Essays about: "Geoarchaeology"
Found 3 essays containing the word Geoarchaeology.
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1. A geoarchaeological study on two Norwegian boat graves : Soil analysis and an attempt of forensic work strategy and thinking in the interpretation of the results
University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudierAbstract : The following paper is the final thesis of two years long experimental work conducted on two different collections of soil samples coming from two different Norwegian archaeological sites. In particular, the first collection of soil samples comes from an identified boat grave from the Viking Age (eg Sykehus area Kristiansand County, Vest-Agder). READ MORE
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2. Applying Geoarchaeological Methods on an Iron Age site : Part two of a two-part study discussing Archaeological Prospection for Ytings, Gotland
University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudierAbstract : Geoarchaeology has had a long history within archaeology around the world, but not so much so in Gotlandic archaeology. This study is aimed at drawing attention to this by using magnetic susceptibility (MS) and phosphate (P) analysis of an Iron Age site at Ytings, Gotland. READ MORE
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3. Returning to Vuollerim : Geoarchaeological study of Soil Samples from a Stone Age Settlement
University essay from Umeå universitet/Miljöarkeologiska laboratorietAbstract : The Stone Age settlement site outside the village of Vuollerim in northern Sweden was first discovered in the 1980s and has been an important part of the research regarding Mesolithic and Neolithic in Norrland. One of the houses on the site was named Norpan 2 and nearly fifteen hundred soil samples were collected and stored during the excavations between 1983 and 1987. READ MORE