Dagens syn på pirater har länge blivit influerad av olika medier. Allt från böcker och filmer har kontinuerligt påverkat allmänhetens syn på en viktig del av marinhistoria och på så sätt har den perioden av historien blivit näst intill översedd av forskare. Inte förrän bara några år sedan blev arkeologin kring pirater en etablerad gren inom vetenskapen (Skowronek & Ewen 2006:1–2) och i och med det har praktiken vuxit. Men vad går det egentligen att säga är sant om piraterna? Har alla medier förmedlat en viss sanning eller är allt påhitt? Denna uppsats kommer diskutera kring fenomenet som är pirater och sjöröveri och jämföra dessa legendariska berättelser med det arkeologiska materialet som funnits som kan länkas till legenderna om de mytomspunna piraterna. Denna studie kommer utgå ifrån två framträdande skeppsvrak, Queen Anne’s Revenge och Quedagh Merchant, som hittats i det västindiska havet samt artefakterna som framkom i samband med vraken. Med utgångspunkt i detta material, ska en diskussion föras kring möjliga sanningar till legenderna samt deras skepp.   The image of pirates today has long been influenced by different media. From books to movies have all continually affected the public’s view on an important part of maritime history and such has that period of history been close to neglected by scientists. It was not until a few years ago that archaeology of piracy became an established part of the science (Skowronek & Ewen 2006:1-2) and with that has the practice grown. But what can one say is actually true about pirates? Have all media arbitrated a certain truth or is everything made up? This thesis will discuss the phenomena that is pirates and piracy and compare the legendary tales with the archaeological material found which can be linked to the legend of the nefarious pirates. This study will emanate from two protruding shipwrecks, Queen Anne’s Revenge and Quedagh Merchant, which has been found in the West-Indies as well as the artefacts that emerged with the wrecks. A discussion will be done based on the materials to see possible truths to the legends and the ships.

Archaeologists have an obligation to provide information and knowledge to the public as well as to the academic sphere. This paper deals with the efficiency of the media strategy of archaeologists in Sweden. The source material consists of news articles about archaeology published on local and regional Swedish news sites during 2018. The journalists who wrote these articles are the chosen population for a survey about the connection between the archaeologists and the press. Their answers show that the articles are usually initiated by the journalists rather than the archaeologists. The journalists are interested in archaeology and they tend to think that it is an interesting subject for their readers as well. Almost all of the journalists would write about archaeology more often if archaeologists were more active – or if more interesting findings were made. The journalists also wish for better and bigger stories from the archaeologists – a pole hole is not enough if you want to awaken the interest of the public. Based on the results of the study the author gives a list of suggestions on how archaeologists could improve their media strategy.

During the last glacial episode (130,000-11,500 years ago), nearly 5% of the Earth’s water was locked within ice sheets. This caused the lowering of global sea-levels to approximately 134 meters below modern levels. The reintroduction of freshwater into the oceans radically changed global sea-levels and littoral landscapes. Over the last 20,000 years, approximately 15-20 million km2 of coastal landscape has been submerged worldwide, roughly the area of South America. The inundation of these landscapes explains the relative rarity of global glacial period coastal archaeological sites, creating gaps in the history of coastal human activity around the world. Florida’s gently sloping continental shelf causes extreme coastline changes with minor vertical shifts in sea-levels. During the last glacial period, Florida’s landmass was nearly two-thirds larger then at present, creating a substantial amount of exposed coastal plain for habitation. Understanding Paleoindians’ interactions with this coastal environment requires an accurate sea-level curve for the Gulf of Mexico. Balsillie and Donoghue (2004) sea-level curve has been used as an oceanic transgression model for over a decade. Yet, when compared to global sea-level models, Balsillie and Donoghue’s curve differs as much as 25 meters versus global estimates. This research addresses these issues and introduces new data and methodologies to enhance the Gulf of Mexico sea-level transgression model. A review of global coastally-adapted habitation sites is also conducted to create a model detailing mobility ranges and material culture to improve distribution modeling for locating submerged coastal archaeological sites. Finally, a geoarchaeological assessment was conducted on known submerged archaeological sites on Florida’s western continental shelf to better understand the taphonomic processes of transgressed sites. / A Thesis submitted to the Department of Anthropology in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science. / Summer Semester 2018. / May 9, 2018. / Geoarchaeology, Gulf of Mexico, Predictive Modeling, Sea-level Curve, Submerged Prehistoric, Underwater Archaeology / Includes bibliographical references. / Jessi Halligan, Professor Directing Thesis; Tanya M. Peres, Committee Member; Seth Young, Committee Member.

Tanum, is situated in the north part of Bohuslän in Sweden and is the most famouse area of Rock Art of the world. It´s now a World Heritige since 1994. More than 100 000 images are carved on the rocks near by the sea. Archaeologists believe that carved feet and cupmarks can date from mesoliticom and neoliticum. During bronze age the sealevel was 15-20 meters higher. Carvings of humans can date from the beginning of bronze age around 1800, period I, but during late bronze age 1000-300 bc, period III-V, motives of humans became more common. Of all the 4154 carvings of human figures, only a few of them, aboute 45 figures, can be identifide as woman.  This study will try to answere why there are so few carvings of woman, what the carvings of female figures shows on the rocks and in what context are the they carved? Is the female figures an image of a godess, a woman or a priestess? Can the carvings tell us something aboute the womans life during the the bronze age? Key words: axes, menstruation, birthing, boats, Bohuslän, bronze age, cairns, carvings, fertilitycult, rock art, sealevel, weddings, godess, women, priestess, neoliticum, mesoliticum.                              Nyckelord: yxor, förlossning, menstruation, båtar, Bohuslän, bronsålder, rösen, ristningar, fruktbarhetskult, stenkonst, havsnivån, bröllop, gudinna, kvinna, prästinna, neolitikum, mesolitikum.

This paper examines the possibility of identifying previously classified land use via multi-element based chemical analysis. To help me in this, I have used some of the help hypotheses that elevated values of Magnesium may indicate signs of cattle and manure handling. In addition, I have investigated paleogeographic maps which help to recreate the hydrographic conditions in my area of investigation, as well as my own observations and sampling.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 20-01, page: 0004. / Thesis (M.A.)--The Florida State University, 1981.

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During the last glacial episode (130,000-11,500 years ago), nearly 5% of the Earth’s water was locked within ice sheets. This caused the lowering of global sea-levels to approximately 134 meters below modern levels. The reintroduction of freshwater into the oceans radically changed global sea-levels and littoral landscapes. Over the last 20,000 years, approximately 15-20 million km2 of coastal landscape has been submerged worldwide, roughly the area of South America. The inundation of these landscapes explains the relative rarity of global glacial period coastal archaeological sites, creating gaps in the history of coastal human activity around the world. Florida’s gently sloping continental shelf causes extreme coastline changes with minor vertical shifts in sea-levels. During the last glacial period, Florida’s landmass was nearly two-thirds larger then at present, creating a substantial amount of exposed coastal plain for habitation. Understanding Paleoindians’ interactions with this coastal environment requires an accurate sea-level curve for the Gulf of Mexico. Balsillie and Donoghue (2004) sea-level curve has been used as an oceanic transgression model for over a decade. Yet, when compared to global sea-level models, Balsillie and Donoghue’s curve differs as much as 25 meters versus global estimates. This research addresses these issues and introduces new data and methodologies to enhance the Gulf of Mexico sea-level transgression model. A review of global coastally-adapted habitation sites is also conducted to create a model detailing mobility ranges and material culture to improve distribution modeling for locating submerged coastal archaeological sites. Finally, a geoarchaeological assessment was conducted on known submerged archaeological sites on Florida’s western continental shelf to better understand the taphonomic processes of transgressed sites. / A Thesis submitted to the Department of Anthropology in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science. / Summer Semester 2018. / May 9, 2018. / Geoarchaeology, Gulf of Mexico, Predictive Modeling, Sea-level Curve, Submerged Prehistoric, Underwater Archaeology / Includes bibliographical references. / Jessi Halligan, Professor Directing Thesis; Tanya M. Peres, Committee Member; Seth Young, Committee Member.

The purpose of this dissertation is to analyze the ways the Roman Underworld was visualized, outlining the possible mental maps of the chthonic realm that constituted the main reference for the literary works and funerary monuments that were created in Rome and Ostia between the end of the first century BCE and the end of the third century CE. While we have no preserved ancient map of Hades, the artists decorating Roman monuments with otherworldly images, mainly tombs or sarcophagi, repeatedly employed specific natural or architectural elements that were reminiscent of the written descriptions and inspired by the widespread cultural and religious tradition and that highlighted the relations between the human souls, the chthonic divinities, and the space they share. When visualizing the Underworld, the Romans performed an act of mental spatial construction where all landscapes and topographical elements were drawn from a pool of geographical entities that constituted an integral part of their spatial shared knowledge, and where the memorable features that comprised historical, mythological, or religious associations were transformed into primary landmarks of communal value. These chthonic landmarks constituted the backdrop for mythological scenes, guided the viewer in the unfolding of the narrative of the journey to the Underworld, and reassured him on his postmortem fate.

Numerous art historians and anthropologists such as Rudolf Wittkower, Michael Baxandal and Alfred Gell have addressed the question of how art reflected the people by and for whom it was produced in the context of different cultures and periods. In my dissertation, I intend to contribute to this discussion through a study of two hundred and sixteen Mesopotamian and Syrian seals and seal impressions. Made of a variety of precious and semi-precious materials such as stones or metals, and carved with detailed designs and pictorial images, seals are some of the most distinctive types of ancient Near Eastern art, and were widely diffused in the society. The seals studied in this dissertation originally belonged to the individuals, from royalty to special cooks, representing different segments of the society, and are dated to the second half of the second millennium BC. I carried out a detailed analysis of the material, inscriptions, images on these objects and their context of use. This analysis shows that the seals that belonged to royal and non-royal individuals such as princes, priests/priestesses, scribes, doctors, singers, tax collectors and other temple and state officials may indicative of certain aspects of their owners' identity such as social class, profession and gender. Additionally, most of these seals were not mass-produced, but unique items created according to the choices of individual patrons. However, it was still possible to recognize the works of different craftsmen especially in the seals from Babylonia and Assyria through their distinctive styles. In this sense, Near Eastern seals were complex works of art in which the stylistic inputs of craftsmen were fused with the iconographic and compositional choices of the patrons, who commissioned them. These different choices, in return, might have signified the social class, gender, professional affiliation, and even political ambitions of the ancient seal owners.