Essays about: "landscape archaeology"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 45 essays containing the words landscape archaeology.

  1. 6. Bog Bodies in a Macro Perspective. A Spatial Study of Early Iron Age Scanian Bog Skeletons and Their Cultural Roles as Seen Through the Liminality Perspective

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Arkeologi

    Author : Nell Andersson; [2023]
    Keywords : bog bodies; bog skeletons; spatial perspective; landscape archaeology; early iron age; liminality; entanglement; ritual perspective; History and Archaeology;

    Abstract : This thesis was written with the aims to better understand the spatial relation between the Scanian iron Age bog bodies and the archaeological remains within the surrounding landscape, which in turn would lead to a new theory of understanding the cultural and social aspects of the bog body phenomenon, specifically by applying the liminality perspective. This was done by approaching the material through a wider macro perspective, as opposed to the normally individual-focused micro perspective most used in the bog body research. READ MORE

  3. 7. 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/Arkeologi

    Author : Markus Ahlberg; [2023]
    Keywords : Charon’s fee; Obolus; Roman Iron Age; Migration Period; Elite Burial; Mercenary; Meme; Engbjerg; Himlingøje; Högom; Kälder; Hol; Gile; History and Archaeology;

    Abstract : 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

  4. 8. GIS and Tourism: Developing strategies for new touristic flows after the Covid-19 pandemic

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap

    Author : Vincenzo Poppiti; [2022]
    Keywords : Geography; GIS; Tourism; Multi-criteria evaluation; Weighted overlay analysis; Italy; Touristic flows; Covid-19; Pandemic; Earth and Environmental Sciences; Business and Economics; History and Archaeology; Arts and Architecture;

    Abstract : The goal of this article is to propose, through the use of GIS software, an interdisciplinary method to suggest new touristic flows after the Covid-19 pandemic. Specifically, the aim is to identify those sites of cultural and landscape interest that are little known but with great artistic, cultural, historical and environmental value that could give new vigour to the tourism sector. READ MORE

  5. 9. Finding the Lady of the Lake : A Geospatial Analysis of Bronze Age Lake Deposition Sites

    University essay from KTH/Geoinformatik

    Author : julia Schulte Koskinen; [2022]
    Keywords : GIS; landscape archaeology; Bronze Age; lake; deposits; deposition sites; central Sweden; GIS; landskapsarkeologi; bronsålder; sjö; depåfynd; depåer; mellansverige;

    Abstract : During the Bronze Age, bronze items were sacrificed to the gods by leaving them in the landscape. When making these sacrifices, known as deposits, the Bronze Age people followed certain landscape rules. These rules, and other similarities between the sites, can be rediscovered by analyzing the attributes of the sites. READ MORE

  6. 10. Settlement location : and its spatial relation to graves in Örnsköldsvik municipality

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier

    Author : André Nylander; [2022]
    Keywords : Landscape archaeology; Settlement; Grave; Placement; Spatial relation; Viewshed; Isostatic rebound; Sweden; Norrland; Rumslig relation; landhöjning; Norrland;

    Abstract : I denna magisteruppsats kommer strategiska lägen och boplatsers relation till gravar att studeras. Arbetet riktas in på Arnäs och Själevad socken i Örnsköldsvik kommun som ligger in Västernorrlands län. Mer specifikt så är det järnåldersboplatser i Skommarskatan, Gene, Vågnäs and Sörvåge som inkluderas i uppsatsen. READ MORE