Editorial Olausson, Deborah; Ekengren, Fredrik Published in: Lund Archaeological Review 2014 Document Version: Publisher's PDF, also known as Version of record Link to publication Citation for published version (APA): Olausson, D., & Ekengren, F. (2014). Editorial. Lund Archaeological Review, 20, 5-5. General rights Copyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research. You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal Take down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. L UNDUNI VERS I TY PO Box117 22100L und +46462220000
2014 LUND ARCHAEOLOGICAL REVIEW VOL. 20. 2014
Editors: Fredrik Ekengren Deborah Olausson Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, LUX, Lund University Box 192, S-221 00 Lund lar@ark.lu.se English revised by Alan Crozier Distribution: The Publication Series in Humanities and Theology, Lund University, http://www.ht.lu.se/skriftserier/ Department of Archaeology and Ancient History ISSN 1401-2189 KEPA Tryck AB, Kävlinge 2015
Contents 5 Editorial 7 Andreas Svensson: Complex Metalworking in the Provinces, Rural Centres and Towns. Preliminary Results from the Project Exclusive Metalworking in Rural Settings Contextualized 21 Gabriel B. N. Norburg: The Spatial Order of the Scanian Runestones. Analysing Runestone Clustering and Pathways through GIS 39 The Late Viking Age Runestones of Västergötland. On Ornamentation and Chronology 55 Lise Gjedssø Bertelsen: The Cross Motif on Late Viking Age Art Picture. Runestones in Västergötland 79 Ing-Marie Nilsson: Viking Age Uppåkra. Between Paganism and Christianity
Editorial The articles in the 2014 volume of Lund Archaeological Review deal with a dynamic transitional period in Scandinavian prehistory, namely the end of the Iron Age and the beginning of the Middle Ages. The volume opens with an article by Andreas Svensson, in which he presents the preliminary results from his survey of multimetal sites, i.e. sites with traces of complex metalworking. His results indicate the presence of multimetal craftsmanship on several levels in the landscape and he thus argues that the traditional association between this form of metalworking and urbanity needs to be nuanced. Three of the five articles address runestones, although from quite different perspectives. Gabriel Norburg demonstrates how the use of spatial statistics and least-cost path analysis can be used to explain runestone locations in the landscape. He suggests that the orderly spatial pattern which emerges is due to external factors in Viking Age society, such as infrastructural considerations. The articles by Anne-Sofie Gräslund and Lise Gjedssø Bertelsen both deal with runestones in Västergötland in western Sweden. Gräslund uses the runestones as a case study to demonstrate how her previously published method of analysing chronological variation in ornamentation is applicable to runestones outside the Mälar valley. Bertelsen, on the other hand, focuses her study on the cross motif and argues that the elements of its design show an intimate familiarity with Christian theology and symbolism. Finally, Ing- Marie Nilsson presents and evaluates a number of children s burials discovered inside the nave of Uppåkra church. After exploring possible Christian influences in Viking Age Uppåkra, she suggests that 10th century Uppåkra was a society characterized by religious heterogeneity and further that a partly Christian Uppåkra may be a prerequisite for a Christian Lund. Fredrik Ekengren and Deborah Olausson, editors 5
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