Karl-Johan Lindholm

Karl-Johan Lindholm Karl-johan.lindholm@arkeologi.uu.se

My main research interest is to bridge the socio-environmental interface by interdisciplinary research and long-term understandings of landscapes and land-use in agriculturally marginal regions in southern and eastern Africa and in Europe. I apply historical ecology, integrated landscape analysis and critical historical analysis in order to situate current landscape policy in historical contexts with bearing on current approaches to the sustainable management of biocultural heritage and natural resources. An additional interest is the combination of archaeology, rural development and landscape studies aiming for a better understanding of past and present forms of collective action and cooperative natural resource management. I am also engaged in archaeological approaches towards pastoralism and method development for integrated landscape analysis and Geographical Information Systems (GIS). I convene the departmental research cluster Global Historical Ecology, member of the Scientific Steering Committee of the global research network Integrated History and Future of People on Earth (IHOPE) and editor of the Journal of Archaeology and Ancient History.

Ongoing research

Principal investigator: Laser scanned elevation data and AI: a research and development project (Riksantikvarieämbetet/National Heritage Board F2020-0008).

Principal investigator: Contesting Marginality: The Boreal Forest of Inland Scandinavia and the Worlds Outside, AD – 1500 AD (Swedish Research Council 2017-01483) Follow us on Facebook

Principal investigator: Explorative Imaginaries; Communicating the biocultural heritage of the forests (Riksbankens jubileumsfond KOM18-1380:1) Follow us on Facebook

Co-investigator: TerraNova. The European Landscape Learning Initiative: Past and Future Environments and Energy Regimes shaping Policy Tools. Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks (EU, Horizon 2020 MSCA-ITN-ETN 813904)

Co-investigator: Biocultural Heritage in Mozambique: developing new heritage industries. Training Partnership between Universidade Eduardo Mondlane & Uppsala University (Sida 198)

Completed externally funded research projects

Principal investigator: 2012-16 Commons as Hidden Resources - Analysing the Shifting Roles of the Commons in Rural Development Processes (Formas 251-2011-900)

Principal investigator: 2001-06 Wells of Experience: A pastoral land-use history of Omaheke, Namibia (Sida/SAREC SWE-2000-353B)

Bears and the Viking Age transition in Sweden

Ljungkvist, John; Lindholm, Karl-Johan

Part of Bear and Human:, p. 387-404, 2023.

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Claudius' Coin in the Forest: Niche Construction and Strategies by Early Colonizers of Boreal Inlands in Central Scandinavia

Eriksson, Ove; Lindholm, Karl-Johan

Part of Historical Ecology, p. 207-219, 2022.

DOI for Claudius' Coin in the Forest: Niche Construction and Strategies by Early Colonizers of Boreal Inlands in Central Scandinavia
The Biocultural Heritage of Outland Use: Commodity Production in the Rural Edges of Scandinavia

Svensson, Eva; Lindholm, Karl-Johan

Part of Gunst/Ungunst, p. 103-119, 2022.

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Tracking Hunter-Gatherer Impact on Vegetation in Last Interglacial and Holocene Europe: Proxies and Challenges

Nikulina, Anastasia; MacDonald, Katharine; Scherjon, Fulco; A. Pearce, Elena et al.

Part of Journal of archaeological method and theory, 2022.

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Contesting Marginality: The Boreal Forest of Middle Scandinavia and the Worlds Outside

Lindholm, Karl-Johan; Ersmark, Erik; Hennius, Andreas; Lindgren, Sakarias et al.

Part of The Medieval Globe, p. 9-34, 2021.

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Coping with Risk: A Deep-Time Perspective on Societal Responses to Ecological Uncertainty in the River Dalälven Catchment Area, Sweden

Hatlestad, Kailin; Wehlin, Joakim; Lindholm, Karl-Johan

Part of Land, 2021.

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Dalarna län 14C dates and KDE .txt results: Dataset: Coping with Risk. A Deep-Time Perspective on Societal Responses to Ecological Uncertainty in the River Dalälven Catchment Area in Sweden

Hatlestad, Kailin

2021.

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Historical Ecology of Scandinavian Infield Systems

Eriksson, Ove; Arnell, Matilda; Lindholm, Karl-Johan

Part of Sustainability, 2021.

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The history of settlement and agrarian land use in a boreal forest in Värmland, Sweden, new evidence from pollen analysis

Dögg Eddudottir, Sigrun; Svensson, Eva; Nilsson, Stefan; Ekblom, Anneli et al.

Part of Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, p. 759-771, 2021.

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Den stora jakten

Ljungkvist, John; Lindholm, Karl-Johan

Part of Populär arkeologi, p. 10-13, 2020.
TERRANOVA: a landscape-based response to the main challenges of our time: POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS FOR SUSTAINABLE LANDSCAPE MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES

Lindholm, Karl-Johan; Fernandez, Nestor; Svenning, Jens-Christian; Pereira, Henrique et al.

Part of Zenodo, p. 1-20, 2020.

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A framework for exploring and managing biocultural heritage

Lindholm, Karl-Johan; Ekblom, Anneli

Part of Anthropocene, 2019.

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Conservation through Biocultural Heritage-Examples from Sub-Saharan Africa

Ekblom, Anneli; Shoemaker, Anna; Gillson, Lindsey; Lane, Paul et al.

Part of Land, 2019.

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Concepts for Integrated Research in Historical Ecology

Eriksson, Ove; Ekblom, Anneli; Lane, Paul; Lennartsson, Tommy et al.

Part of Issues and Concepts in Historical Ecology: ThePast and Future of Landscapes and regions, p. 145-181, 2018.

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Environing: The Archaeology of ‘Real Life’ Remains

Lindholm, Karl-Johan

Part of The Resilience of Heritage, p. 243-258, 2018.

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The Resilience of Heritage: Cultivating a Future of the Past : Essays in Honour of Professor Paul J. J. Sinclair

Ekblom, Anneli; Isendahl, Christian; Lindholm, Karl-Johan

Uppsala University, 2018.
Commoning in the periphery: The role of the commons for understanding rural continuities and change

Sandström, Emil; Ekman, Ann-Kristin; Lindholm, Karl-Johan

Part of International Journal of the Commons, 2017.

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The bear in the grave: Exploitation of Top Predator and Herbivore Resources in 1st millennium Sweden – First Trends From a Long-term Research Project

Lindholm, Karl-Johan; Ljungkvist, John

Part of European Journal of Archaeology, p. 3-27, 2016.

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Landscapes of Mortuary Practices

von Hackwitz, Kim; Lindholm, Karl-Johan

Part of Ancient Death Ways, p. 143-166, 2015.

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LANDSCAPES OF MORTUARY PRACTICES

von Hackwitz, Kim; Lindholm, Karl-Johan

Part of Ancient Death Ways : Proceedings of the workshop on archaeology and mortuary practices. Uppsala, 16–17 May 2013, p. 143-166, 2015.

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Manipulating Mud: (re-)constructing cosmogonical landscapes in the Nile Valley, Thebes, Egypt

Strutt, Kristian D.; Graham, Angus; Toonen, Willem H. J.; Pennington, Benjamin Thomas et al.

Part of Archaeologia Polonia, p. 514-517, 2015.
Rethinking Human Nature: Bridging the ‘Gap’ through Landscape Analysis and Geographical Information Systems (GIS)

Lindholm, Karl-Johan; von Hackwitz, Kim; Ekblom, Anneli; Löwenborg, Daniel et al.

Part of Topoi, p. 94-108, 2015.

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Theban Harbours and Waterscapes Survey, 2015

Graham, Angus; Strutt, Kristian David; Toonen, Willem H. J.; Pennington, Benjamin T. et al.

Part of Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, p. 37-49, 2015.

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Wells, Land and History: Archaeology and Rural Development in Southern Africa

Lindholm, Karl-Johan

Part of Oxford Handbook of Historical Ecology and Applied Archaeology, 2015.

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The Archaeology of the Commons

Lindholm, Karl-Johan; Sandström, Emil; Ekman, Ann-Kristin

Part of Journal of Archaeology and Ancient History (JAAH), 2013.

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A new approach to the archaeology of livestock herding in the Kalahari, Southern Africa

Lindholm, Karl-Johan

Part of Antiquity, p. 110-124, 2009.
Both and more: a cognitive approach to environment

Lindholm, Karl-Johan

Part of Urban landscape dynamics and resource use, 2003.
Begreppet jägare-samlare i arkeologisk forskning

Lindholm, Karl-Johan

Part of Förmedling, p. 69-79, 1998.
Samhälle-boplats: En tvärkulturell undersökning av mobila jägare-samlare och deras boplatser

Lindholm, Karl-Johan; Vogel, Pierre

Part of Jeger-Samlere, p. 73-87, 1996.

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Karl-Johan Lindholm

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