Texte remanié de: Ph.D. diss.--University of Athens. / Bibliogr. p. 452-492.

Texte remanié de: Dissertation--Tucson, Ariz.--University of Arizona, [1994].

Dissertation--Philosophische Fakultät I--Universität Zürich, 1994. / Mention parallèle de titre ou de responsabilité : The @Bronze Age necropolis Velika Gruda, Opš. Kotor, Montenegro : middle and late Bronze Age groups between Adriatic and Danube. Bibliogr. p.201-206.

PhD. Thesis--Edinburgh. / Bibliogr. p. 251-259.

Diss.--Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 1990. / Bibliogr. p. 417-419.

Texte remanié de: Doct. Diss.--Archéol.--Göteborg--Göteborg Univ., 2000. / Bibliogr. p. 156-159. Index.

Texte remanié de : Thèse de 3eme cycle : Histoire de l'art et d'archéologie : Université de Paris 1 : 1977. / Texte en français, avec chapitre premier, conclusion, annexe et table des matières traduits en arabe. Résumé en anglais, arabe et français sur la 4e de couv. Bibliogr. p. [145]-156. Notes bibliogr.

Figures removed from thesis by author. The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on March 19, 2010). Thesis advisor: Dr. Susan Langdon. Includes bibliographical references.

The approaches used in recent research regarding the ‘Sea Peoples’ of the late Bronze Age in the Eastern Mediterranean have been evaluated in this thesis. Different influences exist on all planes and effect all things in different ways. Researchers have the power of creating the history we know and all too often is the biased influence of the researcher forgotten and their words are taken as facts. Different researchers approach, the studies using different schools of thought such as e.g. ‘processualism’ and post-processualism. Some scholars firmly stay by one approach side, but the approaches should be viewed as complementing each other. Raising awareness of some of the major questions within the research, and scholars different ways of approaching them is a main point in this thesis. The different scholars' approaches to research concerning the ‘Sea Peoples’ etnichity, their migration and impact brought up in the different texts have been analyzed.Concluding remarks focus on that the term ‘Sea Peoples’ is a creation of the modern day scholars and that researchers should refrain from using the term and focus on the different clans instead. A strong vote for interdisciplinary and complementary studies is presented regarding the future of this study and others.

In this essay I aim to examine how the landscape of Mönsterås might have looked like during the Bronze age in order to get a better understanding of the house urn that C J Ekerot found in a cairn in Fälle. Mönsterås is an area which has a quality of permanence, from Stone Age to Iron Age with its culmination during the Bronze Age. I will discuss the use and symbolic meaning of the house urn. The house as a symbol during the Bronze Age seemed to have had an important place in the cosmology. I will also discuss the importance of cairns, especially in the archipelago areas. The cairns have had an obvious connection to the sea throughout the Bronze age and scientist have argued that one of the reason could be that the sea was associated with the dead.