Sökning: "Viking Age"

Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 103 avhandlingar innehållade orden Viking Age.

1. 16. Suspended Value : Using Coins as Pendants in Viking-Age Scandinavia (c. AD 800–1140)

   Författare :Florent Audy; Nanouschka Myrberg Burström; Anders Andrén; Dagfinn Skre; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; coin-pendants; archaeology; numismatics; Viking-Age Scandinavia; material culture; economy; religion; craftsmanship; Birka; arkeologi; Archaeology;

   Sammanfattning : The use of coins as pendants is a common practice in the Scandinavian Viking Age (c. AD 800–1140). About three per cent of the coins circulating in Scandinavia show signs of having been adapted for suspension, either with a small hole or a loop. Modifying coins in this way changes the nature of the object. LÄS MER

3. 17. Särpräglat : Vikingatida och tidigmedeltida myntfynd från Danmark, Skåne, Blekinge och Halland (ca 800-1130)

   Författare :Cecilia von Heijne; Kenneth Jonsson; Svein Gullbekk; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; coin; coin finds; hoards; deposits; regional variations; silver; archaeological excavations; cultural structure; social structure; Viking Age; early medieval period; Denmark; Scania; Blekinge; Halland; South Scandinavia; Archaeology subjects; Arkeologiämnen;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis takes as its subject the Viking-Age and early medieval coin finds from South Scandinavia (i.e. Denmark and the provinces Scania, Blekinge and Halland in southern Sweden). The study consists of two parts. LÄS MER

4. 18. Excavating the Digital Landscape : GIS analyses of social relations in central Sweden in the 1st millennium AD

   Författare :Daniel Löwenborg; Paul Sinclair; Julian D. Richards; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; landscape archaeology; GIS; Iron Age; Västmanland; burial grounds; Vendel Period; Viking Age; territorial organisation; watersheds; statistical analysis; chronology; discriminant analysis; GWR; spatial analysis; perception; topography; AD 536; Fimbulvinter; property rights; crisis; historical ecology.; Archaeology; Arkeologi; Archaeology; Arkeologi;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis presents a number of GIS based landscape analyses that together aim to explore aspects of the social development in Iron Age Västmanland, central Sweden. From a perspective where nature and culture are seen as integrated in the landscape, differences in the relations to the physical landscape are interpreted as reflecting social organisation. LÄS MER

5. 19. Processing death: Oval brooches and Viking graves in Britain, Ireland and Iceland

   Författare :Frida Espolin Norstein; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Oval brooches; Burials; Viking Age; Funerary rituals; Memory; Performance; Death; England; Scotland; Ireland; Iceland;

   Sammanfattning : Burials with oval brooches from the Viking Age settlements in Britain, Ireland, and Iceland have frequently been interpreted as the graves of a specific and uniform group of people: (pagan) Scandinavian women of relatively high status. This interpretation is partly a result of the way in which the material has been treated, as static entities with more or less fixed meanings. LÄS MER

7. 20. Den yngre järnålderns gravskick i Uppland : Framväxten av den arkeologiska bilden och en materialitet i förändring

   Författare :Jhonny Therus; Neil Price; Frands Herschend; Anders Kaliff; Alison Klevnäs; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :Late Iron Age; Viking Age; burial practice; bridging practice; monument gravity; historical gravity; grave; memory; hǫrgr; amulet ring; cosmology; cremation; Christianization; settlement archaeology; mortuary behaviour; dispersed burial; Archaeology; Arkeologi;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis examines archaeological approaches to burials and changing mortuary practices during the Late Iron Age (c. 500-1100 AD) in central Eastern Sweden. Understanding the change in mortuary practices is fundamental to the study of the Late Iron Age. LÄS MER