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Kategorier: Historia och arkeologi
This study is the first to consider Sweden’s enigmatic Kivik grave with its famous rock art slabs in an agricultural and Indo-European context. Building on the work of archaeologist V. Gordon Childe andanthropologist James G. Frazer, this analysis presents an in-depth cultural and cosmological worldview of the…
Kategorier: Historia Historia och arkeologi Historia: särskilda händelser och ämnen Socialhistoria och kulturhistoria
Årtusendens byggnadssätt med inre rader av bärande stolpar avlöstes under vikingatiden successivt av hus med bärande ytterväggar, först med ramverk och senare med knuttimring. Boken beskriver och analyserar dessa förändringsprocesser och deras olika förutsättningar och förlopp med inneboende drivkrafter och impulser…
This study treats the function of the military writings of ancient Egypt, from Tuthmosis II to Merenptah (c. 1492-1203 B.C.), using the terms Actor and Event. The texts are analyzed in terms of four categories. The Dominion Records, consists of texts in which the focus is on the disruption of the king’s control,…
Famous yet forgotten, the monumental site of Haga just outside Uppsala is mainly associated with the Viking King Bjorn, though it is in fact the richest Bronze-Age grave in Sweden. The deceased was cremated and buried in an oak-log coffin, together with almost a third of all of Sweden’s Bronze Age gold and gold…
Kategorier: Arkeologi Historia och arkeologi Landskapsarkeologi Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Sociologi Sociologi och antropologi Sociologi: döden
Ancient Death Ways – proceedings of the workshop on archaeology and mortuary practices, contains articles of the work in progress presented and discussed at the Ancient Death Ways 2013 meeting, which was organised around three main themes: current research, landscapes of death, and defining death.
The diversity…
Kategorier: Historia och arkeologi
The Swedish archaeological expedition to Labraunda in Karla is the largest Swedish research project undertaken in Turkey. This volume is the result of a symposium held at the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities in November 2008, to celebrate sixty years of Swedish archaeological work at Labraunda.…
Sommaränge skog togs i bruk under senneolitikum. Redan då brände man sina döda, något man fortsatte med under hela bronsåldern. Kanske var kremering vanligare under perioden än vi tidigare trott. Den dödsuppfattning man hade skiljde sig säkerligen mycket från dagens, exempelvis deponerade man oftast mycket små mängder…
Kategorier: Arkeologi Geovetenskap, geografi, miljö och samhällsplanering Hållbar utveckling Historia och arkeologi Landskapsarkeologi Miljön
Även miljön har en historia och denna historia har stor relevans för hållbarhetsfrågor idag.
Genom att följa ekologiska skeenden och debatter kring miljöfrågor historiskt närmar sig studenter och forskare här frågor kring miljö, ekonomi och social rättvisa.
Texterna följer förteelser eller olika debatter genom tid…
New archaeological surveys and excavations combined with historical and ethnographic sources, to construct a long term settlement history and historical ecology of the lower Zambezi River valley and delta region, in Mozambique. In total eight new archaeological sites have been located in archaeological surveys and two…
The ”From coast to coast” project deals with the transition from the mobile lifestyle of Early Stone Age to the establishment of sedentary settlements during the Late Stone Age in central Sweden.
Thirty-five individual projects are being carried out at the Universities of Uppsala, Gothenburg, Lund and…
De s.k. stridsyxorna – särpräglat utformade skafthålsyxor av slipad sten – förekommer under större delen av den yngre stenåldern i norra och mellersta Europa. Yxorna har inte använts praktiskt, utan representerar en typ av symboliskt värde. Mot slutet av stenåldern – i den sena delen av den…
Kategorier: Historia och arkeologi
At least eight soapstone carvings of birds furnished a shrine, Great Zimbabwe, in the 19th century. This large stonewalled settlement, once a political and urban centre, had been much reduced for four centuries, although the shrine continued to operate as local traditions dictated. The Zimbabwe Birds were handed down…
This volume contains studies on Classical Antiquity presented to Professor Pontus Hellstrom on his 75th birthday in January 2014. The 41 papers cover subjects ranging from the Etruscans and Rome in the west, to Greece, the landscape of Karla, and to the Sanctuary of Zeus at Labraunda. Many papers deal with new…
Kategorier: Arkeologi Historia och arkeologi Samhälle och kultur: allmänt Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Sociala grupper Urbana samhällen
This book mirrors a field trip to Istanbul conducted in May 2014. It was structured around surveys of the centrally located districts of Beyoglu, Eminönü and Fatih. Together the contributtions paint a picture or give a glimpse of the multifaceted and diversified city of Istanbul in which places are practiced and spaces…
Vuollerim 6000 Years has initiated a series of workshops on issues connected with studies of prehistoric hunter-gathere societies in the Barents region. The workshops are planned and implemen ed by a scientific council at the museum and village of Vuollerim in Sweden. The contributions and the results of round table…
Kategorier: Historia och arkeologi
This thesis considers the archaeology of rural water management in the Maghrcb in relation to modern colonialism. An attempt is made to recover the attitudes to people and landscape expressed in the archaeological literature, and to analyse them in a colonial/postcolonial context. The primary focus lies on works…
Kategorier: Historia och arkeologi
This thesis explores the social and productive landscapes of Tumbatu and Mkokotoni, two neighbouring Swahili sites in the Zanzibar Archipelago, Tanzania, which are dated to the 11th to 15th centuries CE. Emerging on the East African coast around the 7th century CE, the Swahili culture has traditionally been associated…
Kategorier: Historia och arkeologi
Glass beads comprise the most frequently found evidence of trade between southern Africa and the greater Indian Ocean between the 7th and 16th centuries AD. In this study beads recovered from southern African archaeological sites are organized into series, based on morphology and chemical composition determined by…
The pyramids of Ancient Egypt are some of the most prominent and fascinating topics in worldwide archaeology. They give us many occasions for constant re-evaluation. Scientifically the pyramids have been studied and explored since the expedition of Napoleon Bonaparte to Egypt at the end of the 18th century AD. The long…
Kategorier: Historia och arkeologi
Sedan tidigt 1900-tal har frågan om kontakter och interaktion under yngre bronsålder mellan Mälardalen och områden österut – särskilt Finland, Baltikum och Ryssland – varit av stor betydelse i den arkeologiska forskningen. De arkeologiska diskussionerna om kontakter mellan ”Öst” och…
This thesis is about the heritage in Vientiane. In an attempt to go beyond a more traditional descriptive approach, the study aims at bringing forward a discussion about the definition, or rather the multiplicity of definitions, of the concept of heritage as such. The unavoidabe tension emanating from a modern western…
Kategorier: Historia och arkeologi
This theoretical analysis of ritual, religion and processes of holiness and Indo-Europeanisation examines how celestial and terrestrial perspectives are united in functional and substantive approaches. Scandinavian Bronze Age religion was firmly rooted in an agricultural cosmology that integrated the seasonality of the…