John Ljungkvist
Researcher at Department of Archaeology, Ancient History and Conservation; Archaeology
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 20 96
- Mobile phone:
- +46 70 826 06 97
- E-mail:
- John.Ljungkvist@arkeologi.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Engelska parken, Thunbergsvägen 3H
- Postal address:
- Box 626
751 26 UPPSALA

Publications
Recent publications
Part of Shattered and scattered pasts, p. 406-412, Society for Medieval Archaeology in Finland, 2025
Rüstungen für die toten: Die Schienenpanzerung von Valsgärde
Part of Das Leben des Bodi, p. 210-215, LVR-Landesmuseum Bonn, 2023
Part of Journal of Archaeological Science, 2023
- DOI for A 6th-8th c. wire-drawing iron plate with silver residue from a Vendel Period workshop in Old Uppsala, Sweden
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Cult Buildings and Ritual Sites: A view from Gamla Uppsala
Part of The Norse Sorceress, p. 63-72, Oxbow Books, 2023
Bears and the Viking Age transition in Sweden
Part of Bear and Human, p. 387-404, Brepols, 2023
- DOI for Bears and the Viking Age transition in Sweden
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All publications
Articles in journal
Part of Journal of Archaeological Science, 2023
- DOI for A 6th-8th c. wire-drawing iron plate with silver residue from a Vendel Period workshop in Old Uppsala, Sweden
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Late Iron Age Whaling in Scandinavia
Part of International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, p. 1-22, 2023
- DOI for Late Iron Age Whaling in Scandinavia
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New institutional economics in Viking studies: Visualising immaterial culture
Part of Archaeological Dialogues, p. 172-187, 2022
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Part of Populär arkeologi, p. 50-50, 2022
Reflections on Residences from one Scandinavian Experience
Part of Norwegian Archaeological Review, p. 72-74, 2021
Part of Populär arkeologi, p. 10-13, 2020
ANTLER COMBS FROM THE SALME SHIP BURIALS: FIND CONTEXT, ORIGIN, DATING AND MANUFACTURE
Part of ESTONIAN JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGY, p. 3-44, 2020
Whalebone Gaming Pieces: Aspects of Marine Mammal Exploitation in Vendeland Viking Age Scandinavia
Part of European Journal of Archaeology, p. 612-631, 2018
- DOI for Whalebone Gaming Pieces: Aspects of Marine Mammal Exploitation in Vendeland Viking Age Scandinavia
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Gamla Uppsala and Valsgärde: Deconstructing the Vendel-Viking transition
Part of SAA archaeological record, p. 15-18, 2018
A Vendel Period gold and garnet pendant from Gamla Uppsala
Part of Fornvännen, p. 183-185, 2017
Part of European Journal of Archaeology, p. 3-27, 2016
Part of European Journal of Archaeology, p. 681-703, 2016
Part of eTopoi, p. 94-108, 2015
Are many Vendel and Viking Period gaming pieces made of whale bone?
Part of Fornvännen, p. 51-54, 2015
Gamla Uppsala – the emergence of a centre and a magnate complex
Part of Journal of Archaeology and Ancient History (JAAH), p. 1-29, 2015
Gamla Uppsala: Structural development of a centre in Middle Sweden
Part of Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt, p. 571-585, 2011
2008. Redating and contextualizing the mounds of Uppsala and other monumental mounds
Part of Korrespondenzblatt. Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, p. 30, 2008
Dating two royal mounds of Old Uppsala: evaluating the elite of the 6th-7th century in Middle Sweden
Part of Archaeologisches Korrespondenzblatt, p. 263-282, 2008
Svensk arkeologi i Egypten: Kom-el-Khawaled - en stad från romersk tid i Nildeltat
Part of Populär arkeologi, 2007
Uppsala högars datering: och några konsekvenser av en omdatering till tidiga vendeltiden
Part of Fornvännen, p. 15, 2005
Part of Fornvännen, p. 18, 2000
Vapen och brandgravskick under vendeltid
Part of Tor, p. 19, 2000
En vikingatida bebyggelse i Gamla Uppsala
Part of TOR, p. 18, 1997
Submarine settlement on the bottom of the Öresund strait, Southern Scandinavia
Part of NewsWARP: the newsletter of the Wetland Archaeology Research project, p. 3, 1996
Många stenåldersboplatser finns på botten av Öresund
Part of Populär Arkeologi, p. 16-19, 1993
Chapters in book
Part of Shattered and scattered pasts, p. 406-412, Society for Medieval Archaeology in Finland, 2025
Rüstungen für die toten: Die Schienenpanzerung von Valsgärde
Part of Das Leben des Bodi, p. 210-215, LVR-Landesmuseum Bonn, 2023
Cult Buildings and Ritual Sites: A view from Gamla Uppsala
Part of The Norse Sorceress, p. 63-72, Oxbow Books, 2023
Bears and the Viking Age transition in Sweden
Part of Bear and Human, p. 387-404, Brepols, 2023
- DOI for Bears and the Viking Age transition in Sweden
- Download full text (pdf) of Bears and the Viking Age transition in Sweden
Elite Burials with Bohemian Garnets in Vendel Period Sweden
Part of Royal Insignia of Late Antiquity from Mšec and Řevničov, p. 194-199, Museum in Rakovník, 2023
The birth of a kingdom: Warrior graves and royal residences in a changeable world
Part of Out of chaos, p. 125-135, Jysk Arkæologisk Selskab, 2022
Part of Re-imagening periphery, Oxbow Books, 2020
Part of Relations and Runes, p. 23-30, Riksantikvarieämbetet, 2020
Part of Framtidens naturvärden i kulturmiljöer -, p. 91-114, Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia, Uppsala Universitet, 2018
Medeltidens landskapsförändringar
Part of Framtidens naturvärden i kulturmiljöer -, p. 115-130, Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia, Uppsala Universitet, 2018
Part of Framtidens naturvärden i kulturmiljöer -, p. 1-16, Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia, Uppsala Universitet, 2018
Part of Catalogue for the exhibition The Vikings Begin :, p. 49-58, Gustavianum, Uppsala University Museum, 2018
Part of Catalogue for the exhibition The Vikings Begin :, p. 11-24, Gustavianum, Uppsala University Museum, 2018
Post-romersk globalisering: Spåren av Bysans i Sverige 560–800 e.Kr
Part of Hyllningsbok, titel hemlig, Uppsala universitet, 2013
Norrsunda och Åshusby-gravfältet
Part of Stockholms läns museum seminariepublikation, Stockholms läns museum, 2013
Monumentaliseringen av Gamla Uppsala
Part of Gamla Uppsala i ny belysning, p. 33-68, Swedish Science Press, 2013
Mistresses of the cult.: Female cult leaders in Late Iron Age Scandinavia
Part of Weibliche Eliten in der Frühgeschichte, Schnell und Steiner, 2012
Skelettgravar i tiden: från sen romersk järnålder till tidig vendeltid
Part of Runnhusa, p. 128-160, Archaeologica, 2011
Innovative Memory and Resilient Cities: Echoes from Ancient Constantinople
Part of The Urban Mind, p. 391-405, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Uppsala University, 2010
The Urban Anthropocene: Lessons for Sustainability from the Environmental History of Constantinople
Part of The Urban Mind, p. 367-390, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Uppsala University, 2010
Influences from the Empire: Byzantine-related objects in Sweden and Scandinavia - 560/570-750/800 AD
Part of Byzanz – das Römerreich im Mittelalter, p. 419-441, Verlag des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums, 2010
Continental imports to Scandinavia: Patterns and changes between AD 400 and 800
Part of Foreigners in early Medieval Europe, Verlag des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums, 2009
The development and chronology of the Valsgärde cemetery
Part of Valsgärde studies: the Place and its People, Past and Present, p. 13-55, 2008
Part of The Viking world, p. 5, Routledge, 2008
Part of Reallexion der Germanischen Altertumskunde. Extraband, p. 375-379, 2008
Tidigare forskning del 1: Ett utsnitt ur Upplands förhistoria
Part of Att nå den andra sidan, p. 15-25, Riksantikvarieämbetet; Societas archaeologica Upsaliensis; Upplandsmuseet, 2007
Part of Reallexikon der germanischen Altertumskunde, de Gruyter, 2007
Part of Reallexion der Germanischen Altertumskunde. Band 31, p. 4, Walter de Gruyter, 2006
Collections (editor)
Framtidens naturvärden i kulturmiljöer: fallstudie Gamla Uppsala
Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia, Uppsala Universitet, 2018
Conference papers
Horses and Burials in Late Iron-Age Central Sweden: The Examples of Valsgärde and Birka
Part of Horse and Rider in the late Viking Age, p. 223-243, 2021
Part of Det 61. Internationale Sachsensymposion 2010 Haderslev, Danmark, p. 123-139, 2011
The emergence and purpose of large burial mound from the 6th to 11th c middle Sweden
Part of EAA 12th annual meeting, Cracow, Poland, 19-24 september 2006, 2006
Reports
Gamla Uppsala – framväxten av ett mytiskt centrum. Rapport 4. Fältarbete 2010
2013
2011
Ultuna by: I händelsernas centrum
2011
Gamla Uppsala – framväxten av ett mytiskt centrum. Rapport 3: Fältarbete 2009
2010
2009
Ytkartering av fynd i Gamla Uppsalas åkermark: rapport och metodutvärdering
2009
The Swedish Mission to Kom el Khawaled, First field report 2008
2008
2007
Raä 285, Norra gärdet: I maktens närhet. Två boplatsundersökningar i Gamla Uppsala.
2000
Raä 547, Matsgården: I maktens närhet. Två boplatsundersökningar i Gamla Uppsala.
2000
Arkeologisk utredning. Ultuna, Ulleråker och Rosendal. Uppsala stad och Bondkyrko socken, Uppland.
2000
1995
Vävtyngder, kända men outredda.
1993
Other
The Prittlewell princely burial: Excavations at Priory Crescent, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, 2003
Part of Fornvännen, p. 296-297, 2020
The Anglo-Saxon princely burial at Prittlewell, Southend-On-Sea
Part of Fornvännen, p. 296-297, 2020
[Review of:] Camps behind the myth: The archaeological excavations
Part of Fornvännen, p. 283-285, 2016