Sökning: "burial practice"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 22 avhandlingar innehållade orden burial practice.
1. Breaking and Making Bodies and Pots : Material and Ritual Practices in Sweden in the Third Millennium BC
Sammanfattning : In South Sweden the third millennium BC is characterised by coastal settlements of marine hunter-gatherers known as the Pitted Ware culture, and inland settlements of the Battle Axe culture. This thesis outlines the history of research of the Middle Neolithic B in general and that of the pottery and burial practices in particular. LÄS MER
2. Practices for the Living and the Dead : Medieval and Post-Reformation Burials in Scandinavia
Sammanfattning : The main themes of the thesis are burial customs and social identities, and how medieval and post-Reformation graves can provide information on such as age structures, phases in life, gender relations and social organization. The study is based on nine groups of Scandinavian material, and it comprises four case studies. LÄS MER
3. Den yngre järnålderns gravskick i Uppland : Framväxten av den arkeologiska bilden och en materialitet i förändring
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
4. The materiality of serial practice : a microarchaeology of burial : (Materialitet i seriell praktik. En mikroarkeologisk gravanalys)
Sammanfattning : The main concern of the thesis is the question of how to deal with matters of social heterogeneity in prehistory. A social reading of psychoanalytic theory of e.g. Jacques Lacan suggests that social heterogeneity generally is more likely than homogeneity in most social formations. LÄS MER
5. När andra ser. Gravmonument, social praktik och aktörskollektiv under 1100- och 1200-talen i Vänerlandskapet
Sammanfattning : Grave monuments showing rich imagery were made to a remarkable extent in the area around Lake Vänern during the 12th and 13th centuries. This thesis is about these monuments and about the physical remains of burials that were carried out over 800 years ago. LÄS MER