N-TAG TEN the Proceedings of the 10th Nordic TAG conference at Stiklestad Norway 2009

Papers from N-TAG TEN, the Proceedings of the 10th Nordic TAG conference at Stiklestad, Norway 2009. Contents: Preamble: Nordic TAG 1985-2009: Past and Future (Kristian Kristiansen); 1) Introduction (Ragnhild Berge, Marek E. Jasinski and Kalle Sognnes); 2) Quartzite at a sieidi: a new life of an offering site? (Tiina Aikas); 3) Without a trace? Rituals and remembrance at rune stones (Cecilia Ljung and Susanne Theden); 4) Reused rock art: Traces of Iron Age activities at Bronze Age rock art sites (Per Nilsson); 5) Material memories among pre-Christian graves in Iceland (Dora Petursdottir); 6) What can a little bird tell if all good things come in threes? Triple cups and bird-shaped pottery as representations of ritualized feasting goods (Christian L. Rsrud); 7) Images of the non-conceivable. On pictorial mimesis within rock art research (Ylva Sjostrand); 8) Accompanying the stone ships. Circular stone settings in relation to the Gotlandic ship settings (Joakim Wehlin); 9) Hard rock studies: cup marks in Eastern Svealand (Roger Wiksell); 10) Material culture and the construction of religious niches (Mads DengsJessen); 11) Theory for the a-theoretical: Niche construction theory and its implications for environmentalArchaeology (Felix Riede); 12) Cultural evolution and archaeology. Historical and current trends (Felix Riede, Jan Apel and Kim Darmark); 13) Close encounters of the copper kind (Vesa-Pekka Herva, Janne P. Ikaheimo, Jari-Matti Kuusela and Kerkko Nordqvist); 13) Import vs. imitation? Towards an understanding of Early Bronze Age weapons in Southern Scandinavia (Zsofia Kolcze); 14) Enter the gripping beast. Innovations and actor-networks in Viking Age towns (Sen M. Sindbak); 15) Cultural heritage tourism in the North: Making information about vulnerable Sami heritage sites accessible to the public or not? (Goril Nilsen); 16) The values archaeologists ascribe to archaeological artefacts: the impact of workplace (Atle Omland); 17) Clay pipes and the habitus of tobacco consumption. An archaeological study of tobacco consumption with special reference to seventeenth century Trondheim (Lise Loktu); 18) The introduction of sails to Scandinavia: Raw materials, labour and land (Lise Bender Jgensen); 19) A technological momentum? Changes in lithic technology during the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Scandinavia (Lotte Eigeland); 20) Iron production in A sterdalen in medieval times - a consequence of regional technological change? (Bernt Rundberget); 21) Mobility, points and people. Technological and social changes towards the Neolithic of Southern Norway (Steinar Solheim); 22) The (sluggish and modest) introduction of iron in southern Sweden: insufficient technology or unprepared receivers? A case study from iron usage in Halland (Per Wranning); 23) Dealing with consequences. The importance of placement (Ulla Zagal-Mach); 24) On war and the memory of war - the Middle Bronze Age burial from Hvidegarden on Zealand in Denmark revisited (Joakim Goldhahn); 25) Merovingian men - fulltime warriors? Weapon graves of the continental Merovingian Period of the Munich Gravel Plain and the social and age structure of the contemporary society - a case study Doris Gutsmiedl-Schumann); 26) Painful heritages. Cultural landscapes of the Second World War in Norway: a new approach (Marek E. Jasinski, Marianne N. Soleim and Leiv Sem); 27) Tools of lethal play. Weapon burials reflecting power structures and group cohesion during the Iron Age in Ostrobothnia, Finland (Jari-Matti Kuusela).