Archaeology
Archaeological research at Linnaeus University is international and interdisciplinary, focusing on the past, present and the future.
From the local to the global, we engage with new perspectives on sustainable development in a long-term historic perspective, but also targeting sustainable heritages and futures. Building on our diverse expertise, our personal and institutional networks are a rich resource for our students in their own studies and for their future research and career development.
The archaeologists at Linnaeus University work across the globe. Our research includes studies of all periods in Scandinavian and Swedish history, from the earliest hunter-gatherers to folklore studies of agricultural and death rituals, including rock art and conflicts through time with a special focus on Öland.
In 2026, Linnaeus University will host the Nordic TAG conference in Kalmar.
For more information about specific projects and research profiles, please visit:
- Emily Hanscam Researcher
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- Cornelius Holtorf Professor
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- Anders Högberg Professor
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- Liv Nilsson Stutz Professor
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- Ludvig Papmehl-Dufay Associate professor
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- Bodil Petersson Professor, dean
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- Peter Skoglund Professor
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- Gustav Wollentz Senior lecturer
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- Terje Östigård Senior lecturer
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- terje.ostigard@lnu.se
Research groups
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Centre for Applied Heritage Applied heritage is about the potential of heritage to transform society. The Centre for Applied Heritage at Linnaeus University aims at advancing academic research and…
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UNESCO Chair on Heritage Futures Building global capacity for futures thinking among heritage professionals
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Archaeothanatology Working Group Archaeothanatology is a multi-disciplinary approach in archeology, that studies funerary rituals in the past. Based on knowledge of natural decay processes, the method…
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Ethnographic Forum Ethnographic Forum is a research group where members share a common interest in qualitative and ethnographic fieldwork. The group consists of researchers and graduate students from…
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Nordic Network of the Fantastic and Cultural History The Nordic Network of the Fantastic and Cultural History conducts interdisciplinary research on mankind’s universal need for fantasy to explain and…
Education
Linnaeus University offers a wide range of programmes and courses within archaeology and critical heritage studies at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Topics range from heritage futures and the repatriation of cultural heritage, the long histories from early human cognitive evolution and rock art to monuments in the landscape, postcolonial studies and Indigenous rights, the politics of the past, and the archaeology of Scandinavia and Sweden broadly conceived from prehistory to the modern era.
We offer extensive field archaeological training where the students partake in excavation. As part of the RJ-funded research program "Crisis, conflict and climate", the archaeological field course and excavation will take place at the ringfort Trebyborg at Öland in 2024 and other ringforts in the coming years.