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The article is a brief outline of the medieval building history of the churches of Halland.

Bound animal bodies. Ornamentation and skaldic poetry in the process of Christianization.

During excavations of the nunnery of Vreta, a number of artefacts for medical and hygienic use were found, including medical vessels, a clasp-knife, different types of forceps, phlebotomy knives and a surgical sharp hook. The artefacts show that medical and most probably some surgical activity has taken place there. Compared to other Swedish Cistercian monasteries, as the nunnery of Gudhem and the

Redan Jacob Langebec I den 18: e cent beskrev Järn och silver produktion historia i Skåne. I den 20: e cent John Nihlen skrev om järnbruk i södra Sverige. Han gjorde Några SURV män I huvudsak arbetade med Skriftliga källor. De privat Scolar Sven Nöjd i Örkelljunga gjorde survais och fullskaliga försök med järnframställning på 1950-talet. Första gången 1986, med projektet "Norra Skånes Medeltid" (N

The article deals with the contacts between the Mälaren region, Sweden, and south western Finland during the Viking Age. The material studied is pegged penannular brooches, an artefact with a core area in Finland. Earlier, these brooches when found outside Finland, have been interpreted as representing weapon bearing migrated Finnish men. Since the material from the Mälaren region does not support

This article examines the cultural and social dynamics of a multi-ethnic medieval town. Taking the lower town of Tallinn as a case study, this paper identifies the major urban ethnic groups living in the town and discusses their co-existence, self-definition, and processes of categorization. It explores ambiguities arising from daily interactions in the shared physical landscape of the town, such

A reply to comments by Torben Dehn, Nikolaos D. Karydis and Tim Flohr Sørensen on my article "Four churches and a lighthouse – preservaton, 'creative dismantling' or destruction"

Review of Hans Krongaard Kristensen, "Klostre i det middelalderlige Danmark" (2013)

The Hanseatic League, a late medieval merchant association with roots in northern German towns, is credited with the establishment of extensive economic and geographic connections and considerable impact on the development of urban culture around the Baltic and the North Sea. Its merchants, regularly crossing the Seas and settling in foreign ports, created a network of diasporic communities often

This article discusses the relation between knowing, learning and teaching in relation to early Palaeolithic technologies. We begin by distinguishing between three kinds of knowledge: knowing how, knowing what and knowing that. We discuss the relation between these types of knowledge and different forms of learning and long-term memory systems. On the basis of this analysis, we present three types

We argue that Kline's analysis does not account for the evolutionary mechanisms that can explain the uniqueness of human teaching. We suggest that data should be complemented by an analysis of archaeological material with respect to what forms of teaching are required for the transmission of technologies over generations.

Review of Tadhg O’Keeffe, “Archaeology and the Pan-European Romanesque” (London 2007).

This paper is an attempt to understand how people, in the daily practice of interacting with material culture, created, dealt with and interpreted complex and socially stressful historical processes. A 16th-century timber-framed burgher house, the Reformation and industrialization are the focus of attention. Today the house stands in a museum of cultural history in the south Scandinavian town of L