Routes of Iron - Least Cost Path Analysis of the Possible Routes and Ways in which Iron was Transported during the Later Part of Iron Age in Scania, Halland and Småland
Iron is an important material in the study of societies of the Iron Age and later periods. Not only does it give its name to the period it was also an integrated part in every humans’ life from the Iron Age and forward. And yet this material is many times just assumed to be there without much consideration of how it got there. In this master thesis, the author thus tries to bridge this gap in betw