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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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Groß, D., Hellerøe, S. F., Koivisto, S. & Schmölcke, U. (2026). Fishing for millennia: Effects and impacts of prehistoric fishing in the Syltholm Fjord, Denmark. PLoS One, 21(5 May), Article e0347863. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0347863
Ehrich, S. C., Calvez, C., Loeben, C. E., Dubiel, U., Terp Laursen, S. & Huber, B. (2026). From biomolecular traces to multisensory experiences: bringing scent reproductions to museums and cultural heritage. Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology, 4, Article 1736875. https://doi.org/10.3389/fearc.2025.1736875
Harvey, D. (2026). Future Relations of Textual Heritage. In E. Gerlini & A. Giolai (Eds.), Textual Heritage: Locating Textual Heritage Practices Across Heritage and the Humanities (pp. 258-276). Berghahn Books.
Mozaffari, A. & Harvey, D. (2026). Heritage-Border Complexes: Parallels, Possibilities and Consequences of Border-Straddling Heritage. In A. Mozaffari & D. Harvey (Eds.), Border-Straddling Heritages: Containment, Contestation and Appreciation of Shared Pasts (pp. 1-32). Berghahn Books.
Andreasen, L. S., Shaw, T. A., Günther, M. & Timmreck, C. (2026). Independent Short- and Longwave Pathways for a Zonally Asymmetric Northern Hemisphere Temperature Response to Tropical Volcanic Eruptions. Geophysical Research Letters, 53(1), Article e2025GL117680. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL117680
Wisher, I. & Riede, F. (2026). Istidens øjenskygge. SKALK Junior, 2026(1), 26-27.
Wisher, I., Langley, M. C. & Tylén, K. (2026). Marks and Meanings: New Perspectives on the Evolution of Human Visual Culture. Topics in Cognitive Science, 18(2), Article e70043. https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.70043
Mozaffari, A. & Harvey, D. (2026). Modalities of heritage–border relations in a multipolar world order. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 32(4), 501-524. Article 10.1080/13527258.2025.2595081. https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2025.2595081
Ashoori, A., Kafash, A., Rabiei, K., Hosseini, M., Abdi, S., Tayefeh, F. H., Alemohammad, S. & Yousefi, M. (2026). Modeling vehicle collision risk for the jungle cat in the Hyrcanian forests of Iran: A guide for vehicle collision prevention. PLoS One, 21(5 May), Article e0336611. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0336611
Hess, T., Matzig, D. & Riede, F. (2026). Morphometric Analyses of Late Palaeolithic and Early Mesolithic Projectile Points from Central Germany. Lithic Technology, 51(2), 135-152. https://doi.org/10.1080/01977261.2025.2491158

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Roesdahl, E. (2020). Gæster på Brundlund Slot. Soenderjysk Maanedsskrift, 2020(5), 177-180.
Riede, F. & Sheets, P. (Eds.) (2020). Going Forward by Looking Back: Archaeological Perspectives on Socio-Ecological Crisis, Response, and Collapse. Berghahn Books.
Kristensen, H. K. (2020). Gråbrødre Kloster i Viborg: Introduktion og historie. Hikuin, (41), 47-60.
Atzbach, R. (2020). Hessische Auswanderer in Dänemark: Die Scheune vom Sandkærgård als Erbe der »Kartoffeltyskere« in der Alhede. In L. Vogel (Ed.), Mehr als Stadt, Land, Fluss: Festschrift für Ursula Braasch-Schwersmann (pp. 51-56). Erich Schmidt Verlag.
Kock, J. (2020). Højt kunstnerisk niveau er målet og midlet. Glasposten, 2020 (3), 6-7.
Kock, J. & Hansen, V. (2020). Holmegaard Værk: - en eventyrlig satsning. Glasposten, 2020(3), 8-10.
Kveiborg, J., Bjørnevad-Ahlqvist, L. E. & Vandkilde, H. (2020). Horses, Fish and Humans: Interspecies Relationships in the Nordic Bronze Age. Current Swedish Archaeology, 28, 75-98. https://doi.org/10.37718/CSA.2020.04
Bak, J. L., Løvschal, M. & Damgaard, C. (2020). Hvordan bevarer vi heden i Danmark: tilstand, mulig pleje og genopretning. Aarhus University, DCE - Danish Centre for Environment and Energy. Teknisk rapport fra DCE - Nationalt Center for Miljø og Energi No. 160 https://dce2.au.dk/pub/TR160.pdf
Dodd, J. A. (2020). Identifying and Investigating Diversity: New Perspectives and Possibilities Within Scandinavian Rock Art Research. In K. I. Austvoll, M. Hem Eriksen, P. D. Fredriksen, L. Melheim, L. Prøsch-Danielsen & L. Skogstrand (Eds.), Contrasts of the Nordic Bronze Age: Essays in Honour of Christopher Presco (pp. 149-158). Brepols Publishers.
Zhao, Y., Harvey, D. & Gao, C. (2020). Identifying Shan-Shui characteristics for national landscape heritage: reconciling western and Chinese landscape characterisation from a trans-cultural perspective. The Geographical Journal, 186(3), 300-313. https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12345
Dobat, A., Wood, S. O., Jensen, B. S., Schmidt, S. & Dobat, A. S. (2020). “I now look forward to the future, by finding things from our past…”Exploring the potential of metal detector archaeology as a source of well-being and happiness for British Armed Forces veterans with mental health impairments: 50-year-old male war veteran and survey participant, suffering from PTSD and depression, on the effect of metal detecting. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 26(4), 370-386. https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2019.1639069
McGuire, R. & McAtackney, L. (2020). Introduction: Walling In and Walling Out . In L. McAtackney & R. H. McGuire (Eds.), Walling In and Walling Out: Why Are We Building New Barriers to Divide Us? (pp. 1-24). University of New Mexico Press.
Carter, T., Harvey, D., Jones, R. & Robertson, I. (2020). Introduction. In T. Carter, D. Harvey, R. Jones & I. Robertson (Eds.), Creating Heritage: Unrecognised Pasts and Rejected Futures (pp. 1-15). Routledge.
Riede, F. & Sheets, P. D. (2020). Introduction: framing catastrophes archaeologically. In F. Riede & P. Sheets (Eds.), Going forward by looking back: archaeological perspectives on socio-ecological crisis, response, and collapse (pp. 1-14). Berghahn Books.
Pedersen, A. & Sindbæk, S. M. (2020). Introduction. In A. Pedersen & S. M. Sindbæk (Eds.), Viking encounters: Proceedings of the Eighteenth Viking Congress (pp. 13-19). Aarhus Universitetsforlag.
Guo, Y., Lou, J., Xie, S., Wu, X. & Fuller, B. T. (2020). Isotopic reconstruction of human diet in the Ji'erzankale site, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 30(1), 65-72. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.2831
Kock, J. (2020). Jul hele året fra Brink Nordic. Glasposten, 2020(4), 10-11.
Linaa, J. (2020). Keramikrapport for MOE 1017 Auning Øst: Udført for Museum Østjylland, Arkæologi ved museumsinspektør Thomas Guntzelnick Poulsen. Aarhus Universitet og Moesgård Museum.
Kristiansen, M. S. (2020). Kronologisk forståelse og overblik med Padlet Timeline. Aarhus Universitet. https://educate.au.dk/praksiseksempler/blended-learning/kronologisk-forstaaelse-og-overblik-med-padlet-timeline/
Kock, J. (2020). Lene Steinbeck: Historien om Holmegaard - et glasværk med ånd. Glasposten, 2020(3), 11-13.
Brozou, A., Fuller, B. T., Grimes, V., Van Biesen, G., Lynnerup, N., Boldsen, J. L., Jorkov, M. L., Pedersen, D. D., Olsen, J. & Mannino, M. A. (2020). Leprosy in Medieval Denmark: a multi-tissue and multi-isotopic approach to investigate life histories. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 171, 39.
Atzbach, R. (2020). Lost and Found. The Former Bishopric Castle Brink: Verschwunden und Wiedergefunden. Die einstige Bischofsburg Brink. In Castles and Fortifications of the Reformation Period: Burgen und Befestigungen der Reformationszeit (pp. 107-120). Dr. Rudolf Habelt.
Roesdahl, E. (2020). Magtsymboler: Harald Blåtands rovfuglesmykker. In I. S. Klæsøe, J. B. Jepsen, F. Arntsen, B. Staal, A. Tomlinson, S. Barry, N. B. Thomsen & S. T. Mortensen (Eds.), Glimt fra vikingetiden: Udgivet i anledning af Danske Amatørarkæologers 30-års jubilæum (pp. 212-218). DAA. Danske Amatørarkæologer.
Felding, L., Scott Reiter, S., Frei, K. M. & Vandkilde, H. (2020). Male Social Roles and Mobility in the Early Nordic Bronze Age. A Perspective from SE Jutland. Danish Journal of Archaeology, 9, 1-167. https://doi.org/10.7146/dja.v9i0.117955
Hussain, S. T. (2020). Martin Porr and Jacqueline Matthews, eds. Interrogating Human Origins: Decolonisation and the Deep Human Past (Abingdon: Routledge, 2019, 352pp., 15 figs, 3 tables, hbk, ISBN 9781138300415). European Journal of Archaeology, 23(3), 483-488. https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2020.30
McAtackney, L. (2020). Materials and Memory: Archaeology and Heritage as Tools of Transitional Justice at a Former Magdalen Laundry. Eire - Ireland, 55(1-2), 223-246. https://doi.org/10.1353/EIR.2020.0009
Arena, F., Gualdi-Russo, E., Olsen, J., Philippsen, B. & Mannino, M. A. (2020). New data on agro-pastoral diets in southern Italy from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 12(10), Article 245. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-020-01209-9
Løvschal, M. & Gravesen, M. (2020). New pastoral commons in postcolonial Kenya. Abstract from International Association for the Study of the Commons.
Battaglia, G., Miccichè, R. M., Forgia, V., Mannino, M. A., Scopelliti, M. G., Sineo, L. & Valenti, P. (2020). New perspectives on the human occupation of the Gulf of Palermo during the Metal Ages: the funerary cave of Zubbio di Cozzo San Pietro (Bagheria) and the necropolis of Viale Venere (Mondello, Palermo). Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 31, Article 102276. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102276
Sindbæk, S. M. (2020). Nøglen til de første byer. In I. Skibsted Klæsøe, J. Boel Jepsen, F. Arntsen, B. Staal, A. Tomlinson, S. Barry, N. Bødker Thomsen & S. T. Mortensen (Eds.), Glimt fra vikingetiden (pp. 98-103). DAA. Danske Amatørarkæologer.
Borake, T. L. (2020). No man is an island: Anarchism and social complexity in Western Zealand 550-1350. [PhD dissertation, Aarhus University]. Aarhus Universitet.
Hrnjic, M., Hagen-Peter, G. A., Birch, T., Barfod, G. H., Sindbæk, S. M. & Lesher, C. (2020). Non-destructive identification of surface enrichment and trace element fractionation in ancient silver coins. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, 478, 11-20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nimb.2020.05.019
Kristiansen, M. S., J.S. Frederiksen, C. & Jensen, C. M. B. (2020). ØHM 1442 Hågerup by (matr.nr. 2a, 5a, 6a, 7a, 14r, 15a, 15c, 36a og 36b), Brahetrolleborg sogn, Sallinge herred, tidl. Svendborg amt. Stednr. 090403 SB.nr. 122. Aarhus Universitet.
Kristiansen, M. S., J.S. Frederiksen, C. & Jensen, C. M. B. (2020). ØHM 1443 Brænde Lydinge Landsby (matr.nr. 1a & 4h), Brahetrolleborg sogn, Sallinge herred, tidl. Svendborg amt. Stednr. 090403 SB.nr. 123. Aarhus Universitet.
Kristensen, H. K. (2020). Øm Kloster. Aarhus Universitetsforlag. Jysk Arkæologisk Selskabs Skrifter No. 111
Felding, L. (2020). One Ring to Rule Them All? Appearance and Identity of Early Nordic Bronze Age Women. Praehistorische Zeitschrift, 95(2), 422-446. https://doi.org/10.1515/pz-2020-0029
Møller, K. L. & Løvschal, M. (2020). Online peer feedback: Anvendelsen af Peergrade i universitetsundervisningen. Læring og Medier, 12(22). https://doi.org/10.7146/lom.v12i22.114504
van der Plicht, J., Kaupová, S., Velemínský, P., Smolík, J., Kučera, J., Kamenik, J., Havranek, V., Brůžek, J., Vellev, J. & Rasmussen, K. L. (2020). On the diet of Tycho Brahe and his wife: did they consume fish from stagnant pools? Heritage Science, 8, Article 73. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40494-020-00399-8
Wild, M., Mortensen, M. F., Andreasen, N. H., Borup, P., Casati, C., Eriksen, B. V., Frost, L., Gregersen, K. M., Henriksen, M. B., Kanstrup, M., Olsen, J., Pedersen, K. B., Petersen, P. V., Ramskov, C., Sørensen, L., Sørensen, M. & Wåhlin, S. (2020). Paläolithische Knochen- und Geweihartefakte des Spätglazials und Frühholozäns Dänemarks: Technologie und Datierung. Quartar International Yearbook for Ice Age and Stone Age Research, 67, 105-180. https://doi.org/10.7485/qu.2020.67.88925
Hussain, S. T. & Riede, F. (2020). Paleoenvironmental humanities: Challenges and prospects of writing deep environmental histories. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 11(5), Article e667. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.667
McAtackney, L. (2020). Participatory approaches to places of unresolved heritage: working with the communities of Long Kesh / Maze. In Art, Anthropology, and Contested Heritage: Ethnographies of TRACES (pp. 159–174). Bloomsbury Academic.
Fuller, B. T., Southon, J. R., Fahrni, S. M., Farrell, A. B., Takeuchi, G. T., Nehlich, O., Guiry, E. J., Richards, M. P., Lindsey, E. L. & Harris, J. M. (2020). Pleistocene paleoecology and feeding behavior of terrestrial vertebrates recorded in a pre-LGM asphaltic deposit at Rancho La Brea, California. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 537, Article 109383. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.109383
Riede, F., Barnes, G., Elson, M. D., Oetelaar, G. A., Holmberg, K. G. & Sheets, P. (2020). Prospects and pitfalls in integrating volcanology and archaeology: A review. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 401, Article 106977. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2020.106977
McAtackney, L. (2020). Public Memory, conflict and women: commemoration in contemporary Ireland. In P. Ashton, T. Evans & P. Hamilton (Eds.), Making Histories (pp. 99-111). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110636352-009
Di Maida, G., Mannino, M. A., Zilhão, J., Hoffmann, D. L., García-Diez, M., Pastoors, A., Standish, C. D., Pike, A. W. G., Olsen, J., Schimmenti, V., Battaglia, G. & Terberger, T. (2020). Radiocarbon and U-series age constraints for the Lateglacial rock art of Sicily. Quaternary Science Reviews, 245, Article 106524. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106524
Linaa, J. (2020). Rapport over keramikmateriale fra SIM 5065 Neptunvej II udført af Jette Linaa, Moesgaard Museum, for Kirsten Nellemann, Museum Silkeborg: Keramikrapport 5065 Neptunvej II. Aarhus Universitet og Moesgård Museum.
Kristiansen, K., Allentoft, M. E., Frei, K. M., Iversen, R., Johannsen, N. N., Kroonen, G., Pospieszny, L., Douglas Price, T., Rasmussen, S., Sjögren, K.-G., Sikora, M. & Willerslev, E. (2020). Re-theorising mobility and the formation of culture and language among the Corded Ware Culture in Europe—CORRIGENDUM. Antiquity, 94(375), 839. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2020.84
Bjørnevad-Ahlqvist, M. (2020). Ritualized mesolithic hoarding in southern scandinavia: An under-recognised phenomenon. Current Swedish Archaeology, 28, 203-245. https://doi.org/10.37718/CSA.2020.09
Løvschal, M., Iversen, R. B. & Kähler Holst, M. (2020). Sacred landscape and rituals of violence in Early Iron Age Alken Enge. In Rituelle Gewalt: Rituale der Gewalt (pp. 395-412). Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt. Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte.
Britton, K., Le Corre, M., Willmes, M., Moffat, I., Grün, R., Mannino, M. A., Woodward, S. & Jaouen, K. (2020). Sampling Plants and Malacofauna in 87Sr/86Sr Bioavailability Studies: Implications for Isoscape Mapping and Reconstructing of Past Mobility Patterns. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 8, Article 579473. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2020.579473

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