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- Petersson, Maria, 1954-
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Djurhållning och betesdrift : Djur, människor och landskap i västra Östergötland under yngre bronsålder och äldre järnålder
- 2006
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis focuses on animal husbandry and organised grazing in western Östergötland during the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age. The primary aim is to investigate how animal husbandry was organised from a practical perspective. The thesis consists of a series of analyses of different source-material groups that illuminate various aspects of prehistoric animal husbandry. Only a small number of the archaeologically investigated three-aisled longhouses had a byre area. The livestock were mainly kept outdoors, in winter as well as in summer. The animal bones from settlements show that more beef was consumed and more horses were found at high-status settlements than at those of lower status. From the period 1000 BC–BC there are isolated hearths and hearth groups in central Östergötland that previously could not be connected to a specific archaeological context. In the author’s opinion, these sites represent bases in a system of well-organised grazing. It was here that shepherds and animals rested, ate and drank, and probably also overnighted. Many of the sites were used repeatedly during the entire period in question. In this landscape there are stone fence systems which show a strong connection to the settlement structure formed during the Late Iron Age, and parts of the systems seem to be medieval. They may also have elements from the Early Iron Age. The distribution of graves from the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age coincides with the stone fence systems. A special type of site that has one or two graves, with particular kinds of superstructures, is linked to these areas. In historical time these areas comprised the central production grounds for animal husbandry, and it seems that the areas functioned as central grazing grounds as far back as the Late Bronze Age.
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- Petersson, Maria
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Ritualer vid Strömmen : Motala i ett långtidsperspektiv
- 2021
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Ingår i: Fornvännen. - Stockholm : Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien. - 0015-7813 .- 1404-9430. ; 116:3, s. 165-184
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article I explore the long-term perspective of the ritual activities in and around the river Motala Ström in Östergötland, Sweden. The Dutch archaeologist Anett Nieuwhof has established a framework for the study of ritual action, inspired by the anthropologist Pascal Boyer, based on cognitive and evolutionary psychology in combination with extensive archaeological material from the coastal areas of the Netherlands. I have applied this theoretical framework to the material from Motala Ström and particularly the remains from the Pre-Roman Iron Age, also looking at some Old Norse sources. From this period a small portion of a wooden platform was excavated. A tibia and an ulna belonging to one or two men were found on the platform. The man/men may have been killed on the platform as part of a ritual. Another possibility is that death happened elsewhere and that the defleshed bones were brought to the platform to be deposited. On the platform ritual specialists would have performed the killing or the handling of the bones. More passive participants in the ritual would had been watching from the shore. When the platform was no longer in use, it was burnt down.
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