Stig Welinder
Biographic Data
| ID | 302934 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stig Welinder |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stig |
| FAMILY NAME | Welinder |
| SIGNATURE | WELINDER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mid Sweden University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Ethnicity, migration and materiality. Forest Finn archaeology
During the early 17th century, Finns migrated within the Swedish kingdom from interior Finland to virgin spruce forest areas in Sweden. There they settled in finnmarker, areas with Finnish-speaking households conducting large-scale swidden cultivation, huuhta in Finnish. Eventually they were called Forest Finns. Their farms were centered around a rökstuga, a living-house with a stone-oven without a chimney.Four Forest Finn farms have been excavat…
Archaeological University Education and Professional Archaeology in Sweden
During the 19th century very few persons in Sweden recieved a doctoral degree in archaeology. Most of them found prestigious top-positions. Today there are about 100 persons with Ph. D.'s working in Swedish archaeology in positions from the top to the bottom of the professional hierarchy. Each year 150-200 students finish their basic education in archaeology. Most of them will never find a permanent full-time job as an archaeologist. The future o…
The Archaeology of Old Age
Prehistoric people sometimes died at an old age to judge by the longevity of life estimated from skeletal data. Anthropology, however, suggests that old age is a much more complex concept than that. The process of growing old that is stressed in the anthropological theory of old people may advantageously be discussed on the basis of prehistoric burial-ground data. Examples from Swedish burial-grounds hint at a cultural variation in the way in whi…
The Cultural Construction of Childhood in Scandinavia, 3500 BC—1350AD
A set of Swedish and N orwegian burial-grounds and churchyards from the Neolithic to the Early Middle Ages (3500 BC—1350 AD) is analysed as concerns children's graves. Patterns of burial rituals corresponding to various concepts of childhood are constructed. Childhood is looked upon as a cultural construction independent of time and space. The basic growth process from infancy to adulthood is fundamental to the concept of childhood in all societi…
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…
Visible Men and Elusive Women
The Cross Goes North: Processes of Conversion in Northern Europe, AD 300-1300
Contains thirty-seven studies of the adoption of Christianity across northern Europe over 1000 years, and the diverse reasons that drove the process.
The Ethnoarchaeology of a Swedish Village
The village of Nyberget, Dalarna, Central Sweden, during the 19th century is studied from an ethnoarchaeological point of view. The dynamic flexibflity and ambiguity of the cultural landscape of the village and its households are stressed. This is understood in relation to economic structure and gender roles. The concepts used in understanding the historical village form a challenging starting-point for understanding a prehistoric cultural landsc…
Pots, Females and Food
Thirteen graves at the Migration Period burial-ground Hamre, middle Sweden, contain ceramic pots. The technical features of these pots are related to the grave-ritual. Cooking or storage pots as well as table-pots had been used. Independent of these qualities, the pots had been used as bone-containers in the male graves, while in the female graves they had been placed on the pyre, possibly containing food, and afterwards deposited as sherds. In t…
The word förhistorisk, 'prehistoric', in Swedish
Another contribution to discovering the history and origin of words for 'prehistory' comes from Sweden, a critical land for 19th-century archaeological ideas
An example of the establishment of the Bronze Age cultural landscape in SW Scandinavia
In the Lake Hullsjön area, Västergötland, SW Sweden, the increase in the deposits of artifacts, the erection of monumental graves, and the intensification and expansion of cultivation and grazing, is discussed in terms of cultural landscape changes at the Neolithic/Bronze Age transition c. 2500–1500 B.C. The expansion included an intensified use of low‐lying clayey areas and caused an increase in soil erosion, as indicated by the sediment stratig…
Raw material sources and an exchange network of the earliest farming society in central Sweden
An unsuccessful attempt to locate a dolerite quarry is described. In spite of this failure a small‐scale network of raw‐material sources and settlement sites is reconstructed. A social and symbolic meaning of the exchange network is indicated
Ecosystems change at the Neolithic transition
The structures of the ecosystems in Central Sweden c. 7000 B.P. and 5000 B.P., i.e. on both sides of the Neolithic transition, are summarized. The difference between the systems is a difference in scale, not in structure. Both systems include culturally imposed clearance‐regeneration cycles. In the Early Neolithic ecosystem 100 times as much energy was converted to the use of man as in the Late Mesolithic system
Preliminary report on the measurement of flakes from early post‐glacial settlements
A method of grouping early post‐glacial settlements is described. This is based upon Quaternary geological, archaeological and statistical methods. Hakes were measured from settlements dated ‐with a high degree of certainty through the agency of the natural sciences, and the results obtained were treated statistically
The Cultural Construction of Childhood in Scandinavia, 3500 BC—1350AD
A set of Swedish and N orwegian burial-grounds and churchyards from the Neolithic to the Early Middle Ages (3500 BC—1350 AD) is analysed as concerns children's graves. Patterns of burial rituals corresponding to various concepts of childhood are constructed. Childhood is looked upon as a cultural construction independent of time and space. The basic growth process from infancy to adulthood is fundamental to the concept of childhood in all societi…
The Archaeology of Old Age
Prehistoric people sometimes died at an old age to judge by the longevity of life estimated from skeletal data. Anthropology, however, suggests that old age is a much more complex concept than that. The process of growing old that is stressed in the anthropological theory of old people may advantageously be discussed on the basis of prehistoric burial-ground data. Examples from Swedish burial-grounds hint at a cultural variation in the way in whi…
Raw material sources and an exchange network of the earliest farming society in central Sweden
An unsuccessful attempt to locate a dolerite quarry is described. In spite of this failure a small‐scale network of raw‐material sources and settlement sites is reconstructed. A social and symbolic meaning of the exchange network is indicated
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…
Visible Men and Elusive Women
The Ethnoarchaeology of a Swedish Village
The village of Nyberget, Dalarna, Central Sweden, during the 19th century is studied from an ethnoarchaeological point of view. The dynamic flexibflity and ambiguity of the cultural landscape of the village and its households are stressed. This is understood in relation to economic structure and gender roles. The concepts used in understanding the historical village form a challenging starting-point for understanding a prehistoric cultural landsc…
Pots, Females and Food
Thirteen graves at the Migration Period burial-ground Hamre, middle Sweden, contain ceramic pots. The technical features of these pots are related to the grave-ritual. Cooking or storage pots as well as table-pots had been used. Independent of these qualities, the pots had been used as bone-containers in the male graves, while in the female graves they had been placed on the pyre, possibly containing food, and afterwards deposited as sherds. In t…
Ecosystems change at the Neolithic transition
The structures of the ecosystems in Central Sweden c. 7000 B.P. and 5000 B.P., i.e. on both sides of the Neolithic transition, are summarized. The difference between the systems is a difference in scale, not in structure. Both systems include culturally imposed clearance‐regeneration cycles. In the Early Neolithic ecosystem 100 times as much energy was converted to the use of man as in the Late Mesolithic system
Preliminary report on the measurement of flakes from early post‐glacial settlements
A method of grouping early post‐glacial settlements is described. This is based upon Quaternary geological, archaeological and statistical methods. Hakes were measured from settlements dated ‐with a high degree of certainty through the agency of the natural sciences, and the results obtained were treated statistically
Ecosystems change at the Neolithic transition
The structures of the ecosystems in Central Sweden c. 7000 B.P. and 5000 B.P., i.e. on both sides of the Neolithic transition, are summarized. The difference between the systems is a difference in scale, not in structure. Both systems include culturally imposed clearance‐regeneration cycles. In the Early Neolithic ecosystem 100 times as much energy was converted to the use of man as in the Late Mesolithic system
Raw material sources and an exchange network of the earliest farming society in central Sweden
An unsuccessful attempt to locate a dolerite quarry is described. In spite of this failure a small‐scale network of raw‐material sources and settlement sites is reconstructed. A social and symbolic meaning of the exchange network is indicated
An example of the establishment of the Bronze Age cultural landscape in SW Scandinavia
In the Lake Hullsjön area, Västergötland, SW Sweden, the increase in the deposits of artifacts, the erection of monumental graves, and the intensification and expansion of cultivation and grazing, is discussed in terms of cultural landscape changes at the Neolithic/Bronze Age transition c. 2500–1500 B.C. The expansion included an intensified use of low‐lying clayey areas and caused an increase in soil erosion, as indicated by the sediment stratig…
The word förhistorisk, 'prehistoric', in Swedish
Another contribution to discovering the history and origin of words for 'prehistory' comes from Sweden, a critical land for 19th-century archaeological ideas
Pots, Females and Food
Thirteen graves at the Migration Period burial-ground Hamre, middle Sweden, contain ceramic pots. The technical features of these pots are related to the grave-ritual. Cooking or storage pots as well as table-pots had been used. Independent of these qualities, the pots had been used as bone-containers in the male graves, while in the female graves they had been placed on the pyre, possibly containing food, and afterwards deposited as sherds. In t…
The Ethnoarchaeology of a Swedish Village
The village of Nyberget, Dalarna, Central Sweden, during the 19th century is studied from an ethnoarchaeological point of view. The dynamic flexibflity and ambiguity of the cultural landscape of the village and its households are stressed. This is understood in relation to economic structure and gender roles. The concepts used in understanding the historical village form a challenging starting-point for understanding a prehistoric cultural landsc…
The Cross Goes North: Processes of Conversion in Northern Europe, AD 300-1300
Contains thirty-seven studies of the adoption of Christianity across northern Europe over 1000 years, and the diverse reasons that drove the process.
Visible Men and Elusive Women
Archaeological University Education and Professional Archaeology in Sweden
During the 19th century very few persons in Sweden recieved a doctoral degree in archaeology. Most of them found prestigious top-positions. Today there are about 100 persons with Ph. D.'s working in Swedish archaeology in positions from the top to the bottom of the professional hierarchy. Each year 150-200 students finish their basic education in archaeology. Most of them will never find a permanent full-time job as an archaeologist. The future o…
The Archaeology of Old Age
Prehistoric people sometimes died at an old age to judge by the longevity of life estimated from skeletal data. Anthropology, however, suggests that old age is a much more complex concept than that. The process of growing old that is stressed in the anthropological theory of old people may advantageously be discussed on the basis of prehistoric burial-ground data. Examples from Swedish burial-grounds hint at a cultural variation in the way in whi…
The Cultural Construction of Childhood in Scandinavia, 3500 BC—1350AD
A set of Swedish and N orwegian burial-grounds and churchyards from the Neolithic to the Early Middle Ages (3500 BC—1350 AD) is analysed as concerns children's graves. Patterns of burial rituals corresponding to various concepts of childhood are constructed. Childhood is looked upon as a cultural construction independent of time and space. The basic growth process from infancy to adulthood is fundamental to the concept of childhood in all societi…
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…
Ethnicity, migration and materiality. Forest Finn archaeology
During the early 17th century, Finns migrated within the Swedish kingdom from interior Finland to virgin spruce forest areas in Sweden. There they settled in finnmarker, areas with Finnish-speaking households conducting large-scale swidden cultivation, huuhta in Finnish. Eventually they were called Forest Finns. Their farms were centered around a rökstuga, a living-house with a stone-oven without a chimney.Four Forest Finn farms have been excavat…
Archaeology (13 works) · Geography (10 works) · History (10 works) · Historical and Archaeological Studies (8 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (7 works) · History (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works)