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Hästen, trotjänare eller träl?: En osteologisk analys i mikroarkeologiskt perspektiv
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History.
2017 (Swedish)Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesisAlternative title
The horse, retainer or slave? : An osteological analysis in a micro archaeological perspective (English)
Abstract [en]

Studies on work-related skeletal lesions are a vital part of answering questions about how animals were used by prehistoric populations. In Sweden, this sort of research has mainly been done on cattle. Horse (equus) bones are simply to uncommon to find and the osteometric methods are severely lacking. This essay aims to use previous Swedish as well as foreign research on the subject, as a basis for a new study focusing on horse bones from different contexts. The aim is to find indications of whether or not the relationship between humans and horses has affected the way these animals were treated, and later disposed of after death. A new perspective of theory and methodology will be used to tackle the problems that have previously haunted osteological research on horse bones. By combining osteological analysis and microarchaeology the goal is to reach for information that in the past has been hard to come by.  Swedish osteology needs to step out of its comfort zone and start looking at animal bones as more than a statistic foundation.

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2017. , p. 65
Keywords [en]
Pathology, Horse, Microarchaeology, Skeletal lesions, Viking Age
Keywords [sv]
Animalpatologi, Häst, Mikroarkeologi, Skelettförändringar, Vikingatid
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History and Archaeology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-323786OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-323786DiVA, id: diva2:1107406
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Available from: 2017-06-13 Created: 2017-06-09 Last updated: 2017-06-13Bibliographically approved

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