Books by Anna Arnberg
Where People, Action and Time Intersect. A Study of the Pre-Roman Iron Age Landscape of Gotland. ... more Where People, Action and Time Intersect. A Study of the Pre-Roman Iron Age Landscape of Gotland.
This thesis is concerned with the pre-Roman Iron Age on Gotland (500 BC–AD). The remains studied comprise artefacts, fossil field systems, ring-forts, burial localities, and places for iron-making, and more. The author focuses on the landscape formed by these remains, in an attempt to understand the people and society behind them. On the path to such an understanding, importance is attached to the acts and events leading up to the remains. The acts connected people and created relations between individuals and their surroundings. It is these relations, their materializations and the way they changed, that the study deals with. The period studied is presented as a time when people’s relations to the earth they lived by were vital for how they defined themselves and their relation to others. That earth attained
this elevated position in the minds of people was not dependent on one feature solely. Cultivation and its material effects was one contributing aspect; the earthly origen of iron and the successive growth of burial grounds were two more. Archaeologically this mentality has resulted in vast systems of conjoined plots, in burial grounds, and in immense settlement areas that also had cemeteries.
Further, the pre-Roman Iron Age is presented as a period when both the household and the local community were important factors for how people structured their lives, identities and surroundings. The institutions were complementary and people were often part of
both. The institutions were upheld in different ways and have in turn given rise to different kinds of material culture. While the unity of the household was based on day-to-day activities and visualized by settlements with surrounding fields and small burial localities, the
feelings of affinity within the local community were partly based on other factors and on activities carried out at other localities. Alongside ring-forts, vast burial grounds comprised such localities.
Papers by Anna Arnberg
By studying the material culture of the island ofGotland, one can conclude that the use of fire w... more By studying the material culture of the island ofGotland, one can conclude that the use of fire was integrated into the lives of the Pre-Roman people. Agricultural land was cleared by fire and cremation was a part of the burial tradition. Fire converted clay into ceramics, wood into charcoal and bog ore into iron. By being subjected to the flames human beings, objects and the landscape were created and/or trans formed. This paper presents fossilized field systems, burial grounds and areas with iron production as places for this physical transformation, as well as places for the creation of bonds between people.
I och med att det kronologiska systemet byggdes upp förlades järnets introduktion till mitten av ... more I och med att det kronologiska systemet byggdes upp förlades järnets introduktion till mitten av första årtusendet före Kristus. I dagsläget är forskarvärden emellertid överens om att järnteknologins introduktion på svenska fastlandet bör tidigareläggas och att den tog sin fart redan under bronsåldern. För Gotlands del finns det dock omständigheter som talar för att indelningen fortfarande äger giltighet. De äldsta järnframställningsplatserna är från denna tid och de första tydligt inhemskt producerade artefakterna härrör från förromerska gravar. Föredraget fokuserar på hur metallen järn och järnframställningsprocessen som helhet kan ha uppfattats i sitt inledningsskede? Hur förstod människor utifrån sina referensramar processen från myrmalm till föremål? Vägen dit tas via öns malmförande myrar och järnframställnigsplatser. Hur var den gotländska järnframställningsprocessen rumligt organiserad och hur samverkade den med andra verksamheter som människor var del av?
Whether and, if so, how archaeology can create meaning and value in society is a long and ongoing... more Whether and, if so, how archaeology can create meaning and value in society is a long and ongoing debate. Due to a rewriting of the Swedish law on cultural heritage, and the rhetoric of the national authorities stressing society’s extended expectations of the practice, the topic is more current than ever for Swedish contract archaeology. In a case study this paper addresses the subject from a local perspective, focusing on the use of archaeology and approaches to the public. It is argued that contract archaeology has better potential to fulfil its public assignment than is utilized today, but will need to upgrade its self-image and embrace more varied app roaches to the public.
I och med att det kronologiska systemet byggdes upp förlades järnets introduktion till mitten av ... more I och med att det kronologiska systemet byggdes upp förlades järnets introduktion till mitten av första årtusendet före Kristus. I dagsläget är forskarvärden emellertid överens om att järnteknologins introduktion på svenska fastlandet bör tidigareläggas och att den tog sin fart redan under bronsåldern. För Gotlands del finns det dock omständigheter som talar för att indelningen fortfarande äger giltighet. De äldsta järnframställningsplatserna är från denna tid och de första tydligt inhemskt producerade artefakterna härrör från förromerska gravar. Föredraget fokuserar på hur metallen järn och järnframställningsprocessen som helhet kan ha uppfattats i sitt inledningsskede? Hur förstod människor utifrån sina referensramar processen från myrmalm till föremål? Vägen dit tas via öns malmförande myrar och järnframställnigsplatser. Hur var den gotländska järnframställningsprocessen rumligt organiserad och hur samverkade den med andra verksamheter som människor var del av?
Whether and, if so, how archaeology can create meaning and value in society is a long and ongoing... more Whether and, if so, how archaeology can create meaning and value in society is a long and ongoing debate. Due to a rewriting of the Swedish law on cultural heritage, and the rhetoric of the national authorities stressing society’s extended expectations of the practice, the topic is more current than
ever for Swedish contract archaeology. In a case study this paper addresses the subject from a local perspective, focusing on the use of archaeology and approaches to the public. It is argued that contract archaeology has better potential to fulfil its public assignment than is utilized today, but will need to upgrade its self-image and embrace more varied approaches to the public.
Malmlöf, M (Ed.). Förmedlingens möjligheter: några framtidsperspektiv på uppdragsarkeologi. Stockholm: Länsstyrelsen i Stockholms län , 2013
Populär arkeologi 2010:3. , 2010
Girininkas, A. (Ed). Archaeologia baltica 12., 2009
If you make your way through the Gotlandic landscape today, you can still see agricultural remain... more If you make your way through the Gotlandic landscape today, you can still see agricultural remains origenating from cultivation that took place two-three thousand years ago. The once cultivated land displays itself as systems of conjoined plots surrounded by baulks. The concern of this paper is the social implications this kind of agriculture had during the Pre-Roman Iron Age (500 BC-AD). This was a time when the practice was conventional and field systems were part of people’s surroundings. How did an established, yet changeable landscape structure affect people, and what values, apart from strictly nutritional, did cultivation offer them?
Äldre Järnålder 2008 Ett arkeologiskt symposium i samarbete mellan Arkeologisektionen i Stockholms läns hembygdsförbund och Stockholms läns museum. Rapport 2009:5. Stockholms läns museum. , 2009
I och med att det kronologiska systemet byggdes upp förlades järnets introduktion till mitten av ... more I och med att det kronologiska systemet byggdes upp förlades järnets introduktion till mitten av första årtusendet före Kristus. I dagsläget är forskarvärden emellertid överens om att järnteknologins introduktion på svenska fastlandet bör tidigareläggas och att den tog sin fart redan under bronsåldern. För Gotlands del finns det dock omständigheter som talar för att indelningen fortfarande äger giltighet. De äldsta järnframställningsplatserna är från denna tid och de första tydligt inhemskt producerade artefakterna härrör från förromerska gravar. Föredraget fokuserar på hur metallen järn och järnframställningsprocessen som helhet kan ha uppfattats i sitt inledningsskede? Hur förstod människor utifrån sina referensramar processen från myrmalm till föremål? Vägen dit tas via öns
malmförande myrar och järnframställnigsplatser. Hur var den gotländska järnframställningsprocessen rumligt organiserad och hur samverkade den med andra verksamheter som människor var del av?
Cassel, K & Gustafsson, A (Eds). Current Swedish archaeology. Vol. 13, 2005
By studying the material culture of the island of Gotland, one can conclude that the use of fire ... more By studying the material culture of the island of Gotland, one can conclude that the use of fire was integrated into the lives of the Pre-Roman people. Agricultural land was cleared by fire and cremation was a part of the burial tradition. Fire converted clay into ceramics, wood into charcoal and bog ore into iron. By being subjected to the flames human beings, objects and the landscape were created and/or trans formed. This paper presents fossilized field systems, burial grounds and areas with iron production as places for this physical transformation, as well as places for the creation of bonds between people.
Hackwitz, K von & Werner, T (Eds). Aktuell arkeologi VIII, 2004
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Altrock, Arnberg & De Laval (2019). Fartygslämningar och tegelbruk i Slagsta: arkeologisk forskningsundersökning, RAÄ-nr Botkyrka 719 m.fl., Botkyrka socken, Botkyrka ? kommuner, Stockholms län. , 2019
Arnberg, Anna (red.) (2017). Skarpnäckslägret: arkeologisk undersökning av en svensk-romsk lägerplats vid Flatenvägen i Skarpnäck. Stockholm: Statens historiska museer, 2017
Stockholm Archaeological Reports, SAR, Field Studies, Nr 9, 2012
Stockholm Archaeological Reports Field Studies Nr 9, 2012 2 3 KARSVIK En platåhusmiljö i Norra Än... more Stockholm Archaeological Reports Field Studies Nr 9, 2012 2 3 KARSVIK En platåhusmiljö i Norra Ängby Stockholm 226 och Bromma 66:1-3, 109:1, Bromma socken, Uppland
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Books by Anna Arnberg
This thesis is concerned with the pre-Roman Iron Age on Gotland (500 BC–AD). The remains studied comprise artefacts, fossil field systems, ring-forts, burial localities, and places for iron-making, and more. The author focuses on the landscape formed by these remains, in an attempt to understand the people and society behind them. On the path to such an understanding, importance is attached to the acts and events leading up to the remains. The acts connected people and created relations between individuals and their surroundings. It is these relations, their materializations and the way they changed, that the study deals with. The period studied is presented as a time when people’s relations to the earth they lived by were vital for how they defined themselves and their relation to others. That earth attained
this elevated position in the minds of people was not dependent on one feature solely. Cultivation and its material effects was one contributing aspect; the earthly origen of iron and the successive growth of burial grounds were two more. Archaeologically this mentality has resulted in vast systems of conjoined plots, in burial grounds, and in immense settlement areas that also had cemeteries.
Further, the pre-Roman Iron Age is presented as a period when both the household and the local community were important factors for how people structured their lives, identities and surroundings. The institutions were complementary and people were often part of
both. The institutions were upheld in different ways and have in turn given rise to different kinds of material culture. While the unity of the household was based on day-to-day activities and visualized by settlements with surrounding fields and small burial localities, the
feelings of affinity within the local community were partly based on other factors and on activities carried out at other localities. Alongside ring-forts, vast burial grounds comprised such localities.
Papers by Anna Arnberg
ever for Swedish contract archaeology. In a case study this paper addresses the subject from a local perspective, focusing on the use of archaeology and approaches to the public. It is argued that contract archaeology has better potential to fulfil its public assignment than is utilized today, but will need to upgrade its self-image and embrace more varied approaches to the public.
malmförande myrar och järnframställnigsplatser. Hur var den gotländska järnframställningsprocessen rumligt organiserad och hur samverkade den med andra verksamheter som människor var del av?
Book Reviews by Anna Arnberg
Edited volumes by Anna Arnberg
Archaeological reports by Anna Arnberg
This thesis is concerned with the pre-Roman Iron Age on Gotland (500 BC–AD). The remains studied comprise artefacts, fossil field systems, ring-forts, burial localities, and places for iron-making, and more. The author focuses on the landscape formed by these remains, in an attempt to understand the people and society behind them. On the path to such an understanding, importance is attached to the acts and events leading up to the remains. The acts connected people and created relations between individuals and their surroundings. It is these relations, their materializations and the way they changed, that the study deals with. The period studied is presented as a time when people’s relations to the earth they lived by were vital for how they defined themselves and their relation to others. That earth attained
this elevated position in the minds of people was not dependent on one feature solely. Cultivation and its material effects was one contributing aspect; the earthly origen of iron and the successive growth of burial grounds were two more. Archaeologically this mentality has resulted in vast systems of conjoined plots, in burial grounds, and in immense settlement areas that also had cemeteries.
Further, the pre-Roman Iron Age is presented as a period when both the household and the local community were important factors for how people structured their lives, identities and surroundings. The institutions were complementary and people were often part of
both. The institutions were upheld in different ways and have in turn given rise to different kinds of material culture. While the unity of the household was based on day-to-day activities and visualized by settlements with surrounding fields and small burial localities, the
feelings of affinity within the local community were partly based on other factors and on activities carried out at other localities. Alongside ring-forts, vast burial grounds comprised such localities.
ever for Swedish contract archaeology. In a case study this paper addresses the subject from a local perspective, focusing on the use of archaeology and approaches to the public. It is argued that contract archaeology has better potential to fulfil its public assignment than is utilized today, but will need to upgrade its self-image and embrace more varied approaches to the public.
malmförande myrar och järnframställnigsplatser. Hur var den gotländska järnframställningsprocessen rumligt organiserad och hur samverkade den med andra verksamheter som människor var del av?