjects; Arkeologiämnen;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis deals with issues relating to the cosmological dimensions of landscapes, the cultural construction of age and the long-term changes in passage rituals and mortuary practices in the Bronze Age societies of Södermanland in East Central Sweden. A gender perspective forms the underlying theoretical framework, while the study as a whole is particularly interested in power relations between generations as an impetus for societal change. LÄS MER