Partner 2: Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Professor Kristian Kristiansen, dr.phil. (k.kristiansen@archaeology.gu.se)

 

Key relevant qualifications

  1. Head of department.

  2. Director of international EU financed projects - The Emergence of European Communities RTN 2002-2006, as well as several national projects.

  3. Leading archaeological theorist and Bronze Age researcher in the world with central research interests in uncovering the rules of change in past and present societies, i.e. cultural diversities and communalities & forging identities, appropriate to WP4.

  4. International publications on the topic “Europe before History” and “The Rise of Bronze Age Society”.

 

Department profile

The Department of Archaeology and Ancient History is one of the largest in Sweden and has been running collaborative international projects in Sicily, Hungary and Sweden with participants from Stanford University, Northwestern University, University of Illinois (USA) as well as Southampton, Cambridge, Oslo, Santiago Compostela, Budapest (Europe). Finance obtained from EU Research Training Networks as well as national funding. The department is integrating classic archaeology and history with prehistoric archaeology and thus spans all of Europe and the Mediterranean.

 

Selected publications

1. Kristiansen, K.  1998:  Europe before History.   Cambridge University Press. (440 pages, 200 FIgures) Also in Spanish.

2. Kristiansen, K. & Larsson, T.   2005.  The Rise of Bronze Age Society. Travels. Transmissions and Transformations. Cambridge University Press. 430 pages, 170 Figures.  Also in Spanish.

3. Kristiansen, K.  2007   Eurasian Transformations: Mobility, Ecological Change, and the Transmission of Social Institutions in the Third Millennium, and the Early Second Millennium B.C.E.   In A. Hornborg & C. Crumley(eds.): The World System and the Earth System. Global Socioenvironmental change and sustainability since the Neolithic. pp.149-162. Left Coast Press.




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