Essays about: "Swedish archaeology"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 28 essays containing the words Swedish archaeology.

1. 16. To Make Iron of Iron : A Comprehensive Analytical Study of Spade Shaped Iron Bars

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Arkeologiska forskningslaboratoriet

   Author : Nickolas Pappas Adlreburg; [2017]
   Keywords : Archaeological Science; Archaeometallurgy; Spade Shaped Iron Bars; X-Ray Fluorescence XRF ; Scanning Electron Microscopy SEM ; Metallography; Swedish Archaeology; Archaeology in Norrland; Scandinavian Iron Age; Nordic Iron Age; Roman Iron Age; Migration Period; Vendel Period; Prehistoric Metallurgy; Slag; Iron Bar; Currency Bar; Bloomery; Bloom Iron; Bog Iron; Limonite; Mineral Iron Ores; Hematite; Magnetite Phosphoric Iron Steel; Prehistoric Steel; Ferrite; Pearlite; Nickel; Cobalt; Phosphorus; Arsenic; Magnesium; Sulfur; Manganese; Norrland; Middle Norrland; Uppland; Gästrikland; Hälsingland; Medelpad; Jämtland; Södermanland; Helgö; Torsåker; Gåcksätter; Alborga; Offerdal; Selånger; Villberga; Arbrå; Laborativ Arkeologi; Arkeometallurgi; Spadformiga Ämnesjärn; Röntgenfluorescens XRF ; Svepelektronmikroskop SEM ; Metallografi; Svensk Arkeologi; Norrländsk Arkeologi; Förnnordisk Arkeologi; Skandinavisk Järnålder; Nordisk Järnålder; Fornnordisk Järnålder; Romersk Järnålder; Folkvandringstiden; Vendeltiden; Forhistorisk Metallurgi; Slaget; Ämnesjärn; Blästerugn; Blästa; Myrmalm; Sjömalm; Limonit; Bergmalm; Hematit; Magnetit; Fosforisk Järn Stål; Förhistorisk Stål; Ferrit; Pearlit; Nickel; Kobolt; Fosfor; Arsen; Magnesium; Svavel; Mangan; Norrland; Mellannorrland; Uppland; Gästrikland; Hälsingland; Medelpad; Jämtland; Södermanland; Helgö; Torsåker; Gåcksätter; Alborga; Offerdal; Selånger; Villberga; Arbrå;

   Abstract : This thesis aims to provide adequate analytical information on the spade shaped iron bars of Norrland and central Sweden. While their significance has been thoroughly debated for decades, analytical research on them has been confined to cases of single artefacts or theoretical interpretations of their value, meaning and origin. READ MORE

3. 17. Concept, Space, Home: A Conceptual History of Social Space, Functionalist Homes, and the Stockholm Exhibition of 1930

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för idé- och lärdomshistoria

   Author : Niklas Rönnerfalk; [2017]
   Keywords : Concepts; Home; Space; Conceptual History; Spatial Turn; Koselleck; Lefebvre; Semantics; Dialectics; Phenomenology; Public Private-Relations; Modernity; Modernization; Modern; the Social; Functionalism; Architecture; Stockholm Exhibition of 1930; Sattelzeit; Onomaseology; Socio-Spatiality; Social Space; the People´s Home; Acceptera; History and Archaeology;

   Abstract : The field of Conceptual History is often criticized for considering only a small slice of the historical vocabulary it intends to historicize. What about the discourse of the silenced, working at home, robbed of a pen? Concepts are indicative of many contexts of meaning: in this thesis, therefore, propelled by the foregoing question and statement, it is argued that the main protagonist of German, conceptual history, i. READ MORE

4. 18. The Ceremonial Body: The Significance of Bodies in Dynastic Ceremonies of the Swedish Monarchy, 1782-1818

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Historia

   Author : Alexander Isacsson; [2017]
   Keywords : Monarchy; ceremony; dynasty; body; History and Archaeology;

   Abstract : The late eighteenth and the early nineteenth century was a turbulent time for the monarchies of Europe, the Swedish included. Since Gustav III’s coup in 1772, the king strove to enhance the royal prerogative. READ MORE

5. 19. Ring Out Your Dead : Distribution, form, and function of iron amulets in the late Iron Age grave fields of Lovö

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Arkeologi

   Author : Meghan Mattsson McGinnis; [2016]
   Keywords : archaeology; Iron Age; Late Iron Age; Viking Age; Viking Studies; Vendel period; practice theory; cognitive archaeology; grave goods; New Materialism; neo-materialism; Thor s hammer rings; burial analysis; post-structuralism; Early Medieval; medieval studies; Scandinavian archaeology; Scandinavia Sweden; Swedish archaeology; Mälardalen; cultural history; ritual theory; ritual; rituals studies; burial rituals; ritualization; deviant burial; history of religions; Old Norse religion; Viking Age religion; cult places; material culture; rites of passage; amulets; magic; ancient magic; medieval magic; pratice; praxis;

   Abstract : The purpose of this study is to analyze the distribution, forms, and function(s) of iron amulets deposited in the late Iron Age gravefields of Lovö, with the goal of ascertaining how (and so far as possible why) these objects were utilized in rituals carried out during and after burials. Particular emphasis is given to re-interpreting the largest group of iron amulets, the iron amulet rings, in a more relational and practice-focused way than has heretofore been attempted. READ MORE

6. 20. Small town life in war-torn post-medieval Scania : a bioarchaeological study of human skeletal remains from 16-18th century Ängelholm, and a discussion of the merits of small osteological samples

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Historisk osteologi; Lunds universitet/Antikens kultur och samhällsliv

   Author : Rebecka Stråhlén; [2015]
   Keywords : Scandinavia; palaeopathology; stature; socioeconomic status; taphonomy; 16th century; 17th century; 18th century; History and Archaeology;

   Abstract : The now Swedish province of Scania has had a long history of violence and unrest, with several wars being fought on Scanian soil. Such tumultuous times must have impacted the common people and their living conditions, yet bioarchaeological research is lacking for post-medieval Scania and much of Sweden. READ MORE