Joakim Goldhahn - Changing Pictures: Rock Art Traditions and Visions in the Northernmost Europe

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Changing pictures : rock art traditions and visions in Northern Europe / edited by Joakim Goldhahn, Ingrid
Fuglestvedt, and Andrew Jones.
p. cm.
Papers from a workshop held at Linnaeus University, Sweden, in 2008.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-1-84217-405-0
1. Petroglyphs--Europe, Northern--Congresses. 2. Rock paintings--Europe, Northern--Congresses. 3. Social
archaeology--Europe, Northern--Congresses. 4. Excavations (Archaeology)--Europe, Northern--Congresses. 5.
Europe, Northern--Antiquities--Congresses. I. Goldhahn, Joakim. II. Fuglestvedt, Ingrid. III. Jones, Andrew,
1967
GN799.P4C456 2010
709.0113--dc22

2010017597

This anthology has been sponsored by the Councils for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences
in the Nordic Countries and the Swedish Research Council.

Front cover: Peder Alfsns documentation of Backa in Brastad, Ra 1 in Brastad parish, Northern
Bohusln in Sweden. Now in the Arnamagnanske Archive in Copenhagen, Denmark. Published with
their kind permission.

Printed in Great Britain by
Short Run Press, Exeter

Contents

Joakim Goldhahn, Ingrid Fuglestvedt and Andrew Jones

Ingrid Fuglestvedt

Trond Lden

Antti Lahelma

Maja Hultman

Per Cornell and Johan Ling

Magnus Ljunge

Joakim Goldhahn

Peter Skoglund

Ylva Sjstrand

Per Nilsson

Jan Magne Gjerde

Melanie Wrigglesworth

Richard Bradley

Contributors

Richard Bradley is a professor in archaeology at the University of Reading (UK). His main research interests are in the prehistory of Northern and North-western Europe and he is a specialist on the prehistory of the British Isles. In recent years his principal concern has been with the archaeological analysis of monuments and landscapes, and with the roles of memory, ritual and art between the Neolithic period and the Iron Age. Recent publications include Image and Audience (2009), The Prehistory of Britain and Ireland (2007) and Ritual and Domestic Life in Prehistoric Europe (2005).

Contact: R. B. Department of Archaeology, School of Human and Environmental Sciences, University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading RG6 6AB. Email:

Per Cornell (Ass. Prof., University of Gothenburg) is a researcher and lecturer in archaeology at the Department of Historical Studies. He has mainly worked on settlement archaeology. He has conducted fieldwork in South America and published on theory and method in archaeology, and on the history and politics of archaeology and cultural heritage. Cornell is currently working on developing archaeological approaches departing from critical readings of Derrida and Marx.

Contact: P. C. Department of Historical Studies, University of Gothenburg, Box 200, 405 30 Gteborg, Sweden. Email:

Ingrid Fuglestvedt (PhD, University of Bergen) is associate professor in archaeology at the University of Oslo, Norway. Her PhD-thesis concerns the pioneer settlement of southwestern Norway approached from the perspective of phenomenology. Fuglestvedt has published several articles, both nationally and internationally, on the Mesolithic in Norway, theory and gender as well as rock art. Her doctoral thesis will soon be published in an English edition and she is working on a monograph on the hunters rock art on the Scandinavian Peninsula.

Contact: I. F. University of Oslo. Institute of Archaeology, Postboks 1008 Blindern, 0315 Oslo, Norway. Email:

Jan Magne Gjerde (MA, University of Reading) is currently working on a PhD at Troms University Museum. The topic of the PhD is rock art and landscapes in northern Fennoscandia. He has published papers on rock art and landscapes. During recent years, he has conducted extensive fieldwork in northern Fennoscandia. He has also collaborated on projects with Russian colleagues in Northwest Russia.

Contact: J. M. G., Troms University Museum, Department of Cultural Sciences, 9037 Troms, Norway. Email:

Joakim Goldhahn (PhD, University of Ume) is professor in Archaeology at the Linnaeus University (Sweden). He has published extensively and edited several anthologies on topics such as archaeological theory, North European rock art, Scandinavian Bronze Age and the history of archaeology. He investigates the relationship between rock art, land-, mind- and soundscapes, death rituals, and cosmology.

Contact: J. G. Linnaeus University, Department of Archaeology, 391 82 Kalmar, Sweden. Email:

Maja Hultman (MA, University of Uppsala) is currently finishing a one-year MA course in archival science at the University of Uppsala in Sweden. She is, however, still intent on pursuing the archaeological career she has begun. Her essays have so far been devoted to archaeoacoustics (the archaeology of sound or acoustics) particularly regarding ringing stones, as well as landscape archaeology and the use of Geographical Information Systems in archaeological science. Her main research orientation is the archaeology of landscape, soundscape and mindscape.

Contact: M. H. University of Uppsala, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Box 626, 751 26 UPPSALA, Sweden, Email:

Andrew Jones (PhD, University of Glasgow) is a reader in prehistoric archaeology at the University of Southampton (UK). He has previously held a fellowship at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge (UK) and a lectureship at University College Dublin (Ireland). He is the author of Archaeological Theory and Scientific Practice (CUP, 2002) and Memory and Material Culture (CUP, 2007) and editor of Prehistoric Europe: theory and practice (Wiley-Blackwell 2008) and co-editor (with G. Macgregor) of Colouring the Past (Berg, 2002). He is currently completing a major AHRC-funded project on prehistoric rock art and working on a book on materiality and performance theory for Oxford University Press.

Contact: A. J. Archaeology, University of Southampton, Avenue Campus, Highfield, Southampton, SO17 1BF, UK. Email:

Antti Lahelma (PhD, University of Helsinki) is presently an Academy of Finland post-doctoral fellow in archaeology at the University of Helsinki, carrying out research on Finno-Ugric and circumpolar forager rock art. His dissertation on the prehistoric rock paintings of Finland, A touch of red. Archaeological and ethnographic approaches to interpreting Finnish rock paintings, (2008) was the first ever archaeological thesis on the subject. In addition to the dissertation, he has published numerous articles on Finnish rock art, mainly dealing with questions of interpretation. Apart from rock art, his research publications include articles and book chapters on the archaeology of Byzantine Near East and the archaeology of violent conflict.