L N Stutz
Biographic Data
| ID | 15973 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L N Stutz |
| GIVEN NAMES | L N |
| FAMILY NAME | Stutz |
| SIGNATURE | STUTZ L N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Linnaeus University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0575-7075 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 160 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Ethical entanglements
The ethical treatment of human remains after excavation is a core debate in archaeology. This project explores the treatment of human remains in some European museums with an aim to support open discussion of complex ethical issues among research and heritage professionals involved in the care of human remains
The Early Upper paleolithic deposit of Mughr el-Hamamah (Jordan)
The fauna from Mughr el-Hamamah, Jordan
Fires and Seeds. Considerations for a decolonized Mesolithic archaeology
The world is on fire, and European archaeologists are starting to feel the heat. With the war in the Ukraine, the rise of polarizing politics and global authoritarianism, and the climate emergency pushing us closer to the tipping point of planetary destruction, we cannot help but to feel deeply affected. In the face of these challenges, we want to act, but what we do as archaeologists can sometimes seem trivial and insignificant. Even worse, a cr…
Between objects of science and lived lives. The legal liminality of old human remains in museums and research
Collections of old human remains in museums are currently under increased scrutiny and pressure. On the one hand they are problematised from a post-colonial and human rights point of view as the material remains of historic and ongoing structural violence connected to scientific knowledge production. On the other, new methods in archaeological science have led to increasing demand for destructive sampling. Without guidance and support by laws and…
Mummification in the Mesolithic
Recently rediscovered photographs of the remains of thirteen individuals buried in the Sado Valley Mesolithic shell middens of Poças de S. Bento and Arapouco, excavated in 1960 and 1962, show the potential of revisiting excavation archives with new methods. The analysis, which applies the principles of archaeothanatology and is enriched by experimental taphonomic research, confirmed details concerning the treatment of the dead body and provided n…
À la recherche de l'homme perdu
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Virtual Archaeology of Death and Burial
The reconstruction of past mortuary rituals and practices increasingly incorporates analysis of the taphonomic history of the grave and buried body, using the framework provided by archaeothanatology. Archaeothanatological analysis relies on interpretation of the three-dimensional (3D) relationship of bones within the grave and traditionally depends on elaborate written descriptions and two-dimensional (2D) images of the remains during excavation…
Cautiously Optimistic – A Reply
Knsel and Terje stigrd for engaging with my paper about the current state of the archaeology of the dead. I am grateful for their thoughtful and stimulating responses and valid points, and I am sorry to admit that I may not deliver the controversial response and vigorous debate the editorial board of Current Swedish Archaeology is seeking. Instead I believe we are starting a conversation that uncovers some deeper lying, and previously unproblemat…
Building Bridges Between Burial Archaeology and the Archaeology of Death – Where Is the Archaeological Study of the Dead Going
Building Bridges Between Burial Archaeology and the Archaeology of Death : Where is the Archaeological Study of the Dead Going
Archaeology, Identity, and the Right to Culture
The debatc concerning repatriation and reburial is attracting increasing attention in Sweden. While most archaeologists today understand the importancc of repatriation and the arguments underlying the claim, the process is not completely unproblematic and certainly not in all cases. This article explores some tendencies within the international debate about repatriation, and frames them within a more general discussion about human rights, the rig…
Response to Apel and Darmark
deliver an argument to address what they regard as shortcomings in contemporary Scandinavian archaeol- ogywhich they describe as narrative, fragmented and anti-scientific to the point of being effectively marginalized from other disciplines. To come to terms with this, they call for theoretical debate and propose the introduction of evolutionary issues in Swedish archaeology. The proposition is given an ambitious scope. An evolutionary perspectiv…
Clamber of the dead
The application of clay to the heads of deceased hunter-gatherers within the Middle Neolithic burials of Finland and Latvia was originally identified by researchers working in these regions during the 20th century. This practice stands apart from the deeper-seated traditions of grave adornment which characterise the hunter-gatherer archaeology of the Baltic region during the Middle Holocene. However, the variable extent to which these ‘death mask…
L’archéologie en question
Institut national d'histoire de l'art Y a-t-il une spcificit de l'archologie des pays du Nord de l'Europe ? C'est un archologue danois, conservateur de l'Oldnordisk Museum de Copenhague, Christian Jrgensen Thomsen, que nous devons depuis 1836 le systme des trois ges , c'est-dire la distinction, fondatrice de la prhistoire europenne et au-del, entre un ge de la pierre, un ge du bronze et un ge du fer. Ds le xvii e sicle, le royaume de Sude avait i…
An Early Upper Palaeolithic Stone Tool Assemblage from Mughr El-Hamamah, Jordan
Mughr el-Hamamah (Jordan) Layer B contains an Early Upper Palaeolithic stone tool assemblage dating to around 39–45 kya cal b.p. This assemblage is unusual in that it samples human forager activities around the ecotone between the Transjordanian Plateau and the palaeo-lake (Lake Lisan) that filled much of the Jordan Valley during Late Pleistocene times. This paper describes that assemblage, comparing it to other Levantine Upper Palaeolithic assem…
A Future for Archaeology
Through a critical review of inter- and transdisciplinarity in archaeology, this paper examines the power relationships within archaeology with regards to collaborators within and beyond the academy. By making a case for an archaeology that openly collaborates across disciplines and knowledge systems, but also more firmly articulates itself and its value, the paper makes a case for an engaged and problematising archaeology for the future
New Aspects of the Mesolithic-Neolithic Cemeteries and Settlement at Zvejnieki, Northern Latvia
The paper reflects upon recent international research at Zvejnieki in northern Latvia, a renowned complex of a burial ground and two settlement sites used in the Mesolithic and Neolithic. Since its discovery and first excavations in the 1960s, Zvejnieki continues to produce evidence that provides new grounds for understanding mortuary practises and ancient lifeways. This information is relevant for other contemporary sites in Europe revealing new…
Disturbing the dead. Archaeothanatological analysis of the stone age burials at Zvejnieki, Latvia (excavated 2006–2009)
Global Ancestors
[Review of] Global Ancestors: Understanding the Shared Humanity of our Ancestors : Edited by Margaret Clegg, Rebecca Redfern, Jelena Bekvalac, and Heather Bonney. Pp. ix and 163, Illus 17. Oxbow Books, 2013. Price: £30.00. ISBN 978 184217 533 0
Early Upper Paleolithic chronology in the Levant
The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial
The archaeology of death and burial provides a privileged source of insight into the lives of people in the past. This kind of archaeological feature commonly includes the material remains of the dead, containing biological information of age, sex, pathologies, DNA profiles, and isotopic signals of diet and migration. The analysis of burials also provides archaeological information about how the dead were treated as part of the mortuary ritual, w…
Claims to the Past. A Critical View of the Arguments Driving Repatriation of Cultural Heritage and Their Role in Contemporary Identity Politics
This article explores the role that the worldwide movement of repatriation of human remains and cultural heritage-from museums and other institutions to minorities and indigenous populations-plays in contemporary identity politics. Beyond the obvious positive outcomes of this process, including a significant democratization of the field of archaeology, the repatriation movement poses challenges, mainly because it relies on concepts such as past-p…
The persistent presence of the dead
The well-known Mesolithic cemeteries of Northern Europe have long been viewed as evidence of developing social complexity in those regions in the centuries immediately before the Neolithic transition. These sites also had important symbolic connotations. This study uses new and more detailed analysis of the burial practices in one of these cemeteries to argue that much more is involved than social differentiation. Repeated burial in the densely p…
Can an archaeologist be a public intellectual
In the contributions that follow seven archaeologists, of different backgrounds and working in different ways and places, attempt to answer the question 'Can an archaeologist be a public intellectual?' This discussion follows a special forum, sponsored by this journal, held at the European Archaeologists' Association annual conference in Helsinki in 2012. The participants in that forum were Åsa Larsson, Layla Renshaw, Ghattas Sajey, Audrey Hornin…
Unwrapping the Dead. Searching for evidence of wrappings in the mortuary practices at Zvejnieki
This paper presents the results of a re-analysis of the burials atZvejnieki. The documentation from the excavation has been analysed with the taphonomic and cross-disciplinary approach anthropologie de terrain in order to establish details in the treatment of the body at burial. This particular study is limited to the evidence for wrapping of the body before burial. The query is well adapted to the nature of the documentation of the burials at Zv…
From spectator to critic and participant
In order to understand ritual in the past, archaeology has long relied on theories developed in other disciplines. While these theories, which often rely on written or oral information, have added many important dimensions to our interpretation of the archaeological record, they have often proven difficult to successfully articulate with the archaeological sources. Moreover, archaeology has tended to remain on the receiving end of the formulation…
Early Upper Paleolithic chronology in the Levant
Claims to the Past. A Critical View of the Arguments Driving Repatriation of Cultural Heritage and Their Role in Contemporary Identity Politics
This article explores the role that the worldwide movement of repatriation of human remains and cultural heritage-from museums and other institutions to minorities and indigenous populations-plays in contemporary identity politics. Beyond the obvious positive outcomes of this process, including a significant democratization of the field of archaeology, the repatriation movement poses challenges, mainly because it relies on concepts such as past-p…
The persistent presence of the dead
The well-known Mesolithic cemeteries of Northern Europe have long been viewed as evidence of developing social complexity in those regions in the centuries immediately before the Neolithic transition. These sites also had important symbolic connotations. This study uses new and more detailed analysis of the burial practices in one of these cemeteries to argue that much more is involved than social differentiation. Repeated burial in the densely p…
A Future for Archaeology
Through a critical review of inter- and transdisciplinarity in archaeology, this paper examines the power relationships within archaeology with regards to collaborators within and beyond the academy. By making a case for an archaeology that openly collaborates across disciplines and knowledge systems, but also more firmly articulates itself and its value, the paper makes a case for an engaged and problematising archaeology for the future
An Early Upper Palaeolithic Stone Tool Assemblage from Mughr El-Hamamah, Jordan
Mughr el-Hamamah (Jordan) Layer B contains an Early Upper Palaeolithic stone tool assemblage dating to around 39–45 kya cal b.p. This assemblage is unusual in that it samples human forager activities around the ecotone between the Transjordanian Plateau and the palaeo-lake (Lake Lisan) that filled much of the Jordan Valley during Late Pleistocene times. This paper describes that assemblage, comparing it to other Levantine Upper Palaeolithic assem…
The fauna from Mughr el-Hamamah, Jordan
Between objects of science and lived lives. The legal liminality of old human remains in museums and research
Collections of old human remains in museums are currently under increased scrutiny and pressure. On the one hand they are problematised from a post-colonial and human rights point of view as the material remains of historic and ongoing structural violence connected to scientific knowledge production. On the other, new methods in archaeological science have led to increasing demand for destructive sampling. Without guidance and support by laws and…
New Aspects of the Mesolithic-Neolithic Cemeteries and Settlement at Zvejnieki, Northern Latvia
The paper reflects upon recent international research at Zvejnieki in northern Latvia, a renowned complex of a burial ground and two settlement sites used in the Mesolithic and Neolithic. Since its discovery and first excavations in the 1960s, Zvejnieki continues to produce evidence that provides new grounds for understanding mortuary practises and ancient lifeways. This information is relevant for other contemporary sites in Europe revealing new…
Building Bridges Between Burial Archaeology and the Archaeology of Death – Where Is the Archaeological Study of the Dead Going
Building Bridges Between Burial Archaeology and the Archaeology of Death : Where is the Archaeological Study of the Dead Going
Ethical entanglements
The ethical treatment of human remains after excavation is a core debate in archaeology. This project explores the treatment of human remains in some European museums with an aim to support open discussion of complex ethical issues among research and heritage professionals involved in the care of human remains
Mummification in the Mesolithic
Recently rediscovered photographs of the remains of thirteen individuals buried in the Sado Valley Mesolithic shell middens of Poças de S. Bento and Arapouco, excavated in 1960 and 1962, show the potential of revisiting excavation archives with new methods. The analysis, which applies the principles of archaeothanatology and is enriched by experimental taphonomic research, confirmed details concerning the treatment of the dead body and provided n…
Virtual Archaeology of Death and Burial
The reconstruction of past mortuary rituals and practices increasingly incorporates analysis of the taphonomic history of the grave and buried body, using the framework provided by archaeothanatology. Archaeothanatological analysis relies on interpretation of the three-dimensional (3D) relationship of bones within the grave and traditionally depends on elaborate written descriptions and two-dimensional (2D) images of the remains during excavation…
Can an archaeologist be a public intellectual
In the contributions that follow seven archaeologists, of different backgrounds and working in different ways and places, attempt to answer the question 'Can an archaeologist be a public intellectual?' This discussion follows a special forum, sponsored by this journal, held at the European Archaeologists' Association annual conference in Helsinki in 2012. The participants in that forum were Åsa Larsson, Layla Renshaw, Ghattas Sajey, Audrey Hornin…
The Noah Complex and Archaeology in the Holy Land
The partial development of the Old Muslim Mamilla cemetery in Jerusalem for the planned construction of a Museum of Tolerance and Human Dignity has spurred protests from the Muslim descending communities and from around the world. Archaeology played a central role in the process since the development only could go ahead after a large number of burials had been removed from the site by excavation. In the process the place transitioned from having …
Archaeology, Identity, and the Right to Culture
The debatc concerning repatriation and reburial is attracting increasing attention in Sweden. While most archaeologists today understand the importancc of repatriation and the arguments underlying the claim, the process is not completely unproblematic and certainly not in all cases. This article explores some tendencies within the international debate about repatriation, and frames them within a more general discussion about human rights, the rig…
Clamber of the dead
The application of clay to the heads of deceased hunter-gatherers within the Middle Neolithic burials of Finland and Latvia was originally identified by researchers working in these regions during the 20th century. This practice stands apart from the deeper-seated traditions of grave adornment which characterise the hunter-gatherer archaeology of the Baltic region during the Middle Holocene. However, the variable extent to which these ‘death mask…
The way we bury our dead. Reflections on mortuary ritual, community and identity at the time of the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition
This paper discusses how archaeologists can approach ways in which the ritual treatment of the dead body was a means of reproducing a sense of identity and community in the past. The approach combines a theoretical framework grounded in practice and body theory with a methodological approach based on taphonomic analysis. This framework is introduced to analyze the mortuary practices at the Mesolithic cemeteries of Skateholm I and II, Vedbæk, Bøge…
The many archaeologies of ritual
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From spectator to critic and participant
In order to understand ritual in the past, archaeology has long relied on theories developed in other disciplines. While these theories, which often rely on written or oral information, have added many important dimensions to our interpretation of the archaeological record, they have often proven difficult to successfully articulate with the archaeological sources. Moreover, archaeology has tended to remain on the receiving end of the formulation…
The Noah Complex and Archaeology in the Holy Land
The partial development of the Old Muslim Mamilla cemetery in Jerusalem for the planned construction of a Museum of Tolerance and Human Dignity has spurred protests from the Muslim descending communities and from around the world. Archaeology played a central role in the process since the development only could go ahead after a large number of burials had been removed from the site by excavation. In the process the place transitioned from having …
The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial
The archaeology of death and burial provides a privileged source of insight into the lives of people in the past. This kind of archaeological feature commonly includes the material remains of the dead, containing biological information of age, sex, pathologies, DNA profiles, and isotopic signals of diet and migration. The analysis of burials also provides archaeological information about how the dead were treated as part of the mortuary ritual, w…
Claims to the Past. A Critical View of the Arguments Driving Repatriation of Cultural Heritage and Their Role in Contemporary Identity Politics
This article explores the role that the worldwide movement of repatriation of human remains and cultural heritage-from museums and other institutions to minorities and indigenous populations-plays in contemporary identity politics. Beyond the obvious positive outcomes of this process, including a significant democratization of the field of archaeology, the repatriation movement poses challenges, mainly because it relies on concepts such as past-p…
The persistent presence of the dead
The well-known Mesolithic cemeteries of Northern Europe have long been viewed as evidence of developing social complexity in those regions in the centuries immediately before the Neolithic transition. These sites also had important symbolic connotations. This study uses new and more detailed analysis of the burial practices in one of these cemeteries to argue that much more is involved than social differentiation. Repeated burial in the densely p…
Can an archaeologist be a public intellectual
In the contributions that follow seven archaeologists, of different backgrounds and working in different ways and places, attempt to answer the question 'Can an archaeologist be a public intellectual?' This discussion follows a special forum, sponsored by this journal, held at the European Archaeologists' Association annual conference in Helsinki in 2012. The participants in that forum were Åsa Larsson, Layla Renshaw, Ghattas Sajey, Audrey Hornin…
Global Ancestors
[Review of] Global Ancestors: Understanding the Shared Humanity of our Ancestors : Edited by Margaret Clegg, Rebecca Redfern, Jelena Bekvalac, and Heather Bonney. Pp. ix and 163, Illus 17. Oxbow Books, 2013. Price: £30.00. ISBN 978 184217 533 0
Early Upper Paleolithic chronology in the Levant
Disturbing the dead. Archaeothanatological analysis of the stone age burials at Zvejnieki, Latvia (excavated 2006–2009)
New Aspects of the Mesolithic-Neolithic Cemeteries and Settlement at Zvejnieki, Northern Latvia
The paper reflects upon recent international research at Zvejnieki in northern Latvia, a renowned complex of a burial ground and two settlement sites used in the Mesolithic and Neolithic. Since its discovery and first excavations in the 1960s, Zvejnieki continues to produce evidence that provides new grounds for understanding mortuary practises and ancient lifeways. This information is relevant for other contemporary sites in Europe revealing new…
A Future for Archaeology
Through a critical review of inter- and transdisciplinarity in archaeology, this paper examines the power relationships within archaeology with regards to collaborators within and beyond the academy. By making a case for an archaeology that openly collaborates across disciplines and knowledge systems, but also more firmly articulates itself and its value, the paper makes a case for an engaged and problematising archaeology for the future
L’archéologie en question
Institut national d'histoire de l'art Y a-t-il une spcificit de l'archologie des pays du Nord de l'Europe ? C'est un archologue danois, conservateur de l'Oldnordisk Museum de Copenhague, Christian Jrgensen Thomsen, que nous devons depuis 1836 le systme des trois ges , c'est-dire la distinction, fondatrice de la prhistoire europenne et au-del, entre un ge de la pierre, un ge du bronze et un ge du fer. Ds le xvii e sicle, le royaume de Sude avait i…
An Early Upper Palaeolithic Stone Tool Assemblage from Mughr El-Hamamah, Jordan
Mughr el-Hamamah (Jordan) Layer B contains an Early Upper Palaeolithic stone tool assemblage dating to around 39–45 kya cal b.p. This assemblage is unusual in that it samples human forager activities around the ecotone between the Transjordanian Plateau and the palaeo-lake (Lake Lisan) that filled much of the Jordan Valley during Late Pleistocene times. This paper describes that assemblage, comparing it to other Levantine Upper Palaeolithic assem…
Clamber of the dead
The application of clay to the heads of deceased hunter-gatherers within the Middle Neolithic burials of Finland and Latvia was originally identified by researchers working in these regions during the 20th century. This practice stands apart from the deeper-seated traditions of grave adornment which characterise the hunter-gatherer archaeology of the Baltic region during the Middle Holocene. However, the variable extent to which these ‘death mask…
Virtual Archaeology of Death and Burial
The reconstruction of past mortuary rituals and practices increasingly incorporates analysis of the taphonomic history of the grave and buried body, using the framework provided by archaeothanatology. Archaeothanatological analysis relies on interpretation of the three-dimensional (3D) relationship of bones within the grave and traditionally depends on elaborate written descriptions and two-dimensional (2D) images of the remains during excavation…
Cautiously Optimistic – A Reply
Knsel and Terje stigrd for engaging with my paper about the current state of the archaeology of the dead. I am grateful for their thoughtful and stimulating responses and valid points, and I am sorry to admit that I may not deliver the controversial response and vigorous debate the editorial board of Current Swedish Archaeology is seeking. Instead I believe we are starting a conversation that uncovers some deeper lying, and previously unproblemat…
Building Bridges Between Burial Archaeology and the Archaeology of Death – Where Is the Archaeological Study of the Dead Going
Building Bridges Between Burial Archaeology and the Archaeology of Death : Where is the Archaeological Study of the Dead Going
Archaeology, Identity, and the Right to Culture
The debatc concerning repatriation and reburial is attracting increasing attention in Sweden. While most archaeologists today understand the importancc of repatriation and the arguments underlying the claim, the process is not completely unproblematic and certainly not in all cases. This article explores some tendencies within the international debate about repatriation, and frames them within a more general discussion about human rights, the rig…
Response to Apel and Darmark
deliver an argument to address what they regard as shortcomings in contemporary Scandinavian archaeol- ogywhich they describe as narrative, fragmented and anti-scientific to the point of being effectively marginalized from other disciplines. To come to terms with this, they call for theoretical debate and propose the introduction of evolutionary issues in Swedish archaeology. The proposition is given an ambitious scope. An evolutionary perspectiv…
Mummification in the Mesolithic
Recently rediscovered photographs of the remains of thirteen individuals buried in the Sado Valley Mesolithic shell middens of Poças de S. Bento and Arapouco, excavated in 1960 and 1962, show the potential of revisiting excavation archives with new methods. The analysis, which applies the principles of archaeothanatology and is enriched by experimental taphonomic research, confirmed details concerning the treatment of the dead body and provided n…
À la recherche de l'homme perdu
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Fires and Seeds. Considerations for a decolonized Mesolithic archaeology
The world is on fire, and European archaeologists are starting to feel the heat. With the war in the Ukraine, the rise of polarizing politics and global authoritarianism, and the climate emergency pushing us closer to the tipping point of planetary destruction, we cannot help but to feel deeply affected. In the face of these challenges, we want to act, but what we do as archaeologists can sometimes seem trivial and insignificant. Even worse, a cr…
Between objects of science and lived lives. The legal liminality of old human remains in museums and research
Collections of old human remains in museums are currently under increased scrutiny and pressure. On the one hand they are problematised from a post-colonial and human rights point of view as the material remains of historic and ongoing structural violence connected to scientific knowledge production. On the other, new methods in archaeological science have led to increasing demand for destructive sampling. Without guidance and support by laws and…
Archaeology (21 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (17 works) · History (17 works) · Geography (14 works) · History (10 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Mesolithic (8 works) · Excavation (7 works) · Taphonomy (7 works)