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Archaeology and Heritage Studies

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About the department

At the department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies we are concerned with people and the environment and culture and society from the earliest times, examining the connection between the past and the present – and exploring how real and imagined pasts can inform the future. With a focus on studies of material culture and heritage practice, the department pays strong attention to dissemination and engagement with a wide range of publics and policy makers. Drawing on fieldwork and excavation, laboratory, archival and ethnographic investigation, the department’s interdisciplinarity is at the core of its research and teaching activities, investigating and challenging our understanding of past, present and future societies seen in a long-term perspective.

Research environment

The department has an international profile and strong research networks. A dynamic research environment provides the framework for large research projects, international conferences and a variety of visiting researchers. The environment is versatile and cross-disciplinary, and the academic staff’s research competences span a broad range of topics; from war and power, mobility and globalisation, family and individual, religion and rituals, landscape, settlement and architecture, colonial and decolonial relations, geopolitics and community development, paleo-demography and evolution, trade and networks, technology and knowledge exchange. We hereby apply quantitative analysis methods, field methodology and digital representation. As a research environment we cooperate with international partners across the globe, as well as the Danish heritage and museum sector, not least Moesgård Museum.

Affiliated degree programmes

The archaeology programme at Aarhus University offers a bachelor’s and a master’s degree programme in archaeology, together with an MA Programme in Sustainable Heritage Management (taught in English). We hereby cooperate with the Department of History and Classical Studies as well as the Institut for Geoscience, both at AU. In addition, a variety of elective subjects and events are offered, including Viking age Scandinavia at the Aarhus University Summer University.

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Kaas, M. H. (2024). Brooches and Beyond. Poster session presented at 75-års jubilæum ved Afdelingen for Arkæologi på Aarhus Universitet, Højbjerg, Denmark.
Andreasen, L. S., Cornér, J., Abbott, P. M., Sinclair, V. A., Riede, F. & Timmreck, C. (2024). Changes in Northern Hemisphere extra-tropicalcyclone frequency following volcanic eruptions. Environmental Research: Climate, 3(2), 025002. Article 025002. https://doi.org/10.1088/2752-5295/ad2c0e, https://doi.org/10.1088/2752-5295/ad2c0e
Byers, D. A., McGrath, R., Yaworsky, P., Popp, T., Maughan, G. & Broughton, J. M. (2024). Climatic controls and costly signaling: An integrated analysis of Holocene hunting in the Bonneville and Wyoming Basins, USA. The Holocene, 34(2), 149-161. https://doi.org/10.1177/09596836231211809
Kanne, K., Haughton, M. & Lash, R. (2024). Common animals: sedentary pastoralism and the emergence of the commons as an institution. Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 6, Article 1389009. https://doi.org/10.3389/fhumd.2024.1389009
Haughton, M. (2024). Connecting posthumanist thinking with GIS practice: explorations of a prehistoric heathland landscape in Jutland, Denmark. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 31(1), 227-250. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-023-09603-y
Ialongo, N. & Lago, G. (2024). Consumption patterns in prehistoric Europe are consistent with modern economic behaviour. Nature Human Behaviour, 8(9), 1660-1675. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-01926-4
Croix, S. (2024). Cremation in Southern Scandinavia: The Case of South-West Jutland. In H. Wiliams & F. Lippok (Eds.), Cremation in the Early Middle Ages (pp. 93-106). sidestone press academics. https://doi.org/10.59641/e3h9b0c1d2
Hussain, S. T. (2024). Deep Animal Prehistory: Gathering Feral Voices from Vanished Pleistocene Worlds. In Beyond Subsistence: New Approaches to Human-Animal Relations in the Past (pp. 19-68). CRC 1070 Monographs. file:///C:/Users/akkj/Downloads/SFB1070_26_Beyond%20Subsistence%20-%20Human-Nature%20Interactions.pdf
Svenning, J. C., Kerr, M. R., Mungi, N. A., Ordonez, A. & Riede, F. (2024). Defining the Anthropocene as a geological epoch captures human impacts’ triphasic nature to empower science and action. One Earth, 7(10), 1678-1681. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2024.08.004
Croix, S. (2024). Den sidste viking. Aarhus Universitetsforlag. 100 Danmarkshistorier

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Sindbæk, S. M. & Arthur, P. (2007). Trade and exchange. In J. Graham-Campbell & M. Valor (Eds.), The Archaeology of Medieval Europe Vol. I: Eight to Twelfth Centuries AD (1 ed., pp. 289-315). Aarhus Universitetsforlag.
Bill, J. & Roesdahl, E. (2007). Travel and transport. In J. Graham-Campbell & M. Valor (Eds.), The Archaeology of Medieval Europe, vol. 1. Eighth to Twelfth Centuries (Vol. 1, pp. 261-288). Aarhus Universitetsforlag.
Sørensen, T. F. (2007). Verdenshistoriens puls og det sidste hvilested - den moderne kremeringsbevægelses mentalitetshistorie. In M. Gadeberg (Ed.), Danske Bedemænd i Centrum - Tid og rum til samtale om døden (pp. 21-25). Brancheforeningen Danske Bedemænd.
Roesdahl, E. (2007). Viikingite maailm. Tänäpäev.
Roesdahl, E. (2007). Walrus ivory. In J. Bately & A. Englert (Eds.), Ohthere's Voyages: A late 9th-century account of voyages along the coasts of Norway and Denmark and its cultural context (pp. 92-93). Vikingeskibsmuseet.
Vandkilde, H. (2006). A Consideration of the Study of Material Culture (commentary to the British-Scandinavian PhD Course in Archaeology in London 23-26 May 2005). Papers of the Institute of Archaeology, 16, 39-42.
Varberg, J. (2006). Anmeldelse af: Jostein Bergstøl (ed.): Scandinavian Archaeological Practice - in Theory. Proceedings from the 6. Nordic TAG, Oslo 2001. Kuml: Årbog for Jysk Arkæologisk Selskab, 280-282.
Thrane, H. (2006). Anmeldelse af L. Pilø: Bosted - urgård - enkeltgård, 2005. Kuml: Årbog for Jysk Arkæologisk Selskab, 333-337.
Roesdahl, E. (2006). Anmeldelse af: N. Price: The Viking Way. Religion and War in Late Iron Age Scandinavia (2003). In Kuml: Årbog for Jysk Arkæologisk Selskab (Vol. 2006, pp. 337-338).
Roesdahl, E. (2006). Anmeldelse af: P. Carelli, L. Hermanson, H. Sanders (red.): Ett annat 1100-tal. Individ, kollektiv och kulturella mönster i medeltidens Danmark (2004). In Scandia (Vol. 72:1, pp. 121-123).
Sindbæk, S. M. (2006). Anmeldelse af Valter Lang (red.): Culture and material culture. Kuml: Årbog for Jysk Arkæologisk Selskab, 327-329.
Vandkilde, H. (2006). Archaeology and War. Presentations of Warriors and Peasants in Archaeological Interpretations. In T. Otto, H. Thrane & H. Vandkilde (Eds.), Warfare and Society. Archaeological and Social Anthropological Perspectives (pp. 57-73). Aarhus Universitetsforlag.
Roesdahl, E. (2006). Aristocratic burial in late Viking Age Denmark: Custom, regionality, conversion. In C. von Carnap-Bornheim, D. Krause & A. Wesse (Eds.), Herrschaft - Tod - Bestattung: Zu den vor- und frühgeschichtlichen Prunkgräbern als archäologisch-historische Quelle (pp. 169-183). Verlag Dr. Rudolf Habelt.
Jensen, H. J. (2006). A Use Wear Study of the Zwolén Flint Material. In R. Schild (Ed.), The Killing Fields of Zwolén: A Middle Paleolithic Kill-Butchery-Site in Central Poland (pp. 199 - 206). Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology. Polish Academy of Sciences.
Sarauw, T. (2006). Bejsebakken - a Bell Beaker Site in Northern Jutland. In V.-P. Herva (ed.), People, Material Culture and Environment in the North: Proccedings of the 22nd Nordic Archaeological Conference University of Oulu, 18-23 August 2004 (pp. 338-347)
Sarauw, T. (2006). Bejsebakken. Late Neolithic Houses and Settlement Structure. Nordiske Fortidsminder Serie C.
Thrane, H. (2006). Besprechung: CH. Adamsen & V. Jensen. Danske præsters indberetninger til Oldsagskommissionen af 1807. Germania, 84(2), 583-86.
Holst, M. K., Breuning-Madsen, H., Laursen, S. T., Johansen, K. & Hermansen, M. (2006). Boring Bronze Age Barrows. In L. Šmejda (Ed.), Archaeology of Burial Mounds (pp. 63-69). Archaeologica.
Dobat, A. S. (2006). Bridging mythology and belief -: Viking Age functional culture as evidence for every-day belief. In Roads to Midgard -: Old Norse religion in long-term perspectives: origins, changes, and interactions. An international conference in Lund, Sweden, June 3-7, 2004 (pp. 312-319). Nordic Academic Press.
Thrane, H. (2006). Bronzezeitlidhe Prunkgräber nördlich der Elbe. In C. V. Carnap-Bornheim, D. Krausse & A. Wesse (Eds.), Herrschaft, Tod, Bestattung: Zu der vor- und frühgeschichtlichen Prunkgräbern als archäologisch-historische Quelle: internationale Fachkonferenz Kiel 16.-19. Oktober 2003 (pp. 27-40).
Grau Møller, P. & Kristiansen, M. S. (Eds.) (2006). Bygder. Regionale variationer i det danske landbrug fra jernalder til 2000. Landbohistorisk Selskab.
Thrane, H. (2006). Chairman's introduction. In L. Smejdova (Ed.), Archaeology of Burial Mounds (pp. 7-9).
Sindbæk, S. M. (2006). Dalhus: En Kongemoseplads ved Storåen og spørgsmålet om den mesolitiske indlandsbebyggelse i Jylland. In B. V. Eriksen (Ed.), Stenalderstudier: Tidligt mesolitiske jægere og samlere i Sydskandinavien (pp. 213-239). Jysk Arkæologisk Selskab.
Roesdahl, E., Stephens, F., Webster, L., Jensen, B. & Vandkilde, H. (2006). Danish PhD School in Archaeology: Making Connections with the British Museum and the UCL Institute of Archaeology. Papers from the Institute of Archaeology. University College London, 17, 36-46.
Bertelsen, T. (2006). Danmarks middelalderlige kirketårne (Forsiden om bagsiden). Soenderjysk Maanedsskrift, (1), 40.
Roesdahl, E. (2006). Danske sponsorer, vikinger og et blytag til Sainte-Geneviève i Paris 1188. In U. Kjær, M.-L. Jørgensen & J. H. Christensen (Eds.), Skæve vinkler: Festskrift til Kjeld de Fine Licht i anledning af 75 årsdagen (pp. 87-91).
Vellev, J. (2006). Den tidligste papirproduktion i Danmark. In C. Bach-Nielsen, J. Møhlenfeldt Jensen, J. Vellev & P. Zeeberg (Eds.), Danmark og renæssancen 1500-1650 (1 ed., pp. 330-339). Gad.
Bertelsen, T. (2006). Desorienterede kirketårne. Praktiske løsninger og arkitektoniske idealer i senmiddelalderens kirkebyggeri. Hikuin, 33, 11-28.
Johannsen, N. N. (2006). Draught cattle and the South Scandinavian economies of the 4th millennium BC. Environmental Archaeology, 11(1), 33-46.
Vellev, J. (2006). En rejse 1597 til Læsøs salt. In O. Høiris & J. Vellev (Eds.), Renæssancens Verden. Tænkning, kulturliv, dagligliv og efterliv (1 ed., pp. 371-400). Aarhus Universitetsforlag.
Roesdahl, E. (2006). En seidkvinde på Fyrkatborgen? In B. Matsen & O. B. Petersen (Eds.), Vikinger. Indsigt og udsyn (pp. 176-179).
Jensen, H. J. (2006). Flintknive fra yngre bronzealder. Kuml: Årbog for Jysk Arkæologisk Selskab, 101 - 116.
Roesdahl, E. & Hermann, P. (2006). Forord. In L. Bolander & P. Hermann (Eds.), De ti første år. Center for Vikingetids- og Middelalderstudier 1996-2006 (pp. 3-4).
Bertelsen, T. (2006). Haderslevegnens desorienterede kirketårne. Soenderjysk Maanedsskrift, (1), 11-18.
Kristensen, H. K. (2006). Hvælvede kældre i renæssancens købstæder. In O. Høiris & J. Vellev (Eds.), Renæssancens verden. Tænkning, kulturliv, dagligliv og efterliv (pp. 419-433). Aarhus Universitetsforlag.
Kristiansen, M. S. & Grau Møller, P. (2006). Indledning. In P. Grau Møller & M. Svart Kristiansen (Eds.), Bygder. Regionale variationer i det danske landbrug fra jernalder til 2000 (pp. 7-8). Landbohistorisk Selskab.
Sindbæk, S. M. (2006). Joachim Herrmann: Ralswiek auf Rügen. Die slawisch-wikingischen Siedlungen und deren Hinterland. Teil III - Die Funde aus der Hauptsiedlung. Kuml: Årbog for Jysk Arkæologisk Selskab, 301-303.
Vellev, J. (2006). Joakim Skovgaards Frescomalerier i Viborg Domkirke. (4 ed.) Viborg Domkirkes Forlag.
Kristensen, H. K. (2006). Kanaler ved Øm Kloster. Øm Kloster Museum, Nyhedsbrev nr. 8, (8), 13-16.
Jessen, M. D. (2006). Kan man produktudvikle arkæologien? diskussion med Cornelius Holtorf om "From Stone Age to Las Vegas - Archaeology as Popular Culture". Arkæologisk Forum, 15. http://www.archaeology.dk/forum/forum15_dengsoe-jessen.htm
Kristiansen, M. S. (2006). Katalin Schmidt Sabo: Den medeltida byns sociala dimensioner. Kuml: Årbog for Jysk Arkæologisk Selskab, 344-346.
Kristiansen, M. S. (2006). Katalin Schmidt Sabo: Vem behöver en by? Kyrkheddinge, struktur och strategier under tusen år. Kuml: Årbog for Jysk Arkæologisk Selskab, 342-344.
Kock, J. & Sode, T. (2006). Kongeligt mundglas. Skalk, 5-9.
Thrane, H. (2006). Life stories of two burial monuments. In L. Smejdova (Ed.), Archaeology of Burial Mounds (pp. 163-169).
Kristensen, H. K. (2006). Mogens Bencard, Aino Kann Rasmussen & Helge Brinch Madsen (eds): Ribe Excavations 1970-76. Volume 5. Kuml: Årbog for Jysk Arkæologisk Selskab, 279-280.
Kvalø, F. & Marstrander, L. (2006). Norway. In S. Dromgoole (Ed.), The Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage: National Perspectives in Light of the UNESCO Convention 2001 (2 ed., pp. 217-228). Kluwer Law International.
Teglhus, H. (Ed.) (2006). Ole Worm-Liv og videnskabTidstavle. In Ole Worm Liv og videnskab (1 ed., pp. 5 og 54-55). Steno Museets Venner.
Vellev, J. (2006). Ole Wormsdage som blev til Tyge Brahesdage. In H. Teglhus & M. A. Skydsgaard (Eds.), Ole Worm. Liv og videnskab (1 ed., pp. 34-36). Steno Museets Venner.
Thrane, H. (2006). Olfert Voss som faglig organisator. In F. Smekalova & J. S. Jensen (Eds.), En hilsen til Ofert Voss - 2. april 2006
Thrane, H. (2006). "Figurinen" fra Pryssgården - et alternativt tolkningsforslag. Fornvaennen, 268-73.

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