Development and everyday life of cities, villages, house and home as well as building techniques and building processes

Development and everyday life of cities, villages, house and home as well as building techniques and building processes

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Convenor: Gunilla Malm

The symposium presents studies on villages, towns, cities, built environments, single buildings, artefacts as well as architectural forms, building techniques and building materials. Changes and development of these “hard structures” will be put forward as evidence (mirrors) of political, social, economic and ideological organisations and developments of societies – societies from different geographical areas and from different periods. Documentation and analyses are based on archaeological, ethnoarchaeological, architectural and historical methods. New results and ideas of theory and practical work will be presented, discussed and exchanged. Discussions will concern the broad spectrum of the studies presented as well as some scarlet threads. For instance, what does urbanization and building processes from different geographical areas and from different periods have in common? Is it possible to discuss these matters in general terms? Finally, discussions also will concern cultural heritage managment and conservation.

papers:
Author 1 Author 2 Title
Allsworth-Jones Gray Excavations at the Neveh Shalom synagogue site in Spanish Town, Jamaica
Boeyens Miller Schoemansdal, 1848-1867: The historical archaeology of a Dutch/Afrikaner frontier town in the South African interior
Christopherson Countryman, townsman, citizen. Developing urban identity in Norwegian towns AD1000 – 1700 S054chr1
Malm Giving face to medieval Swedish workers.
Nydolf Changes of material and technique in medieval buildings in Visby, Sweden
Santillo Frizell Monumental building at Mycenae
Walicka Zeh Traditional Malian architecture: an ethnoarchaeological study of building technology and cultural form amongst the Senufo, Bambara and Bozo ethnic groups.