Sökning: "Mesolithic"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 40 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Mesolithic.
1. Embodied Rituals and Ritualized Bodies : Tracing Ritual Practcies in Late Mesolithic Burials
Sammanfattning : This thesis explores the ritual dimensions of the mortuary practices in the late Mesolithic cemeteries at Skateholm in Southern Sweden and Vedbæk-Bøgebakken in Eastern Denmark. With a combination of methods and theories that all focus on the ritual practices as action, a new approach to burials in archaeology is proposed. LÄS MER
2. Nytt ljus på Sandarnakulturen. Om en boplats från äldre stenålder i Bohuslän. : New light on the Sandarna Culture. A Mesolithic dwelling-site from the province of Bohuslän
Sammanfattning : In 1997 the author headed an excavation of a Mesolithic settlement site at Timmerås in the province of Bohuslän, western Sweden. The site proved to contain features of an extent with few parallels in southern Scandinavia. Most striking among them was a well-preserved hut, where the floor had been dug down below the ground level. LÄS MER
3. Pioneer Settlement in the Mesolithic of Northern Sweden
Sammanfattning : The aim of the thesis is to cast light on the earliest settlement of northern Sweden. The starting point is lithic artifacts, which have been studied from a technological as well as a more conventional typological perspective (Papers I, II, and IV). LÄS MER
4. Points on Production : Taphonomic research on Mesolithic osseous assemblages in Sweden
Sammanfattning : Osteoarchaeological materials are influenced by many consecutive factors, from human hunting strategies, consumption patterns and waste disposal to mechanical and chemical changes in bone structure and shape. Here Mesolithic osteoarchaeological patterns have been examined in relation to the production of bone and antler artefacts. LÄS MER
5. On Death in the Mesolithic : Or the Mortuary Practices of the Last Hunter-Gatherers of the South-Western Iberian Peninsula, 7th–6th Millennium BCE
Sammanfattning : The history of death is entangled with the history of changing social values, meaning that a shift in attitudes to death will be consistent with changes in a society’s world view.Late Mesolithic shell middens in the Tagus and Sado valleys, Portugal, constitute some of the largest and earliest burial grounds known, arranged and maintained by people with a hunting, fishing, and foraging lifestyle, c 6000–5000 cal BCE. LÄS MER
