Travel can take us to new places, but also to new knowledge. We can travel in time as well as in space, and traveling is by no means solely a phenomenon belonging to the present. "On the Road" is a book about travels and about travelers. The fifty-three articles illustrate the complexities of the concept of travel. These articles were written to honor Lars Larsson, Professor of Archaeology at Lund University, Sweden, upon the occasion of his 60th birthday.
Author(s): Birgitta Hårdh, Kristina Jennbert, Deborah Olausson (eds.)
Series: Acta Archaeologica Lundensia in 4°, 26
Publisher: Almquist & Wiksell International
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 318
City: Lund
Tabula Gratulatoria 7
Foreword 11
Near places
Birgitta Hårdh / On the road to the central place 15
Mats Riddersporre / Storehög and Lillehög. A narrative of their marvellous travels in Uppåkra 21
Kristina Jennbert / The mania of the time. Falconry and bird brooches at Uppåkra and beyond 24
Deborah Olausson / On the road. Paving stones past and present 29
Påvel Nicklasson / On the road to discovery. Aerial photography and central places – an example from Halland 35
Bertil Helgesson / Aladdin's lamp from Starby. Novelty, antique or souvenir? 41
Far away places
Eva Svensson / Plants as archaeological problems and possibilities 47
Gro Mandt / Messages in stone. Long-term tradition – changing meanings 51
Märta Strömberg / Archaeological studies in Switzerland in the late forties 57
Berta Stjernquist / Glimpses of an archaeological journey through sixty years 62
Ole Grøn & Michail G. Turov / Resource "pooling" and resource management. An ethno-archaeological study of the Evenk hunter-gatherers, Katanga County, Siberia 67
Torsten Capelle / Pazyryk – now and then 73
Atholl Anderson / Colonial illusion and reality at the end of the Old World's road 77
Anne Carlie / A journey through the Sahara Desert. From Tunis to Abidjan in Volkswagen buses from the mid-1960s 82
Caroline Arcini / Meeting the Essejas 88
John Coles / On the absence of presence 94
In the present
Lennart Carlie / Skateholm – catalyst for an academic journey 101
Johan Callmer / Prometheus or Sisyphus? Some reflections on possibilities and impossibilities in archaeology in the form of a cognitive odyssey in a Scanian region 104
Bodil Petersson & Jes Wienberg / Time travelling. Between research and presentation at Hjerl Hede 110
Raimond Thörn / Travelling and networking in Europe in the 19th century 115
David Loeffler / Scientific creativity – scientific conformity. An archaeological example and its consequences 119
Shinako Kanda Heathman / My tale about the far field 124
Cornelius Holtorf / Time travel: a new perspective on the distant past 127
Liv Nilsson Stutz / "...I will feel lost, unhappy and at home." Travel and deep analogy as archaeological tools 133
Elisabeth Rudebeck / From tilling the soil to choosing a lifestyle. Changing definitions of the concept of culture as a reflection of cultural change 137
The Mesolithic past
Magnus Andersson & Cecilia Cronberg / Moving north. The first travellers to south Scandinavia 145
Sabine Sten & Stig Welinder / The eternal traveller from Barum 151
Tom Carlsson / Axe production and axe relations 157
Christina Lindgren / The importance of being a traveller 161
Gerald Munt & Christopher Meiklejohn / The symbiotic dog. Why is the earliest domesticated animal also important symbolically? 165
Anne Birgitte Gebauer & T. Douglas Price / Smakkerup Huse: A middle and late Ertebølle site on northwest Zealand 170
Catriona Pickard & Clive Bonsall / Late Mesolithic coastal fishing practices. The evidence from Tybrind Vig, Denmark 176
Søren A. Sørensen / Limhamn axes in Denmark 184
Gunilla Eriksson / Immigrant, returnee or commuter? 188
Ilga Zagorska / On the road to the eastern shore of the Baltic basin 193
The Neolithic past
Leendert P. Louwe Kooijmans & Leo B. M. Verhart / Pebbles and paddles. On Rijckholt flint distribution and water transport in the Mesolithic and Neolithic of the Netherlands 201
Michael Jochim / One more bog 207
Mats Larsson / I was walking through the wood the other day. Man and landscape during the late Mesolithic and early Neolithic in Scania, southern Sweden 212
Rüdiger Kelm / The Neolithic cultural landscape. The relationship between human beings and their environment 217
Katina Lillios / Minds on the move. Mobility and identity in Iberian prehistory 222
Philine Kalb & Martin Höck / Anta da Malhada da Bidueira, Concelho de Évora. A hitherto unknown megalithic
grave in the region of Vale de Rodrigo, Portugal 228
Malcolm Lillie / The North Sea: Liminal Space or Zone of Interaction? Some musings on prehistoric seafaring 231
The Bronze Age past
Jenny Nord / Movements and pauses. Aspects of a Bronze Age landscape 239
Richard Bradley & Dag Widholm / The mountain of ships. The organisation of the Bronze Age cemetery at Snäckedal, Misterhult, Småland 246
Berit Valentin Eriksen / Travelling craftsmen in Early Bronze Age Denmark. Addressing the evidence of leftover lithics 253
Carin Orrling / Razors on the road 259
The Iron Age past
Bergljot Solberg / Pastimes or serious business? Norwegian graves with gaming objects c. 200–1000 AD 265
Tove Hjørungdal / Far beyond the frontier. Creolizing the cauldron grave horizon of Iron Age Medelpad, northern Sweden 270
Peter Skoglund / A traveller's view of Migration Period Scandinavia. Jordanes' Scandza and the material evidence 276
Günter Mangelsdorf / Remarks about the looped serpentine brooch from the Vendel Period in the Baltic Sea region 282
Michael Müller-Wille / Four Viking Age boat burials in comparison. Gausel – Scar – Kiloran Bay – Balladoole 287
Anders Andrén / A petrified patchwork. The rune-stone at Karlevi and the early history of Öland 295
Jörn Staecker / Decoding Viking art. The Christian iconography of the Bamberg Shrine 301
Bibliography
Lars Larsson – a Bibliography 1973–2006 / Compiled by Ann Tobin 309
