The purpose of this thesis is to do an inventory of Swedish Bronze Age rock carvings depicting intercourse, and other sexual acts; applying gender traits on these in order to get a glimpse of what kind of normative outlook people at this time had upon sexuality. .

Syftet med uppsatsen är att ta reda på vad de föremål från bronsåldern som har klassats som bronssylar har använts till. Genom studier av de bronssylar bronssylar i magasinet på Gastelyckan och med hjälp av Andreas Oldebergs katalog Die ältere Metallzeit in Schweden I har jag kommit fram till att bronssylarnas huvudanvändningsområde är till läderarbeten..

The subject of this master level thesis in historical osteology, is a study of waste management in the medieval town of Lund. The aims of the study is achieved through looking at the taphonomic aspects of bonefragments from the quarter Blekhagen. The study is divided in two separate sections, one that is a litterature study of what is known about waste management, and another one that contains a taphonomic and spatial analysis. Through examination of the taphonomic variables weathering, average weight and trampling and a spatial analysis, I am able to deduce that there are signs of controlled waste management in the material. It is not possible to draw any general conclusions about waste management in the medieval town however.

The purpose of this essay is to see if villages or bigger settlement locations can be found in south-eastern Blekinge during the viking age. There have been many archaeological findings from this period in Blekinge, for example grave findings, ring-forts , old roads and ancient harbors. But no evidence of a village has been found yet. If south-eastern Blekinge is compared with the area surrounding Järrestad on Österlen in south-eastern Skåne and the area surrounding Sorte Muld on Bornholm, many likenesses can be seen. In this essay, the findings in Blekinge will be used as different components when the three areas are compared with each other.

En undersökning av användandet av klassicerande arkitektur i Köpenhamns maktrelaterade arkitektur i stadens offentliga, urbana rum..

Generations of war. William S. Lind and Thomas X. Hammes are two advocates of fourth generation warfare. Fourth generation warfare combatants uses all available tools to reach their goals.

Målet med detta arbete är att undersöka på vilken typ av föremål som de förstarunorna ristades, i vilken arkeologisk kontext som de har hittats, varruninskriptionen suttit på föremålen. Jag hade också som målsättning att tareda på vilka tolkningar som gjorts till dessa och vilka behov som kan ha legat bakom skapandet och användandet av runorna, varför det skedde just vid den tidpunkten och vilka personer som kan ha ägt runmärkta ting. Periodmässigt begränsade jag arbetet till ungefär de första fyra hundra åren av vår tideräkning med inriktning på romersk järnålder och inom Skandinavien. Information och intryck om aktuella fynd skaffade jag genom publicerad litteratur, några få Internetsidor och besök på Lunds historiska museum och Nationalmuseum i Köpenhamn. Eftersom runstenar är svåra att datera valde jag att inte alls ta med några sådana.

ABSTRACTThe aim of this essay is to analyze and discuss the razors? and tweezers? roles and dualism between them in the Nordic Bronze Age societies. This paper is an attempt to investigate what these little things can tell us about the people that were buried with them. For this purpose I have examined material of burial that consist of finds of razors respective tweezers and their connection with artefacts in the graves. I have done a comparative and contextual study together using quantitative and qualitative methods to investigate their roles and dualism.

The aim of this paper is to illuminate and discuss the political and ideological aspects of Early Medieval Nordic music. Due to shortage of sources, this issue has been overlooked until now. Did Early Medieval Nordic music meet the requirements for political and ideological use? In what ways could music potentially be used politically and ideologically? Was music used as a political and ideological tool? This is examined by a contextual analysis combining music history and historical archaeology. The survey consists of a background account, focusing on the potential of music and some requests for political use, and three case studies, where musical reflections of societal tensions is investigated in folk music lyrics, Icelandic sagas and church art.

The aim of this essay is to examine four floor mosaics from private dwellings in Pompeii. These 1st century floor mosaics decorate the fauces of the houses and they all depict watchdogs. The first question to be asked is if there are other common features between the houses that can explain why these house owners chose this figure. The second question is if you can reveal, from the existing knowledge about the house owners, the same information. The third question to be asked is if the watchdog mosaics have anything to do with the location of the houses in Pompeii.

Avsikten med uppsatsen är att undersöka och försöka utröna, huruvida fornborgarna under järnåldern kunde skydda de direkt/indirekt närliggande bybildningarna/handelsplatserna ur säkerhetsaspekt vid fara. Genom att välja fem fornborgar inom ett regionalt område med gemensamma nämnare och med hjälp av den komparativa metoden, jämför jag fornborgarna och deras omgivande miljöer med varandra, för att försöka besvara arbetets frågeställningar. Fornborgarna som ingår i analysen ligger samtliga i Botkyrka socken, strax söder om Stockholm. Fornborgarna är; Botkyrka 1:1, 105:1, 110:1, 127:1 samt 195:1. Viktiga aspekter med urvalet är att fornborgarna ej tidigare skall ha figurerat i några större undersökningar.

The purpose of this essay is to inquire whether there are any resemblance or differences in the Migrationperiod textiles between the three places that I have chosen, Högom in Sweden, Evebø and Snartemo in Norway. Another purpose is to investigate if this magnificencedressmaterial indicate some kind of mental borders, social differences or hierarchy not only towards other powerful chieftains in other areas but also inside there own society and groups, a dresscode. In other words both individually locally as regionally and internationally. If there are resemblance's between the dressmaterial, gravefinds and the graves context could that be a sign of the same sphere of power, alliances, trading, intentional import, domesticproduction, culturedistribution? My aim in this essay is to try to show that the textile ought to have a higher significance place among archaeological material.

In my paper I have compared popular science and neutral science regarding language and construction. My task was to find out if there are differences between the language of popular science and that of scientific science. The purpose of my paper is to answer four questions1.How do the authors present the bogbodies and the mummies in the two categories?2.What does the popular science imagine that you want to read about?3.Is there a difference between the target groups of the two categories?4. Does the presentation of the subject have consequenses when it comes to contents and readers?I have studied how often the authors use drawings, photos, diagrams, maps, and if the titles of the chapters can tell you something about the nature of books.

Syftet med denna uppsats var att få en fördjupad kunskap om människans kontroll över hästen under romersk järnålder i Sydskandinavien. Min ingång till undersökningen var utrustningen som hör till hästens huvud, d.v.s. tränset, vilket spelar en betydande roll för kontrollen. Genom framförallt detaljstudier av tränsfynd ämnade jag besvara frågor som i vilken kontext fynden hittas, hur tränsen såg ut, vilka bett man hade och om det går att säga något om ridsättet utifrån tränsen.Slutsatsen blev att tränsen, som oftast påträffas i deponeringar i mossar, inte var helt olika dagens. De bestod av ett huvudlag i läder, ett bett och tyglar.

This paper concerns itself with the controversy between marginal theory and empiricism during 1946-63, its main focus is the debate that followed R.A. Lesters empirical research 1946 who wrote a critical paper concerning the maximization-principle. It also concerns itself with the debate that followed on Milton Friedman´s essay on positive economics..