Thesis (M.A.)--Ohio State University, 1966. / Advisor: Paul Bogatay. Includes bibliographical references. Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center.

Inaug.-diss.--Halle. / Vita.

Inaug.-diss.--Halle. / Vita.

Inaug.-Diss.--Marburg, 1934. / At head of title: Römisch-Germanische Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts zu Frankfurt a. M.

Inaug.-Diss.--Marburg, 1934. / At head of title: Römisch-Germanische Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts zu Frankfurt a. M.

Thesis--Groningen. / At head of title: Rijksuniversiteit te Groningen. Includes bibliographical references (p. 132-142).

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Ancient humans stored family remains under their houses as we have surely stored memories in our attics. As civilization progressed, ashes were placed in urns which often replicated the house where one lived on earth. Eventually more elaborate and stylized monuments housed the remains. Recent practices have shown estrangement to death and denial of its importance in the natural cycle. this project reintroduces the funeral urn as object and ritual. It attempts to reawaken and reconnect us to our historically diverse cultures and to the life-death cycle by creating the house for ashes. This house is our last abode. / Master of Science

<p>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.</p>

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.