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Vasa: A Swedish Warship
by Fred Hocker
Vasa was the most modern warship imaginable in 1628. Her ability for fast and aggressive sailing, the multiple gun deck and the heavy, custom-made guns were innovations. She was meant to be a key asset for Sweden in a bid for power in Northern Europe. But as with most brilliant innovations there are also failures, and the ship sank on her maiden voyage, a spectacular, costly and embarrassing fiasco. This book contains new information about the ...
Hardback. Price GB £30.00

In the Wake of a Woman: The Pioneering of North-Eastern Scania, Sweden, 10,000-5000 BC: The Årup Settlements
edited by Per Karsten
Flint material and settlement remains from the Late Palaeolithic Ahrensburg culture, as well as the Early and Middle Mesolithic from a newly excavated site is presented and interpreted in detail. The well preserved remains give new insights into everyday life and rituals. The Årup site is rapidly becoming a classic site of Scandinavian archaeology. b/w illus (Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish Heritage Board) 2006)
Hardback. Price GB £18.50

Vasa I: The Archaeology of a Swedish Royal Ship of 1628
by Carl Olof Cederlund, series editor Frederick M Hocker
This book is the first in a new series of monographs to be published on Sweden's royal ship, Vasa, which sank on its maiden voyage on August 10th 1628. Volume I will put the series in context, presenting the background to the ship's story, its excavation and salvage, as well as an overview of the the finds and their context. Future volumes will examine the armaments, the engineering and the on-board community of the ship, as well as its ...
Hardback. Temporarily out of stock at publishers - will be delayed. Orders will be recorded. Price GB £40.00

Identities in Transition: Mesolithic Strategies in the Swedish Province of Ostergotland
edited by G Gruber
his publication is based on the material discovered in connection with recent contract arcaheology in Östergötland. In the last fifteen years our knowledge of the period has grown enormously: this book is an attmept to present the current state of research. 204p, b/w illus (Riksantikvarieämbetet 2005)
Paperback. Price GB £11.99

Where the River Bends - Under the Boughs of Trees: Strandvägen, a Late Mesolithic Settlement in Eastern Middle Sweden
by Tom Carlsson
The publication focuses on the Strandvägen site located in the town of Motala, Östergötland, Sweden. The volume looks at what shaped the material expression at the site during five hundred years of the 6th millennium BC (5500 - 5000 B.C). Several empirical studies of the material culture are conducted and presented in order to compare their various spatial connections and social relations between individuals and groups. The changes ...
Hardback. Price GB £18.00

Ecology and Economy in Stone Age and Bronze Age Scania
edited by Karl-Göran Sjögren
The book presents research on past vegetation, landscape and land-use in a rural district in western Scania, southern Sweden. The investigations were part of the West Coast Line Project, a large-scale archaeological project in connection with the expansion of the West Coast railway line. Thanks to careful surveying and a well-thought strategy - both of wetlands and of archaeological features during the excavations - it has been possible to shed ...
Hardback. Price GB £14.99

Järnàldersbönder vid Öresund Band 2: Metod- och materialstudier
edited by Anne Carlie
This is the second of two volumes dealing with the Iron Age of western Scania, Sweden. This volume has articles on methodology, and presents the archaeological material. Text in Swedish and Danish, with English summaries. b/w and col illus (Skànska spàr - Arkeologi längs Västkustbanan, Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish Heritage Board) 2006)
Hardback. Price GB £14.99

Byarnas bönder: Medeltida samhällsförändring i Västskàne
edited by Mats Mogren
Based on results from contract archaeology in western Scania, south Sweden, village formation and village structure, as well as societal relations in the landscape, are discussed as part of the greater context of societal transformation during the Early and High Middle Ages. Swedish text, with English summaries. 322p, b/w illus (Skànska spàr - Arkeologi längs Västkustbanan, Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish Heritage ...
Hardback. Price GB £14.99

Gravspràk som religiös strategi: Valsta och Skälby i Attundaland under vikingatid och tidig medeltid
by Gunnar Andersson
An academic dissertation from Stockholm University dealing with expressions of changing funeral rites and beliefs in graves of the Viking Age and early Middle Ages just outside Stockholm, Sweden. The emphasis of the analysis is on the belief systems of ordinary people in the pagan-Christian interface. In Swedish, with an English summary. 180p, 60 b/w and col illus (Arkeologiska Undersökningar 91, Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish ...
Paperback. Price GB £9.99

Järnàldersbönder vid Öresund Band 1: Specialstudier och syntes
edited by Anne Carlie
Settlement, economy, crafts and societal structure are some of the themes explored in this, the first of two volumes dealing with the Iron Age of western Scania, Sweden. Special issues discussed include the impact of the expanding Roman Empire on South Scandinavian societies. Text in Swedish and Danish, with English summaries. 500p, b/w illus (Skànska spàr - Arkeologi längs Västkustbanan, Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish ...
Hardback. Price GB £14.99