Essays about: "Aegean Bronze Age"

Found 3 essays containing the words Aegean Bronze Age.

  1. 1. Infants of the Aegean Bronze Age : A study of intramural infant burials in their social context

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia

    Author : Sunnervik Sofia; [2021]
    Keywords : Intramural burial; infant burial; Aegean Bronze Age; social change; kinship;

    Abstract : This thesis explores the phenomenon of intramural infant burial during Middle Helladic III–Late Helladic II during the Aegean Bronze Age. Intramural graves of children aged two years or less at Málthi and Ayios Stephanos, two settlements on the Greek mainland, are studied from a number of perspectives: the physical properties of the graves and the buried infants, the spatial and intramural context of the grave, and their relationship to their social and societal context. READ MORE

  3. 2. Visibility and tholos tombs in the Messenian landscape : a comparative case study of the Pylian hinterlands and the Soulima Valley

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap

    Author : Ola Svenson; [2013]
    Keywords : Messenia; Aegean Bronze Age; tholos tomb; Mycenaean; perception; viewshed; prominence; visibility; Archaeology; GIS; affordance; Earth and Environmental Sciences; History and Archaeology;

    Abstract : This master thesis aims to investigate the visual characteristics of Late Bronze Age tholos tombs in the region of Messenia, Greece by comparing tholos tombs from two study areas: the Pylian hinterlands and the Soulima Valley. The study utilises cost surfaces and viewsheds created in a GIS-environment as heuristic devices to do so. READ MORE

  4. 3. LATE BRONZE AGE MARITIME TRADE IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN: AN INLAND LEVANTINE PERSPECTIVE

    University essay from Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia

    Author : Kristina Josephson Hesse; [2008]
    Keywords : Hazor; Mycenaean pottery; Cypriot pottery; Bichrome pottery; maritime trade; Eastern Mediterranean; Late Bronze Age; cultural interactions; -relations; - contacts; - exchange; Syria-Palestine; Canaan; the Levant;

    Abstract : This paper emphasizes the nature of trade relations in the EasternMediterranean in general and from a Levantine inland perspective inparticular. The ‘maritime’ trade relation of the ancient city of Hazor, located in the interior of LB Canaan is a case study investigating the Mycenaean and Cypriot pottery on the site. READ MORE