Riksantikvarieabetet (National Heritage Board of Sweden)
Riksantikvarieambetet (National Heritage Board of Sweden) is the primary archaeological institution within Sweden, employing 150 people. The organisation has six offices located in Molndal, Stockholm, Uppsala and Orebro which provide effective representation in some of the more remote areas of the country. The aim of Riksantikvarieambetet is to raise the profile of Swedish archaeology whilst applying scientific and rational methods to excavation and conservation. Their publications include scientific excavation reports and surveys as well as more popular books drawing together the results of their work.
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Fire, Water, Heaven and Earth: Ritual Practice and Cosmology in Ancient Scandinavia - An Indo-European Perspective
by Anders Kaliff
Archaeological excavations of prehistoric Scandinavian graves and ritual sites often reveal seemingly enigmatic and contradictory features. Interpretation from a comparative Indo-European perspective allows a partly new approach to material which at first sight seems fragmentary and anonymous. The interpretations in this book proceed from cosmological beliefs occurring in various Indo-European traditions. The author discusses mortuary practices ...
Paperback. Price GB £18.00
Archaeology in the East and the West: Papers Presented at the Sino-Sweden Archaeology Forum, Beijing in September 2005
edited by Anders Kaliff
The book presents papers from a conference that was held in Beijing on 26-27 September 2005, in collaboration between the Swedish National Heritage Board (NHB) and the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). The conference marked a fresh start for archaeological collaboration between Sweden and China. There is a long tradition of cooperation between China and Sweden in the field of archaeology and both the conference ...
Paperback. Price GB £18.00
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
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
The Ecology of Expansion and Abandonment: Medieval and Post-Medieval Agriculture and Settlement in a Landscape Perspective
by Per Lageràs
This book tells the story of society and landscape change in a marginal upland area of southern Sweden during the last millennium. The study reveals a fascinating interplay between periods of colonization and expansion on the one hand and periods of decline and abandonment on the other. By using palaeoecological analyses in combination with archaeological data and written records, the author places the local society in a larger context. From a ...
Paperback. Price GB £12.00
Djurhàllning och betesdrift: Djur, människor och landskap i västra Östergötland under yngre bronsàlder och alder järnàlder
by Maria Petersson
From multifaceted archaeological material this book analyses and describes animal husbandry and its organization in the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age. The focus is on the analysis of livestock management and the structure of agriculture organization. The overall aim is to illuminate the role of animal husbandry in prehistoric society. 283p, 155 b/w illus, 11 col illus (Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish Heritage Board) 2006)
Hardback. Price GB £13.00
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
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