Anders Högberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 130776 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anders Högberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anders |
| FAMILY NAME | Högberg |
| SIGNATURE | HÖGBERG A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Linnaeus University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8747-4131 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 58 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 326 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 58 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Keep the discussion going! Our response to Nielsen’s comment
This article offers a response to Nielsen’s commentary on the authors’ earlier study Variation in the number of radiocarbon ( 14 C) dates does not equal change in Neolithic population size over time . Clarifying some misunderstandings in Nielsen’s commentary, the authors emphasise the value in continuous critical dialogues in advancing archaeological research on prehistoric demography
The points from Primrose Ridge: A possible Still Bay workshop on the Gauteng Grassland of South Africa
With this contribution we re-introduce a Middle Stone Age point assemblage from the Gauteng Grassland. Whilst the open-air site can no longer be excavated or dated, an updated interpretation of the Primrose Ridge points has the potential to shed new light on the Middle Stone Age occupation of the Witwatersrand. We apply a fine-grained approach, developed for compiling intra- and inter-assemblage comparative data, to assess how the Primrose Ridge …
Variation in the number of radiocarbon (14C) dates does not equal change in Neolithic population size over time
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Transdisciplinary Theoretical Approaches to Migration Studies in Archaeology
Migration is an established topic in archaeology, approached by researchers in multiple ways. We argue, however, that new ways of thinking are needed to understand migration in new ways in relation to new results coming from ancient DNA studies and other archaeometric analysis. We apply a transdisciplinary approach and engage with (critical) migration studies, critical heritage studies and archaeology to unwrap essential theoretical aspects of mi…
Brian Hayden. 2022. Understanding chipped stone tools. New York: Eliot Werner; 978-1-7342818-6-6 paperback $37.72
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Framtidsmedvetande på museer: Några svenska länsmuseer i fokus
This study investigates how managers and employees at County Museums in Sweden think about, work with, and relate to the future in their daily practice. We examined which tools and routines the museums employ to work concretely with different future perspectives. The study is thus about those forms of future consciousness that exist in the museums. The results show that the future is implicitly present but often remains unarticulated in the work …
The foodplant fitness landscape of Hollow Rock Shelter, Western Cape, South Africa
Studying Stone Age foraging behaviours in terms of plant foods is difficult because of preservation, sampling and identification biases. Current foodplant populations, knowledge about their use in recent times, and how they are distributed across the landscape, provide valuable middle-range proxies from which work on archaeological landscapes and material can benefit. With this contribution we provide foodplant lists for three different foraging …
Early Neolithic flint extraction in south-western Sweden: Transregional Practices on a Local Scale
Recent studies relate the introduction of Early Neolithic flint mining practices to the migration and rapid expansion of agricultural groups from north-western continental Europe into present-day Britain and southern Scandinavia. Here, the authors critically analyse this hypothesis, using a case study from south-western Sweden to demonstrate how transregional processes played out locally with their own dynamics, c. 4000 BC. They conclude that mig…
Nuclear Waste as Critical Heritage
Nuclear Waste as Critical Heritage
Uppdragsarkeologiska möjligheter: Nya sätt att tänka om en samtidsverksamhet i en framtidsbransch
In this text we discuss how Swedish contract archaeology can develop its socialengagement by creating new areas of relevance to society, beyond the generalactivities of disseminating results. We do so by giving concrete examples of howthis can be done, using archaeological excavations as a starting point. The examplesinclude engaging the local community in future planning for a social sustainableliving environment, collaboration with the tourism …
Was there a shift from Levallois to Still Bay point knapping at Hollow Rock Shelter, South Africa
With this contribution we revisit the lithic point assemblage from Hollow Rock Shelter, South Africa. Our objective is to test whether, in addition to its finely retouched Still Bay points, an earlier Levallois-type Mossel Bay point-making tradition may also be represented at the site and, if so, how the two traditions relate to each other. We conducted a fine-grained temporal attribute study that includes point-production strategies, material us…
Production Sites on the Beach Ridge of Järavallen: Aspects on Tool Preforms, Action, Technology, Ritual and the Continuity of Place
Järavallen is the name of a beach ridge along the south and south-west coasts of Scania in the southern part of Sweden. Large amounts of flinttool preforms, particularly for square-sectioned Neolithic axes, have been found on three sites along this beach ridge. The several thousand preforms represent tool types from the Early Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age. The three sites have not been given much attention in recent archaeological research. W…
Introduction to The Changing Roles of Archaeology in Swedish Museums
The Swedish Government first Withdrew Support for the Mediterranean Institutes, then Changed its Mind
In September Sweden acquired a new government. In its first budget it proposed to end the financial support for Sweden's three Mediterranean institutes. The budget proposal was presented with no advance warning. There was no support for it among officials, researchers or educators. The proposal was drawn up without any consultation with those who have the expert knowledge and was carried through in the last-minute political negotiations about the…
The Voice of the Authorized Heritage Discourse: A Critical Analysis of Signs at Ancient Monuments in Skåne, Southern Sweden
The study presents an investigation of a regional authorized heritage discourse, represented by the County Administrative Board on signs set up at an- cient monuments and sites in the province of Skåne in southern Sweden. The starting point is a critical analysis of layout, texts and illustrations to ascertain the narratives conveyed by the signs. The results show that slightly less than half of the studied signs work well according to the criter…
Academic publishing in Sweden threatened by withdrawal of support
Introduction to ‘Theoretical Pathways’: Thinking About Human Endeavour During the Middle Stone Age and Middle Palaeolithic
In this brief introduction, we present and contextualise ‘theoretical pathways’ elaborated in this special issue, in terms of understanding humanity from a deep-time perspective. The participating authors discuss a wide range of approaches related to thinking about human endeavour during the Middle Stone Age and Middle Palaeolithic ranging from the constraints of technological niches and Material Engagement Theory to aspects of palaeo-neurology, …
Four-Field Co-evolutionary Model for Human Cognition: Variation in the Middle Stone Age/Middle Palaeolithic
Here we explore variation and similarities in the two best-represented population groups who lived during the Middle Stone Age and Middle Palaeolithic—the Neanderthals and Homo sapiens . Building on approaches such as gene-culture co-evolution, we propose a four-field model to discuss relationships between human cognitive evolution, biology, technology, society, and ecology. We focus on the pre-50-ka phase, because we reason that later admixing b…
Museientreprenörskap som praktik- och kunskapsfält
This study, “Museum entrepreneurship as practice and knowledge field”,examines how museum directors view museum entrepreneurship, why they thinkit is important and how it can develop. Results show that the museum directorsview entrepreneurship from a broad perspective that goes beyond a traditionalimage of entrepreneurship as exclusively an economic phenomenon. The resultsemphasize the need to turn to museum entrepreneurship as a way of thinkinga…
Archaeology and the Future
The Keimoes 3 desert kite site, South Africa: An Aerial Lidar and Micro-Topographic Exploration
I Can Do It’ Becomes ‘We Do It’: Kimberley (Australia) and Still Bay (South Africa) Points Through a Socio-technical Framework Lens
Building on the body of work regarding the concepts of invention and innovation in lithic technology, we further explore the give-and-take relationship between people and their technologies in two different stone point knapping traditions. From the socio-technical framework perspective, which is one amongst many ways to look at technological trends, the acceptance and stabilisation of a tool-making tradition is not only dictated by its technology…
Cognition: From Capuchin Rock Pounding to Lomekwian Flake Production
Although it is sometimes suggested that modern-day chimpanzee nut-cracking behaviour is cognitively similar to early stone-tool-knapping behaviour, few systematic comparative studies have tested this assumption. Recently, two further techno-behaviours were reported that could both represent intermediary phases in hominin cognitive evolution pertaining to our ultimate technological astuteness. These behaviours are that of bearded capuchin monkeys …
Temporal perspectives on Still Bay point production at Sibudu Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, in the context of southern Africa
Based on optically stimulated luminescence age estimates it has been argued that the Still Bay represents a sudden, short-lived technological innovation dating to about 72–71 kya. Yet, few sites have the stratigraphic integrity and Still Bay point assemblage size to test this assumption. The Wadley deep sounding of Sibudu Cave provides such an opportunity. Here we use fine-grained analyses consisting of technological attributes and morphometric d…
Lithic technology and behavioural modernity: New results from the Still Bay site, Hollow Rock Shelter, Western Cape Province, South Africa
Playing with Flint: Tracing a Child’s Imitation of Adult Work in a Lithic Assemblage
The Archaeology of Teaching and the Evolution ofHomo docens
CITATION: Gärdenfors, P. & Högberg, A. 2017. The Archaeology of Teaching and the Evolution of Homo docens. Current Anthropology, 58(2):188-208. doi:10.1086/691178
No future in archaeological heritage management
Although the future is mentioned frequently in overarching aims and visions, and it is a major drive in the daily work of archaeological heritage managers and indeed heritage professionals more generally, it remains unclear precisely how an overall commitment to the future can best inform specific heritage practices. It seems that most archaeologists and other heritage professionals cannot easily express how they conceive of the future they work …
Four-Field Co-evolutionary Model for Human Cognition: Variation in the Middle Stone Age/Middle Palaeolithic
Here we explore variation and similarities in the two best-represented population groups who lived during the Middle Stone Age and Middle Palaeolithic—the Neanderthals and Homo sapiens . Building on approaches such as gene-culture co-evolution, we propose a four-field model to discuss relationships between human cognitive evolution, biology, technology, society, and ecology. We focus on the pre-50-ka phase, because we reason that later admixing b…
I Can Do It’ Becomes ‘We Do It’: Kimberley (Australia) and Still Bay (South Africa) Points Through a Socio-technical Framework Lens
Building on the body of work regarding the concepts of invention and innovation in lithic technology, we further explore the give-and-take relationship between people and their technologies in two different stone point knapping traditions. From the socio-technical framework perspective, which is one amongst many ways to look at technological trends, the acceptance and stabilisation of a tool-making tradition is not only dictated by its technology…
Heat treatment in the Still Bay - A case study on Hollow Rock Shelter, South Africa
Integration of use-wear with protein residue analysis – a study of tool use and function in the south Scandinavian Early Neolithic
Knowing, Learning and Teaching—How Homo Became Docens
This article discusses the relation between knowing, learning and teaching in relation to early Palaeolithic technologies. We begin by distinguishing between three kinds of knowledge: knowing how, knowing what and knowing that. We discuss the relation between these types of knowledge and different forms of learning and long-term memory systems. On the basis of this analysis, we present three types of teaching: (1) helping and correcting; (2) show…
A Lithic Attribute Analysis on Blades from the Middle Stone Age Site, Hollow Rock Shelter, Western Cape Province, South Africa
This article presents a lithic attribute analysis of blades from the late Middle Stone Age site, Hollow Rock Shelter (HRS), in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. Blades from the Still Bay (SB) Industry have not been described previously, but this artifact category makes up a considerable part of the site's lithic assemblage. Blades were systematically detached from prepared cores with a well-shaped exterior core surface. Despite this, var…
The Chemical Composition of Some Archaeologically Significant Flint From Denmark and Sweden
Flint was one of the most widely employed raw materials for artefact manufacture in Denmark and Sweden during the Stone Age, and it continued to be used during subsequent periods. Prehistoric flint mining and lithic manufacturing studies in these countries have attracted considerable attention, but there have been no recent attempts to chemically characterize the geological source materials. This paper builds on a pilot study ( Hughes et al . 201…
To renegotiate heritage and citizenship beyond essentialism
The heritage sector all through Europe and beyond is historically linked to the task of providing nations with glorious myths of origin within a metaphysical framework of essentialism. This is now shifting. With ambitions to pluralize the past, archaeology and the heritage sector are transforming within the nation state. Heritage in present-day societies has increasingly come to serve citizens with a range of cultural identities to chose from. Bu…
The foodplant fitness landscape of Hollow Rock Shelter, Western Cape, South Africa
Studying Stone Age foraging behaviours in terms of plant foods is difficult because of preservation, sampling and identification biases. Current foodplant populations, knowledge about their use in recent times, and how they are distributed across the landscape, provide valuable middle-range proxies from which work on archaeological landscapes and material can benefit. With this contribution we provide foodplant lists for three different foraging …
The Voice of the Authorized Heritage Discourse: A Critical Analysis of Signs at Ancient Monuments in Skåne, Southern Sweden
The study presents an investigation of a regional authorized heritage discourse, represented by the County Administrative Board on signs set up at an- cient monuments and sites in the province of Skåne in southern Sweden. The starting point is a critical analysis of layout, texts and illustrations to ascertain the narratives conveyed by the signs. The results show that slightly less than half of the studied signs work well according to the criter…
The Keimoes 3 desert kite site, South Africa: An Aerial Lidar and Micro-Topographic Exploration
Cognition: From Capuchin Rock Pounding to Lomekwian Flake Production
Although it is sometimes suggested that modern-day chimpanzee nut-cracking behaviour is cognitively similar to early stone-tool-knapping behaviour, few systematic comparative studies have tested this assumption. Recently, two further techno-behaviours were reported that could both represent intermediary phases in hominin cognitive evolution pertaining to our ultimate technological astuteness. These behaviours are that of bearded capuchin monkeys …
Temporal perspectives on Still Bay point production at Sibudu Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, in the context of southern Africa
Based on optically stimulated luminescence age estimates it has been argued that the Still Bay represents a sudden, short-lived technological innovation dating to about 72–71 kya. Yet, few sites have the stratigraphic integrity and Still Bay point assemblage size to test this assumption. The Wadley deep sounding of Sibudu Cave provides such an opportunity. Here we use fine-grained analyses consisting of technological attributes and morphometric d…
Abordagens para o lascamento de crianças em estudos de tecnologia lítica
Este texto fornece uma visão geral de como os estudos de tecnologia lítica abordaram o tópico de encontrar e interpretar o trabalho de crianças em conjuntos líticos. Centra-se em exemplos de contextos escandinavos e europeus. Uma seleção de estudos publicados é apresentada. Métodos utilizados em estudos de tecnologia lítica e os resultados desses estudos são discutidos. Conquistas feitas e obstáculos que ainda precisam ser resolvidos por pesquisa…
Early Neolithic flint extraction in south-western Sweden: Transregional Practices on a Local Scale
Recent studies relate the introduction of Early Neolithic flint mining practices to the migration and rapid expansion of agricultural groups from north-western continental Europe into present-day Britain and southern Scandinavia. Here, the authors critically analyse this hypothesis, using a case study from south-western Sweden to demonstrate how transregional processes played out locally with their own dynamics, c. 4000 BC. They conclude that mig…
Production Sites on the Beach Ridge of Järavallen: Aspects on Tool Preforms, Action, Technology, Ritual and the Continuity of Place
Järavallen is the name of a beach ridge along the south and south-west coasts of Scania in the southern part of Sweden. Large amounts of flinttool preforms, particularly for square-sectioned Neolithic axes, have been found on three sites along this beach ridge. The several thousand preforms represent tool types from the Early Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age. The three sites have not been given much attention in recent archaeological research. W…
The Still Bay points of Apollo 11 Rock Shelter, Namibia: An Inter-Regional Perspective
Dating to roughly 80,000 to 70,000 years ago, components of the Still Bay technocomplex of southern Africa and their potential behavioural implications have been widely discussed. Stone points with invasive retouch, as defined over 90 years ago by Goodwin and van Riet Lowe, serve as markers for Still Bay assemblages, yet many Still Bay sites remain undated and comprehensive, comparable sets of data for their point assemblages remain unpublished. …
Gamla Uppsala: Staging Heritage in a Culture of Consumption
It is well known that cultural heritage conservation is a part of contemporary society and, as such, mirrors contemporary society's values. In this study I examine how this is expressed in the way cultural heritage has been represented at Gamla Uppsala, Sweden, using our current zeitgeist as a culture of consumption as a starting point. The results show that antiquarian efforts at this site have contributed to creating a heritage site on display …
The Past is the Present – Prehistory and Preservation from a Children's Point of View
A historic-didactic study is presented that examines aspects of historical consciousness among 11-year-old school children who have participated in cultural environment education projects. A short description of the projects and an analysis of the results is followed by a concluding section with reflections on archaeology, and meetings with school children in the course of contract archaeological work. The results of the study show that, for the …
Transdisciplinary Theoretical Approaches to Migration Studies in Archaeology
Migration is an established topic in archaeology, approached by researchers in multiple ways. We argue, however, that new ways of thinking are needed to understand migration in new ways in relation to new results coming from ancient DNA studies and other archaeometric analysis. We apply a transdisciplinary approach and engage with (critical) migration studies, critical heritage studies and archaeology to unwrap essential theoretical aspects of mi…
Introduction to The Changing Roles of Archaeology in Swedish Museums
The Past is the Present – Prehistory and Preservation from a Children's Point of View
A historic-didactic study is presented that examines aspects of historical consciousness among 11-year-old school children who have participated in cultural environment education projects. A short description of the projects and an analysis of the results is followed by a concluding section with reflections on archaeology, and meetings with school children in the course of contract archaeological work. The results of the study show that, for the …
Playing with Flint: Tracing a Child’s Imitation of Adult Work in a Lithic Assemblage
Integration of use-wear with protein residue analysis – a study of tool use and function in the south Scandinavian Early Neolithic
Childhood in the Past, Volume 1, 2008. (Published with Oxbow Books by The Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past. ISSN 1758-5716)
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Lithic technology and behavioural modernity: New results from the Still Bay site, Hollow Rock Shelter, Western Cape Province, South Africa
The Flint Caches of Västerbotten, Sweden
The Distribution and Contents of the Caches
Bjurselet
Endnotes
Energy Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence as a Tool for Archaeologists
Analyzing the Bjurselet Artifacts
Provenance Studies on Scandinavian Flint
Acta ArchaeologicaVolume 83, Issue 1 p. 83-86 PROVENANCE STUDIES ON SCANDINAVIAN FLINT Deborah Olausson, Deborah Olausson Department of Archaeology and Ancient History Lund University, Lund, Sweden [email protected] for more papers by this authorRichard E. Hughes, Richard E. Hughes Geochemical Research Laboratory, Portola Valley, California, U.S.A.Search for more papers by this authorAnders Högberg, Anders Högberg Archaeology, Scho…
A New Look at Bjurselet: The Neolithic Flint Axe Caches from Västerbotten, Sweden
Previous Suggestions Pertaining to the Geological Origins of the Flint Raw Material in Northern Sweden
EDXRF Results for the Bjurselet Samples
Provenance Determination of Bjurselet Flint Artifacts
EDXRF Instrumentation and Analytical Conditions
The Chemical Composition of Some Archaeologically Significant Flint From Denmark and Sweden
Flint was one of the most widely employed raw materials for artefact manufacture in Denmark and Sweden during the Stone Age, and it continued to be used during subsequent periods. Prehistoric flint mining and lithic manufacturing studies in these countries have attracted considerable attention, but there have been no recent attempts to chemically characterize the geological source materials. This paper builds on a pilot study ( Hughes et al . 201…
Gamla Uppsala: Staging Heritage in a Culture of Consumption
It is well known that cultural heritage conservation is a part of contemporary society and, as such, mirrors contemporary society's values. In this study I examine how this is expressed in the way cultural heritage has been represented at Gamla Uppsala, Sweden, using our current zeitgeist as a culture of consumption as a starting point. The results show that antiquarian efforts at this site have contributed to creating a heritage site on display …
The Child is Now 25 – A Short Introduction to a Special Issue
This special issue originates from a symposium held at the 2014 Society for American Archaeology (SAA) meeting in Austin, Texas. The topic for the session was the identification and interpretation of the archaeological record of children. The session was titled ‘The “child” is now 25: Recent research into the identification of children in the archaeological record and the development of associated theoretical perspectives’. This title was our way…
Children, Teaching and the Evolution of Humankind
Social learning is essential for human evolution. To achieve such learning, cultural processes which trigger the development of active teaching and intergenerational transmission and accumulation of knowledge are needed. The understanding of how such systems and processes were developed over a long time is essential for our understanding of human evolution. The identification of children's learning activities in the archaeological record is cruci…
Knowing, Learning and Teaching—How Homo Became Docens
This article discusses the relation between knowing, learning and teaching in relation to early Palaeolithic technologies. We begin by distinguishing between three kinds of knowledge: knowing how, knowing what and knowing that. We discuss the relation between these types of knowledge and different forms of learning and long-term memory systems. On the basis of this analysis, we present three types of teaching: (1) helping and correcting; (2) show…
Microdenticulates of the Funnel Beaker Culture: Lithic Attribute Analysis, Use-Wear Analysis, and Contextual Analysis
In a study published in 1994, HelleJuel Jensen observed that microdenticulates are tools whose function is difficult to assess. She calls the use of the tools “an unresolved functional puzzle”. This study proceeds from that conclusion. Based on attribute and use-wear analyses together with contextual studies the results show that microdenticulates are complex tools, in which other parts of the flake besides the denticulated edge were used. The re…
A Lithic Attribute Analysis on Blades from the Middle Stone Age Site, Hollow Rock Shelter, Western Cape Province, South Africa
This article presents a lithic attribute analysis of blades from the late Middle Stone Age site, Hollow Rock Shelter (HRS), in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. Blades from the Still Bay (SB) Industry have not been described previously, but this artifact category makes up a considerable part of the site's lithic assemblage. Blades were systematically detached from prepared cores with a well-shaped exterior core surface. Despite this, var…
Rodney Harrison: Heritage. Critical Approaches
Book Review - Rodney Harrison : Heritage. Critical Approaches : London : Routledge, 2013. 268 pp. ISBN : 978-0-415-59197-3
Archaeology (41 works) · History (36 works) · Geography (27 works) · History (27 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (24 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (21 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Geology (15 works) · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation (10 works) · Geology (10 works)