Anders Lindahl
Professor emeritus
My name is Anders Lindahl, I am professor in laboratory and experimental archaeology and since 1984 head of the Laboratory for Ceramic Research. The work at the laboratory is mainly to document and analyse ceramic materials found at archaeological excavations. My task at the laboratory is to initiate and conduct research projects within the field of ceramology.
I presented my PhD thesis 1986 in medieval archaeology. The thesis is called “Information through Sherds” and should be seen as a methodological study on how to apply different laboratory analyses on a ceramic material and through these analyses shed light on different phases of the ceramic handicraft (manufacturing methods, vessel function etc.), as well as the changes/development of the site where the ceramic material was found.
Since 1988 I have been involved in various projects in South-eastern Africa. I have e.g. been the project co-ordinator for the project "Ceramics, Metal Craft and Settlement in southeastern Zimbabwe since AD 1400" (financed by Sida/SAREC). The aim of the project has been to trace changes in the handicraft tradition and by using the material culture illuminate the interaction between a central place (e.g. town, hill fort) and hinterland (e.g. village, farmstead). Together with Prof. Pikirayi UP, Pretoria, South Africa I am responsible for the project "Ceramics and the Ethnographic Present". The aim of this project is to investigate modern ceramic manufacturing techniques among selected ethnic groups in northern and eastern South Africa. The objective is to understand cultural processes and human group identities of some later Iron Age communities found in these areas financed by NFR South Africa and the Swedish Research Counsil Links programme). One of the projects concerning Swedish ceramics is called "The Late Black Earthenware- the introducktion to modern ceramics in Sweden". and is mainly concerned with how a traditional (older) handicraft deals with the introduction of a new type of production. The project is a co-operation with Ass. Prof. O Stilborg and financed by The Crafoord Foundation. A further example is a project aiming at studying the early production of bricks in Sweden, in a first phase by analysis of bricks from the Medieval kiln at Gamla Boo outside Stockholm. This project is conducted in co-operation with Ass. Prof. Jan Peder Lamm.
Publications
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Making in turbulent times:new insights into late 18th-and early 19th-century ceramic crafts and connectivity in the Magaliesberg region
Per Ditlef Fredriksen, Anders Lindahl
(2023) Southern African Humanities, 36 p.89-124
Journal articleNew Archaeointensity Results from the Iron Age in Southern Africa
Megan Allington, Anders Lindahl, Andreas Nilsson, Neil Suttie, Mimi J. Hill
(2023) LUNDQUA THESIS, 96
Working paperChicumbane Connections: Lower Limpopo Valley During the First Millennium AD.
Anneli Ekblom, Michel Notelid, Anders Lindahl, Ezekia Mtetwa
(2023) African Archaeological Review
Journal articleWhat happened in the hinterland? : A batch study of early bucket-shaped pots from the 4th and 5th centuries AD in Southwest Norway.
Per Ditlef Fredriksen, Anders Lindahl
(2023) Primitive tider: arkeologisk tidsskrift , p.23-34
Journal articleMaking inventory : Mapping and Exploring Zimbabwe Sites
Anders Lindahl, Edward Matenga
(2018) Studies in Global Archaeolgy, 23 p.101-117
Book chapterThe archaeometry of tuyeres from the Great Zimbabwe and wider implications for its iron production technologies
Ezekia Mtetwa, Anders Lindahl
(2017) Studies in Global Archaeology, 22 p.2-30
Working paperOptimising Archaeologic Ceramics h-XRF Analyses
Jakob Bergman, Anders Lindahl
(2016) Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, 187
Book chapterPots in Context: Aspects on Pottery Production and Use in the Early Neolithic Funnel Beaker (TRB) Culture on Öland, SE Sweden
Ludvig Papmehl-Dufay, Ole Stilborg, Anders Lindahl, Isaksson Sven
(2016) British Archaeological Reports - International Series, 2809 p.55-66
Journal articleOptimising Archaeologic Ceramics XRF Analyses
Jakob Bergman, Anders Lindahl
(2015) Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Compositional Data Analysis , p.29-37
Conference paperCeramic Production Technology and Society : postcolonial approaches to material culture studies in southern Africa - some unanswered questions
Innocent Pikirayi, Anders Lindahl
(2015) Recent Approaches to Ancient Ceramics in Archaeology , p.96-110
Conference paperDen tidigaste keramiken. Bruksgods från stenålder till medeltid.
Anders Lindahl
(2015) Keramik & porslin i Sverige genom 7 000 år : Från trattbägare till fri keramik , p.21-42
Book chapterA recently excavated medieval brick kiln at Saltsjö Boo, Sweden and the hXRF analyses of its products
Jan Peder Lamm, Anders Lindahl
(2013) British Archaeological Reports - International Series , p.81-92
Journal articleThe handicrafts of Iron Age pottery in Scandinavia :regionalities and traditions
Thomas Eriksson, Anders Lindahl
(2013) Lund Archaeological Review, 18 p.45-60
Journal articleCeramics, ethnohistory and ethnography : locating meaning in Southern African Iron Age ceramic assemblages
Innocent Pikirayi, Anders Lindahl
(2013) African Archaeological Review, 30 p.455-473
Journal articleCeramics and the ethnographic present : interrogating pottery in Southern African Iron Age studies : some unanswered questions
Anders Lindahl, Innocent Pikirayi
(2013) Recent Approaches to Ancient Ceramics in Archaeology
Conference paper: abstractFor everyday use and special occasions : a multi-analytical study of pottery from two early neolithic funnel beaker (TRB) sites on the island of Öland, SE Sweden
Ludvig Papmehl-Dufay, Stilborg Ole, Anders Lindahl, Isaksson Sven
(2013) Naturwissenschaftliche Analysen vor- und frühgeschichtlicher Keramik III: Methoden, Anwendungsbereiche, Auswertungsmöglichkeiten, 238 p.123-152
Book chapterExtraction methods of carbon in ceramic ware for 14C- AMS- dating : a pilot study on Bronze Age pottery from Scania, Sweden
Anders Lindahl, Göran Skog
(2013) [Publication information missing] , p.26-26
Conference paper: abstractAustronesian sailing to the northern Marianas, a comment on Hung et al. (2011)
Olaf Winter, Geoffrey Clark, Atholl Anderson, Anders Lindahl
(2012) Antiquity, 86 p.898-910
Journal article (comment)Perforated cylinders for heat demanding craft
Anders Lindahl, Paul Eklöv Pettersson
(2011) Lund Archaeological Review, 17 p.49-59
Journal articleCeramics and change. An overview of pottery production
Anders Lindahl, Innocent Pikirayi
(2010) Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 2 p.133-149
Journal articleNew data on the manufacture and function of pottery
Eva Olsson, Anders Lindahl, Agneta Scharp
(2008) Södertörn : interdisciplinary investigations of Stone Age sites in eastern middle Sweden. The results from the investigations for the Grödinge line in the Södertörn peninsula , p.1-65
Book chapterGråborg och S:t Knuts kapell : en berättelse i tid och rum baserad på en studie av det keramiska materialet
Anders Lindahl, Torbjörn Brorsson
(2008) Gråborg på Öland : om en borg, ett kapell och en by , p.67-80
Book chapterTrummor av keramik?
Anders Lindahl
(2008) Svenska ICTM-kommitténs rapportserie inom ICTM
Journal articleGjutformsanalys
Anders Lindahl, Ole Stilborg
(2007) Björn Olssons bronsgjuteri i stormaktstidens Västerås, Västmanland, Västerås stad, Kvarteret Kleopatra 7 och 9, RAÄ 232 : arkeologisk undersökning : dnr 423-1320-2005
Book chapterCeramics and the Ethnographic Present: ceramic manufacturing techniques in southern Africa
Anders Lindahl, Innocent Pikirayi
(2007) , p.95-96
Conference paper: abstractThe San Giovenale pottery : production and raw material
Anders Lindahl, Embaie Ferrow, Daniel Fuglesang, Pia Sköld
(2006) British Archaeological Reports - International Series, 1509 p.89-103
Journal articleAmphorae from Caronia and Caronia Marina, Provincia di Messina, Sicily – Thin-Section analyses
Anders Lindahl
(2006) Caleacte. Production and exchange in a north Sicilian town c. 500 BC-AD 500 , p.253-267
Book chapterFyllinges ugnar. Olika sätt - olika hantverkare eller experiment?
Ole Stilborg, Anders Lindahl
(2005) Förromersk järnålder i fokus, Framgrävt förflutet från Fyllinge, vol 2 p.51-57
Book chapterGreat Zimbabwe in the Buhera District: Centre and periphery
Anders Lindahl
(2005)
Conference paper: abstractPhysical and chemical studies of raw clay materials from deposits in the Bani- and Niger river inland deltas in the Jenné region, middle east Mali
Anders Lindahl, Per Sandgren, Siv Olsson, Pia Sköld
(2005)
Conference paper: abstractThe Lao Pako Pottery: Thin section analysis
Anders Lindahl
(2004) And through flows the river : archaeology and the pasts of Lao Pako , p.317-328
Book chapterThe Buhera Project, a presentation of results and ongoing research
Anders Lindahl
(2004) , p.11-11
Conference paper: abstractLaborativa analyser av keramik från ugnarna i Hellum, Barmer och Kragelund
Anders Lindahl
(2003) Middelalderlige Pottemagerovne i Danmark, 28 p.281-296
Book chapterIntroduction to Pots, Jars and Sherds. The Importance of Potery for our Understanding of Southeast Asia’s Past
Anders Lindahl
(2003) Fishbones and Glittering Emblems. Southeast Asian Archaeology 2002 , p.163-165
Book chapterExploring Smaller Settlements of the Great Zimbabwe Tradition, Buhera Region, Zimbabwe
Anders Lindahl
(2003)
Conference paperKeramik i Sydsverige: en handbok för arkeologer
(2002) Monographs on Ceramics, 2
BookKärlets form och bruk
Anders Lindahl
(2002) Keramik i Sydsverige: en handbok för arkeologer, Monographs on Ceramics 2 p.38-43
Book chapterMicroscopical analyses of ceramic thin-sections of votive terracottas from Tessennano, Vulci, Tuscania and Tarquinia
Anders Lindahl
(2002) Late Etruscan votive heads from Tessennano: production, distribution, sociohistorical context , p.393-423
Book chapterGlasyr, Bränningsmetoder
Anders Lindahl
(2002) Keramik i Sydsverige: en handbok för arkeologer, Monographs on Ceramics 2 p.29-35
Book chapterAnalysmetoder
Anders Lindahl
(2002) Keramik i Sydsverige : en handbok för arkeologer, 2 p.45-49
Book chapterPresent and past : ceramics and homesteads : an ethnoarchaeological investigation in the Buhera district, Zimbabwe
Anders Lindahl, Edward Matenga
(1995) Studies in African Archaeology, 11
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