The Fogdarp hoard from Scania in Sweden is an unusual deposit from the Late Bronze Age. Unlike similar hoards this was not found in a wetland, but was buried in the ground with a rock placed on top of it. Deposits in dry land have sometimes been considered to be a hiding place for a smith’s metalwork. But since the Fogdarp hoard contains ritual bronze objects, it has been called a ritual deposit. The aim of this paper is to investigate the Fogdarp hoard by using a landscape analysis. By doing so the study will contribute to the understanding of the hoards context, and why this hoard was buried and not deposited in a wetland. The landscape analysis shows that the hoard is buried closed to the water and in a ritual landscape on the edge of a valley. The discussion will also analyze the objects in this particular hoard: their symbolic value will be elaborated in the analysis. As a comparison, this paper includes other deposits from the Late Bronze Age. My interpretation of the objects in the Fogdarp hoard is that they are a part of the sun cult of the Nordic Bronze Age, where sun-goddess and the divine twins play an important role.

This bachelor’s thesis is based on the charred archaeobotanical material from a settlement at Eikebakken, Norway dated to the end of Bronze Age. The study focuses on determining the potential use of weeds and the oil plant flax (Linum usitatissimum). The archaeobotanical samples contained large amounts of charred flax seeds, and to determine whether it was used for oil or textile production a morphometric study of the material was undertaken and compared to other morphometric studies from Northern Europe. An experiment on modern flax seeds, carbonised at different temperatures, was used to expand current knowledge about how flax seeds change through the carbonisation process and why flax seeds are so rarely preserved in prehistoric contexts. The experiment results compared to the carbonized flax seeds from Eikebakken are shown with different diagrams and visualisations. The morphometric analysis together with the experiment provides new knowledge about the flax seeds complications with preservation and that flax in Norway's earliest stages was most likely grown for textile fibres, a contradiction to earlier assumptions.

Denna uppsats syftar till att studera platser med kontinuitet genom slutet av den sena bronsåldern på Peloponnesos för att undersöka vilka faktorer som bidrar till kontinuitet genom en period som traditionellt definieras av dess förstörelse och sociala oro. Undersökningen utgår från platser med kontinuitet genom SH IIIB–SH IIIC på Peloponnesos publicerade i Mycenaean Atlas Project, och studerar dessa platser genom en kvantitativt jämförande analys. Studien använder resiliensteori, och undersöker vilka karaktärsdrag hos platserna som möjliggjorde resiliens och kontinuitet genom SH IIIB–SH IIIC. Materialet ställs i relation till huvudsakligen två förklaringsmodeller rörande samhällsnedgången under slutet av sen bronsålder: det torrare klimatet, och social oro. I det sociala perspektivet visar resultatet att en försvarbarhet och isolering från palatsens kontaktnät var fördelaktigt för kontinuitet genom perioden. Ur det klimatologiska perspektivet kan ingen tydlig koppling etableras mellan platsernas karaktärsdrag och deras möjlighet till kontinuitet. / This essay aims to study places with continuity through the end of the Late Bronze Age in the Peloponnese to examine what factors contribute to continuity through a period traditionally defined by its destruction and social unrest. Source material for the essay is confined to places with continuity through LH IIIB–LH IIIC in the Peloponnese published through the Mycenaean Atlas Project, and the places are studied through a quantitative and comparative analysis. The study uses resilience theory and examines what place traits made continuity and resilience through LH IIIB–LH IIIC possible. The source material is put in relation to two explanatory models regarding the societal decline during the end of the Late Bronze Age: the drier climate, and social unrest. In the social perspective, the results indicate that defendable places and isolation from the palace networks are favourable aspects for continuity through the period. No clear link between place traits and continuity can be established in the climatological perspective.