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Research group Stockholm Experimental Archaeology Research Group

The Stockholm Experimental Archaeology Research Group aims to be a support and interest network for all wanting to carry out and discuss experiments for their research and is open to all.

We have monthly discussions around various themes and presentations, with speakers from within Stockholm as well as from other, international, universities. Future aims of the group include designing and partaking in experiments, hosting an experimental archaeology workshop and future collaborative publications and conferences.

If you wish to attend our meetings and become part of the group email Dr Amber Roy: amber.roy@arklab.su.se

Group description

Research from some of our members includes:

Dr Amber Roy
Amber’s current experimental research focusses on the process, experience and craft theory of making stone artefacts. She has experience in functional experiments using stone battle-axes and axe-hammers, as well as glass production and manufacture and smelting activities. Amber specialises in prehistoric stone artefacts, use-wear analysis and experimental archaeology.

Amber Roy - Stockholm University (su.se)

Ellinor Hedberg
Ellinor works with geophysical and geochemical prospecting methods in archaeology, mainly ground-penetrating radar and magnetometer, but also trace elemental analysis and lipid residue analysis. In addition to her research, she has an interest in experimental archaeology as a means to test archaeological hypotheses.

Ellinor Hedberg - Stockholms universitet

Meghan Mattsson McGinnis
Meghan is currently working on a dissertation project investigating the role of amulet rings within late Scandinavian Iron Age religions in the Mälardalen region. She is am interested in how experimental archaeology can act as an avenue for exploring the embodied experience of ritual in the past, and the intersections of experimental archaeology and new materialist theory.

Meghan Mattsson Mc Ginnis - Stockholms universitet

Dr Olalla López-Costas
Olalla is an associated researcher at Stockholm Uni. Archaeologist and Physical Anthropologist working at Universidade de Santiago de Compostela; ERC Consolidator project "PollutedPast". She is interested in experimental archaeology to be applied in the field of geochemistry to reconstruct processes such as paleopollution using statistical primers.

Olalla Lopez Costas | Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (usc.gal)

Dr Tine Schenk
Tine’s research focusses mainly on the epistemology of experimental archaeology. Her thesis was on how to access intangible elements of technological practices through experiments and featured a substantial deconstruction and analysis of the experimental field.

Tine’s thesis: https://ore.exeter.ac.uk/repository/handle/10871/22018

Tine’s technological specialities include pottery and birch bark in various forms.

Tori Falck
Tori studies craft practices related to the construction of boats and ships in the Middle Ages and early modern times. Experimental archaeology and the cooperation with boat builders who are trained in the building of traditional boats are sources of knowledge that can be of use for the maritime archaeologist.

Tori Falck - Stockholms universitet