Archaeologists have an obligation to provide information and knowledge to the public as well as to the academic sphere. This paper deals with the efficiency of the media strategy of archaeologists in Sweden. The source material consists of news articles about archaeology published on local and regional Swedish news sites during 2018. The journalists who wrote these articles are the chosen population for a survey about the connection between the archaeologists and the press. Their answers show that the articles are usually initiated by the journalists rather than the archaeologists. The journalists are interested in archaeology and they tend to think that it is an interesting subject for their readers as well. Almost all of the journalists would write about archaeology more often if archaeologists were more active – or if more interesting findings were made. The journalists also wish for better and bigger stories from the archaeologists – a pole hole is not enough if you want to awaken the interest of the public. Based on the results of the study the author gives a list of suggestions on how archaeologists could improve their media strategy.

Tanum, is situated in the north part of Bohuslän in Sweden and is the most famouse area of Rock Art of the world. It´s now a World Heritige since 1994. More than 100 000 images are carved on the rocks near by the sea. Archaeologists believe that carved feet and cupmarks can date from mesoliticom and neoliticum. During bronze age the sealevel was 15-20 meters higher. Carvings of humans can date from the beginning of bronze age around 1800, period I, but during late bronze age 1000-300 bc, period III-V, motives of humans became more common. Of all the 4154 carvings of human figures, only a few of them, aboute 45 figures, can be identifide as woman.  This study will try to answere why there are so few carvings of woman, what the carvings of female figures shows on the rocks and in what context are the they carved? Is the female figures an image of a godess, a woman or a priestess? Can the carvings tell us something aboute the womans life during the the bronze age? Key words: axes, menstruation, birthing, boats, Bohuslän, bronze age, cairns, carvings, fertilitycult, rock art, sealevel, weddings, godess, women, priestess, neoliticum, mesoliticum.                              Nyckelord: yxor, förlossning, menstruation, båtar, Bohuslän, bronsålder, rösen, ristningar, fruktbarhetskult, stenkonst, havsnivån, bröllop, gudinna, kvinna, prästinna, neolitikum, mesolitikum.

This paper examines the possibility of identifying previously classified land use via multi-element based chemical analysis. To help me in this, I have used some of the help hypotheses that elevated values of Magnesium may indicate signs of cattle and manure handling. In addition, I have investigated paleogeographic maps which help to recreate the hydrographic conditions in my area of investigation, as well as my own observations and sampling.

This thesis is an attempt to explain economic and cultural changes during the Neolithic and Bronze Agefocusing on Asele Lappmark in Northern Sweden. The transitions are apparent in changing lithic technology,settlement structure traditions, land-uje patterning and the introduction of metallurgy. The subsistenceeconomy remained dependent on, fishing, hunting and gathering. Hunters and gatherers, however, becameinvolved in fur-trading and other resource-supplying exchange networks.This economy for trade, became so dominant that optimising models normally applied to huntergatherereconomies, are inapplicable. Instead explanations should be sought among a variety of economicworld-systems where hunter-gatherer sub-systems are included. In Asele Lappmark subsistence during theNeolithic was dependent on moose and beaver hunting. During the Bronze Age moose were still hunted butreindeer became more important and evidendy trade-networks were being established.Winter sites were moved to the main river routes, previously used as summer meeting-grounds. Thislocalisation is probably an effect of the increasing importance of trade. Reindeer herding is suggested tohave developed during the Bronze Age as the inland population took advantage of their geographicalknowledge and possession, and developed a middleman-function in an exchange network.These trade activities called for a means of transportation of trade goods across the mountains of theScandinavian peninsula, and one important role of reindeer in this context was as a beast of burden.Metallurgical knowledge is evident from the finds of moulds and crucibles for bronze-casting. The relativelyscanty evidence, however, suggests that bronze was not major trade-item, but that craftsmanship was importantto ri tually maintain cultural identity between trading groups. / digitalisering@umu

<p>This essay deals with the results and observations made during excavations in an iron age cemetery in Alsike hage, located in Alsike parish. The excavations took place in 2005 and 2006 and the investigated area comprised two adjacent, but secluded burial-constructions; a square stone setting with a secondary grave, and a stone-built terrace with at least one secondary grave. The artifacts suggests that the TPQ of the stone setting, and the construction date of the rest of the graves, is 900-950 A.D. The aim of this study was to comprehend the course of events in the investigated area, and to</p><p>analyse the archaeological finds - in comparison to the well documented an discussed material burial culture in the lake Mälar area – in order to discuss indicators of gender and social status.</p><p>Metal artefacts has been preserved as a part of the analysis.</p>

This essay deals with the results and observations made during excavations in an iron age cemetery in Alsike hage, located in Alsike parish. The excavations took place in 2005 and 2006 and the investigated area comprised two adjacent, but secluded burial-constructions; a square stone setting with a secondary grave, and a stone-built terrace with at least one secondary grave. The artifacts suggests that the TPQ of the stone setting, and the construction date of the rest of the graves, is 900-950 A.D. The aim of this study was to comprehend the course of events in the investigated area, and to analyse the archaeological finds - in comparison to the well documented an discussed material burial culture in the lake Mälar area – in order to discuss indicators of gender and social status. Metal artefacts has been preserved as a part of the analysis.

This thesis explores the process of Christianisation in Viking and Medieval Scandinavia through the social constructions of infancy and the beginnings of human life, as expressed in the ideals and practices seen in written and archaeological evidence. ‘Childhood’ is regarded as a social construction defined by, and therefore also reflecting, contemporary society. Christianisation is seen as a process, heterogeneous in time, space and manifestations. A point of departure has been to approach each piece of evidence as a closed phenomenon comparable only to itself. This approach has been particularly relevant when examining syncretic burial customs. The emerging Christian institutions provided alternatives to the pre-Christian perceptions of birth control and initiating passage rites, most strikingly expressed in the criminalising of infanticide and the introduction of infant baptism. In this thesis, the strategies, processes and ideological foundations behind these changes are investigated and understood in terms of agency, ideal and practice. The results demonstrate that the process of social change brought by Christianisation was expressed in conservative, innovative as well as conciliatory fashions. It is argued that initiation rituals as well as regulations on child abandonment and burial practices were strategic tools used to modify the central aspects of the Viking-Age perception of infancy. Traces of conflict or conciliation are primarily found in issues relating to children as agents of the family and inheritance lines, which suggest that the ongoing establishment of the Church in some respects challenged the traditional autonomy of the households.

Abstract   Svensson, E. 2018. A concrete description and critique about a basic mythological, religious and practical culture during the Nordic bronze age (1800-1000 BC)                                 This subject’s main focus is to look at earlier and modern archaeological studies on mythological, symbolical and religious enrichments during the Nordic Bronze Age (1800-500 BC). Its aim is to give the reader a better understanding of older and modern information about religious and mythological enrichment during the Nordic Bronze Age which is based on earlier relevant studies on rock engraving, cultural artefacts, and ritual regions from that time. The relevant sources that i have used for this paper are even going to be prepared to meet relevant comparison between different academics that i have mainly used for this main subject and i am even going to clarify different critical points that those academic main sources might have and what the reader should be aware of when they are eventually going to make their own relevant studying on religious and mythological cultures during the Nordic Bronze Age.   Keywords: studies, cultural enrichment, activities, mythology, religious, investigate archaeological fragments, geographic areas, influential, ritual practice, comparison, critical points.       Omslagsbild: Hällristning från kiviksgraven från 1300 f. kr. Fotevikens museum

This essay concerns the Lausitz culture. It focuses is on grave culture and ceramics in addition to which connections they might have. Furthermore two cultures will be examined to better determine how the Lausitz culture uses their ceramic. Research on lipid residues will be conducted using twelve ceramic fragments from the Lausitz culture.

This paper deals with the Iron age settlement continuity and the meaning of craftsmanship locals during this time period up until the middle of the Merovingian time. It also deals with the analysis of a metal craftsmanship local at the same location, where a multi element based geochemical prospect has been made to search for information about metal craftsmanship. This was done in an attempt to define if there was one such local or not and if it is concentrated to this location.