Since the type fossil was found, 153 years ago, the Neanderthal man has fascinated researchers and laymen alike. The Neanderthals lived in Eurasia for maybe 200,000 years but disappeared around the time when modern humans moved into Europe around 35,000 BP. New studes of bones and artifacts, and intriguing results of new DNA-technology, indicate that Homo neanderthalensis was a separate species- b

Med silhuettfilmen Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed (Prins Achmeds äventyr1926) skapade Lotte Reiniger den första animerade långfilmen. Syftet med denna uppsats är att lyfta fram Lotte Reiniger och hennes pionjärarbete inom trick- och animationsfilmen. Född i Berlin 1899 var hon samtida med det nya mediets – den rörliga bildens – utveckling. Från sin tidiga ungdom till sin död 1981 var hon trots s

This paper is about the hoplite army and the men in it who fought for their family and polis. I wanted to write this paper because I think that we get too little information about the ordinary men who fight in wars. We are always told about the great generals and the outcomes of the battles but never about those who have to leave their normal life to maybe get killed. My purpose is to give a broad

This essay approaches the reproductive health of women in the Roman empire – mainly documented by the Greek-Roman medicus Soranos – by comparing them to women in developing countries to-day, as described by WHO-reports. I have recognized similarities in many respects. Though Roman upper class women had access to the best medical care of their time they risked their lives in child-birth and by abor

This essay discusses the health and life of the children from Löddeköpinge, a medieval churchyard in Scania, Sweden (ca. 1000-1200 BC), investigated in the 1960s-1980s. This study views the children’s well-being and existence from 7 perspectives: demography, growth, odontometric sex assessment, enamel hypoplasia, cribra orbitalia, social age classes and gender. Approximately 1400 individuals were

The iron production in northern Scania is well documented and research has been done during a long time. The primary focus in these researches was to study the production process, the starting and the ending time of the production and the area of production. The ending time of the production is usually said to be with the Swedish conquest of Scania. The other part of this paper is about “friskytta

Jönköpings stad flyttades 1612 från sitt medeltida läge väster om nuvarande Hamnkanalen, till östra sidan av kanalen. Samtidigt etablerades vapenfaktori och vantmakeri i staden. Denna uppsats ska behandla orsakerna bakom, organiseringen och det praktiska genomförandet av flyttningen. Varför var det så viktigt att flytta staden? Varför till ett träsk? Hur var det möjligt att på 1610-talet flytta en

Nytt museum för Örkelljunga hembygdsförening i Ingeborrarps friluftsmuseum

Larger meetings and gatherings of people is commonly discussed when it comes to prehistoric periods like the Neolithic and the Iron Age. When talking about the Mesolithic, people's need of gathering or hypothetical gathering places is seldom mentioned. This essay is an attempt to bring attention to phenomena like gathering and gathering places during the Scandinavian Mesolithic. In order to do

Syftet med min uppsats har varit att söka spår av bronsålderns serieproduktion inom brons-gjutningen i det arkeologiska materialet. Genom att undersöka det fysiska materialet i LUHMs magasin samt skriftliga och digitala källor analyseras tre valda undersökningsgrupper. Vidare görs en källkritik och försök att hitta något mönster i det hela genom att analysera hantverksskicklighet på materialet ur

For various political and economic reasons European sugar farmers and producers have received large subsidies from the EU. The goal of this thesis is to analyze these sugar subsidies and their effect on world market prices and production level in the EU, using statistical data from the mid 1980’s and onward. The analysis encompasses the mechanisms and consequences of EU sugar subsidies with a part

Trelleborgen, the Viking age fortress in Trelleborg, and its reconstruction, in this essay, constitutes an example of the importance of ancient monuments and the reconstructions of these can have to people who were and are affected by them. This concerns politicians and inhabitants in the area as well as archaeologists. By studying the archaeologist’s theories about Trelleborgen, by interviewing

In southern Siberia there is a culture of throat singing, a singing technique where a person can create two different and clearly audible tones at the same time. This throat singing phenomenon has flowed from the Tuvan republic in Russia out into the entire world. Persons of different ethnic ori­gins sing and teach throat singing to persons from all kinds of nations, thus all kinds of persons come

Electronic dance music has been a subject of scientific scrutiny for the past four decades. Many-coloured global club culture is most often seen as lacking political and social agenda, purely pastime-related occurrence within youth subculture. However, in different cultural backgrounds electronic dance music may play different roles and occupy different places. This thesis researches the case of e

The end of history was announced by Francis Fukuyama as a result of the fall of the Berlin wall and the end of the Cold War. These happenings were seen as evidence of the victory of democracy and capitalism. Democracy has however not been as triumphant as expected and this is especially true for the developing countries. At the same time globalisation has become one of the major phenomena of our t

The paper researches the viable options for Hamas as a case study in the development of a peace paradigm through answering the question of ‘What should Hamas do, while under siege, to act responsibly in favor of the interests of its constituency?’ By comparing the logics of social constructivist and realist theories as methods of analysis in addressing the formulation, operationalization and socia

This essay approaches the humour in Rome during the Republic and the Empire, using comedies and satires as sources. The authors used are Plautus, Terence, Horace, Persius, Martial and Juvenal. With these authors’ work as a basis this essay explains what the public might have considered as funny in each genre, and who this public might have been. It presents the themes, situations and eventual pers

This paper deals with the secret of the bog and its bogbodies. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the motive behind their deaths, whether they were sacrificed, executed as a result of crime or died because of other reasons. To do this I have examined the archaeological facts around some bogbodies foremost from late Bronze Age and early Iron Age (exept for Bockstensmannen) and their interp

Orienten och dess historia är en ytterst intressant del av vår gemensamma europeiska historia, dock en som allt som oftast har fått stå i skymundan. Säkerligen är detta inte en avsiktlig handling utan fokus har kanske gradvis flyttats åt ett annat håll. I den här texten så ska det Osmanska riket och dess inflytande i södra och östra Europa diskuteras, mellan åren 1400 och 1700, från Konstantinopel