Astrid Noterman Researcher

Astrid A. Noterman completed her PhD on Merovingian reopened graves from northern France in 2016 at the Centre for Medieval Studies (CESCM) at the University of Poitiers in France. Her approach to early medieval grave reopening includes archaeology, mortuary studies and early medieval written.

From 2018, she was a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies at Stockholm University, and worked on a project project funded by the Swedish Research Council on ‘Interacting with the dead. Belief and conflict in Early Medieval Europe (AD 450-750)’ and led by Alison Klevnäs.

She is currently working on three research projects at Stockholm University and Uppsala University:

• Olle Engkvists stiftelse funded project ‘The Sleeping Dead. An archaeological and emotional reading of bed inhumations in Europe from the 6th to 10th centuries CE’.
• Marcus & Amalia Wallenbergs Minnesfond funded project ‘Collecting the dead: life course and kin relations in the transition to churchyard burial on Gotland (c. 950-1250 AD)’, and led by Alison Klevnäs.
• ERC funded project ‘The Present Dead: Investigating interactions with the dead in early medieval central and eastern Europe from 5th to 8th centuries CE’, and led by Edeltraud Aspöck.

She is a collaborator of the Center for Medieval Studies (CESCM) since 2017 and which is a Mixed Research Unit (UMR) managed by the University of Poitiers and the CNRS (Centre national de la Recherche scientifique).

She is also a member of Svenska Arkeologiska Samfundet.

She is part of a research group working on the practice of grave reopening (reopenedgraves.eu), and a founder member of the Archaeothanatology Working Group (https://lnu.se/en/research/searchresearch/archaeothanatology-working-group/)

In 2021, she co-organized at SU the 7th PAG workshop - Fragmentation in archaeological context. The volume "Broken Bodies, Places and Objects: New Perspectives on Fragmentation in Archaeology" was published via Routledge on November 2022.