Book review

This essay should be seen as a contribution to the study of the islamic cultural heritage. The aim of this particular study is to shed light on and give an overview of the islamic presence and its cultural manifestations in Spain during the medieval period, through archaeological remains and written sources, but also to put it in context with the archaeological research that has been conducted in

The aim of this study is to highlight and attempt to understand the role of archaeology and cultural heritage in different domains. Lima and Stockholm represent the urban population in Peru och Sweden. It is an attempt to discuss the general public’s relation to, and view of, national archaeology through a comparative study. It also discusses what the differences and similarities may be caused by.

Danielsson, F. 2025. The senses, the churches and the forest: Sensory archaeology in Örkelljunga and Perstorps church. Medieval churches have been a foundational area of inquiry for the field of historical archaeology since its conception at Lund university in the 1960’s. Since then, plenty of studies have been conducted that examines medieval churches from a top-down approach while other aspects

Scania, a landscape in today's Sweden, has its history in both a Swedish and a Danish context. It has therefore been possible for the Scanian people to maintain different positions in relation to history. I wish to focus on the role of archaeology in connection with the concept of regional identity. Starting from archaeological excavations of the so-called trelleborgar and ringborgar in Scania and

This e-book contains contributions from two sessions at the archaeological conference Nordic TAG VIII that took place in Lund in 2005. It is also the first volume of a digital publication, Archaeology @ Lund, published by the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History at Lund University. The two sessions that are published together here are The Practical Aspects of the History of Archaeology an

This article discusses the role of archaeology in our society as well as the epistemological outlook within archaeology. In order to illustrate the relevance of archaeology in our own age three topics are formulated - landscape archaeology, the long-term perspectives of archaeology and the norms and values of our particular system. It is underlines that archaeologists are interpreters of fragments

In this book several authors from the Nordic countries discuss the concept of identity as used within archaeology. Identity is as well part of the cultural heritage as an active component in today's political discussion. Ranging from present uses of identity today to the use of identity in the past, the 17 articles in the book show how identity works within archaeology.

A collection of 18 articles on new perspectives of the historical archaeology from Lund.

Archaeology and sacred geometry : Is it possible and desirable to separate between science and pseudo science, between archaeology and pseudo archaeology? And should archaeologists igonore, understand or criticise pseudo archaeology? My experiences from the study of four traditions within the field of “sacred topographies” show, that it is rather difficult or even impossible to separate archaeolog