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Author:   Andrine Nilsen
Publisher:   Archaeopress
Imprint:   Archaeopress
Dimensions:   Width: 20.50cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 29.00cm
Weight:   1.190kg
ISBN:  

9781789696776

ISBN 10:   1789696771
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   14 January 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction ; Chapter 1 The scale of the city: the social dimension of space in theory and method ; Chapter 2 Wooden buildings and the demolition frenzy – the bankruptcy of the Swedish building culture ; Chapter 3 Understanding wooden buildings – a background to Scandinavian research ; Chapter 4 Considering the omnipresence of wood – an exposé of wood materiality ; Chapter 5 Urban vernacular wood constructions – three modes of building ; Five Swedish early modern towns – a background of local urban history and archaeological investigations ; On the comforts of log timber buildings – keeping warm and movable ; The prevalence of timber-framing ; Elusive traces of urban post and plank construction ; Chapter 6 Urban townscapes ; Storeyed houses and crowded streets in urban townscapes ; Life on the margins – buildings and living environments in the urban centre and periphery ; Chapter 7 Contextualizing urban vernacular architecture – distinguishing the actual and the ideal ; Chapter 8 Wood, people and society: the case studies combined ; Chapter 9 General conclusions and summary ; Appendix 1. The collection of finds in wood from Nya Lödöse 2013 ; Appendix 2. Material wood remains in the moat, Nya Lödöse 2015 ; Appendix 3a. A+B List of archaeological remains of log timber buildings ; Appendix 3b. Archaeological evidence of log timber technique ; Appendix 4a. A+B List of preserved buildings in log timber, Vita Bergen ; Appendix 4b. Preserved buildings in Vita Bergen, Stockholm ; Appendix 5. Timber-framing in Archaeological reports ; Appendix 6. Timber-framing in historical records ; Appendix 7. Timber-framing in photos ; Appendix 9. Post and plank in Archaeological reports ; Appendix 8. Post and plank in Fire Insurance Records ; Appendix 10. Preserved post and plank buildings ; Appendix 11. Fire insurance records, Majorna 1795, residential buildings ; Appendix 12. Fire insurance records, Gothenburg 1800-1804, residential buildings ; Archives, sources and bibliography

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Andrine Nilsen has historical urban buildings archaeology as a special interest and undertook her doctoral studies at the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Gothenburg. Before this she worked in the project The early modern town - between the local and the global publishing on the subject of medieval wooden houses and early modern town plans.

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