Sökning: "bronze casting"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 7 avhandlingar innehållade orden bronze casting.

  1. 1. Gjutningens arenor : Metallhantverkets rumsliga, sociala och politiska organisation i södra Skandinavien under bronsåldern

    Författare :Anna Sörman; Anders Andrén; Alison Klevnäs; Christopher Prescott; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Bronze Age; southern Scandinavia; bronze casting; metalworking; craft production; craft organisation; workshops; social organisation; elite; heterarchy; prestige goods; social reproduction; arkeologi; Archaeology;

    Sammanfattning : Production and use of metalwork in southern Scandinavia during the Bronze Age (1700-500 BC) has above all been attributed to emerging elites. That bronze was a source and medium for social power is evident from its use in socio-political and ritual spheres, the multiple skills and elaborate aesthetics involved in its crafting, and the arenas for influence and control offered by the acquisition of metals through long-distance exchange. LÄS MER

  3. 2. The double axe in Minoan Crete : a functional analysis of production and use

    Författare :Maria Lowe Fri; Charlotte Scheffer; Lena Sjögren; Doniert Evely; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Bronze Age Crete; Minoan period; double axe; casting; casting defects; finishing treatment; experimental archaeology; use-wear; use; user; Archaeology; classical; Arkeologi; klassisk; antikens kultur och samhällsliv; Classical Archaeology and Ancient History;

    Sammanfattning : This study examines the production and use of Minoan double axes with the aim of finding out what working activities they were used for. The double axe has earlier been associated with a woodworker, a carpenter, a stonemason and a butcher. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Innovationsmiljöer i bronsålderns samhälle och idévärld : kring ny teknologi och begravningsritual i Västergötland

    Författare :Eva Weiler; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; megaliths; bronze; moulds; technology; innovation; communication; distribution; ideology; personified symbols; two-dimensional pictures; burial rites; Fornlämningar; Gravar; Bronsarbeten; Gravskick-- Sverige -- Västergötland; Sverige-- Västergötland -- Småland -- Skåne -- Halland;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to elucidate on the factors that lay behind general occurrences in society that diversely develop according to the variance in social and cultural backgrounds. The thesis encompasses the period between 2000-500 BC and concentrates on the effects of the introduction of a new technology (metal working) and new burial rites on the society in SW Sweden (Västergötland). LÄS MER

  5. 4. Fångstsamhälle i handelssystem : Åsele lappmark neolitikum - bronsålder

    Författare :Lars Göran Spång; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis is an attempt to explain economic and cultural changes during the Neolithic and Bronze Agefocusing on Asele Lappmark in Northern Sweden. The transitions are apparent in changing lithic technology,settlement structure traditions, land-uje patterning and the introduction of metallurgy. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Gene : on the origin, function and development of sedentary Iron Age settlement in northern Sweden

    Författare :Per H. Ramqvist; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; sedentary; settlement; colonization; internal development; origin; development; three-aisled long-houses; house construction; room division; inter-regional structure; iron forging; bronze casting; Järnåldern;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis deals with questions concerning the sedentary settlement in central Norrland: its origins, function and development. This type of settlement appears at the start of our calendar. The material comprises an almost fully excavated farmstead from the Early Iron Age (1-600 A.D. LÄS MER