Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson
charlotte.hedenstierna-jonson@arkeologi.uu.se
I am a researcher and part of the Viking Phenomenon research project. I studied at the Archaeological Research Laboratory, Stockholm University, and presented a PhD thesis in 2006 on the Birka Warrior – the material culture of a martial society. With a background in field archaeology and as senior curator at the Swedish History Museum (SHM) I have held research fellowships at SHM, Stockholm University and the Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum (RGZM) in Mainz. Previous research projects have focused on warfare, identities, mobility and material culture in Late Iron Age – Viking Age societies. Most recently I was part of the interdisciplinary ATLAS-project aiming at unravelling human prehistory within present day Sweden by combining archaeology, physical anthropology and genetics.
Within the Viking Phenomenon I coordinate work in the sub-project Viking Economics aiming at exploring the economy and organisation of Viking raids and their impact when shaping Scandinavian identities. Key issues relate to how the raids were structured, including comparative studies on piracy, what role women played and the importance of slave-taking and trafficking, both when raiding and in society at large. I will also further develop my own research on the movements along the eastern trade routes and the contacts between Scandinavians and various groups of the Eurasian steppe.
Atlasprojektet: http://theatlas.se/index.php/the-team/
Weltweites Zellwerk (RGZM): https://zellwerk.hypotheses.org
Forskning på Historiska museet: http://historiska.se/forskning/
Academia: https://shmm.academia.edu/CharlotteHedenstiernaJonson
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Entering the Viking Age through the Baltic
Part of Relations and Runes, p. 11-22, 2020.
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Interactions and infrastructure: On the driving forces and organisation behind the Viking Age networks of trade in the Baltic and beyond
Part of Iron and the Transformation of Society, p. 187-222, 2020.
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Relations and Runes: The Baltic Islands and Their Interactions During the Late Iron Age and Early Middle Ages
2020.
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Warrior Identities in Viking Age Scandinavia.
Part of Vikings Across Boundaries, p. 179-194, 2020.
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With Asia as neighbour: Archaeological evidence of contacts between Scandinavia and Central Asia in the Viking Age and the Tang Dynasty
Part of Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, p. 43-64, 2020.
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Viking warrior women?: Reassessing Birka chamber grave Bj.581
Part of Antiquity, p. 181-198, 2019.
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Fynden från "Svarta jorden" på Björkö: från Hjalmar Stolpes undersökningar. Studier. Äldre uppgifter.
2018.
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Genomic and Strontium Isotope Variation Reveal Immigration Patterns in a Viking Age Town
Part of Current Biology, p. 2730-2738.e10, 2018.
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A female Viking warrior confirmed by genomics
Part of American Journal of Physical Anthropology, p. 853-860, 2017.
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Creating a Cultural Expression: On Rus' Identity and Material Culture.
Part of Identity Formation and Diversity in the Early Medieval Baltic and Beyond., p. 91-106, 2017.
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Foreigner and Local: Identities and Cultural Expression among the Urban People of Birka
Part of Shetland and the Viking World, p. 189-195, 2016.
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Med utgångspunkt från människorna: Sociala roller och samhälleliga funktioner i Birka med utblick mot Gamla Uppsala
Part of Socioekonomisk mångfald. Ritualer och urbanitet, p. 27-38, 2016.
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New aspects on Viking-age Urbanism, c. 750-1100 AD: Proceedings of the the international symposium at the Swedish History Museum, April 17-20th 2013
2016.
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Spaces and Places of the Urban Settlement of Birka
Part of New aspects on Viking-age urbanism c. AD 750-1100, p. 23-34, 2016.