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- Andersson, Magnus, et al.
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The Funnel Beaker Culture in action: Early and Middle Neolithic monumentality in Southwestern Scania, Sweden (4000–3000 calBC)
- 2022
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Ingår i: Journal of Neolithic Archaeology. ; 24, s. 61-97
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- One of the most discussed issues in European archaeology is the significance and context of monumentality and the construction of long barrows and megaliths in the Neolithic. The construction of monuments in Neolithic Europe can, due to their often significant size and complexity, be interpreted as signs of collective building efforts, but the social and political background may vary from more egalitarian to highly stratified societies. During the last 20 years of surveys and archaeological excavations in southwest Scania, Sweden, new archaeological results have been produced, revealing many hitherto unknown settlements, central places for feasting, long barrows, megaliths, free-standing façades and other types of monumental constructions. This has disclosed a much more complex picture of the Early Neolithic (4000–3300calBC) Funnel Beaker Culture societies in the region. Large-scale excavations have documented a hierarchy of monumental places in Early Neolithic southern Scandinavia, probably reflecting different uses of monuments, mirroring a social hierarchy in polities. Recently, another central place has been excavated at Flackarp, south of Lund, Sweden, containing at least nine dolmens and free-standing façades, further supporting this hypothesis.
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- Beal, Jacob, et al.
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Robust estimation of bacterial cell count from optical density
- 2020
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Ingår i: Communications Biology. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 2399-3642. ; 3:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Optical density (OD) is widely used to estimate the density of cells in liquid culture, but cannot be compared between instruments without a standardized calibration protocol and is challenging to relate to actual cell count. We address this with an interlaboratory study comparing three simple, low-cost, and highly accessible OD calibration protocols across 244 laboratories, applied to eight strains of constitutive GFP-expressing E. coli. Based on our results, we recommend calibrating OD to estimated cell count using serial dilution of silica microspheres, which produces highly precise calibration (95.5% of residuals <1.2-fold), is easily assessed for quality control, also assesses instrument effective linear range, and can be combined with fluorescence calibration to obtain units of Molecules of Equivalent Fluorescein (MEFL) per cell, allowing direct comparison and data fusion with flow cytometry measurements: in our study, fluorescence per cell measurements showed only a 1.07-fold mean difference between plate reader and flow cytometry data.
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- Brink, Kristian
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I palissadernas tid. Om stolphål och skärvor och sociala relationer under yngre mellanneolitikum.
- 2009
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The overall aim of this work is to study and interpret how social relations were expressed, shaped, and changed in the Late Middle Neolithic. The empirical foundation is a study of settlement in the Malmö area, south-west Skåne, Sweden. Other parts of southernmost Sweden (and eastern Denmark) are also concerned. Sites are discussed and given an overall interpretation as regards chronological and cultural relations and the form and change of settlement. A historical perspective is applied, and existing knowledge of the Early Middle Neolithic and the Late Neolithic is used in the discussion. The form and change of settlement and the use and context of material culture – from small artefacts to large structures – serve as a basis for the interpretations. The theoretical basis of this work is structuration theory. The focus is mainly on two phenomena – palisaded enclosures and farms. In the Malmö area the early part of the Late Middle Neolithic – c. 2800–2500 BC – is characterized by a landscape with sites of differing dignity which together form a totality of relations and functions. At the local level there was great mobility and accessibility to sites with different functions and significance. The palisaded enclosures were a type of site in this landscape. This mobility should not be confused with a nomadic way of life. Sites were used for continuous periods of varying length, but the presence of houses indicates that people lived on farms for several years. This is a state of affairs which can be followed into the later part of the Late Middle Neolithic and the Early Late Neolithic – c. 2500–2200 BC – but in this period farm continuity was often longer. The classical graves of the Battle Axe culture were dug at the farms. During this later part of the studied period palisaded enclosures were no longer built. Social relations were changed in a direction which meant that it was no longer possible to achieve this type of large arena for collective concerns. Instead the farm became the central social and mental unit for the people. The palisaded enclosures and activities carried out there were an expression of people’s perceptions of how the world was ordered and what opportunities existed, and at the same time they affected this perception and were thus an active part of the change that can be seen in society in the latter part of the Late Middle Neolithic. On a general level, the change can be related to the change in society that is traditionally associated with the Late Middle Neolithic – the shift from the Funnel Beaker culture to the Battle Axe culture. This so-called culture shift is here discussed as the result of a social change that took place within local communities as the result of an encounter with new material culture and new social traditions.
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- Brink, Kristian, et al.
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On the shore
- 2009
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Ingår i: Current Swedish Archaeology. - 1102-7355. ; 17, s. 79-107
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In 2006 a palisade enclosure dated to the late Middle Neolithic was excavated at Bunkeflostrand, Malmö, Sweden. The excavation of pits and wells containing flints, animal bones and pottery revealed a wide range of activities at the site, which is exceptional in comparison with most other palisade enclosures of southern Scandinavia. Palisade enclosures have emerged as places of great significance to our understanding of cultural relations traditionally associated with the transition from the Funnel Beaker culture to the Battle Axe culture. The results of the excavation at Bunkeflostrand and other palisade enclosures in the region can be used to understand social relations and cultural change in the Middle Neolithic in southern Scandinavia.
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- Hydén, Susan, et al.
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The scent of sandstone – exploring a TRB material
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Ingår i: Neolithic Diversities : Perspectives from a conference in Lund, Sweden Acta Archaeologica Lundensia, Series in 8o. - 9789189578609 ; 65, s. 224-232
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this article is to briefly explore how quartz-rich sandstone might have been perceived by TRB societies. Using the senses as a point of departure, it discusses how sandstone was selected for grinding stones and for dry walling in megaliths, emphasizing the significance of the visual as well as the mechanical properties of the material. The article also acknowledges the complexity of the way in which the material was perceived. The significance of sandstone was shaped by context, implying that a changing context altered its significance. Ultimately, this study is a call for taking materials seriously by exploring them in a more nuanced way. Analogies, for example, can be very useful – not as proof, but as a way of raising questions and scenting the diversity of the Neolithic.
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- Högberg, Anders, 1968-, et al.
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A silver-coated copper axe from Late Neolithic Scania : initial analyses
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Ingår i: Fornvännen. - : Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien. - 0015-7813 .- 1404-9430. ; 111:4, s. 258-264
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Late Neolithic metal axes are rarely found during archaeological excavations. In the autumn of 2015, however, it did happen. Metal detecting at Eskilstorp in south-west Scania (fig. 1) revealed a Late Neolithic axe of the Pile type (figs 2–3). The Eskilstorp axe turned out to be unique. It is a silvercoated copper axe. In this note we present the results of the initial analyses performed on the axe.
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