Sökning: "settlement patterns"

Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 56 avhandlingar innehållade orden settlement patterns.

  1. 21. Människor i utmark

    Författare :Eva Svensson; Historisk arkeologi; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; local societies; social practice; human strategies; pitfalls for elk; bloomery furnaces; shielings; outland agriculture; outland haymaking; rural settlement; soapstone quarries; forest farmers; tar production; households; landscape archaeology; Outand use; Archaeology; Arkeologi;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this study is to illuminate the complex and varied uses of the forested outlands, from the Iron Age, through the Middle Ages, to Early Modern times. Material evidence from the landscape of Värmland, in Western Sweden, will be examined, focusing on the local societies of Dalby and Gunnarskog. LÄS MER

  3. 22. Striving against adversity. : the dynamics of migration, health and poverty in rural South Africa

    Författare :Mark A Collinson; Peter Byass; Gunnar Malmberg; Kathleen Kahn; Michael White; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; migration; temporary migration; permanent migration; refugee settlement; socioeconomic status; HIV transmission; adult mortality; child mortaality; returning to die; Epidemiology; Epidemiologi; Epidemiology; epidemiologi;

    Sammanfattning :  Background: The study is based in post-apartheid South Africa and looks at the health and well being of households in the rural northeast. Temporary migration remains important in South Africa because it functions as a mainstay for income and even survival of rural communities. LÄS MER

  4. 23. The roads in-between : causeways and polyagentive networks at Ichmul and Yo'okop, Cochuah Region, Mexico

    Författare :Johan Normark; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; agency; architecture; becoming; Bergson; causeway; Cochuah; culture critique; Deleuze; difference; duration; event horizon; evolution; humanocentrism; Ichmul; ideology; in-between; index; materialtiy; Maya; Mexico; multiplicity; neo-materialism; network; polyagency; polyagent; posthumanism; practice; rhizome; road; sakbe; settlement archaeology; technoscience; temporality; Terminal Classic; virutality; Yo okop;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation has two aims: (1) To characterize and abandon the humanocentric archaeology that relies upon quasi-objects and to develop the polyagentive archaeology that relies upon actualizations of the virtual. (2) To exemplify the latter approach by studying how causeways (sakbeob) in the Maya area relate to temporality and materialtiy at, and around, the two neighbouring sites of Ichmul and Yo'okop in the Cochuah region of southeast Yucatan and west-central Quintana Roo in Mexico. LÄS MER

  5. 24. Sillar och mullvadar : Jordägande och etnicitet i Estlands svenskbygder 1816-1939

    Författare :Ann Grubbström; Göran Hoppe; John Westerholm; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social and economic geography; Kulturgeografi; Estonia; Estonian Swedes; land purchase; ethnic composition; ethnic status; ethnic identity; Human geography; Kulturgeografi;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation focuses on the Swedish minority that settled in Estonia in early medieval times. It illustrates the importance of linking the survival of an ethnic group with the issue of land ownership. The ethnic composition and settlement patterns of Swedes and Estonians are analysed from a long-term perspective. LÄS MER

  7. 25. Blinded by the light : developing models of settlement and mobility with the use of spectroscopy and exploratory methods

    Författare :Mattias Sjölander; Philip I. Buckland; Johan Linderholm; Peter Jordan; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; archaeology; hunter-gatherer; spectroscopy; chemometrics; quartz; quartzite; bifacial; lithics; geoarchaeology; exploratory; spatial analysis; modelling; arkeologi; jakt- och fångstfolk; spektroskopi; kemometri; kvarts; kvartsit; bifacial; flathuggen; geoarkeologi; rumslig analys; modellering; Archaeology; arkeologi; environmental archaeology; miljöarkeologi;

    Sammanfattning : In this thesis an exploratory approach has been used to study settlement and mobility among hunter-gatherer societies in Northern Sweden during the 2 000 – 0 BC period. The focus has been on developing the topics of bifacial point use and raw material management of quartzand quartzite materials. LÄS MER