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Landscapes of death: GIS modelling of a dated sequence of prehistoric cemeteries in Västmanland, Sweden

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Daniel Löwenborg
Daniel Löwenborg*
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*Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Uppsala University, Box 626, 751 26 Uppsala, Sweden
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Abstract

We will never be able to excavate everything – nor should we – but it would be good to know how to make the best use of what is visible in the landscape to write social prehistories. In this project the author creates a set of parameters for the 1000 mound-cemeteries seen north of Lake Mälaren and clusters them by period, using 51 examples that have been excavated and dated. The result is that 1000 cemeteries can now be allocated to period, with that special kind of confidence in which statisticians rejoice.

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SwedenVästmanlandBronze AgeIron AgecemeteriesmonumentsGISdiscriminant analysisSPSS
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Antiquity , Volume 83 , Issue 322 , December 2009 , pp. 1134 - 1143
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 2009

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