New Research Project
Bodily Biographies of the Bronze Age
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 24229418 |
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| Authors | Laura Ahlqvist (0000-0003-1367-7574), Susanne Østergaard, Louise Felding (0000-0003-1427-2827) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2026-10-07 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Current Swedish Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1102-7355 • E-ISSN: 2002-3901 |
| Publisher | Svenska Arkeologiska Samfundet (PUBLISHER • SE) |
| DOI | 10.37718/csa.2026.03 |
| OpenAlex | W7220896814 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
The newly funded research project, Bodily Biographies of the Bronze Age (BODYBIO), takes its point of departure from the intersection of the body, society and material culture in the Nordic Bronze Age (NBA, c. 1700–500 BCE). By combining theoretical perspectives from New Materialism with those of classical sociology, we use artefacts as proxies for fragmented and missing bodies. BODYBIO combines the study of these artefacts together with stateof- art osteological re-examination and scientific analysis of heavily fragmented cremated human remains to reconstruct bodily biographies.
body and society · cremated remains · human remains · Material culture · new materialism · Nordic Bronze Age · Osteology · Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies · Historical and Archaeological Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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