Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia, Uppsala universitet - Böcker

This thesis considers the archaeology of rural water management in the Maghrcb in relation to modern colonialism. An attempt is made to recover the attitudes to people and landscape expressed in the archaeological literature, and to analyse them i...

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Studiet av stenåldern före jordbruket har en lång tradition. Två områden som utgör centrala delar av denna tradition är: Rummet som arkeologisk kategori och jägare-samlare betraktat som ett teoretiskt begrepp. Inifrån traditionen medger dessa utgå...

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At least eight soapstone carvings of birds furnished a shrine, Great Zimbabwe, in the 19th century. This large stonewalled settlement, once a political and urban centre, had been much reduced for four centuries, although the shrine continued to op...

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Glass beads comprise the most frequently found evidence of trade between southern Africa and the greater Indian Ocean between the 7th and 16th centuries AD. In this study beads recovered from southern African archaeological sites are organized int...

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There is a tendency in archaeology dealing with watercraft landing sites in a wider context to assume a direct relationship between sites in coastal and shore-bound areas and the practise of landing, without any deeper practical or theoretical exp...

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In Andean cognition the embodiment of the past is different from many other ways to spatially relate the position of the body to time. This epistemology is for instance expressed in the Quechua word ñawpa, which signifies that the past is "in...

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Även miljön har en historia och denna historia har stor relevans för hållbarhetsfrågor idag. Genom att följa ekologiska skeenden och debatter kring miljöfrågor historiskt närmar sig studenter och forskare här frågor kring miljö, ekonomi och social...

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Ur Innehållet: Förord 1. Inledning 2. Fornminnesinventering 3. Forskningsläget ur ett uppländskt perspektiv 4. Allmänt om källmaterialet i Håboområdet 5. Bebyggelsehistoriska sammanhang 6. Diskussion och slutsatser rörande håbolandets bebygeelsehi...

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Ancient Death Ways - proceedings of the workshop on archaeology and mortuary practices, contains articles of the work in progress presented and discussed at the Ancient Death Ways 2013 meeting, which was organised around three main themes: current...

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London Encounters, is an interdisciplinary study of slices of the life, history and the materiality of London. The book provides scholarly, yet accessible, aspects on urbanity in both history and the present. It has come about through the interdis...

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New archaeological surveys and excavations combined with historical and ethnographic sources, to construct a long term settlement history and historical ecology of the lower Zambezi River valley and delta region, in Mozambique. In total eight new ...

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This book mirrors a field trip to Istanbul conducted in May 2014. It was structured around surveys of the centrally located districts of Beyoglu, Eminönü and Fatih. Together the contributtions paint a picture or give a glimpse of the multifaceted ...

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Sedan tidigt 1900-tal har frågan om kontakter och interaktion under yngre bronsålder mellan Mälardalen och områden österut - särskilt Finland, Baltikum och Ryssland - varit av stor betydelse i den arkeologiska forskningen. De arkeologiska diskussi...

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Throughout his career, Paul Sinclair has encouraged students to pursue a concerned archaeology that goes beyond establishing cultural chronologies to formulating critical inquiries fundamental to our world and for our future. This book explores ur...

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This historical ecological research provides a detailed insight into the risk avoidance and resilience building strategies in the Lake Baringo basin in Kenya through the lens of archaeology. It explores how changes in subsistence, habitation, and ...

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Hjalmar Stolpes grävningar i "Svarta jorden" på Björkö på 1870-talet resulterade i ett stort antal fynd som längre låg ouppackade på Historiska museet i Stockholm. Museets amanuens Erik Särling blev 1951 färdig med manuskriptet till en k...

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Hjalmar Stolpes grävningar i "Svarta jorden" på Björkö på 1870-talet resulterade i ett stort antal fynd. Denna volym innehåller dels ny forskning som baserar sig på fynden - med bidrag av AnneSofie Gräslund, Johan Callmer, Eva Hyenstrand...

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Døden og gravmaterial har definert arkeologifaget som disiplin siden tidenes morgen, men selv i den antikvariske samtiden ble etnologi og folklore i liten grad brukt som kilde til kunnskap om forhistorien og oldnordiske gravskikker. De fleste grav...

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This thesis explores the social and productive landscapes of Tumbatu and Mkokotoni, two neighbouring Swahili sites in the Zanzibar Archipelago, Tanzania, which are dated to the 11th to 15th centuries CE. Emerging on the East African coast around t...

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This theoretical analysis of ritual, religion and processes of holiness and Indo-Europeanisation examines how celestial and terrestrial perspectives are united in functional and substantive approaches. Scandinavian Bronze Age religion was firmly r...

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Although researchers have made advances in understanding the meanings behid southern African San rock art over the past 25 years, there are still many unresolved issues. The most significant of these concerns the manner in which rock paintings can...

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Throughout the 20th century, archaeologists in southern Africa have focused upon visible architectural features of stone built Madzimbabwe settlements as indicators of prestige and power. Solange Macamo proposes a concept of "privileged place...

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