Sökning: "mortuary practice"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 11 avhandlingar innehållade orden mortuary practice.

  1. 1. Breaking and Making Bodies and Pots : Material and Ritual Practices in Sweden in the Third Millennium BC

    Författare :Åsa Maria Larsson; Anders Kaliff; Jan Storå; Joanna Sofaer; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Middle Neolithic; Late Neolithic; Pitted Ware culture; Battle Axe culture; Corded Ware culture; pottery; pottery technology; craft; chaîne opératoire; mortuary archaeology; mortuary house; burial; ritual; defleshing; cremation; secondary mortuary practice; osteology; ethnoarchaeology; culture; culture change; identity; ethnicity; practice; cognition; body; embodiment; Archaeology; North European; Arkeologi; nordeuropeisk; arkeologi; Archaeology;

    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

  3. 2. Västergötlands kristnande : religionsskifte och gravskickets förändring 700-1200 : The Christianisation of Västergötland. Changing religion and mortuary practice AD 700-1200

    Författare :Claes Theliander; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; change of religion; mortuary practice; graves; critical realism; existentialism; early medieval; iron age; Sweden; Västergötland;

    Sammanfattning : In my PhD-thesis I present issues that deal with the transformation of ancient Scandinavian religion into Christianity, a transformation which is evident in the mortuary practices from 8th to 12th century AD in the region of Västergötland, in western Sweden. In part one I discuss and evaluate the relevant theoretical and methodological considerations and formulate a critical realistic and existential inspired archaeology. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Embodied Rituals and Ritualized Bodies : Tracing Ritual Practcies in Late Mesolithic Burials

    Författare :Liv Nilsson Stutz; Timothy Taylor; Arkeologi; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; archaeothantology; mortuary archaeology; ritual theory; body theory; practice theory; mesolithic; Archaeology; Arkeologi; anthropologie de terrain; mortuary practices; ritual; Mesolithic; practice theory; Archaeology; Arkeologi;

    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

  5. 4. 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

  7. 5. Gotländska stenåldersstudier : Människor och djur, platser och landskap

    Författare :Helena Andersson; Anders Carlsson; Björn Nilsson; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Gotland; Stone Age; Middle Neolithic; Early Neolithic; Mesolithic; Pitted Ware culture; Battle Axe culture; Funnel Beaker culture; landscape; places; material culture; animals; mortuary practices; burials; rituals; identity; practice; arkeologi; Archaeology;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis deals mainly with the Middle Neolithic period (ca. 3200-2300 BC) on the island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea. The aim is to deepen the understanding of how the islanders related to their surroundings, to the landscape, to places, to objects, to animals and to humans, both living and dead. LÄS MER