Sökning: "archaeological cultures"

Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 24 avhandlingar innehållade orden archaeological cultures.

  1. 16. Bringing home animals : Final-stage Jomon and Okhotsk Culture food technologies

    Författare :Aripekka Junno; Peter Jordan; Sven Isaksson; Hirofumi Kato; Daan Raemaekers; Ann-Louise Schallin; Marianne Skandfer; Ben Fitzhugh; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; arkeologi med inriktning mot laborativ arkeologi; Scientific Archaeology;

    Sammanfattning : In this thesis, organic residues preserved in ancient pottery are used to reconstruct diversity andchange in the foodways of Late Holocene hunter-gatherer communities in coastal northern Hokkaido(1750 BCE–1250 CE). The Late Holocene period of this region is very dynamic, and characterised by numerous migrations and cultural replacements. LÄS MER

  3. 17. 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

  4. 18. Palaeodiet and Infant Feeding in Coastal Arctic Settlements : Insights from stable isotope analysis of bone and dentine collagen and amino acids

    Författare :Alison Harris; Gunilla Eriksson; Kerstin Lidén; Michelle Alexander; Tamsin O'Connell; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Arctic; palaeodiet; Inuit; Yup’ik; infant feeding; domestic dogs; amino acids; collagen; stable isotopes; maintenance activities; gender; arkeologi med inriktning mot laborativ arkeologi; Scientific Archaeology;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation investigates the day-to-day activities that sustained human societies in the arctic and subarctic environments of North America and Siberia over the past 1500 years. Maintenance activities, such as food preparation, childcare, and the care of domestic animals, are commonly inflected by social identity and can provide insight into the experience of gender among archaeological and historical populations. LÄS MER

  5. 19. The Lenaia vases revisited : image, ritual and Dionysian women

    Författare :Viveca Olsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Attic pottery; black figure vases; red figure vases; Lenaia vases; stamnos; iconography; Dionysus; Dionysian women; maenads; Delphi; Thyiades; Greek cult; cult image; ritual; Etruria;

    Sammanfattning : This study deals with the so-called Lenaia vases, a group of fifty vases which were painted with similar imagery in Attica during 490-420 BC. The motifs of these vases depict "Dionysian" women, drinking wine and sacrificing bloody and bloodless offerings before a cult image of Dionysos. LÄS MER

  7. 20. Mesolitiska möten : Strandvägen, en senmesolitisk boplats vid Motala ström

    Författare :Tom Carlsson; Arkeologi; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Archaeology; Social relations; Spatial organisation; Eastern Middle Sweden; Late Mesolithic; Arkeologi;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation focuses on the Strandvägen site located in the town of Motala, Östergötland, Sweden. The problem concerns what shaped the material expressions on the site during 5500?5000 B.C. For reasons of text structure the space outside the settlement site (the home) is divided into the world, the district, and the neighbourhood. LÄS MER