Essays about: "neolithic period"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 essays containing the words neolithic period.

1. 1. A Place of Passage : Disturbed burials and dispersed human bone remains from the Mid-Neolithic burial ground at Ajvide on Gotland

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

   Author : Anna Sointula; [2023]
   Keywords : Secondary treatment; human bone remains; absent craniums; dispersed bone fragments; ‘skull cult’; burial rituals; CA; Middle Neolithic period; PWC; Gotland.; Sekundär behandling; mänskliga skelettrester; saknade kranier; spridda benfragment; ‘skallkult’; begravningsritual; KA; Mellanneolitikum; GRK; Gotland.;

   Abstract : The Mid-Neolithic site of Ajvide on the Baltic Island of Gotland comprises the burials of 89 individuals within 85 separate burial contexts (Österholm 2008). Some of these individuals were detected with absent skeletal elements, such as the cranium, which have been believed to be represented by the considerable number of dispersed human bone fragments discovered from the site (Burenhult 2002: 33, see also Lundén 2012). READ MORE

3. 2. Amongst Seals, Cattle, and Boars

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Historisk osteologi

   Author : Thomas Larsson; [2023]
   Keywords : Osteology; Animal Osteology; Middle Neolithic; Pitted Ware Culture; Subsistence Strategies; History and Archaeology;

   Abstract : This study utilises Correspondence Analysis to investigate the subsistence strategies of Scandinavia's Middle Neolithic Culture of the Pitted Ware Culture (PWC). The aim is to understand subsistence strategies' regional and local expressions across larger geographic areas. READ MORE

4. 3. The megaliths of Bohuslän in a south Scandinavian context

   University essay from

   Author : Roger Cederberg; [2022-11-15]
   Keywords : Neolithic; Southern Scandinavia; Dolmen; Passage grave; C14; Bohuslän;

   Abstract : The transformation from a hunter/gatherer population to a farming society in southern Scandinavia is a process of only 300-400 years, primarily from around 4000 BC to around 3700 BC. Farming is then established in most of southern Scandinavia. READ MORE

5. 4. OSL dating of the Mesolithic site Nilsvikdalen 7, Bjorøy, Norway.

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Geologiska institutionen

   Author : Elin Jirdén; [2022]
   Keywords : OSL dating; luminescence; SAR protocol; water content; archaeology; Late Mesolithic; Norway.; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

   Abstract : Luminescence dating is a well-established dating method within geological and archaeological research. However, the use of luminescence dating, and more specifically optically stimulated luminescence (OSL), is currently underutilised in Norwegian archaeology. READ MORE

6. 5. Land cover changes in Southern Sweden from the mid-Holocene to present day: insights for ecosystem service assessments

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap

   Author : Robert O'Dwyer; [2019]
   Keywords : Geography; Geographical Information Systems; GIS; Physical Geography; Götaland; Landscape Reconstruction Algorithm; Fossil Pollen; Ecosystem Services; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

   Abstract : Climate change and human impact play a huge role in the sustainability and development of ecosystems and the services they offer to societies over temporal and spatial scales. Fossil pollen-based estimates provide unique information on past land cover change, but to date there are not many methods able to create spatially continuous maps and have a fine scale of land cover changes inferred from pollen information. READ MORE