Håkan Karlsson
Biographic Data
| ID | 153516 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Håkan Karlsson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Håkan |
| FAMILY NAME | Karlsson |
| SIGNATURE | KARLSSON H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Gothenburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5985-7330 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Nuclear missiles in Cuba 2.0, September 1970 archaeology of the former Soviet nuclear submarine base at Cayo Alcatráz, Cienfuegos Bay, Cuba
The Missile Crisis of October 1962 is widely recognized, yet a lesser-known Cold War confrontation occurred in Cuba in September 1970. That year, the Soviet Union initiated the construction of a nuclear submarine base on the islet of Cayo Alcatráz in Cienfuegos Bay on Cuba’s southern coast. The United States argued that the installation violated the “gentlemen’s agreement” established between the superpowers after the 1962 crisis. The situation d…
Everyday Life in the Tropics
Swedish emigration to the US during the second half of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century is well documented by historians and statisticians, but this is not the case with Swedish emigration to Cuba, which is largely unknown. This article introduces the project Everyday Life in the Tropics: The “Forgotten” Swedish Immigrant Colony in Bayate, Cuba and the results of its initial fieldwork at the former colony of Bayat…
The October Crisis Revisited
This text presents findings from a contemporary archaeology project that has been exploring the October Crisis (1962) and its material and immaterial remains in Cuba since 2005. The project is a cooperation between Swedish archaeologists and Cuban archaeologists, anthropologists and historians, and its primary aim is to complement the dominant narrative of the crisis with material and immaterial remains and memories in a way that approaches and e…
Maternal Levels of Cytokines in Early Pregnancy and Risk of Autism Spectrum Disorders in Offspring
Previous studies indicate a role of immune disturbances during early development in the etiology of autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Any potential disturbances during fetal development are best addressed by prospective evaluation of maternal markers of inflammation. Previous studies have investigated maternal cytokines, a group of powerful effectors of the immune system, with inconsistent results. In this study, we aimed to clarify the relationsh…
Conversation in Front of a Megalith - A Contemplative Approach to Archaeology and Our Interpretative Existence
During the last few decades of processual and post-processual discussions, the relationship between the archaeological interpreter and the interpreted material culture has been highlighted from different directions. However, it still seems that some fundamental questions concerning this relationship have been forgotten, and that some existential dimensions inherent in it have not been brought forward in processualist or in post-processualist reas…
The Historical Archaeology of the Medieval Crisis in Scandinavia
In the wake of the Black Death in i 1350 Europe saw demographic disaster, economic decline, and social and political breakdown. Thousands of farms were deserted. This is the Medieval Agrarian Crisis. The latest decadesof outland archaeology, primarily within the frames of rescue archaeology, have made it possible to outline the course of the crisis in the forested parts of middle Scandinavia. The 14th and 15th centuries were a time of economic ch…
Swedish Archaeology in the Twenty-First Century - The Necessity of a (self-) Critical Dialogue
In this paper it is argued that the rapid changes that have taken place within Swedish archaeology during the last decades can be discussed under the headings of structural, economical, public and theoretical changes and problems. It is also stressed that, taken together, these problems constitute a serious "crisis" in contemporary Swedish archaeology. So far, discussions seem to have focused mainly on the structural problems, while the economica…
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A Spectre is Haunting Swedish Archaeology – The Spectre of Politics
Today Swedish archaeology and cultural heritage management are embraced by the xenophobic party Sweden Democrats. This is a problematic situation, and once again it is therefore time to discuss the rela tionship between archaeology, cultural heritage and politics – not as a consequence of theoretical considera tions and standpoints, but against the background of the harsh political reality. The overall aim of this pa per is to contribute to th…
The Air Torpedo of Bäckebo
In June 1944 a German V2-rocket exploded and crashed in Bäckebo in the province of Småland in southern Sweden. Technically the rocket represented the most modern the world had seen at the time. It laid the foundation for future space flights as well as for the fear of missiles of the Cold War. Today the incident in Bäckebo is largely forgotten or is unknown to people in Sweden. But what traces has the incident left locally? What kinds of memories…
Staging Antiquity
The text consists of an analysis of how the classical Greek sites of Marathon, Thermopylae, Delphi, Olympia and Mycenae are staged and presented to the public. This analysis is focused upon how the cultural heritage management views the authenticity of these sites and their physical remains, (i.e., as genuine) phenomenon firmly, and solely, belonging to the past, and how these attitudes are materialized in the form of presentations at information…
The Missile Crisis from a Cuban Perspective
Previous works on the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) have approached the topic from the point of view of the U.S. and its allies, while Cuban experiences have still not been sufficiently discussed. This book presents new aspects which have seldom – or never – been offered before, giving a detailed account of the crisis from a Cuban perspective. It also investigates the archaeological and anthropological aspects of the crisis, by exploring the tangib…
Command Centre Bjorn
This text presents the results of a contemporary archaeological investigation of an important Swedish Cold War installation, Command Centre Bjorn. This centre was connected to the Air Force Attack Squadron and together with the coastal artillery and the navy it constituted a crucial part of the Swedish defence efforts during the Cold War period. The text also discusses questions concerning heritage processes, and it stresses that a contemporary a…
Material Life Histories of the Missile Crisis (1962)
This article presents new findings from a contemporary archaeology project that has been exploring the Missile Crisis (1962) and its material and immaterial remains in Cuba since 2005. The project is a cooperation between Swedish archaeologists and Cuban archaeologists, anthropologists and historians, and its primary aim is to complement the dominant narrative of the crisis with material and immaterial remains and memories in a way that approache…
Memory and post-war memorials. Confronting the violence of the past
"Memory and post-war memorials. Confronting the violence of the past." International Journal of Heritage Studies, 22(8), pp. 650–651
A Valuable Latin American Contribution to Conflict and Battlefield Archaeology
A Valuable Latin American Contribution to Conflict and Battlefield Archaeology." Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 10(1), pp. 70–71
Existential contemporaneity. Or what we as archaeologists can learn from Archie Leach
From my point of view, discussions of the content of the concept of time are always welcome in archaeology since the archaeological discourse on this topic has for many years been anchored in a quite simplified and axiomatic chronological approach. Discussions of other aspects of, and approaches towards, the concept of time have - with few exceptions - been neglected. It is therefore with pleasure that I have been presented with the opportunity t…
Anna McWilliams
A New Ethical Path for Archaeology
‘What happened in Neiden? On the question of reburial ethics’ is a thought-provoking and, from my point of view, a most welcome text. Its reflexive and critical standpoints raise crucial questions
A randomised controlled trial for overweight and obese parents to prevent childhood obesity - Early STOPP (STockholm Obesity Prevention Program)
The protocol for this study is registered with the clinical trials registry clinicaltrials.gov, ID: ES-2010)
Radar Observations of Arctic Bird Migration in the Beringia Region
Bird migration was recorded by tracking radar and visual observations in the Beringia region. The data were subdivided into seven areas extending from north of Wrangel Island southeastward toward the Bering Strait and then northwestward off the coast of Alaska to Point Barrow. The studies, which took place during a ship-based expedition between 30 July and 19 August 2005, recorded a total of 557 tracks (average duration 120 seconds) of bird flock…
Memories of a world crisis
Santa Cruz de los Pinos is a small town like most others in the Cuban countryside. But half a century ago it was the epicenter of the 1962 Missile Crisis. During that time it served as a Soviet base for middle-range nuclear missiles, and the US air reconnaissance photos of it were spread through media all around the world. The crisis was solved through negotiations without Cuban involvement, and as a result of this neglect the Missile Crisis has …
Places of Power
This article presents a critical and ethnographically directed discussion and comparison of how the World Heritage listed rock carvings at Tanum, Sweden and Val Camonica, Italy are managed and made accessible to the public. The article focuses on how the Swedish and Italian heritage management cultures view the rock carvings as an authentic (i.e. genuine) phenomenon firmly, and solely, belonging to the past and how this contemporary embedded and …
Years of Theoretical Engagement
Ian Hodder was born in Bristol, England, in 1948. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts in prehistoric archaeology from the University of London in 1971, and his PhD from Cambridge University in 1975. He was a lecturer at the University of Leeds from 1974 to 1977, after which he returned to Cambridge where he worked as lecturer, reader and finally professor from 1996 to 1999. He has also been visiting professor at the Van Giffen Institute of Amsterdam, …
Why is There Material Culture Rather than Nothing? Heideggerian Thoughts and Archaeology
Memories of a world crisis
Santa Cruz de los Pinos is a small town like most others in the Cuban countryside. But half a century ago it was the epicenter of the 1962 Missile Crisis. During that time it served as a Soviet base for middle-range nuclear missiles, and the US air reconnaissance photos of it were spread through media all around the world. The crisis was solved through negotiations without Cuban involvement, and as a result of this neglect the Missile Crisis has …
A Spectre is Haunting Swedish Archaeology – The Spectre of Politics
Today Swedish archaeology and cultural heritage management are embraced by the xenophobic party Sweden Democrats. This is a problematic situation, and once again it is therefore time to discuss the rela tionship between archaeology, cultural heritage and politics – not as a consequence of theoretical considera tions and standpoints, but against the background of the harsh political reality. The overall aim of this pa per is to contribute to th…
Command Centre Bjorn
This text presents the results of a contemporary archaeological investigation of an important Swedish Cold War installation, Command Centre Bjorn. This centre was connected to the Air Force Attack Squadron and together with the coastal artillery and the navy it constituted a crucial part of the Swedish defence efforts during the Cold War period. The text also discusses questions concerning heritage processes, and it stresses that a contemporary a…
Places of Power
This article presents a critical and ethnographically directed discussion and comparison of how the World Heritage listed rock carvings at Tanum, Sweden and Val Camonica, Italy are managed and made accessible to the public. The article focuses on how the Swedish and Italian heritage management cultures view the rock carvings as an authentic (i.e. genuine) phenomenon firmly, and solely, belonging to the past and how this contemporary embedded and …
The Defense Council of the USSR
The article contributes to the study of the Soviet decision-making structure in national security affairs, focusing on one important but shadowy institution at the highest level of the political system: the Defense Council of the USSR. An attempt is made to determine the status and responsibilities of the council, as well as its likely membership and operating procedures, through various analytical approaches. First, the evidence available from t…
The Air Torpedo of Bäckebo
In June 1944 a German V2-rocket exploded and crashed in Bäckebo in the province of Småland in southern Sweden. Technically the rocket represented the most modern the world had seen at the time. It laid the foundation for future space flights as well as for the fear of missiles of the Cold War. Today the incident in Bäckebo is largely forgotten or is unknown to people in Sweden. But what traces has the incident left locally? What kinds of memories…
Material Life Histories of the Missile Crisis (1962)
This article presents new findings from a contemporary archaeology project that has been exploring the Missile Crisis (1962) and its material and immaterial remains in Cuba since 2005. The project is a cooperation between Swedish archaeologists and Cuban archaeologists, anthropologists and historians, and its primary aim is to complement the dominant narrative of the crisis with material and immaterial remains and memories in a way that approache…
A New Ethical Path for Archaeology
‘What happened in Neiden? On the question of reburial ethics’ is a thought-provoking and, from my point of view, a most welcome text. Its reflexive and critical standpoints raise crucial questions
Anthropocentrism revisited
Before developing my comments on the Heidegger theme I would like to express my admiration for the project Julian Thomas presents in Time, culture and identity. With his point of departure in Heidegger's early reasonings, Thomas is underway on the important path of a deconstruction of the Cartesian/modern dichotomies between past-present, mind-body, nature-culture and subject-object that dominates contemporary archaeology. In short, Thomas points…
Conversation in Front of a Megalith - A Contemplative Approach to Archaeology and Our Interpretative Existence
During the last few decades of processual and post-processual discussions, the relationship between the archaeological interpreter and the interpreted material culture has been highlighted from different directions. However, it still seems that some fundamental questions concerning this relationship have been forgotten, and that some existential dimensions inherent in it have not been brought forward in processualist or in post-processualist reas…
The Historical Archaeology of the Medieval Crisis in Scandinavia
In the wake of the Black Death in i 1350 Europe saw demographic disaster, economic decline, and social and political breakdown. Thousands of farms were deserted. This is the Medieval Agrarian Crisis. The latest decadesof outland archaeology, primarily within the frames of rescue archaeology, have made it possible to outline the course of the crisis in the forested parts of middle Scandinavia. The 14th and 15th centuries were a time of economic ch…
Swedish Archaeology in the Twenty-First Century - The Necessity of a (self-) Critical Dialogue
In this paper it is argued that the rapid changes that have taken place within Swedish archaeology during the last decades can be discussed under the headings of structural, economical, public and theoretical changes and problems. It is also stressed that, taken together, these problems constitute a serious "crisis" in contemporary Swedish archaeology. So far, discussions seem to have focused mainly on the structural problems, while the economica…
The contemporary archaeology of recent conflict
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Solid As a Rock? An Ethnographical Study of the Management of Rock-carvings
This paper takes its point of departure in a critical and ethnographically directed discussion ofhow Swedish heritage management —in practiceconstructs, organises and presents the past (ke. , the cultural heritage) to the public at the rock-carvings in Tanum. This ethnographical approach is helpful when trying to move beyond the structures —and specific ways of viewing the world —that are a consequence of our own archaeological socialisation. Sud…
The Defense Council of the USSR
The article contributes to the study of the Soviet decision-making structure in national security affairs, focusing on one important but shadowy institution at the highest level of the political system: the Defense Council of the USSR. An attempt is made to determine the status and responsibilities of the council, as well as its likely membership and operating procedures, through various analytical approaches. First, the evidence available from t…
Anthropocentrism revisited
Before developing my comments on the Heidegger theme I would like to express my admiration for the project Julian Thomas presents in Time, culture and identity. With his point of departure in Heidegger's early reasonings, Thomas is underway on the important path of a deconstruction of the Cartesian/modern dichotomies between past-present, mind-body, nature-culture and subject-object that dominates contemporary archaeology. In short, Thomas points…
Por que há cultura material ao invés de nada? Uma questão esquecida da Arqueologia
Solid As a Rock? An Ethnographical Study of the Management of Rock-carvings
This paper takes its point of departure in a critical and ethnographically directed discussion ofhow Swedish heritage management —in practiceconstructs, organises and presents the past (ke. , the cultural heritage) to the public at the rock-carvings in Tanum. This ethnographical approach is helpful when trying to move beyond the structures —and specific ways of viewing the world —that are a consequence of our own archaeological socialisation. Sud…
The contemporary archaeology of recent conflict
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Why is There Material Culture Rather than Nothing? Heideggerian Thoughts and Archaeology
Places of Power
This article presents a critical and ethnographically directed discussion and comparison of how the World Heritage listed rock carvings at Tanum, Sweden and Val Camonica, Italy are managed and made accessible to the public. The article focuses on how the Swedish and Italian heritage management cultures view the rock carvings as an authentic (i.e. genuine) phenomenon firmly, and solely, belonging to the past and how this contemporary embedded and …
Years of Theoretical Engagement
Ian Hodder was born in Bristol, England, in 1948. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts in prehistoric archaeology from the University of London in 1971, and his PhD from Cambridge University in 1975. He was a lecturer at the University of Leeds from 1974 to 1977, after which he returned to Cambridge where he worked as lecturer, reader and finally professor from 1996 to 1999. He has also been visiting professor at the Van Giffen Institute of Amsterdam, …
Radar Observations of Arctic Bird Migration in the Beringia Region
Bird migration was recorded by tracking radar and visual observations in the Beringia region. The data were subdivided into seven areas extending from north of Wrangel Island southeastward toward the Bering Strait and then northwestward off the coast of Alaska to Point Barrow. The studies, which took place during a ship-based expedition between 30 July and 19 August 2005, recorded a total of 557 tracks (average duration 120 seconds) of bird flock…
Memories of a world crisis
Santa Cruz de los Pinos is a small town like most others in the Cuban countryside. But half a century ago it was the epicenter of the 1962 Missile Crisis. During that time it served as a Soviet base for middle-range nuclear missiles, and the US air reconnaissance photos of it were spread through media all around the world. The crisis was solved through negotiations without Cuban involvement, and as a result of this neglect the Missile Crisis has …
A randomised controlled trial for overweight and obese parents to prevent childhood obesity - Early STOPP (STockholm Obesity Prevention Program)
The protocol for this study is registered with the clinical trials registry clinicaltrials.gov, ID: ES-2010)
A New Ethical Path for Archaeology
‘What happened in Neiden? On the question of reburial ethics’ is a thought-provoking and, from my point of view, a most welcome text. Its reflexive and critical standpoints raise crucial questions
Anna McWilliams
A Valuable Latin American Contribution to Conflict and Battlefield Archaeology
A Valuable Latin American Contribution to Conflict and Battlefield Archaeology." Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 10(1), pp. 70–71
Existential contemporaneity. Or what we as archaeologists can learn from Archie Leach
From my point of view, discussions of the content of the concept of time are always welcome in archaeology since the archaeological discourse on this topic has for many years been anchored in a quite simplified and axiomatic chronological approach. Discussions of other aspects of, and approaches towards, the concept of time have - with few exceptions - been neglected. It is therefore with pleasure that I have been presented with the opportunity t…
Memory and post-war memorials. Confronting the violence of the past
"Memory and post-war memorials. Confronting the violence of the past." International Journal of Heritage Studies, 22(8), pp. 650–651
Material Life Histories of the Missile Crisis (1962)
This article presents new findings from a contemporary archaeology project that has been exploring the Missile Crisis (1962) and its material and immaterial remains in Cuba since 2005. The project is a cooperation between Swedish archaeologists and Cuban archaeologists, anthropologists and historians, and its primary aim is to complement the dominant narrative of the crisis with material and immaterial remains and memories in a way that approache…
Command Centre Bjorn
This text presents the results of a contemporary archaeological investigation of an important Swedish Cold War installation, Command Centre Bjorn. This centre was connected to the Air Force Attack Squadron and together with the coastal artillery and the navy it constituted a crucial part of the Swedish defence efforts during the Cold War period. The text also discusses questions concerning heritage processes, and it stresses that a contemporary a…
The Missile Crisis from a Cuban Perspective
Previous works on the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) have approached the topic from the point of view of the U.S. and its allies, while Cuban experiences have still not been sufficiently discussed. This book presents new aspects which have seldom – or never – been offered before, giving a detailed account of the crisis from a Cuban perspective. It also investigates the archaeological and anthropological aspects of the crisis, by exploring the tangib…
Staging Antiquity
The text consists of an analysis of how the classical Greek sites of Marathon, Thermopylae, Delphi, Olympia and Mycenae are staged and presented to the public. This analysis is focused upon how the cultural heritage management views the authenticity of these sites and their physical remains, (i.e., as genuine) phenomenon firmly, and solely, belonging to the past, and how these attitudes are materialized in the form of presentations at information…
Conversation in Front of a Megalith - A Contemplative Approach to Archaeology and Our Interpretative Existence
During the last few decades of processual and post-processual discussions, the relationship between the archaeological interpreter and the interpreted material culture has been highlighted from different directions. However, it still seems that some fundamental questions concerning this relationship have been forgotten, and that some existential dimensions inherent in it have not been brought forward in processualist or in post-processualist reas…
The Historical Archaeology of the Medieval Crisis in Scandinavia
In the wake of the Black Death in i 1350 Europe saw demographic disaster, economic decline, and social and political breakdown. Thousands of farms were deserted. This is the Medieval Agrarian Crisis. The latest decadesof outland archaeology, primarily within the frames of rescue archaeology, have made it possible to outline the course of the crisis in the forested parts of middle Scandinavia. The 14th and 15th centuries were a time of economic ch…
Swedish Archaeology in the Twenty-First Century - The Necessity of a (self-) Critical Dialogue
In this paper it is argued that the rapid changes that have taken place within Swedish archaeology during the last decades can be discussed under the headings of structural, economical, public and theoretical changes and problems. It is also stressed that, taken together, these problems constitute a serious "crisis" in contemporary Swedish archaeology. So far, discussions seem to have focused mainly on the structural problems, while the economica…
Reply to Comments
A Spectre is Haunting Swedish Archaeology – The Spectre of Politics
Today Swedish archaeology and cultural heritage management are embraced by the xenophobic party Sweden Democrats. This is a problematic situation, and once again it is therefore time to discuss the rela tionship between archaeology, cultural heritage and politics – not as a consequence of theoretical considera tions and standpoints, but against the background of the harsh political reality. The overall aim of this pa per is to contribute to th…
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