On the Road: Studies in Honour of Lars Larsson

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