The official images of the empresses Plotina and Sabina were changed during the period of the adoptive emperors Trajan and Hadrian. A central focus in this thesis is how Trajan and Hadrian exercised their power by letting the pictures of their wives play an important pu...

This study aims to compare two exhibitions to find out the decolonizing strategies and how they are affecting the material culture that they exhibit. ñseums around the world are in the midst of decolonization. This process has been going on for a long time and covers al...

This essay aims to analyse how different archaeologists interpret archaeological remains as ritualistic. It compares different definitions of rituality in archaeology as well as Catherine Bells definition of ritualisation and applies those definitions to select archaeol...

Calling for a church service by bell ringing has a long history in Sweden. In order for the sound to be heard as far as possible, it was most natural to hang them in the church tower. Large, cast bells first appeared in the 13th century and with that they began to hang ...

Lime tree hedges and other architectural compositions of this plant material have historically been a part of the visual aspects in and surrounding cultural heritage environments in Sweden and continue to be a part of them to this day. Traditionally, the pruning of thes...

The post war era and industrial revolution opened up a freedom in the art field and created an unpredictable art landscape. The creativity that it unleashed among artists would later become a main concern for those who managed such artifacts as museums, galleries and co...

This thesis examines the municipal antiquarian’s role in the public procurement of antiquarian consultants. In the 1980’s the new Swedish Plan and Building Act emphasized the municipal responsibility over the management of local built heritage and provided provisions fo...

In Sweden, interior cultural values are less legally protected then exterior values. In municipal urban planning, public interests are weighed against private interest. Some spaces are hard to define as a public interest or a private interest, for example stairwells in ...

Farmers and archaeologists have one particular thing in common, they both play an important role in the management and preservation of our common physical cultural heritage in the landscapes. But is there any cooperation between those actors? Farmers in general often ha...

I den här licentiatuppsatsen undersöks planteringar vid de första stambanorna i Sverige mellan åren 1855–1875. När järnvägar för persontrafik började byggas i mitten av 1800-talet innebar de en stor förändring av samhället, landskapet och människors vardagsliv. Inom det...