Sökning: "Mediterranean Archaeology"

Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 28 avhandlingar innehållade orden Mediterranean Archaeology.

  1. 11. Minoan games and game boards

    Författare :Niklas Hillbom; Antikens kultur och samhällsliv; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; game; game board; cup-holes; Kernos; marker; astragalos; dice; Mallia; Phaistos; Gournia; Khania; ritual; cultural contacts; Ancient history; Antikens och forntidens historia; Arkeologi; Archaeology; Crete; Minoan; Knossos; gaming piece; knuckle bones;

    Sammanfattning : The old, world-wide phenomenon of playing board games has received little attention among scholars studying the ancient cultures. This thesis collects and analyses game-related material from Bronze Age Crete, defines the field of research and provides a framework with definitions and typologies. LÄS MER

  3. 12. Heterological Ethnicity : Conceptualizing Identities in Ancient Greece

    Författare :Johannes Siapkas; Pontus Hellström; Gullög Nordquist; Björnar Olsen; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Classical archaeology and ancient history; theory; ethnicity; classical archaeology; ancient history; primordialism; instrumentalism; Messenia; helots; heterology; de Certeau; Antikens kultur och samhällsliv; Classical archaeology and ancient history; Antikens kultur och samhälle; antikens kultur och samhällsliv;

    Sammanfattning : In accordance with the heterological tradition, this study emphasises the determining effect of theoretical assumptions on our conceptualizations of the past. This study scrutinises how classical archaeologists and ancient historians have conceptualized ethnic groups, in particular the Messenians. LÄS MER

  4. 13. Imprints of Roman Imperium : Bronze Coinages in the Republican Eastern Provinces

    Författare :Georgia Galani; Lena Sjögren; Panagiotis Tselekas; Clare Rowan; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Roman Republic; provinces; eastern Mediterranean; Greek East; bronze coinage; provincial coinage; provincial minting; Macedonia; Asia; Cyrenaica-Crete; Bithynia-Pontus; Syria; Cilicia; arkeologi med inriktning mot antikens kultur och samhällsliv; Archaeology and Classical Studies;

    Sammanfattning : This study concerns bronze coinages of the Roman Republican provinces in the eastern Mediterranean during the 1st century BC. The Eastern Mediterranean is conventionally thought to include the areas east of the Adriatic Sea, which during the Hellenistic period included various kingdoms that had emerged from the fragmented empire of Alexander the Great. LÄS MER

  5. 14. Ritualization - Hybridization - Fragmentation : The Mutability of Roman Vessels in Germania Magna AD 1–400

    Författare :Fredrik Ekengren; Institutionen för arkeologi och antikens historia; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; ritual destruction; obolus; imports; Roman Iron Age; Roman vessels; Germania Magna; transformation; appropriation; practice theory; ritual practice; princely graves; fürstengräber; identity construction; silver vessels; Germanic pottery; hybridity; Roman glass; Charon s coin; fragmentation; enchainment;

    Sammanfattning : This PhD thesis deals with the transformation of imported vessels of Roman origin in Germania Magna during the Roman Iron Age, 1-400 AD. The concept of transformation in this context refers to the various ways these objects were interpreted, physically altered and consequently changed with regard to their function and meaning. LÄS MER

  7. 15. ATHENIAN POTTERY AND CYPRIOTE PREFERENCES

    Författare :Niki Eriksson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Attic; black figure; context; Cyprus; find-spots; geography; history; iconography; microarchaeology; pattern; pottery shapes; provenances; red figure; religion; seriality; social practices; structualization.;

    Sammanfattning : Attic Black Figure and Red Figure pottery was continuously imported in Cyprus for about 300 years; the first imports are noted ca 580/575 BC, and the last ca 325/300 BC, at about the same time (294 BC) as Cyprus was annexed by Ptolemy I and the city-kingdoms of Cyprus ceased to exist. The material presented in this thesis amounts to 895 pieces of pottery and every possible effort was made to include all known pottery found in Cyprus. LÄS MER