Essays about: "inskriptioner"

Found 3 essays containing the word inskriptioner.

  1. 1. Orð Víkinganna. The level and scale of literacy in the Viking World : The cases of Birka and Sigtuna.

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

    Author : Themistoklis Zacharopoulos; [2021]
    Keywords : Viking Age; Sweden; literacy; Birka; Sigtuna; runes; inscriptions; styli; writing tools; GIS; archaeolinguistics; archaeological research; Vikingatiden; Sverige; läs och skrivkunnighet; Birka; Sigtuna; runor; inskriptioner; styli; skrivverktyg; GIS; arkeolingvistik; arkeologisk forskning;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to study the level and scale of literacy as it expanded in Viking towns during the 8th-12th century. In order to get an understanding of this spread, I have worked with two case-studies of Viking towns, as they were founded and prospered during and by the end of the Viking Age in Sweden; the town of Birka located in Björkö Island in Lake Mälaren, and the town of Sigtuna located in the province of Uppland, in central Sweden. READ MORE

  3. 2. The Life and Times of Butehamun : Tomb Raider for the High Priest of Amun

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

    Author : George Wood; [2020]
    Keywords : Butehamun; Deir el-Medina; Thebes; Egypt; Egyptology; mummies; reburial; caches; Valley of the Kings; biography; Butehamon; Deir el-Medinah; Thebe; Egypten; Egyptologi; mumier; Kungarnas dal; biografi;

    Abstract : This is a biography of the scribe Butehamun. A member of a well-known family who had long lived in the village of Deir el-Medina working on the tombs in the Valley of Kings, Butehamun’s coming of age saw invasion and civil war in Thebes, and the end to the making of new tombs in the Valley, as the New Kingdom came to an end. READ MORE

  4. 3. Demise of Classic Maya Civilization : a theoretical approach

    University essay from Institutionen för kultur, energi och miljö

    Author : Mikael Hannikainen; [2011]
    Keywords : Classic collapse; Maya civilization; Maya archaeology; Theories of Maya; Classic Maya collapse; David Webster; Billie L. Turner; James L. Brewbaker; William J. Folan; Lisa J. Lucero; Climate and collapse; Klassisk kollaps; Maya civilization; Maya arkeologi; Teorier av Maya; Klassiska Maya kollaps; Klimat och kollaps;

    Abstract : Kollapsen av den klassiska Mayakulturen under sen 700- till sen 900-tal e.Kr. har förbluffat forskare ända sedan studier av Mayakulturen påbörjades på 1840-talet. READ MORE