The department has a wide selection of projects that geographically cover Northern Scandinavia to Turkey and Georgia, Greece and Italy across Northern Africa to Eastern and Southern Africa, Latin America and South-east Asia.

Here we present some of them:

Death's snug chamber

The chamber graves mark and confirm the presence of a central Swedish elite in relation to certain farmsteads and regions. The Migration Period chamber grave is a phenomenon related to fashion and trends displaying a new elite that measured itself with more than just a glance at Roman Civilization.

Tablas Monte

The aim is to document archaeological, environmental, geochemical, and ethnoecological data from the yungas of Tablas Monte, in the eastern cordillera montaña in Cochabamba, Bolivia, to understand the unique pre-Columbian agricultural land-use systems of these areas in detail.

Labraunda

Uppsala University's archaeological excavations at the Zeus sanctuary at Labraunda, Turkey.

The Urban Mind

This project derives a new concept the ‘Urban Mind’ from combined humanities and natural science studies of the development of urbanism and climate change in the Middle East. 40 scholars in Uppsala University, Stockholm University and KTH will formulate the concept as part of the IHOPE (Integrated History and future of Peoples on Earth) initiative. The concept will be assessed with a specific case study: Byzantium-Istanbul. The global relevance of the Urban Mind concept will be illustrated with ongoing studies of cognitive aspects of urbanism and climate change in Africa, Eurasia and the Americas.

Family space

The project focuses on three main subject related to both archaeological practice in the present and the construction of knowledge about the past; that is interpretation of archaeological sites as representations of prehistoric sociality.

Short stays

The project Short Stays is a survey project working in the Libyan Desert in Gilf Kebir and Uweinat looking at pre- and early Neolithic sites.

Gamla Uppsala

The Department of Archaeology and Ancient History has performed archaeological excavations at Gamla Uppsala since the early 20th century. We know a great deal about the site's character and role in the early societies of the iron Age and Early Middle Ages, but many questions remain regarding central events in the history of the site and its surroundings. We know surprisingly little of the settlement structure, economy and grave fields from the time when the name of (Gamla) Uppsala was widely spread outside the province of Uppland.

Svunna Landskap

The project aims at studying the connections between climate, environment and societal developmenton the Southern Greek mainland in the Bronze Age