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- Arthur, Frank, et al.
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The impact of volcanism on Scandinavian climate and human societies during the Holocene: Insights into the Fimbulwinter eruptions (536/540 AD)
- 2024
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Ingår i: The Holocene. - 0959-6836 .- 1477-0911.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Recent paleoclimatic research has revealed that volcanic events around 536–540 AD caused severe, short-term global cooling. For this same period, archeological research from various regions evidences significant cultural transformation. However, there is still a lack of understanding of how human societies responded and adapted to extreme climate variability and new circumstances. This study focuses on the effects of the 536/540 AD volcanic event in four Scandinavian regions by exploring the shift in demographic and land use intensity before, during, and after this abrupt climate cooling. To achieve this, we performed climate simulations with and without volcanic eruptions using a dynamically downscaled climate model (iLOVECLIM) at a high resolution (0.25° or ~25 km). We integrated the findings with a comprehensive collection of radiocarbon dates from excavated archeological sites across various Scandinavian regions. Our Earth System Model simulates pronounced cooling (maximum ensemble mean −1.1°C), an abrupt reduction in precipitation, and a particularly acute drop in growing degree days (GDD0) after the volcanic event, which can be used to infer likely impacts on agricultural productivity. When compared to the archeological record, we see considerable regional diversity in the societal response to this sudden environmental event. As a result, this study provides a more comprehensive insight into the demographic chronology of Scandinavia and a deeper understanding of the land-use practices its societies depended on during the 536/540 AD event. Our results suggest that this abrupt climate anomaly amplified a social change already in progress.
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- Börjesson, Lisa, et al.
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A Neo-Documentalist Lens for Exploring the Premises of Disciplinary Knowledge Making
- 2016
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Ingår i: Proceedings from the Document Academy. - 2376-8908. ; 3:1, s. 1-23
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article applies a neo-documentalist approach to explore disciplinary documentation and document practices, assumed to condition disciplinary knowledge-making. The aim is to show how conceptions and materialities of what counts as documentation and documents are intertwined with changing and persisting disciplinary and sub-disciplinary practices of producing information and knowledge, of knowing, and informing. A collective, multivocal autoethnographic method is used to obtain vignettes from five areas of activity in or related to archaeology. The ongoing digitization of archaeological investigation and documentation methods, and of archaeological materials, is used as a shared departure point in the vignettes, explaining how digitization influences documents in each area of archaeology. The vignettes illustrate a multitude of conceptions and materialities of documentation and reveal frictions, both within and between sub-disciplinary areas. In light of the exploration of documentation practices in archaeology, we posit that a neo-documentalist perspective functions as a useful analytical tool for deconstructing habitual and canonical conceptions of documentation in disciplines and practices. The approach is especially powerful for pinpointing and explicating frictions between conceptions of documentation that can cause problems in information sharing and communication. We discuss the potential of the neo-documentalist approach as a practical tool to plan for and implement change in documentation and document practices.
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- Börjesson, Lisa, et al.
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A neo-documentalist lens for exploring the premises of disciplinary knowledge making
- 2016
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Ingår i: Proceedings from the annual meeting of the Document Academy. - 2376-8908. ; 3:1, s. 1-23
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article applies a neo-documentalist approach to explore disciplinary information and knowledge making practices. The aim is to show how conceptions and materialities of what counts as documentation and documents are intertwined with changing and persisting disciplinary and sub-disciplinary practices of producing information and knowledge, of knowing, and informing. A collective, multivocal autoethnographic method is used to obtain vignettes from five areas of activity in or related to the discipline archaeology. The ongoing digitization of archaeology is used as a shared point of departure in the vignettes, explaining how digitization influences documentation and documents in each area of archaeological practice. The vignettes illustrate a multitude of conceptions and materialities of documentation, and reveal frictions in-between, both between and within sub-disciplinary areas. In the light of the exploration of information and knowledge making practices in archaeology, we posit that a neo-documentalist perspective functions as a useful analytical tool for deconstructing canonical and habitual conceptions of documentation in disciplines and practices. The approach is especially powerful in pinpointing and explicating frictions between conceptions of documentation as potential sources of problems in information sharing. Moreover, we discuss the potential of the neo-documentalist approach as a practical tool to plan for and implement change in documents and documentation practices.
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- Börjesson, Lisa, et al.
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A Neo-Documentalist Lens for Exploring the Premises of Disciplinary Knowledge Making
- 2016
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Ingår i: Proceedings from the Document Academy. - 2473-215X. ; 3:1, s. 1-23
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this article is to demonstrate how documentation analysis with a neo-documentalist lens can help us explore variations (and stabilities) in conceptions and materialities of documents, as intertwined with disciplinary and sub-disciplinary practices of informing and knowing. Drawing on documentation theory, and with previous research on archaeological documentation as a background, by means of autoethnographic vignettes we explore contemporary conceptions of documentation in five areas in or related to archaeology (Intra-site 3D documentation, Development-led archaeology, Aggregating documentation for use outside the organization, Mediating documentation – or documentation mediation, and Documenting and displaying archaeology in a changing environment). Digitization, and how digitization has spurred renegotiations of what counts as documentation, functions as a common denominator discussed in all of the vignettes. The analysis highlights simultaneously ongoing renegotiations of documentation serving each area’s unique epistemic purposes, and pushing document materialities in different directions. This operationalization of documentation analysis creates an understanding for intra-disciplinary variations in documentation but is importantly also a practical tool to uncover documentation-related premises of disciplinary knowledge-making. This tool can be applied for example in processes of information policy development (regulating what purposes documentation should serve, and what it should be like), information systems design (e.g. for creation and communication of documentation), and infrastructure development (e.g. for preservation and accessibility of documentation).
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- Börjesson, Lisa, 1985-, et al.
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Re-purposing Excavation Database Content as Paradata : An Explorative Analysis of Paradata Identification Challenges and Opportunities
- 2022
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Ingår i: KULA: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies. - : University of Victoria Libraries. - 2398-4112. ; 6:3, s. 1-18
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Although data reusers request information about how research data was created and curated, this information is often non-existent or only briefly covered in data descriptions. The need for such contextual information is particularly critical in fields like archaeology, where old legacy data created during different time periods and through varying methodological framings and fieldwork documentation practices retains its value as an important information source. This article explores the presence of contextual information in archaeological data with a specific focus on data provenance and processing information, i.e., paradata. The purpose of the article is to identify and explicate types of paradata in field observation documentation. The method used is an explorative close reading of field data from an archaeological excavation enriched with geographical metadata. The analysis covers technical and epistemological challenges and opportunities in paradata identification, and discusses the possibility of using identified paradata in data descriptions and for data reliability assessments. Results show that it is possible to identify both knowledge organisation paradata (KOP) relating to data structuring and knowledge-making paradata (KMP) relating to fieldwork methods and interpretative processes. However, while the data contains many traces of the research process, there is an uneven and, in some categories, low level of structure and systematicity that complicates automated metadata and paradata identification and extraction. The results show a need to broaden the understanding of how structure and systematicity are used and how they impact research data in archaeology and in comparable field sciences. The insights into how a dataset’s KOP and KMP can be read is also a methodological contribution to data literacy research and practice development. On a repository level, the results underline the need to include paradata about dataset creation, purpose, terminology, dataset internal and external relations, and eventual data colloquialisms that require explanation to reusers.
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- Graham, Angus, 1968-, et al.
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Theban Harbours and Waterscapes Survey, 2015
- 2015
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Ingår i: Journal of Egyptian Archaeology. - : SAGE Publications. - 0307-5133 .- 2514-0582. ; 101:1, s. 37-49
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Report on the 2015 season of the Theban Harbours and Waterscapes Survey (THaWS). The paper discusses the extension of geoarchaeological and geophysical investigations to the east of the Ramesseum, the continuing work in and around the Temple of Millions of Years of Amenhotep III, and the topographic survey and geophysical survey of the western mounds of the Birket Habu.
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- Gärdebo, Johan, et al.
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Smallholding Travel in the Agrarian Revolution : Using a Farmer Diary to Map Spatio-Temporal Patterns in Late Nineteenth Century Sweden
- 2016
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Ingår i: The international Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing. - : Edinburgh University Press. - 1753-8548 .- 1755-1706. ; 10:2, s. 179-204
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article is an exploratory study using a smallholding diaryand GIS to project the spatio-temporal pattern of a smallholding’s travel inlate nineteenth century Sweden. Through time-series of smallholding’s dailydiary notes, we develop an understanding for how smallholders adjusted toand participated in Swedish government policy, which resulted in the processtermed ‘agrarian revolution’. Between 1872–1892, Tomtas Smallholding alteredits spatio-temporal patterns from seasonal travels to production accordingto market demands and along new lines of transportation like railways.While the smallholding also used railways to visit distant places, it wasprimarily their produce that travelled further unto international markets. Thisalso influenced the smallholding demography, from an extended householdtowards a nuclear family. As market demands shifted from subsistence to dairyproducts, the smallholding contracted primarily female farm servants due totheir specialisation in milking.
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- Hatlestad, Kailin
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Exploring Uncertainty and Significance : Analysing Human Response to Environmental Risk with Computational Archaeology
- 2024
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- As humanity confronts the escalating challenges posed by rapid climate change, it becomes increasingly urgent to understand the complex dynamics of human-environment interactions to mitigate its multifaceted impacts. Archaeology, with its long-term perspective, offers the opportunity to examine past societal responses to environmental risks across diverse locations in Northwestern Europe and temporal scales. This dissertation aims to contribute to this critical endeavour by exploring the socio-environmental dynamics and adaptive strategies of past societies, to inform effective responses to climate change challenges in both the present and future. Utilizing computational archaeology, which integrates digital technologies and computational methods to analyse big data, the dissertation employs probabilistic approaches, including Bayesian modelling like summed probability distributions of radiocarbon (14C) data, to confront uncertainties inherent in reconstructing past human-environmental dynamics from interdisciplinary datasets. Additionally, quantitative methods, such as correlation tests and null hypothesis testing of 14C data, are employed to identify significant shifts in these dynamics, translating insights into quantitative terms for enhanced integration with policy-making processes. The primary objective of the dissertation is to illustrate how the integration of archaeological and environmental big data can enrich the understanding of human responses to environmental challenges. The papers in this thesis demonstrate how computational methods can be applied to big data to understand spatiotemporal changes in human-environmental variables, uncovering risk management strategies and societal vulnerabilities. The papers highlight cases where human communities experienced mitigated adverse effects from severe environmental shifts due to diverse socioeconomic strategies. Simultaneously, the results emphasize regional variations in the impacts of climate change, crucial for understanding the effectiveness of human responses. Moreover, the thesis exhibits how big data analytics both complement and challenge existing archaeological interpretations, contributing to the development of new theories. Importantly, it underscores the significance of diverse socioeconomic strategies in mitigating risks, especially in the face of abrupt environmental events.
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- Huvila, Isto, et al.
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Archaeological information work and the digital turn
- 2018
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Ingår i: Archaeology and archaeological information in the digital society. - Abingdon & New York : Routledge. - 9780415788434 - 9781315225272 ; , s. 143-158
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Concluding discussion by the book authors as a group, interlinking the themes and chapters of the book Archaeology and archaeological information in the digital society.
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- Huvila, Isto, Professor, 1976-, et al.
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Archaeological information work and the digital turn
- 2018
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Ingår i: Archaeology and Archaeological Information in the Digital Society. - New York : Routledge. - 9780415788434 - 9781315225272 ; , s. 143-158
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Embracing digitality is to a large degree a question of competence of critically understanding a branch of technologies, their use, usefulness and direct and indirect cultural repercussions. It is fair to claim that both quantitatively and qualitatively, there is more archaeological and archaeologically relevant information than before and new copious possibilities to use and reuse, analyse and reanalyse this information. A vital aspect in the process is to maintain a critical sensitivity to the limits of both large and narrow categories and an understanding of their consequences to archaeological information work and the conduct of archaeology. This is a task of all archaeological information workers from field archaeologists to geographic information system specialists, curators and information managers, and obviously, especially those who are engaged in educating and training future generations of professionals.
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- Kolen, Jan, et al.
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HERCULES: Studying long-term changes in Europe’s landscapes
- 2015
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Ingår i: Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia. - 0169-7447. ; , s. 209-220
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper presents the outlines of a new EU-fundedresearch program for the long-term history, present-daymanagement and further development of the Europeanlandscapes, including their natural and cultural heritage:HERCULES. One of the subprojects of this program(Work Package 2) links archaeological, historical andhistorical ecological data to the analysis of geo-informationin order to develop models of long-term landscape changein three carefully chosen study regions in the Netherlands,Sweden and Estonia. This is framed theoretically byintegrating insights from landscape biography, historicalecology and complex systems theory. The linking andanalysis of data will be done using a Spatial DataInfrastructure and by means of dynamic modelling.
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- Larsson, Åsa Maria, 1973-, et al.
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The Digital Future of the Past : Research Potential with Increasingly FAIR Archaeological Data
- 2020
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Ingår i: Re-imagining Periphery. - Oxford : Oxbow Books. ; , s. 61-70
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The development of technical tools for digital documentation of excavations has equipped archaeologists with increasingly powerful ways to generate high-quality data. With the use of digital documentation, GIS, photogrammetry and a wide range of scientific analyses, each excavation can produce large quantities of interrelated data. These new practices provide great opportunities for knowledge production, but also huge challenges. Aggregating the vast quantities of data produced by contract archaeology is still a monumental and time-consuming task due to diverse terminologies, use of proprietary software and poor digital archival practices. With the ongoing development of national and international infrastructures that can make
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- Lindholm, Karl-Johan, et al.
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Rethinking Human Nature: Bridging the ‘Gap’ through Landscape Analysis and Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
- 2015
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Ingår i: Topoi. ; 4, s. 94-108
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper will discuss a pedagogical approach to integrating the humanities and the natural sciences. Our approach calls for extended collaboration between the two fields and a capacity to integrate the experimental and deductive lines of reasoning within the natural sciences with the holistic and critical perspectives of the humanities. This paper will describe and discuss how this notion is applied to the construction of a pedagogical framework or a learning environment constituted from landscape theory, GIS, and pedagogical principles derived from EBL and PL. The paper highlights how a landscape approach in combination with the interactive and dynamic properties of GIS can be used as an active learning environment crossing the interfaces of the disciplines.
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- Ljungkvist, John, 1970-, et al.
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Gamla Uppsala : Structural development of a centre in Middle Sweden
- 2011
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Ingår i: Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt. - 0342-734X. ; 41:4, s. 571-585
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article is a result of settlement investigations in Gamla ("Old") Uppsala, which have been carried out regularly over the past 20 years. The material can be divided into two chronological and spatial groups. In the peripheral parts of the historical village several large settlements, mainly dated to the Early Iron Age, have been investigated. In the central area quite many excavations have been made of Late Iron Age and medieval remains. But these are usually small and scattered. By compiling a large number of large and small excavations, accumulated over the years, we may gain a coherent view of Gamla Uppsala's settlement development from the Bronze Age to the Middle Ages. The establishment of monumental edifices - such as the Uppsala Mounds, great halls on artificial terraces and the cathedral from the 12th century - can progressively be related to changes in the settlement structure. Moreover, traces of metal craft increase continuously, and seem to be present over vast areas. More and more, Gamla Uppsala emerges as a place of cult, as a central farmstead with royal connections and as a large village. Gamla Uppsala can now be characterized as something resembling a proto-urban site in the Viking Age. However, interestingly enough, the site is located in a completely different geographical environment to early coastal towns such as Birka and Sigtuna. What can be said for certain is that the Late Iron Age society in Gamla Uppsala is something entirely different from the large peasant village we meet in late medieval and post-reformation phases.
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- Löwenborg, Daniel, 1975-, et al.
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A Turn Towards the Digital : An Overview of Swedish Heritage Information Management Today
- 2021
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Ingår i: Internet Archaeology. - : Council for British Archaeology. - 1363-5387. ; 58
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Heritage management in Sweden has undergone a substantial transformation in recent decades. The process of monitoring and managing heritage information has become increasingly digital, relying on interconnected systems to monitor registered archaeological remains to manage investigations and contract archaeology excavations. This also has to work together with the digital systems of the County Administrative Boards that administer all permissions for excavations. Current developments deal with archiving and dissemination of reports, and documentation from fieldwork. Documentation of archaeological excavations has predominantly been digital for the past 20 years, which brings both possibilities and challenges in making sure the information will adhere to the FAIR Principles. This article outlines some of these developments and exemplifies the possibilities of reusing legacy data through the Urdar project.
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- Löwenborg, Daniel, 1975-
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An Iron Age Shock Doctrine : Did the AD 536-7 event trigger large-scale social changes in the Mälaren valley area?
- 2012
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Ingår i: Journal of Archaeology and Ancient History (JAAH). - 2001-1199. ; :4
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article, a dataset of burial grounds is considered in relation to the question of a probable demographic crisis in the 6th century AD, as a consequence of the cosmic event in AD 536-7. Although indications of an extensive crisis can be seen in a wide range of sources, it is difficult to make any estimate of the extent of the crisis. Some hypothetical social consequences are, however, discussed and compared to the Black Death in the 14th century AD. For the 6th century crisis, a widespread upheaval and renegotiation of property rights for land that has been abandoned is suggested, together with a possible redefinition of the nature of property rights. After the crisis there seem to be increased possibilities for private ownership of land, which enables the acquisition of large landholdings among a limited number of people. This is related to an increasingly stratified social structure in the Late Iron Age, where an elite is thought to have been able to take advantage of the crisis for their own benefit. It is argued that this is reflected in the Late Iron Age/Vendel Period burial grounds and their locations, as these might have been used to manifest renewed property rights.
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- Löwenborg, Daniel, 1975-
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Att uppleva Gamla Uppsala på ett nytt sätt
- 2018
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Ingår i: Framtidens naturvärden. - Uppsala : Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia, Uppsala Universitet. - 9789163969423 - 9789163969423 ; , s. 203-209
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- Löwenborg, Daniel
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Background
- 2010
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Ingår i: Acta Archaeologica. - : Brill. - 0065-101X .- 1600-0390. ; 81:1, s. 124-138
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- Löwenborg, Daniel, 1975-
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Dynamiska kartor för landskapsforskning i informationsåldern : En GIS-baserad studie av Västmanlands järnålder
- 2008
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Ingår i: Kartan i forskningens tjänst. - Uppsala : Textgruppen i Uppsala AB. - 9789185352777 ; , s. 145-157
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- With the presence of GIS technology today, there are increased opportunities for landscape research by combining different datasets in an analysis. Archaeology as a discipline has always depended upon the ability to handle spatial relationships, and thus has great use for GIS. In Sweden there is much data available in digital format, which makes it possible to do research on large amounts of material without the time consuming process of first digitising everything that needs to be included in the study. The potential of this line of investigation is demonstrated through an example of how GIS has been used to calculate watersheds in the district of Västmanland and comparing these to the medieval administrative unit, the hundare. This study suggests that the hundare might have developed from natural regions formed around watersheds, since water had a uniting function that tied territories together through a communication network. The same relationships between regions and watersheds can be seen throughout the world.
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- Löwenborg, Daniel, 1975-
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Excavating the Digital Landscape : GIS analyses of social relations in central Sweden in the 1st millennium AD
- 2010
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis presents a number of GIS based landscape analyses that together aim to explore aspects of the social development in Iron Age Västmanland, central Sweden. From a perspective where nature and culture are seen as integrated in the landscape, differences in the relations to the physical landscape are interpreted as reflecting social organisation. Thus, hydrological modelling of watersheds is used for understanding the development of territories and regions that are recognisable in the outlay of the medieval hundare districts. Statistical modelling of burial grounds together with variables describing their situation in the landscape is used to calculate an estimated chronology for sites that have not yet been excavated. This information is used to analyse differences in how the setting in the landscape can tell of different trends in claims to land and property rights. An extensive renegotiation of property rights is suggested to have taken place after climatic catastrophe in AD 536 and the years after. This is interpreted as having caused a substantial population decline in parts of Scandinavia. The social development after this includes an increasingly stratified social hierarchy in the Late Iron Age, which is reflected in the construction of grave monuments. New GIS methods for analysing how to interpret the perception of different locations of the landscape, in terms of local topography and soil are discussed in relation to this.How to make the best use of large datasets of archaeological information in combination with other sources of geographical information is a central theme. Geographically Weighted Regression is used to predicting the representativity of the registry of graves for the whole landscape. It is suggested that the increasing availability of archaeological information in digital format, together with new analytical techniques has the potential to introduce fruitful new research perspectives. This will make it increasingly rewarding to work with the large amount of data produced from rescue archaeology, and it is important that this information is managed in a structured manner.
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- Löwenborg, Daniel, 1975-, et al.
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Inglämnlagare - a tool for restructuring Swedish site data for statistical analysis
- 2022
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Ingår i: F1000 Research. - : F1000 Research Ltd. - 2046-1402. ; 11
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background: This paper presents a new software tool, Inglämnlagare, developed to be open-source, that restructures information about ancient remains in Sweden for analysis. The background is a new version of the ancient sites database, the Historic Environment Record, curated by the Swedish National Heritage Board, that was launched in 2018 with a new database model that structures the information differently compared to previous versions.Methods: The program, written in Python programming language, has multicore support in order to improve performance for large files and uses regular expressions to extract information about individual features of composite sites. Such features, together with their summed amount, are written as new individual fields to a comma-separated value file. The program is delivered as a source script file that can be executed in any Python environment.Use cases: As an example of use, a case study of exploring graves of rectangular shape found within Sweden is provided. The use case also describes the different steps involved in preparing the data in QGIS to run the program, as well as some methods to efficiently analyse and visualize the output.Conclusions: Inglämnlagare will make more information from the Swedish record of ancient sites accessible for research and can be used to explore different content of the record more efficiently than previously possible. While the tool is written specifically for this dataset it also provides an example of how open-source tools can be used for data wrangling making information designed for a specific purpose, such as online dissemination, appropriate for analysis. Keywords
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- Löwenborg, Daniel, 1975-
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Knowledge production with data from archaeological excavations
- 2018
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Ingår i: Archaeology and Archaeological Information in the Digital Society. - London : Routledge. - 9780415788434 - 9781315225272 ; , s. 37-53
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Archaeology and Archaeological Information in the Digital Society shows how the digitization of archaeological information, tools and workflows, and their interplay with both old and new non-digital practices throughout the archaeological information process, affect the outcomes of archaeological work, and in the end, our general understanding of the human past.Whereas most of the literature related to archaeological information work has been based on practical and theoretical considerations within specific areas of archaeology, this innovative volume combines and integrates intra- and extra-disciplinary perspectives to archaeological work, looking at archaeology from both the inside and outside.With fields studies from museums and society, and pioneering new academic research, Archaeology and Archaeological Information in the Digital Society will interest archaeologists across the board.
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- Löwenborg, Daniel, 1975-
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Landscapes of death : GIS modelling of a dated sequence of prehistoric cemeteries in Västmanland, Sweden
- 2009
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Ingår i: Antiquity. - York : Antiquity Publications. - 0003-598X .- 1745-1744. ; 83:322, s. 1134-1143
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We will never be able to excavate everything – nor should we – but it would be good to know howto make the best use of what is visible in the landscape to write social prehistories. In this projectthe author creates a set of parameters for the 1000 mound-cemeteries seen north of Lake M¨alarenand clusters them by period, using 51 examples that have been excavated and dated. The resultis that 1000 cemeteries can now be allocated to period, with that special kind of confidence inwhich statisticians rejoice.
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- Löwenborg, Daniel, 1975-
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Using Geographically Weighted Regression to Predict Site Representativity
- 2010
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Ingår i: Making History Interactive. - Oxford : Archaeopress. - 9781905739325 ; , s. 203-215
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper presents an attempt to use GWR in the ArcGIS environment to explore representativity of sites (burial grounds) in the Mälardalen area in central Sweden. This area has a large number of burial grounds that survive in the landscape and form the base for a settlement analysis of the Iron Age landscape. Large-scale rescue excavations from the 1980s onwards have shown that although there are a large number of sites that are visible in the landscape, there are also a significant number that for different reasons have not been recorded. These could either be sites that have been damaged by later agricultural activities, or that simply have been missed in the surveys. Building on the results of some of the major archaeological projects recently initiated as part of infrastructure developments in the region, the representativity of the known archaeological record is examined. This information is crucial for the further analysis of the region using the archaeological record of surveyed sites. The results of this analysis are presented in the paper, along with a discussion on the benefits of the GWR technique for raster-based landscape analysis in archaeology.
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- Löwenborg, Daniel, 1975-
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Watersheds as a Method for Reconstructing Regions and Territories in GIS
- 2007
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Ingår i: Digital Discovery. Exploring New Frontiers in Human Heritage. - Budapest : Archaeolingua. - 9789638046901 ; , s. 143-149
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper a method for reconstructing territories through the calculation of watersheds from the topography is put forward. Watershed could, in some cases, work as a natural uniting factor for a region, e.g., connecting a region through a system of rivers used for communications,as a unit for land management, or as an otherwise uniting element. This method provides an opportunity to analyze territories and regions that, although often difficult to distinguish in the archaeological material, are crucially important for the understanding of past societies. This article illustrates the use of watershed analyses in relation to territorial units through examples from the province of Västmanland in central Sweden, and Hawaii, but the method could be applied to any geographical area.
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- von Hackwitz, Kim, 1975-, et al.
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HERCULES - Sustainable futures for Europe’s HERitage in CULtural landscapES: Tools for understanding, managing, and protecting landscape functions and values : D2.3 Dynamic models for analyzing long-term landscape change
- 2016
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Rapport (refereegranskat)abstract
- Work Package 2.3 of the HERCULES project brings together a protocol for studying the long-term changes in cultural landscapes and spatial dynamic modelling frameworks and tools. Additionally it presents the possibilities of applying web GIS tools, which are available through HERCULES´s Knowledge Hub (WP7) to publish and share the research results with various actors having different disciplinary backgrounds. The protocol defines an innovative methodological procedure for understanding the long-term development and transformation of cultural landscapes, drawing on recent insights from geography, landscape archaeology, (historical) ecology, anthropology and information science. The protocol subsequently deals with the following topics and issues: An overview of the major concepts and approaches in archaeological and historical landscape research in both North America and Europe and the major issues raised in landscape history over the past decades (Section 2.1). This also defines the necessity of developing an integrated approach to long-term changes in cultural landscapes (Section 2.2); A set of premises for understanding long-term changes in cultural landscapes (Section 2.3), as well as a number of operational principles for translating these premises to concrete starting points, procedures, methods and techniques in individual or comparative landscape projects (Section 2.4). These premises and operational principles are based on the methodological buildings blocks of the protocol: historical ecology, landscape biography and complex systems theory. Based on the protocol two spatial dynamic modelling frameworks are presented and applied in two carefully selected case study areas (i.e. the Dutch Lower Rhine region and the Swedish Uppland region). The modelling frameworks present innovative methods that allow analyzing past spatial dynamics. The presented modelling frameworks demonstrate the high potential of spatial dynamic modelling framework to better understand past landscape processes. However, it also shows that it is highly complicated to simulate these spatial dynamics. The main problems are the quality and detail of available data, and the uncertainties in assumptions made. Interpreting and using the modelling results must therefore be approached with care and requires additional research. Additionally this deliverable shows the potential of HERCULES’s Knowledge Hub. It shows how the results of one of the modelling frameworks can be interactively presented using advance web mapping technologies (i.e. story telling GIS tools). This does not only allow the research results to be published in a scientific transparent way, it also offers tooling to bridge the gap between academic spatial modelling experts, heritage landscape experts and nonscientific stakeholders.
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- von Hackwitz, Kim, 1975-, et al.
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Innovative interdiciplinary protocol for understanding landscape dynamics, based on the rpespective of historical ecology, landscape biography and complex system theory.
- 2014
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The first deliverable of Work Package 2 (D 2.1) of the HERCULES project contains theoutlines of a protocol for studying the long-term changes in cultural landscapes. It is intendedas a first design of such a protocol, as it has to be tested and refined further in the process ofconducting three regional case studies and inter-regional comparisons within the HERCULESproject. The protocol defines an innovative methodological procedure for understanding thelong-term development and transformation of cultural landscapes, drawing on recent insightsfrom geography, landscape archaeology, (historical) ecology, anthropology and informationscience. The procedure will be informed by the definitions and the conceptual frameworkdeveloped in HERCULES work package 1.The protocol text subsequently deals with the following topics and issues:1. A short description of its main aim and its relationship to the work being done in otherwork packages of the HERCULES project (Section 1);2. An overview of the major concepts and approaches in archaeological and historicallandscape research in both North America and Europe and the major issues raised inlandscape history over the past decades (Section 2). This also defines the necessity ofdeveloping an integrated approach to long-term changes in cultural landscapes(Section 3);3. A set of premises for understanding long-term changes in cultural landscapes (Section4), as well as a number of operational principles for translating these premises toconcrete starting points, procedures, methods and techniques in individual orcomparative landscape projects (section 5). These premises and operational principlesare based on the methodological buildings blocks of the protocol: historical ecology,landscape biography and complex systems theory.4. Starting points for integrating landscape history with the current theory and practice ofgeodesign (Section 6);5. Design of an infrastructural facility for retrieving and linking archaeological,historical and ecological data and geo-information (SDI) to support theinterdisciplinary study of landscape change (Section 7).6. An exploration of concepts and techniques in dynamic modeling that can help betterand more consistently understand the long-term processes that have been operating (orstill are) in cultural landscapes, including outlines and examples of a comparative casestudy approach (Section 8).
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