Anders Lindahl
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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Publications
- 2017
- Accurate prediction of X-ray pulse properties from a free-electron laser using machine learning
(2017) Nature Communications
Journal article
- Accurate prediction of X-ray pulse properties from a free-electron laser using machine learning
- 2016
- Optimising Archaeologic Ceramics h-XRF Analyses
(2016) Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics
Book chapter - Pots in Context: Aspects on Pottery Production and Use in the Early Neolithic Funnel Beaker (TRB) Culture on Öland, SE Sweden
(2016) British Archaeological Reports - International Series
Journal article
- Optimising Archaeologic Ceramics h-XRF Analyses
- 2015
- Optimising Archaeologic Ceramics XRF Analyses
(2015)
Conference paper
- Optimising Archaeologic Ceramics XRF Analyses
- 2013
- A recently excavated medieval brick kiln at Saltsjö Boo, Sweden and the hXRF analyses of its products
(2013) British Archaeological Reports - International Series
Journal article - Ceramics and the ethnographic present : interrogating pottery in Southern African Iron Age studies : some unanswered questions
(2013) Recent Approaches to Ancient Ceramics in Archaeology
Conference paper: abstract - Ceramics, ethnohistory and ethnography : locating meaning in Southern African Iron Age ceramic assemblages
(2013) African Archaeological Review
Journal article - Extraction methods of carbon in ceramic ware for 14C- AMS- dating : a pilot study on Bronze Age pottery from Scania, Sweden
(2013) [Publication information missing]
Conference paper: abstract - For 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
(2013)
Book chapter - The handicrafts of Iron Age pottery in Scandinavia :regionalities and traditions
(2013) Lund Archaeological Review
Journal article
- A recently excavated medieval brick kiln at Saltsjö Boo, Sweden and the hXRF analyses of its products
- 2012
- Austronesian sailing to the northern Marianas, a comment on Hung et al. (2011)
(2012) Antiquity
Journal article (comment) - XRF-analys av tegel från Riddarholmskyrkans gravtumba
(2012) KFLRAPPORT
Report
- Austronesian sailing to the northern Marianas, a comment on Hung et al. (2011)
- 2011
- New data on the manufacture and function of pottery
(2011)
Book chapter - Perforated cylinders for heat demanding craft
(2011) Lund Archaeological Review
Journal article
- New data on the manufacture and function of pottery
- 2010
- Ceramics and change. An overview of pottery production
(2010) Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
Journal article
- Ceramics and change. An overview of pottery production
- 2008
- Gråborg och S:t Knuts kapell : en berättelse i tid och rum baserad på en studie av det keramiska materialet
(2008)
Book chapter - Trummor av keramik?
(2008) Svenska ICTM-kommitténs rapportserie inom ICTM
Journal article
- Gråborg och S:t Knuts kapell : en berättelse i tid och rum baserad på en studie av det keramiska materialet
- 2007
- Ceramics and the Ethnographic Present: ceramic manufacturing techniques in southern Africa
(2007) Abstracts book / 13th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists
Conference paper: abstract - Gjutformsanalys
(2007)
Book chapter
- Ceramics and the Ethnographic Present: ceramic manufacturing techniques in southern Africa
- 2006
- Amphorae from Caronia and Caronia Marina, Provincia di Messina, Sicily – Thin-Section analyses
(2006)
Book chapter - The San Giovenale pottery : production and raw material
(2006) British Archaeological Reports - International Series
Journal article
- Amphorae from Caronia and Caronia Marina, Provincia di Messina, Sicily – Thin-Section analyses
- 2005
- Fyllinges ugnar. Olika sätt - olika hantverkare eller experiment?
(2005)
Book chapter - Great Zimbabwe in the Buhera District: Centre and periphery
(2005)
Conference paper: abstract - Physical and chemical studies of raw clay materials from deposits in the Bani- and Niger river inland deltas in the Jenné region, middle east Mali
(2005)
Conference paper: abstract
- Fyllinges ugnar. Olika sätt - olika hantverkare eller experiment?
- 2004
- The Buhera Project, a presentation of results and ongoing research
(2004)
Conference paper: abstract - The Lao Pako Pottery: Thin section analysis
(2004)
Book chapter
- The Buhera Project, a presentation of results and ongoing research
- 2003
- Exploring Smaller Settlements of the Great Zimbabwe Tradition, Buhera Region, Zimbabwe
(2003)
Conference paper - Introduction to Pots, Jars and Sherds. The Importance of Potery for our Understanding of Southeast Asia’s Past
(2003)
Book chapter - Laborativa analyser av keramik från ugnarna i Hellum, Barmer och Kragelund
(2003)
Book chapter
- Exploring Smaller Settlements of the Great Zimbabwe Tradition, Buhera Region, Zimbabwe
- 2002
- Analysmetoder
(2002)
Book chapter - Glasyr, Bränningsmetoder
(2002)
Book chapter - Kärlets form och bruk
(2002)
Book chapter - Microscopical analyses of ceramic thin-sections of votive terracottas from Tessennano, Vulci, Tuscania and Tarquinia
(2002)
Book chapter
- Analysmetoder
- 1995
- Present and past : ceramics and homesteads : an ethnoarchaeological investigation in the Buhera district, Zimbabwe
(1995) Studies in African Archaeology
Book
- Present and past : ceramics and homesteads : an ethnoarchaeological investigation in the Buhera district, Zimbabwe
Editor
- 2002
- Keramik i Sydsverige: en handbok för arkeologer
(2002) Monographs on Ceramics
Book
- Keramik i Sydsverige: en handbok för arkeologer
