Essays about: "begravningar"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 essays containing the word begravningar.
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1. Queering the Normal? : An intersectional study of gender identities and roles in the Late Iron Age cemeteries at Lovö, Sweden
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historiaAbstract : The purpose of this thesis is to analyse the relationship between grave goods and the identity of buried individuals. The interpretation of sex and gender, as well as gendered grave goods in Late Iron Age Scandinavia, is of a particular focus. READ MORE
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2. A Place of Passage : Disturbed burials and dispersed human bone remains from the Mid-Neolithic burial ground at Ajvide on Gotland
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historiaAbstract : The Mid-Neolithic site of Ajvide on the Baltic Island of Gotland comprises the burials of 89 individuals within 85 separate burial contexts (Österholm 2008). Some of these individuals were detected with absent skeletal elements, such as the cranium, which have been believed to be represented by the considerable number of dispersed human bone fragments discovered from the site (Burenhult 2002: 33, see also Lundén 2012). READ MORE
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3. Being a royal or a noble at death : Funerary expressions of social status in Macedonia
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Antikens kultur och samhällslivAbstract : This thesis discusses the funerary expression of social status in Macedonia during the 4th century BCE. Specifically, this thesis aims to examine the royal and the noble status and the way this is expressed in death, by making a distinction between royals and nobles. READ MORE
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4. Paradisets hemvist – ovan molnen är himlen alltid blå : en paradisisk mötesplats för själar och alla andra kolumbarium/glashus/paradisisk vegetation
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (from 130101)Abstract : Det här examensarbetet utgår från två stora intressen, kyrkogårdar och medelhavsvegetation. En till synes icke väl fungerande kombination i Sverige, om det inte vore för att medelhavsväxterna får bo och leva i ett tempererat glashus. READ MORE
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5. An Homage to the Ancestors : A study of the secondary use of ancient fortifications as burial grounds during the Late Iron Age on Gotland
University essay from Uppsala universitet/ArkeologiAbstract : Fortifications are a common type of ancient monument found throughout Scandinavia, and while the functions of forts are studied and debated quite heavily, the re-use of these structures is less known. On Gotland, there exist 84 ancient fortifications, of which approximately one-third have burials or registered graves within or in close proximity to their locations. READ MORE
