Essays about: "late Neolithic"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 11 essays containing the words late Neolithic.

  1. 1. 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 historia

    Author : Anna Sointula; [2023]
    Keywords : Secondary treatment; human bone remains; absent craniums; dispersed bone fragments; ‘skull cult’; burial rituals; CA; Middle Neolithic period; PWC; Gotland.; Sekundär behandling; mänskliga skelettrester; saknade kranier; spridda benfragment; ‘skallkult’; begravningsritual; KA; Mellanneolitikum; GRK; Gotland.;

    Abstract : 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

  3. 2. Defining the Unidentified : An osteological re-analysis of an unmarked Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age grave

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

    Author : Vir Sjöberg; [2023]
    Keywords : Late Neolithic; Early Bronze Age; Gotland; re-analysis; paleopathology microarchaeology; unmarked grave; communal burial; Senneolitikum; äldre bronsålder; Gotland; återanalys; paleopatologi mikroarkeologi; flatmarksgrav; gemensam grav;

    Abstract : This thesis presents a micro-archaeological analysis of the osteological material from theunmarked communal grave L1977:6727, in Sigsarve, Gotland. The grave was found during the ploughing of a field and excavated in 1911. READ MORE

  4. 3. Deducing Cultural Context from Genetic Information

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för geologiska vetenskaper

    Author : Bjarne Däcker; [2022]
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    Abstract : Genetic analysis is traditionally carried out on individuals from known excavations. Thus the age of the individual is known and also the cultural context. This essay describes an experiment where this process was reversed. READ MORE

  5. 4. OSL dating of the Mesolithic site Nilsvikdalen 7, Bjorøy, Norway.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Geologiska institutionen

    Author : Elin Jirdén; [2022]
    Keywords : OSL dating; luminescence; SAR protocol; water content; archaeology; Late Mesolithic; Norway.; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : Luminescence dating is a well-established dating method within geological and archaeological research. However, the use of luminescence dating, and more specifically optically stimulated luminescence (OSL), is currently underutilised in Norwegian archaeology. READ MORE

  6. 5. Valley of connections : Networks and spatiality in the archaeological landscape of the Morello Valley in central Sicily

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

    Author : Josefine Tegerdal Hune; [2022]
    Keywords : archaeology; spatial analysis; spatiality; GIS; landscape analysis; spatial network analysis; networks; connections; intervisibility; movement; accessibility;

    Abstract : This thesis uses GIS and spatial analysis to study connections in the archaeological landscape of the Morello Valley, in the Enna province in Sicily (Italy). To identify potential social relations, the idea of social networks is adapted into the spatial network analysis. READ MORE