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Professor Emeritus
- Historical Archaeology
- Department of Archaeology and Ancient History
Contact information
E-mail jes.wienbergark.luse
Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 30
JES WIENBERG born 1956 in Silkeborg, Denmark. Started my archaeological course as a teenager, namely as an amateur and apprentice at the museum of Silkeborg. MA in medieval archaeology 1983 at Moesgård, Århus University. PhD 1993 at Lund University with a dissertation on the gothicization of all the ca 2700 parish churches in medieval Denmark.
Senior lecturer 1994, reader 1995 and professor 2000 at the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Lund University. Head of department 1997-2000, 2002-2005; vice/ deputy head of department 1996, 2007-11. In charge of the disciplin of historical archaeology 2005–25.
Archaeological field experiences from Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Estonia covering all periods from the Mesolithic to the present.
My research focuses on five topics: Historical archaeology as a discipline; church architecture and church archaeology in Scandinavia; pseudoarchaeology as a phenomena; memory, monuments and memorials; heritage and World heritage.
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Professor Emeritus
- Historical Archaeology
- Department of Archaeology and Ancient History
Contact information
E-mail jes.wienbergark.luse
Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 30