Essays about: "burial assemblage"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words burial assemblage.

  1. 1. To Gender or Not to Gender : A critical reassessment of how gender is – and can be – approached in archaeology, exemplified in two Scandinavian burial assemblages dating to the early Medieval period

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

    Author : Jessica Sander; [2023]
    Keywords : Gender; theory; Queer Archaeology; burial assemblage; Vivallen; Klinta; Genus; teori; Queer Arkeologi; gravkontext; Vivallen; Klinta;

    Abstract : Gender research in archaeology is a complex topic that puzzled scholars for decades. The past 50 years of it has seen a lot of theorizing, heated discussions, and requests for new additions to the archaeological toolkit so that this type of research can get a proper launch. READ MORE

  3. 2. Being a royal or a noble at death : Funerary expressions of social status in Macedonia

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Antikens kultur och samhällsliv

    Author : Georgia Bei; [2022]
    Keywords : royalty; nobility; social status; tomb; deceased; material expression; funerary landscape; Macedonia; Vergina; Hagios Athanasios; Derveni; funerary archaeology;

    Abstract : This thesis discusses the funerary expression of social status in Macedonia during the 4th century BCE. Specifically, this thesis aims to examine the royal and the noble status and the way this is expressed in death, by making a distinction between royals and nobles. READ MORE

  4. 3. The living in a place for the dead - an exploration of place as assemblage

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

    Author : Emma Jonsson; [2021]
    Keywords : assemblage; affect; place; urban cemetery; urban planning; Malmö; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates how place can be understood through assemblage theory and what that implies for the understanding of human relation to place. The framework has been widely used outside and within human geography, at a few instances related to place. READ MORE

  5. 4. Pressure Temperature Conditions of the Otrøy Opmhacite-Garnet Gneiss, Western Gneiss Region, Skandinavian Caledonides

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

    Author : Johanna Holmberg; [2015]
    Keywords : Western Gneiss Region; Otrøy; gneiss; ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism; Western Gneiss Region; Otrøy; gnejs; ultrahögtrycksmetamorfos;

    Abstract : Garnet-omphacite gneisses from the island of Otrøy situated in Western Gneiss Region (WGR), Norway, Scandinavian Caledonides, were examined within this study. The WGR is one of the planets most studied ultrahigh-pressure (UHP) terranes. The studied gneisses are hosts for UHP garnet peridotites and eclogites. READ MORE

  6. 5. Sequence stratigraphy, palynology and biostratigraphy across the Ordovician-Silurian boundary in the Röstånga-1 core, southern Sweden

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Geologiska institutionen

    Author : Ahmed Salah Badawy; [2012]
    Keywords : avsättningsmiljöer; stratigrafi; Sweden; Scania; Röstånga; Silurian; Ordovician; TAI; Thermal Alteration Index; palynology; sea level changes; stratigraphy; depositional environments; havsnivåförändringar; palynologi; Ordovicium; Silur; Skåne; Sverige.; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : A multiproxy study on sedimentary rocks spanning the Ordovician-Silurian boundary has been performed on material from the Röstånga-1 core, with the aims to improve the biostratigraphical and sedimentological framework and to interpret the depositional environment during this interval in Earth’s history. The sedimentary succession in the Röstånga-1 core is developed in the Scanian Lithofacies Belt and is considered an excellent upper Middle Ordovician-Lower Silurian reference section for southernmost Sweden. READ MORE