Essays about: "Middle Neolithic"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 essays containing the words Middle 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. Amongst Seals, Cattle, and Boars

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Historisk osteologi

    Author : Thomas Larsson; [2023]
    Keywords : Osteology; Animal Osteology; Middle Neolithic; Pitted Ware Culture; Subsistence Strategies; History and Archaeology;

    Abstract : This study utilises Correspondence Analysis to investigate the subsistence strategies of Scandinavia's Middle Neolithic Culture of the Pitted Ware Culture (PWC). The aim is to understand subsistence strategies' regional and local expressions across larger geographic areas. READ MORE

  4. 3. 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

  5. 4. Death's reflection in the water : Mortuary ritual, ancestral worship and the cosmological significance of water on the island of Gotland during the Pitted Ware culture

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Arkeologi

    Author : Maja Hed; [2021]
    Keywords : ritual; neolithic; grave goods; cosmology; flowing water; divinity; death; Pitted Ware culture; ritual; neolitikum; gravgåvor; kosmologi; rörligt vatten; gudomlighet; död; Gropkeramisk kultur;

    Abstract : The Pitted Ware culture on Gotland presents a multitude of material that allow archeologists to re-construct and visit the socio-economic structure of a middle-neolithic settlement in the Baltic sea. I will be analyzing the archaeological material in accordance to the ocean, and to what we can interpret as ritual and cosmological variables at the site through ritual theory, and with a method of comparative analogy and research. READ MORE

  6. 5. Age of the Cremated : On the estimation of age of burnt human remains

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Osteoarkeologiska forskningslaboratoriet

    Author : Emil Åkesson; [2019]
    Keywords : age estimation; cremated remains; diploë; suture closure;

    Abstract : The estimation of age is an important aspect in osteoarchaeological analysis. In order to understand people and their fates in past societies, researchers must turn to palaeodemography. READ MORE