Publications and online texts
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Tredimensionell dokumentation av hällar och hällbilder i Uppland
by: Fredrik Fahlander (ed.)
Stockholm: Univ, 2023.
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Bildbruk i mellanrum. Mälarvikens hällbilder under andra årtusendet fvt
by: Fredrik Fahlander
Stockholm: Univ, 2018.
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Encountering Imagery. Materialities, Perceptions, Relations
Edited by: Ing-Marie Back Danielsson, Fredrik Fahlander & Ylva Sjöstrand
Stockholm: Univ, 2012.
Read a review essay from KUML
or review from NAR
Matters of scale. Processes and courses of events in archaeology and cultural history
Edited by: Nanouschka M. Burström & Fredrik Fahlander
Stockholm: Univ, 2012.
Read a review of the book from ARC
Spåren av de små. Arkeologiska perspektiv på barn och barndom
Edited by Fredrik Fahlander
Stockholm: Univ, 2011.
Making sense of things. Archaeologies of sensory perception
Edited by: Fredrik Fahlander & Anna Kjellström
Stockholm Studies in Archaeology 53, Stockholm: Univ. 2010.
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The Materiality of Death: Bodies, Burials, Beliefs
Edited by Fredrik Fahlander & Terje Oestigaard
Oxford: Archaeopress 2008
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Encounters-Materialities-Confrontations. Archaeologies of social space and interaction
Edited by Per Cornell and Fredrik Fahlander
Published in: Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press 2007
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Material Culture and other Things - Post-disciplinary Studies in the 21st century
Edited by Fredrik Fahlander & Terje Oestigaard
Gotarc, Series C, No 61, Gothenburg, 2004
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Read a review of the book from Archaeological Review from Cambridge (2005) or Cambridge Archaeological Journal (2006)
The Materiality of Serial Practice. A microarchaeology of burial
by Fredrik Fahlander (PhD thesis)
Gotarc series D, No 23, Gothenburg, 2003 . Errata
Read a review from American Journal of Archaeology 2005
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Social praktik och stumma monument. Introduktion till mikroarkeologi
by Per Cornell & Fredrik Fahlander
Gotarc, series C, No 46, Göteborg, 2002. Errata
Read a review from KUML2005!
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Archaeology as science-fiction. A microarchaeology of the unknown
by Fredrik Fahlander
Gotarc series C, no 43, Gothenburg, 2001.
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Texter om arkeologisk kulturmiljövård : historia, praktik och identitetspolitik
by Fredrik Fahlander, Kristian Kristiansen & Jarl Nordbladh (Red)
Gotarc series C, no 41, Gothenburg, 2000.
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Arkeologiska Texter. Trendanalyser av Nordisk periodica
by Fredrik Fahlander, P. Cornell & K. Kristiansen (eds)
Gotarc Serie C, no 21, Gothenburg, 1998.
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On-line Articles (back to top)
The Faceless Men. Partial bodies and body parts in Scandinavian Bronze Age rock art,
By Fahlander, F.
Published in Ontologies of Rock Art: Images, Relational Approaches and Indigenous Knowledge,
O. Moro Abadía & M. Porr (eds), London: Routledge 2021.
The partial and the vague as a visual mode in Bronze Age rock art
by Fredrik Fahlander
Published in: I-M Back Danielsson & A. M. Jones (eds), Images in the making: Art-Process-Archaeology
Manchester: Manchester University Press (2020)
Becoming Dead. Burial assemblages as vitalist devices,
by Fredrik Fahlander
Published in: Cambridge Archaeological Journal 30(4): 555-569. 2020.
Unruly bones and efficacious stones. Materialities of death in Early Christian post-burial interactions in central-eastern Sweden
by Fredrik Fahlander
Published in: Grave disturbances. The archaeology of post-depositional interactions with the dead, E. Aspöck, N. Müller-Scheessel & A. Klevnäs (eds), Oxford: Oxbow 2020
The Stacked, the Partial, and the Large. Visual Modes of Material Articulation in Mälaren Bay Rock Art
by Fredrik Fahlander
Published in: K. I. Austvoll, M. Hem Eriksen, L. Melheim, L. Prøsch-Danielsen & L. Skogstrand (eds), Contrasts of the Nordic Bronze Age. Turnhout: Brepol (2020)
Fantastic Beings and Where to Make Them. Boats as Object-Beings in Bronze Age Rock Art
by: Fredrik Fahlander
Published in: Current Swedish Archaeology vol 27: 191-212. 2019.
Reflections on theoretical archaeology in the Nordic countries today
by: Fredrik Fahlander
Published in: Arkæologisk Forum vol 41: 17-18. 2019.
Size Matters: Hyperbolism in South Scandinavian Rock Art
by Fredrik Fahlander
Published in: Fennoscandia archaeologica, XXXVI: 53-67. (2019)
Petroglyphs as 'contraptions' - Animacy and vitalist technologies in a Bronze Age archipelago
by: Fredrik Fahlander
Published in: Time and Mind vol 12(2): 109-20. 2019.
Vila på gamla lager. Om tidigkristen ontologi och dödens materialiteter
by: Fredrik Fahlander
Published in: C. Ljung, et al (red), Tidens landskap - en vänbok till Anders Andrén, ss. 119-21. Stockholm: NAP. 2019
The Mediality of Rock and Metal. Exploring Formal Analyses of Rock Art through Graffiti,
By Fredrik Fahlander
Published in: D. Gheorghiu and T. Barth (Eds.), Artistic Practices and Archaeological Research, Oxford: Archaeopress, pp 31-40 (2019)
Grave encounters: Ontological and material aspects of post-burial practices in south Scandinavian Late Iron Age,
Published in: Primitive Tider, (2018)
The relational life of trees. Ontological aspects of "tree-ness" in the Early Bronze Age of Northern Europe
By Fredrik Fahlander
Published in: Open Archaeology, 4(1): 373-385 (2018)
Review of Archaeological Theory in the New Millennium: Introducing Current Perspectives, by Oliver J.T. Harris and Craig Cipolla
By Fredrik Fahlander
Published in: Journal of European Archaeology, 21(4): 640-43 (2018)
Nuances of What? Burials as Relational Configurations (Comment)
By Fredrik Fahlander
Published in: Norwegian Archaeological Review, (2018)
Keynote: The changing roles of archaeology in Swedish museums
By Anders Höglund & Fredrik Fahlander
Published in: Current Swedish Archaeology, Vol 25, 2018
Ontology Matters in Archaeology and Anthropology: People, things and posthumanism
By Fredrik Fahlander
Published in: These “Thin Partitions”: Bridging the Growing Divide between Cultural Anthropology and Archaeology, I. A. Hepp & J. D. Englehardt (eds), University Press of Colorado, 2017
Materiella bilder: Visuella uttryck bland Mälarvikens hällbilder
By Fredrik Fahlander
Published in: 13:e nordiska bronsålderssymposiet, (Red: Sophie Bergerbrant and Anna Wessman), Göteborg: Univ. 2017
The Materiality of the Ancient Dead. Post-burial Practices and Ontologies of Death in Southern Sweden AD 800–1200
By Fredrik Fahlander
Published in: Current Swedish Archaeology, Vol 24 (2016)
The skin I live in. The materiality of body imagery
By Fredrik Fahlander
In: Own and be owned, Archaeological perspectives o the concept of possessions A. Klevnäs & C. Hedenstierna-Johnsson (eds), Stockholm, 2015, pp49-72.
Kommentar till Kristine Orestad Sørgaard: ‘den ontologiske vendingen i arkeologien’
By Fredrik Fahlander
In: Insitu Archaeologica 2015, pp112-15.
Djur och människor: posthumanistiska perspektiv på yngre järnålderns gravar
By Fredrik Fahlander
In: H. Alexandersson, A. Andreeff & A. Bünz (red). Med hjärta och hjärna: en vänbok till Elisabeth Arwill-Nordbladh, Gothenburg: Univ. 2014. pp237-50.
Postmodern Archaeologies
By Fredrik Fahlander
In: The Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Theory,
Eds: Andrew Gardner, Mark Lake and Ulrike Sommer, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2014.
Magiska Tatueringar,
By Fredrik Fahlander
In: Sjömanstatueringar M. Arnshaw (ed), Sjöhistorisk rapport 48, Stockholm: Medströms/Statens Maritima Museer, 2014.
Articulating Relations: A non-representational view of Scandinavian Rock-art,
By Fredrik Fahlander
Archaeology after Interpretation. Returning Materials to Archaeological Theory. Alberti, B., Jones, A. & Pollard, J. (Eds), Left Coast Press. 2013.
Sherlock against Lestrade: A study in scale,
By Fredrik Fahlander
In: Counterpoint: Essays in Archaeology and Heritage Studies in Honour of Professor Kristian Kristiansen , Eds: Serena Sabatini & Sophie Bergerbrant,
Oxford: Oxbow, (2013).
Intersecting Generations. Burying the Old in a Neolithic Hunter-Fisher Community,
By Fredrik Fahlander
In: Cambridge Archaeological Journal. Vol 23(2): 227-239, 2013.
Den materiella dimensionen: Indexikala relationer av storlek och materialitet,
By Fredrik Fahlander
In: Primitive Tider 15:7-20 2013
Are we there yet? Archaeology and the postmodern in the new millennium,
By Fredrik Fahlander
Current Swedish Archaeology, (2012)
Articulating stone. The material practice of petroglyphing,
By Fredrik Fahlander
Encountering Imagery. Materialities, Perceptions, Relations, I.-M. Back Danielsson, F. Fahlander, & Y. Sjöstrand (Eds), Stockholm: Univ. (2012).
Imagery beyond representation,
By I.-M. Back Danielsson, F. Fahlander, & Y. Sjöstrand
Encountering Imagery. Materialities, Perceptions, Relations, I.-M. Back Danielsson, F. Fahlander, & Y. Sjöstrand (Eds), Stockholm: Univ. (2012).
Articulating Hybridity. Structurating situations and indexical events in North-European rock art,
By Fredrik Fahlander
Matters of scale. Processes and courses of events in archaeology and cultural history, Nanouschka M. Burström & Fredrik Fahlander (Eds.), Stockholm: Univ. (2012)
To go with the flow or against the grain?
By Nanouschka M. Burström & Fredrik Fahlander
Matters of scale. Processes and courses of events in archaeology and cultural history, Nanouschka M. Burström & Fredrik Fahlander (Eds.), Stockholm: Univ. (2012)
Mellanneolitisk ålderdom. Sociala aspekter av livscykelns sista faser,
By Fredrik Fahlander
In Situ Archaeologica 2011/12 , pp 7-19.
Facing gender. Corporeality, materiality, intersectionality and resurrection,
By Fredrik Fahlander
To Tender Gender, Susanne Thedéen & Ing-Marie Back Danielsson (eds). Stockholm: Univ. (2012).
Mesolithic Childhoods: Changing Life-Courses of Young Hunter-Fishers in the Stone Age of Southern Scandinavia,
By Fredrik Fahlander
Published in: Journal of Childhood in the Past No 5, 2012, pp 20-34.
Recension av Åsa Berggrens avhandling 'Med kärret som källa'
by Fredrik Fahlander
Current Swedish Archaeology vol 19, pp228-30. 2012.
Subadult or subaltern? Children as serial categories
by Fredrik Fahlander
(Re)Thinking the Little Ancestor: New Perspectives on the Archaeology of Infancy and Childhood,
Mike Lally & Alison Moore (eds), Oxford: Archaeopress, British Archaeological Reports 2011, pp14-23.
Bilder av barn och barndom
By Fredrik Fahlander
Spåren av de små. Arkeologiska perspektiv på barn och barndom, Red: Fredrik Fahlander
Stockholm: Univ, 2011, pp1-75.
Mesolitisk barndom. Att vara liten på Skateholm
By Fredrik Fahlander
Spåren av de små. Arkeologiska perspektiv på barn och barndom, Red: Fredrik Fahlander
Stockholm: Univ, 2011, pp181-197.
Evolution eller intentionell design?
By Fredrik Fahlander
Primitive Tider no 13, pp167-70.
Messing with the Dead. Post-depositional Manipulations of Burials and Bodies in the South Scandinavian Stone Age,
By Fredrik Fahlander
Documenta Praehistorica, no37, 2010
The Nose, the Eye, the Mouth and the Gut: Social Dimensions of Food-Cravings and Commensality,
By Fredrik Fahlander
Making sense of things. Archaeologies of sensory perception, Red: Fredrik Fahlander & Anna Kjellström,
Stockholm: Univ, 2010, pp35-50.
Beyond Sight: Archaeologies of Sensory Perception,
By Fredrik Fahlander & Anna Kjellström,
Making sense of things. Archaeologies of sensory perception, Red: Fredrik Fahlander & Anna Kjellström,
Stockholm: Univ, 2010, pp1-14.
Livet efter döden. Hanteringen av döda.
by Fredrik Fahlander
Published in: Döda personers sällskap – gravmaterialens identiteter och kulturella uttryck, I-M. Back Danielsson, I. Gustin, A. Larsson, N. Myrberg & S. Thedéen (red.), Stockholm, Univ. 2009, pp35-55
Reala kroppar och dödens realitet. Rumslighet och horisontell stratigrafi på Ajvide och Skateholm
By Fredrik Fahlander
Published in: I tillvarons gränsland: mångvetenskapliga perspektiv på kroppen mellan liv och död, Red: Liv Nilsson Stutz & Fredrik Ekengren, Lund: Lund univ, 2009.
Differences that matter: Materialities, material culture and social practice
By Fredrik Fahlander
Published in: Six essays on the materiality of society and culture, Red. H. Glørstad & L. Hedeager, Gothenburg: Bricoleur Press 2008 (pp127-54)
Laserdokumentation och analys av hällristningar
By Fredrik Fahlander
Published in: Mimers Brunn - arkeologi etnologi och historia i Västra Götaland, No 2, 2008, pp8-9.
The Materiality of Death: Bodies, Burials, Beliefs
By Fredrik Fahlander & Terje Oestigaard
Published in: The Materiality of Death: Bodies, Burials, Beliefs
Edited by Fredrik Fahlander & Terje Oestigaard
Oxford: Archaeopress 2008
A Piece of the Mesolithic. Horizontal Stratigraphy and Bodily Manipulations at Skateholm
By Fredrik Fahlander
Published in: The Materiality of Death: Bodies, Burials, Beliefs
Edited by Fredrik Fahlander & Terje Oestigaard
Oxford: Archaeopress 2008
Same, same, but different? Making sense of the seemingly similar
By Fredrik Fahlander
Published in: Facets of archaeology. Essays in honour of Lotte Hedeager
Edited by Christopher Prescott, Konstantinos Chilidis & Julie Lund
Oslo: OAS 2008
Third Space Encounters: Hybridity, Mimicry and Interstitial Practice
By Fredrik Fahlander
Published in: Encounters-Materialities-Confrontations. Archaeologies of social space and interaction,
Edited by Per Cornell and Fredrik Fahlander, Edinburg: Cambridge Scholars Press 2007.
Encounters – Materialities – Confrontations: An Introduction
By Per Cornell & Fredrik Fahlander
Published in: Encounters-Materialities-Confrontations. Archaeologies of social space and interaction,
Edited by Per Cornell and Fredrik Fahlander, Edinburg: Cambridge Scholars Press 2007.
Liv och död i det tredje rummet. Hybriditet och materialitet under mellanneolitikum
By Fredrik Fahlander
Published in: Lik og ulik - Tilnærminger til variasjon i gravskikk,
T. Oestigaard (ed), UBAS, Bergen: Arkeologiskt institutt. 2006, pp. 203-23.
Kön & Gender som seriekollektiv: sociala aspekter på korporealitet & handling
by Fredrik Fahlander
Published in: Det arkeologiske kjønn, Eds: Ingrid Fuglestvedt & L. Skogstrand, OAS vol. 7, Oslo: Univ., 2006
Döden i den bräckta lagunen. Bland hundar och barn i Skateholm
By Malou Bäcklund Blank & Fredrik Fahlander
Published in: Lik og ulik - Tilnærminger til variasjon i gravskikk, T. Oestigaard (ed), UBAS, Bergen: Arkeologiskt institutt. 2006, pp. 225-78.
Recension av Fredrik Andersson: Med historien i ryggen
by Fredrik Fahlander
Published in: RIG, No 4 2005, pp237-240
Introduction: Material Culture and Post-Disciplinary Sciences
By: Fredrik Fahlander & Terje Oestigaard
Published in: Material Culture and Other Things - Post-disciplinary Studies in the 21st century, Edited by: F. Fahlander & T. Oestigaard, Gothenburg: Gotarc 2004, pp1-19
Archaeology and Anthropology: Brothers in Arms? - On Analogies in 21st Century Archaeology
By: Fredrik Fahlander
Published in: Material Culture and Other Things - Post-disciplinary Studies in the 21st century, Edited by: F. Fahlander & T. Oestigaard, Gothenburg: Gotarc 2004, pp185-211
Mortuary Data: Structural relations between burials, settlements and the landscape. (+ Catalogue of Graves)
By Fredrik Fahlander
Published in The Asea Valley Survey. An Arcadian Mountain Valley from the Palaeolithic Period until Modern Times,
(J. Forsén & B. Forsén eds.), ACTA ATHENIENSIS, Series in 4, LI: Paul Åströms Förlag, 2003, pp353-358.
Microarchaeology, Materiality and Social Practice
by Per Cornell & Fredrik Fahlander
Published in Current Swedish Archaeology, vol 10, 2002 pp21-38
The Subject of Social Epistemology. Comment to Denning.
by Per Cornell & Fredrik Fahlander
Published in Philosophy and Archaeological Practice. Perspectives for the21st Century, Eds: Cornelius Holtorf & Håkan Karlsson, 2000, pp215-217
Forum för debatt? Teori och metod i arkeologisk periodica,
By Fahlander, F., Berglund, L. & Gröndahl, J.
Published in Arkeologiska Texter. Trendanalyser av Nordisk periodica,
Eds: P. Cornell, F. Fahlander & K. Kristiansen, Gotarc Serie C, no 21, Göteborg: Institutionen för arkeologi, 1998. pp 85-94.
Articles in Press (back to top)
Visual modes of material articulation in Mälaren bay rock art,
By Fahlander, F.
To be published in Contrasts of The Bronze Age: Time, Trajectories, and Encounters in the Nordic World,
K. I. Austvoll , L. Melheim, P. Ditlef Fredriksen, M. Hem Eriksen, L. Prøsch-Danielsen & L. Skogstrand (eds), Turnhout: Brepol. 2020
Excavation reports (back to top)
Delundersökning av Raä 22 Västra Porten/Smällen, Ytterby Sn. Vt & Ht 2008
By: Fahlander, F. & Hjörungdal, T.
Gotarc serie D Nr 71, Arkeologiska Rapporter, Göteborg: Institutionen för Arkeologi, univ 2008.
Delundersökning av Raä 22 Västra Porten/Smällen, Ytterby Sn. Ht 2007
By: Fahlander, F. & Hjörungdal, T.
Gotarc serie D Nr 69, Arkeologiska Rapporter, Göteborg: Institutionen för Arkeologi, univ 2007.
Delundersökning av Raä 22 Västra Porten/Smällen, Ytterby Sn. Vt 2007
By: Fahlander, F. & Hjörungdal, T.
Gotarc serie D Nr 68, Arkeologiska Rapporter, Göteborg: Institutionen för Arkeologi, univ 2007.
Delundersökning av Raä 22 Västra Porten/Smällen, Ytterby Sn. Ht 2006
By: Fahlander, F. & Hjörungdal, T.
Gotarc serie D Nr 66, Arkeologiska Rapporter, Göteborg: Institutionen för Arkeologi, univ 2006.
Delundersökning av Raä 22 Västra Porten/Smällen, Ytterby Sn. Vt 2006
By: Fahlander, F. & Hjörungdal, T.
Gotarc serie D Nr 65, Arkeologiska Rapporter, Göteborg: Institutionen för Arkeologi, univ 2006.
Delundersökning av en aktivitetsyta från Järnålder. RAÄ 22, Västra Porten/Smällen, Ytterby Sn., Bohuslän, Vt 2005
By: Fahlander, F. & Jensen, Ola W.
Gotarc serie D Nr 64, Arkeologiska Rapporter, Göteborg: Institutionen för Arkeologi, univ 2006.
Delundersökning av neolitisk boplats 2005. Karleby 194, Falköpings kommun, Västergötland
By: Fahlander, F. & Sjögren, K-G.
Gotarc serie D Nr 56, Arkeologiska Rapporter, Göteborg: Institutionen för Arkeologi, univ 2005.
Delundersökning av neolitisk boplats 2004. Karleby 194, Falköpings kommun, Västergötland
By: Fahlander, F. & Sjögren, K-G.
Gotarc serie D Nr 55, Arkeologiska Rapporter, Göteborg: Institutionen för Arkeologi, univ 2004.
Pedagogic material (back to top)
Att skriva uppsats
By Fredrik Fahlander
Att söka litteratur (Stockholm 2014)
By Fredrik Fahlander
Liten guide till den antikvariska verksamheten
By Fredrik Fahlander
Fälthandledning (Göteborg 2008)
By Fredrik Fahlander
Fälthandledning Broby 2015
By Fredrik Fahlander (mfl)
Miscellaneous texts (back to top)
Uppsatser:
Ciceros uppfattning om människan och naturen - Ekologi och natursyn under senrepubliken
By Fredrik Fahlander
(Opublicerad C-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet 1995).
Att Kasta pärlor för män? - Om dolda gendergrupper i gravmaterialet
By Fredrik Fahlander
(Opublicerad C-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet 1995).
Musik under bronsåldern? - En diskussion om bronslurarnas funktion under Sydskandinavisk bronsålder
By Fredrik Fahlander
(Opublicerad B-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet 1994).
Kursanteckningar:
Anteckningar kring arkeoastronomi
By Fredrik Fahlander