Essays about: "landscape archaeology"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 45 essays containing the words landscape archaeology.

  1. 21. RETHINKING THE CRYSTAL PALACE. Adaptive reuse of an abandoned warehouse

    University essay from KTH/Arkitektur

    Author : SIMONE COLLINETTI; [2020]
    Keywords : Italy; Milano; Innocenti; periphery; industrial archaeology; adaptive reuse; architecture; wood; structures; landscape; sustainability; exhibition; botanical garden; public; terrain vague; Superstudio;

    Abstract : This Master Thesis work is about the rebirth of a warehouse, once part of Innocenti S.p.A. Located in the district of Lambrate, Milano, the factory used to cover an area of nearly 800. READ MORE

  3. 22. A hall fit for a king : An anthracological analysis of the great hall at Gamla Uppsala

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Arkeologi

    Author : Amina Hilbert; [2020]
    Keywords : Anthracology; archaeobotany; archaeology; royal manor; Gamla Uppsala; microscopic wood analysis; great hall; Scandinavian Iron Age; timber; Vendel Period; Arkeobotanik; arkeologi; hallbyggnad; kungsgård; Gamla Uppsala; skandinavisk järnålder; timmer; vedanatomisk analys; vedartsanalys; vendeltiden;

    Abstract : This thesis analyses the carbonised remains of the great hall building in Gamla (old) Uppsala, Sweden, which burnt down sometime between 7th to 8th century AD. It is easily assumed that the people of Gamla Uppsala, who lived in one of the most important central places in Iron Age Scandinavia, had both the economy and power to build a most spectacular hall. READ MORE

  4. 23. The Journey of Resources : Archaeobotanical analysis of late Iron Age and medieval Sigtuna, Sweden

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

    Author : Siri Pettersson; [2019]
    Keywords : agricultural history; archaeobotany; archaeology; continuity; ecology; grassland ecology; historical ecology; history; Iron Age; landscape management; land use; land use tradition; medieval period; middle ages; niche construction; paleoecology; plant ecology; Professorn; resource ecology; Sigtuna; traditional landscape management; Carex; Cyperaceae;

    Abstract : Traditional agriculture has played an important role in shaping the landscape for thousands of years. Agriculture and interactions between humans and their surroundings have changed since the beginning of historic time in Sweden, approximately 1000 years ago. READ MORE

  5. 24. Villages and valleys: connectivity and land use in Northern Messenia during Middle and Late Helladic periods.

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Arkeologi

    Author : Vasiliki Tsoumari; [2019]
    Keywords : Bronze Age; Middle Helladic; Late Helladic; GIS; spatial analysis; viewshed; visibility; kernel density estimation; least cost path; connectivity; Messenia; Greece;

    Abstract : The use of past archaeological survey data for examination of landscape dynamics became very popular during the last decades of the 20th century, when Geographical Information Systems analysis were introduced in archaeology. In the present thesis, past survey data from Northern Messenia’s Middle and Late Helladic periods are combined to the topography and the environment of the region. READ MORE

  6. 25. Arrangement of space inside Ölandic ringforts. A comparative study of the spatial division within the ringforts Eketorp, Sandby, and Ismantorp

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Arkeologi

    Author : Fraya-Noëlle Denninghaus; [2019]
    Keywords : Öland; Sweden; ringforts; Eketorp; Ismantorp; Sandby; settlement arrangement; Iron Age; Roman Iron Age; Migration Period; History and Archaeology;

    Abstract : In the Iron Age AD, ringforts were constructed on the Swedish island Öland. Most of them contained a settlement inside. The remains of 15 of these ringforts are still preserved in the landscape. READ MORE