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Ceremoniella rum
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Hansson, Martin, et al.
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Tunga ting med text : Sivert Grubbe och eftermälet
- 2019
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Ingår i: Tidens landskap : En vänbok till Anders Andrén - En vänbok till Anders Andrén. - 0349-4128. - 9789188909121 ; :77, s. 48-50
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Den här artikeln diskuterar den danske adelsmannen Sivert Grubbe och de tavlor med långa inskrifter på latin som han satte upp på sina herrgårdar Torup och Hovdala på 1630-talet. Tavlorna sattes upp mot slutet av hans liv och kan ses som ett försök att skapa ett minnesmärke över sig själv, att styra det egna eftermälet.
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- Hedenstierna-Jonson, Charlotte, 1971-, et al.
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A female Viking warrior confirmed by genomics
- 2017
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Ingår i: American Journal of Physical Anthropology. - : Wiley. - 0002-9483 .- 1096-8644. ; 164:4, s. 853-860
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- ObjectivesThe objective of this study has been to confirm the sex and the affinity of an individual buried in a well-furnished warrior grave (Bj 581) in the Viking Age town of Birka, Sweden. Previously, based on the material and historical records, the male sex has been associated with the gender of the warrior and such was the case with Bj 581. An earlier osteological classification of the individual as female was considered controversial in a historical and archaeological context. A genomic confirmation of the biological sex of the individual was considered necessary to solve the issue.Materials and methodsGenome-wide sequence data was generated in order to confirm the biological sex, to support skeletal integrity, and to investigate the genetic relationship of the individual to ancient individuals as well as modern-day groups. Additionally, a strontium isotope analysis was conducted to highlight the mobility of the individual.ResultsThe genomic results revealed the lack of a Y-chromosome and thus a female biological sex, and the mtDNA analyses support a single-individual origin of sampled elements. The genetic affinity is close to present-day North Europeans, and within Sweden to the southern and south-central region. Nevertheless, the Sr values are not conclusive as to whether she was of local or nonlocal origin.DiscussionThe identification of a female Viking warrior provides a unique insight into the Viking society, social constructions, and exceptions to the norm in the Viking time-period. The results call for caution against generalizations regarding social orders in past societies.
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- Kashuba, Natalija
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Mended by masticates : A study of archaeogenetic proxies of migration, settlement and health in North Eurasian Mesolithic
- 2024
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- A joint archaeogenetic perspective integrates diverse lines of evidence from archaeology and paleogenetics to advance our understanding of human prehistory. In this thesis I contribute to the corpus of archaeogenetic data by producing and analysing ancient genomic data from osseous and masticated material. Masticated birch bark pitch (also called resin) is presented as a novel source for ancient DNA that contains an abundance of data from different species. The masticated lumps analysed in this work, which come from a Mesolithic site in western Scandinavia, encapsulated human genetic information (individual genomes and oral microbiomes) and environmental aDNA from species (plants and animals) consumed or used as raw material at the site. Ancient DNA from this archaeological material transpires as a direct link between a practised archaeological culture and the genotype of the practitioners, in this case a particular lithic technology (the eastern pressure blade concept) and Scandinavian hunter-gatherers (SHG). The paleopathological information obtained from the microbiomes from this masticated material suggests poor oral health in the Early Mesolithic population of Scandinavia.I use the genomic information obtained from various sources to examine hunter-gatherer populations in two opposite parts of northern Eurasia, the northeast Asia and the Scandinavian Peninsula. While the Mesolithic period in Europe has been subjected to intensive study, the paleogenetic history of northern Asia has remained only partially explored. I provide an overview of population dynamics in areas of northeast Asia and around Lake Baikal (Sakha republic, Cis-Baikal and Transbaikal) starting from the end of the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). Additionally, the most northeastern occurrence of an early form of plague bacteria gets recorded, which is correlated with the population decline in the area during the Late Neolithic / Early Bronze Age periods. While this part of the world was occupied by humans through the LGM, the Scandinavian Peninsula was uninhabitable until the Holocene glacial retreat. By analysing new genomes from bones, teeth and masticated lumps, I also present a detailed study of demographic formation and change within the Mesolithic population in Scandinavia. Some of the demographic events presented in this thesis can be linked to changes in climate throughout the Holocene. I conclude that information obtained from both osseous and masticated material depicts a vivid picture of human life in distant areas of prehistoric northern Eurasia and provides new insights into paleodemography, mobility, settlement and health in the post-glacial world.
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- Krzewińska, Maja, et al.
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Genomic and Strontium Isotope Variation Reveal Immigration Patterns in a Viking Age Town
- 2018
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Ingår i: Current Biology. - : Elsevier BV. - 0960-9822 .- 1879-0445. ; 28:17, s. 2730-2738
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The impact of human mobility on the northern European urban populations during the Viking and Early Middle Ages and its repercussions in Scandinavia itself are still largely unexplored. Our study of the demographics in the final phase of the Viking era is the first comprehensive multidisciplinary investigation that includes genetics, isotopes, archaeology, and osteology on a larger scale. This early Christian dataset is particularly important as the earlier common pagan burial tradition during the Iron Age was cremation, hindering large-scale DNA analyses. We present genome-wide sequence data from 23 individuals from the 10th to 12th century Swedish town of Sigtuna. The data revealed high genetic diversity among the early urban residents. The observed variation exceeds the genetic diversity in distinct modern-day and Iron Age groups of central and northern Europe. Strontium isotope data suggest mixed local and non-local origin of the townspeople. Our results uncover the social system underlying the urbanization process of the Viking World of which mobility was an intricate part and was comparable between males and females. The inhabitants of Sigtuna were heterogeneous in their genetic affinities, probably reflecting both close and distant connections through an established network, confirming that early urbanization processes in northern Europe were driven by migration.
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- Lindeberg, Marta, 1970-
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Järn i jorden : Spadformiga ämnesjärn i Mellannorrland
- 2009
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis explores how the spade-shaped currency bars of central Norrland were used in different contexts and what significance they held. Spade-shaped currency bars give us a glimpse of a world-view different than our own where the intermediary form the bars represented bestowed upon them a much fuller significance than did their place in the production process. Spade-shaped bars do not work especially well as a general intermediary form in the iron production process. They are time-consuming to produce and their shape is clearly unsuitable for forging most objects, apart from cauldrons. It is likely that the shape of the bars was chosen from social, rather than technological considerations. It is suggested that the bars got their shape from the socketed axe because of its practical as well as symbolic importance. The spade-shaped bars thus became associated with ideas about the origins of society; opening up the landscape, clearing forest for farming and iron production. The bars symbolic meaning was so broad as to appeal to people in totally different parts of Norrland. It was possible, through the lens of the currency bar, to conciliate these different ways of life to a single narrative of origins and identity. Most spade-shaped bars are found in hoards on the periphery of the settled areas, in the forest. The placement of the hoards suggest that the burial of bars is most likely part of ritualized activities intended to promote fertility in the fields and in the forests. The hoards are found on boundaries in the landscape, often in the places where the boundary could be crossed.
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- Ljung, Cecilia, 1978-
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Under runristad häll : Tidigkristna gravmonument i 1000-talets Sverige
- 2016
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis examines transformations in burial and commemorative practices during the late Viking Age and early Middle Ages based on early Christian grave monuments (in sw. often named Eskilstunakistor); the first examples of churchyard memorials known in south central Sweden. The designs of these monuments range from stone cists consisting of five slabs - one lid, two sides and two gables - which stood above ground, to simpler constructions such as recumbent slabs with or without head- and foot-stones. Early Christian grave monuments share several characteristics with runestones, including the commemorative formula of the runic inscription as well as ornamentation in Ringerike or Urnes style. An important premise of the study is that they constitute an integral part of the late Viking Age runestone tradition. Sune Lindqvist’s 1915 dissertation gave the first systematic survey of the early Christian grave monuments; however the material has not been the subject of a new compilation since then. The thesis therefore comprises a complete overview of the material, which is presented in a separate catalogue volume.The thesis analyses the temporal, regional and contextual background of the early Christian grave monuments in order to understand the emergence of Christian cemeteries and a new religious and socio-political landscape in the transition between the Viking Age and the medieval period. This objective is divided into two levels that correspond with the two main analytical chapters. The first explores the chronology of the early Christian grave monuments, their relationship to the raising of runestones, as well as to changes in late Viking Age burial customs. The second concerns the actual sites where early Christian grave monuments were once erected. The social context of these places, as well as their significance for the emerging ecclesiastical organisation, is investigated using archaeological material contemporary with the grave monuments.The results show that early Christian grave monuments are found in areas with an early runestone period, where swift and profound changes in burial traditions take place resulting in a uniform Christian practice, together with an early church formation. It is argued that both secular and ecclesiastical authority was required to impose and maintain these major transformations. The analyses of the church sites with early Christian grave monuments, as well as of the monuments themselves, demonstrate the presence of such a social strata. Moreover, it is concluded that the basis of the ecclesiastical landscape was established from the early eleventh century. Finally the conclusions of the thesis and their implications for the understanding of the runestone tradition and its relation to the Christianisation process are discussed. The varying designs of rune-carved monuments signify substantial differences in the Christianisation process: in the way burial and commemoration was practiced during the eleventh century, whether Christian life was centrally controlled, or more decentralized with opportunities for personal choices and practices. It is argued that the diversity within the runestone tradition demonstrates differences in the early ecclesiastical organisation and provides insight into how the Christianisation process was related to social and political structures.
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Myth, materiality, and lived religion : in Merovingian and Viking Scandinavia
- 2019
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- The authors of the present volume, Myth, Materiality, and Lived Religion, focus on the material dimension of Old Norse mythology and the role played by myths in everyday life. More broadly expressed, the collection looks at the social, ceremonial and material contexts of myths. This topic has been underexplored in previous research on Old Norse myths, despite its important theoretical implications. However, discussions around materiality, in a more general sense, have for a long time been significant for historians of religion, especially archaeologists. Myth, Materiality, and Lived Religion seeks to make the case for the relevance of materiality to literary historians and philologists as well.Questions relating to the theme of materiality and lived religion are posed in this book, including:• What do myths tell us about the material culture of the periods in which they were narrated?• What role did myths or mythical beings play in connection to, for instance, illnesses and remedies during the Viking Period and the Middle Ages?• How did ordinary people experience participation in a more formal sacrificial feast led by ritual specialists?
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- Price, Neil, et al.
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Viking warrior women? Reassessing Birka chamber grave Bj.581
- 2019
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Ingår i: Antiquity. - : Antiquity Publications. - 0003-598X .- 1745-1744. ; 93:367, s. 181-198
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The warrior woman has long been part of the Viking image, with a pedigree that extends from the Valkyries of Old Norse prose and poetry to modern media entertainment. Until recently, however, actual Viking Age evidence for such individuals has been sparse. This article addresses research showing that the individual buried at Birka in an ‘archetypal’ high-status warrior grave—always assumed to be male since its excavation in 1878—is, in fact, biologically female. Publication, in 2017, of the genomic data led to unprecedented public debate about this individual. Here, the authors address in detail the interpretation of the burial, discussing source-critical issues and parallels.
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- Rodríguez-Varela, Ricardo, et al.
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The genetic history of Scandinavia from the Roman Iron Age to the present
- 2023
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Ingår i: Cell. - : Elsevier. - 0092-8674 .- 1097-4172. ; 186:1, s. 32-46
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We investigate a 2,000-year genetic transect through Scandinavia spanning the Iron Age to the present, based on 48 new and 249 published ancient genomes and genotypes from 16,638 modern individuals. We find regional variation in the timing and magnitude of gene flow from three sources: the eastern Baltic, the British-Irish Isles, and southern Europe. British-Irish ancestry was widespread in Scandinavia from the Viking period, whereas eastern Baltic ancestry is more localized to Gotland and central Sweden. In some regions, a drop in current levels of external ancestry suggests that ancient immigrants contributed proportionately less to the modern Scandinavian gene pool than indicated by the ancestry of genomes from the Viking and Medieval periods. Finally, we show that a north-south genetic cline that characterizes modern Scandinavians is mainly due to the differential levels of Uralic ancestry and that this cline existed in the Viking Age and possibly earlier.
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- Wienberg, Jes, et al.
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Anders Andréns bibliografi
- 2019
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Ingår i: Tidens landskap : En vänbok till Anders Andrén - En vänbok till Anders Andrén. - 9789188909121 ; , s. 9-14
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- Zachrisson, Torun
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Arkeologin bakom Rimbert : Om Hergeirs och Gautberts kyrkor och om borgen i Birka
- 2011
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Ingår i: Fornvännen. - 0015-7813 .- 1404-9430. ; 106:2, s. 100-112
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In his Vita Anskarii, Rimbert describes the Christian mission to the port of the Swedes in the 830s. He mentions two churches there, one built on the family estate of the port bailiff, the other built in the seaport itself by Bishop Gautbert. The loca- tions of these churches have long been discussed. Thanks to archaeological research excavations it is now possible to offer a new suggestion regarding the church of Gautbert. It is argued that the hillfort of Birka, Borg, may be the site of this church and the bishop’s fortified precinct. This would make Birka structurally similar to a number of coeval cities on the Continent, where there was a fortified cathedral hill and a market town at its foot. 9th century finds on and around Borg open up for such a possibility.
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- Zachrisson, Torun, 1960-
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Barneskallene ved Tviodlo
- 2016
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Ingår i: Møt mennesket. - Stavanger : Arkeologisk museum, Universitetet i Stavanger. - 9788277601694 ; , s. 45-48
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Bokkapitel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Kraniedelar av minst 4 spädbarn hittades på Bø på Jæren, västra Norge i en myr i samband med nyodling. I myren fanns en tvillingkälla med rödfärgat vatten och spädbarnsskallarna hade deponerats i en av dem någon gång under perioden år 1–400 e.Kr. Fyndet är unikt i ett nordiskt perspektiv, men har beröringspunkter med fynd från andra samtida våtmarker. Detta, liksom fyndets landskaps- och bebyggelsemässiga sammanhang, diskuteras i den korta artikeln.
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- Zachrisson, Torun, et al.
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Ceremoniella rum
- 2006
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Ingår i: Bebyggelsehistorisk tidskrift. - : Föreningen Bebyggelsehistorisk tidskrift. - 0349-2834 .- 2002-3812. ; :52, s. 5-6
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- Zachrisson, Torun, 1960-
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De heliga platsernas arkeologi : materiell kultur och miljöer i järnålderns Mellansverige
- 2014
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Ingår i: Den heliga platsen: Handlingar från symposiet Den heliga platsen. Härnösand 15-18 september 2011. - Härnösand : Mittuniversitetet. - 9789186694951 ; , s. 87-126
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- Ett urval av järnålderns kultplatser i Mellansverige belyses. I fokus är kultplatsernas roll i den publika kulten. På vilken samhällelig nivå kan vi placera kultplatsen, hur många människor kan den ha betjänat och vilken karaktär har den haft?
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- Zachrisson, Torun, 1960-
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Depositional Traditions in Iron Age Kormt
- 2017
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Ingår i: Avaldsnes. - Berlin : Walter de Gruyter. - 9783110425789 ; , s. 687-720
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper explores Iron Age depositions in wetlands and on dry ground in Kormt. The types of objects deposited and their contexts are discussed from a longterm perspective, and the emerging patterns are interpreted in cultural-historical terms.The early Iron Age depositions cluster on northeastern and southwestern Kormt, especially in the Avaldsnes and Ferkingstad areas. They indicate the presence of men of military rank and are placed at strategic maritime sites: Ferkingstad and northern Kormt. The depositional traditions of the early Iron Age resemble those of nearby Jæren and southernmost Hordaland, and indeed those of northern Jylland, Denmark. No depositions are known from the period AD 550–700. In the Viking Period, the depositional tradition in Kormt society seems to have played a more limited and less aristocratic role than previously. The depositional traditions differ from neighbouring as well as distant regions with which there formerly were similarities.
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- Zachrisson, Torun, 1960-
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Fjärran ting : Exotiska föremål och nya seder under mellersta järnåldern
- 2011
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Ingår i: Förmodern globalitet. - Lund : Nordic Academic Press. - 9789185509683 ; , s. 109-129
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Samhällsförändringen i Mellansverige under tiden 550-700 skisseras och diskuteras med hjälp av exotiska föremål, nya seder som jakten med dresserad rovfågel liksom utmarkernas betydelse i denna process.
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- Zachrisson, Torun, et al.
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Förord
- 2007
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Ingår i: Bebygglesehistorisk tidskrift. - 0349-2834. ; 52, s. 5-6
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- Zachrisson, Torun, 1960-
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Gamla Uppsala : på nytt
- 2013
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Ingår i: Gamla Uppsala i ny belysning. - Uppsala : Swedish Science Press. - 9789197544672 ; , s. 161-205
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Gamla Uppsalas historia och landskapet ikring rymmer många svar på varför Uppsala i äldsta vendeltid blev ett ryktbart säte med monumentala gravhögar och höga imposanta hallar. Yngre järnålderns kungsgårdsmiljö med sina äldre historiska rötter är en av de mest komplexa som går att finna i Norden, komplex i avseendet att den avtecknar sig i så många olika typer av källmaterial, något som diskuteras i artikeln.
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- Zachrisson, Torun, 1960-
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Gård, gräns, gravfält : sammanhang kring ädelmetalldepåer och runstenar från vikingatid och tidig medeltid i Uppland och Gästrikland
- 1998
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Silver and gold deposits from the Viking Age give the contemporaneous societies in the Nordic countries, in particular Sweden, a shining and impressive exterior. Why was this gold and silver unclaimed? What kind of cultural traditions surrounded the deposits of silver and gold from the Viking Age and Early Middle Ages? To reach an understanding of this the author analyses two different aspects, namely, the conceptions that can have been associated with deposits of silver and gold, and the reconstructed milieus where the precious metal was deposited in the provinces of Uppland and Gästrikland in middle Sweden.A person's fortune was intimately linked to the precious metal he owned. Treasure legends indicate that treasures could be perceived distinctly in the landscape, but at the same time were impossible to reach for anyone but their true owners. If one took a treasure by force, one also stole the other person's well-being and luck. This was probably considered to be a fatal act.Both written source material and material culture show that people viewed and treated gold and silver differently. There are 52 silver and 13 gold deposits known from the period c. 850-1200 in Uppland and Gästrikland. The "normal" deposit is small; three fourths of the finds have a weight below 500 grams.It is the farm with its farmstead, cemeteries and boundaries that is the relevant context for the silver deposits. The gold deposits, on the other hand, might have belonged to another level in the landscape than the farm. The Late Viking Age rune stone is the key to a deeper understanding of the places for silver deposits. The rune stone is interpreted as a Christian monument which, in words and images, tries to help the deceased remembered on the stone to reach the eternal light. I argue that the older group among these rune stones was erected by people who had a double identity, that is, they were both members of the royally founded town of Sigtuna and owners of farms in the countryside. The later group of rune stones was more closely connected with the Church and can be interpreted as a result of a missionary campaign.An analysis of a limited district shows that rune stones during the entire eleventh century were erected at the boundaries of a farm and at certain times also in the farmyard. This is interpreted as if the rune stone constituted a gate inwards to the farm domain and a protection outwards for a Christian farm. The silver deposits from c. 850-1100 can have been part of the heathen rituals to guard and secure the welfare of a farm, whereas the later silver deposits from c. 1100-1200 require a different explanation.
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- Zachrisson, Torun, 1960-
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Helgö : mer än ett vi
- 2011
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Ingår i: Makt, kult, plats. - Stockholm : Stockholms länsmuseum. - 9187006472 ; , s. 69-79
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Helgö i Mälaren bär många spår av religiösa ritualer inom- och utomhus. Här jämförs dessa jämförs med materiella lämningar från järnålderns kultplatser i Mellansverige
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- Zachrisson, Torun, 1960-
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Håkon Jarl Ivarsson and Rodr :
- 2009
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Ingår i: Á austrvega.. - Gävle : University of Gävle. - 9789197832908 ; , s. 1072-1073
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- Zachrisson, Torun, 1960-
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Händelser vid vatten : om näcken vid Lutbron och de förkristna dödsoffren i sjön Bokaren, Uppland
- 2014
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Ingår i: Saga och sed. - Uppsala : Kungliga Gustav Adolfs Akadmien.
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The oral traditions and the archaeological context of the lake Bokaren are in focus in this article. During the Late Iron Age a cultic site where humans and animals were ritually killed was placed in the lake. Nearby was a contemporaneous elite settlement called Hov, marked by a concentration of large burial mounds. Many hundreds of years later a master fiddler was born and bred by the lake. He learnt his extraordinary musical skills from näcken. This occurred at the stream running out of lake and thus by the waters that had passed through platform in the lake with the remains of human and animals. This is viewed as no coincidence, instead it is argued that the oral traditions of näcken can be understood in a deeper time perspective than has formerly been applied.
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- Zachrisson, Torun, 1960-
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II : 31 Sites
- 2019
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Ingår i: Handbook of Pre-Modern Nordic Memory Studies. - Berlin : Walter de Gruyter. - 9783110440201 ; , s. 620-626
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This case study demonstrates how the great mounds and halls in Old Uppsala in central Sweden, erected AD 550–650, were used for expressing cultural memory. By the construction of monumental halls, rulers created arenas for expressing both power and authority, as well as for memory production. The halls left material traces, which makes possible consideration of whether they were also maintained and used in the Viking Age, or if they were abandoned and either remembered or forgotten.
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- Zachrisson, Torun, 1960-
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Medial storm och kollegiala morranden : Om könsbestämningen av krigaren i Birka, grav Bj. 581 på Björkö, Uppland
- 2020
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Ingår i: Saga och Sed. - Uppsala : Kungl. Gustav Adolfs Akademien. ; , s. 53-72
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Forskningen om gammalt DNA kan ibland ge resultat som ruskar om gamla sanningar. Det hände när mina kollegor och jag år 2017 publicerade en artikel om en av de mest berömda gravarna från vikingastaden Birka. Den innehöll en person, fullt krigarutrustad, som lagts till vila i en gravkammare tillsammans med två hästar. Alltsedan graven undersöktes på slutet av 1800-talet hade man förutsatt att graven varit uppförd över en man. Men den genetiska könsbestämningen av skelettet visar att individen är en kvinna. Nyheten mötte mycket stort intresse och for som en löpeld över snart sagt hela världen, men blev också omgående ifrågasatt. Var det verkligen rätt ben som könsbestämts? Hade graven inte också innehållit en man? Kunde kvinnan rent fysiskt haft kapacitet att hantera de vapen som fanns i graven? Nedan diskuteras mottagandet som vår artikel fick, varför den väckte sådan enorm uppmärksamhet, liksom själva graven som sådan och den gravlagda.
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- Zachrisson, Torun, 1960-
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Nyckeln till den arkeologiska tolkningen - rapporten
- 1999
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Ingår i: Kulturmiljövård. - Stockholm : Riksantikvarieämbetet. - 1100-4800. ; :1, s. 38-43
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Den som inte har varit med vid en undersökning är helt beroende av hur informationen, analysen och tolkningen av den serveras. Oavsett om man är lekman eller djupt förtrogen med det arkeologiska källmaterialet så är man på olika sätt beroende av att i ord och bild förstå hur en arkeologisk undersökning gått till och vilka tolkningar arkeologerna gjort på basis av det man dokumenterat.
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- Zachrisson, Torun, 1960-, et al.
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Ritual Space
- 2020. - 1
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Ingår i: The Pre-Christian Religions of the North. History and Structures. - Turnhout : Brepols. - 9782503574899 ; , s. 671-723
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- An overview of ritual places in Old Norse religion
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- Zachrisson, Torun, 1960-
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Ritual Space and Territorial Boundaries in Scandinavia
- 2020
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Ingår i: Making the profane sacred in the Viking age. - Turnhout : Brepols. - 9782503586045 - 9782503586052 ; , s. 85-98
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Whether cultic sites were part of the formation of tribal boundaries, or if cultic sites were placed in liminal spaces that were later turned into territorial border zones is a question very much like that of the chicken and the egg - which came first? It seems impossible to answer with certainty and needs to be approached through interdisciplinary research, but it is worth noting that archaeologically dated cultic sites very often highlight borders known from much later times from written sources. THis article discusses certain examples to address this question.
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- Zachrisson, Torun, 1960-
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Rotary querns and bread : A social history of Sweden
- 2014
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Ingår i: Seen through a millstone. - Stavanger : Arkeologisk museum, Universitetet i Stavanger. - 9788277601588 ; , s. 181-192
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Rotary querns were introduced at the same as the oldest known bread appeared in the Nordic countries, c. AD 200. Since these type of querns were very efficient, bread could have been baked and consumed in most social milieus. But this was not the case. The rotary querns first appear at elite settlements, so-called central places, were the cultic dimensions are marked. Altogether the social acceptance for bread in Iron Age Sweden seems to have been slow.Kvarnberget in Sala, Västmanland in the region north of Mälaren, is a millstone quarry mountain known from a written source from AD 1490. The quarry was located on the grounds of a lost settlement called Onsala, later split into the villages Ösby and Åby. Onsala might be interptreted as the god Odin's hall or sal. The lost settlement is situated next to a settlement called Hov, a place name that can be interpreted as a settlement where cultic rituals took place. A quarry mountain on the grounds of a Late Iron Age settlement bearing a name connected with the god Odin is an unexpected combination in this region of Sweden, where the plains transitions into the wooded area Bergslagen, renowned for its production of silver, copper, iron and other minerals. Kvarnberget is poorly known but can contribute to a general discussion on the social contexts for the production sites for rotary querns, as well as reflect on the milieus were bread was eaten.
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- Zachrisson, Torun, 1960-
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Scandinavian figurines : relatives of the gold foil figures, and a new find from Old Uppsala
- 2019
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Ingår i: Gold foil figures in focus: a Scandinavian find group and related objects and images from ancient and medieval Europe. - München : Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil. - 9783899372496 ; , s. 105-129
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper argues that figurines of gold or (gilded) copper alloy, particularly from the 5th to 7th centuries, can contribute to a better understanding of the gold foil figures. It discusses examplars dating from Late Roman Iron Age, Migration, and Vendel period Scandinavia, especially those from Slipshavn in Funen, Gudum in Zealand, and Guldhullet/Smørenge in Bornholm, all in Denmark, as well as those from Kymbo in Västergötland and Lunda in Södermanland, Sweden, and compares them with gold foil figures. A unique gilded example from the late 7th or early 8th century – so small that it is equal in size to a gold foil figure – recently found in a female burial situated near the royal seat of Old Uppsala in Uppland, Sweden, is also discussed in detail. The figurines relate in posture, gesture, and attributes to the single gold foil figures but not to gold foil figural pairs. Pendants from the 6th to 8th centuries on the other hand, such as those from Kville in Bohuslän and Tuna in Alsike in Uppland and Norsborg in Södermanland, Sweden, allude in gesture, dress, and attributes to both single gold foil figures as well as to gold foil figures depicting pairs. The attributes and gestures of the figurines connect with the pre-Christian cult. If considered in a contemporary Christian European iconography, they would have signalled awe and divine epiphany.
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- Zachrisson, Torun, 1960-
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Sepulkralsten och stenansikte : Om det ovanligas betydelse i miljön kring Resmo
- 2013
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Ingår i: En bok om Resmo. - Resmo : Resmo hembygdsförening. - 9789163745393 ; , s. 303-313
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Bokkapitel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Resmo källa var förr berömd. Den var föremål för religiösa ritualer under kristen tid. Till den knyter sig en sägen om en kvinna som omvände människor under missionstiden. Men den var plats för ritualer tidigare ändå. Här hittades ett halvt människoansikte i sten och källan har förknippats med hedniska makter och en runmagiker. I artikeln diskuteras arkeologin och landskapet kring källan, liksom även ett ålderdomligt resealtare hittat i en åker vid Gynge, som kan ha samband med den tingsplats av gammal hävd nämnd i historiska kartor och i ett medeltida dokument.
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- Zachrisson, Torun, 1960-
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Sigtuna : An Urban Hub in the Viking World and Its Roots
- 2020
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Ingår i: Viking Encounters. - Århus : Aarhus University Press. - 9788771842654 ; , s. 268-285
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The town of Sigtuna was established, according to dendrochronological dates from the bottom of the trenches of the large-scale excavation in the Trädgårdsmästaren block, c. AD 970-985, and most probably around 980. It has been argued that Sigtuna was founded on ‘virgin land’. This expression usually refers to sites that do not have a previous settlement history, and thus were placed on marginal land or in the outlands. But was this untouched, unsettled land? And if not, are there any traces of an earlier history? This article addresses this question and expands upon it.
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- Zachrisson, Torun, et al.
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Skärningspunkt Sigtuna – en första presentation av ett forskningsprojekt
- 2017
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Ingår i: Situne Dei: årsskrift för Sigtunaforskning. - 2002-4215. ; , s. 52-63
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This article presents a new research project: Skärningspunkt Sigtuna – de första människorna i Sveriges äldsta stad (Intersection Sigtuna – the first inhabitants of Sweden’s oldest town), which runs from 2017 to 2020 and is sponsored by the Swedish Research Council. The project aims to understand cultural transformation in the town’s earliest periods by studying the people who lived and died there. The main source material comprises c. 330 excavated graves dating from the town’s foundation in AD 970/80 until AD 1100. These derive both from five early churchyards as well as so-called “graveyards” (Sw. gravgård) – where individuals were buried in accordance with Christian practice, but not in the proximity of a church building. These early “graveyards” are unique to Scandinavia, but the phenomenon has yet to be subjected to in-depth analysis. Different kinds of burial grounds were partly in use simultaneously in Sigtuna and it is unclear how the interred individuals relate to one another, or what kind of social, cultural and religious communities they represent.The project combines archaeological and osteological data with regard to burial-place topography and location, burial custom including grave goods and relation to rune-inscribed stone monuments, isotopic analysis and ancient DNA-analysis of selected individuals. Sigtuna’s material culture in general indicates that it was a cosmopolitan town. The project will extend our knowledge in this regard by focusing on the backgrounds of the first generations of town dwellers. Our main objective is to understand urbanization, migration, cultural interaction between groups and individuals, early church organization, networks and transnational relations.
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- Zachrisson, Torun, 1960-
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Spår av järnålder på Stadsholmen och malmarna
- 2016
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Ingår i: Stockholm före Stockholm. - Stockholm : Stockholmia förlag. - 9789170312854
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Bokkapitel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Stockholm växte fram i ett landskapsavsnitt med särskilda kvaliteter. Ön låg tätt intill men mellan järnåldersbygderna och i den stora farleden in och ut från Svetjud. Dessutom var ön placerad där flera territoriella gränser sammanstrålade. Vikingatida föremål talar för att de människor som rört sig i hamnar och på Stadsholmen även rört sig på platser som Birka och Sigtuna, liksom förmodligen i österled. Så fort Mälaren skapas omkring år 1000 tycks passagen genom Norrström ha kontrollerats av en spärr i farleden. Vid samma tid lades en rad silverskatter ner på farledsnära platser. Strax därefter finns de första tecknen på fast bebyggelse på Stadsholmen. Stockholms speciella karaktär i äldre tid har sin grund i platsens roll för sjöfarten, särskilt sjökrigsorganisationen under vikingatid och tidig medeltid.
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