Essays about: "Roman Iron Age"
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1. Coins, glass shards and other means of payment - A comparative study of Scandinavian Charon object burials using R. Dawkins’ meme theory
University essay from Lunds universitet/ArkeologiAbstract : The purpose of this thesis’ topic is to investigate the evolutionary dispersal of the Charon’s fee or Obolus rite outside the Roman provinces in Northern Europe, with a specific focus on Roman Iron Age and Migration Period Scandinavia. The aim of this study is therefore to add further understanding to the spread of Roman cultural influences outside the imperial borders and what made Roman material and ideological culture so attractive to the Germanic and Scandinavian Iron Age peoples. READ MORE
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2. From Hospitium to Hybridisation: The acquisition, adoption, and transformation of Roman zoomorphic forms in Barbaricum
University essay from Lunds universitet/ArkeologiAbstract : This text is an attempt to re-evaluate the significance of Roman imports in Scandinavian contexts as well as to answer overarching questions concerning frontier zones, and the building of core-periphery relationships. This is achieved by applying the Roman concepts of hospitium and dona militaria as well as theoretical frameworks such as provincial ritual practices and cultural hybridisation to a predefined group of material culture. READ MORE
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3. Vestiges of Roman Cult Religion and Household Deities in the Northern Barbaricum: A study of statuettes and other anthropomorphic figures from Barbaricum, Britannia Superior and the Roman heartlands
University essay from Lunds universitet/ArkeologiAbstract : This text serves as a fresh approach to the study of Roman influence on the Scandinavian region. This is achieved through the medium of various bronze statuettes, both from the Roman Empire itself as well as in the form of locally-produced anthropomorphic figures. READ MORE
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4. The Dispersal of Gold : Material and Figural Traits of the Gold Foil Figures from Västra Vång
University essay from Södertörns högskola/ArkeologiAbstract : Gold Foil Figures or guldgubbar (henceforth GFFs) are precious metal artefacts from the Scandinavian Late Iron Age. This master's essay offers a new approach to GFFs. READ MORE
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5. Challenging Old Truths : Viewing Cultural Hybridity from the Perspective of the Tarand-Graves
University essay from Uppsala universitet/ArkeologiAbstract : A phenomenon during the late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age which in its simplest form could be called ‘a culture of the Baltic Sea’ is an idea which many archaeologists have favoured. However, the term ‘a culture of the Baltic Sea’ is not the most ideal to use when discussing the Baltic Sea during this time in prehistory, as the term is rather simplifying from what would be the more diverse truth. READ MORE
