Klavs Randsborg’s research while affiliated with IT University of Copenhagen and other places

... Zangato and Holl, 2010;Killick, 2015a) and encourage caution even about recently reported, and much better contextualised, evidence of early (~1000 cal. BC) iron-production at Sodohomé 1, Bénin (Merkyte et al., 2019). ...

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Archaeological science in Africa: Twenty-one papers for the twenty-first century

... In the Lithuanian and Baltic milieu, with rather rare Neolithic and Bronze Age exceptions (Merkevičius 2016;Randsborg et al., 2016), burial in barrows was an Iron Age (Roman period to Viking Age) phenomenon. Within this defined area and period, only minor differences in barrow constructions exist, barrow forms being generally rather uniform. ...

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Large Barrows in East Lithuania: A Mystery Yet to Reveal

... Over the last fifty years, monumental cemeteries have been interpreted as territorial markers (e.g. Wierzbicki 1999;Gorczyca 2005), kinds of landmarks -stable components of communication networks (Hoika 1986;van Ginkel et al. 1999;Gorczyca 2005), or examples of rights to a particular area with its reservoirs (Randsborg 1975;Chapman 1981). They are also seen as a result of multifaceted confrontations between adjacent populations of the FBC, or rivalry between these farming communities and mesolithic hunters-gatherers (Czerniak 1994;Wierzbicki 1999;Müller et al. 2013). ...

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Issues of spatial distribution of the monumental cemeteries of the Funnel Beaker culture in the loess landscape of southeastern Poland. Sprawozdania Archeologiczne 72/1

... Archaeologists and historians have offered major insights into the entanglement of European and local traders and political actors along the 300 km of coastline between the River Volta and Lagos lagoon in the past 500 years (De Corse 2001;Fuglestad 2018;Kelly 1995Kelly , 1997Kelly , 2001Kelly , 2002Law 1989Law , 1991Merkyte and Randsborg 2009;Monroe 2007Monroe , 2014Monroe and Ogundiran 2012 ;Norman 2009aNorman , 2009bNorman , 2011Randsborg et al. 2009;Strickrodt 2015). These works focus on the impacts and transformations affecting African societies and on the powerful political entities that were centered not on the coastline, but rather a few dozen kilometers inland, and which dominate the historiography of the wider region between the seventeenth and the nineteenth centuries. ...

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A coastal occupation in Bénin, West Africa: Earthenwares and salt at the time of Atlantic entanglement

... This landscape organization is typical for the Saxonian and British Iron Age pit alignments (e.g. Stäuble [2002]; Rylatt and Bevan [2007]; Knight [2007, 210]; Randsborg [2008]). In these areas and in southern Scandinavia, they tend to succeed earlier axial forms of landscape lines. ...

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Directionality and axiality in the Bronze Age: cross-regional landscape perspectives on ‘fire pit lines’ and other pitted connections

... Pare 1989, p. 81;Crouwel 2004;Randsborg, 2010, p. 251). A few finds confirm that people in Denmark have used horses as draught animals since the beginning of the Bronze Age or perhaps even the end of the Late Neolithic (Randsborg 2010). The most famous find in this respect is the Sun Chariot from Trundholm Mose or 'The Chariot of the Sun', dated to period II of the Bronze Age, which depicts a hoarse pulling the sun (Aner and Kersten 1976, no. ...

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The Late Bronze Age hoard from Bækkedal, Denmark – new evidence for the use of two-horse teams and bridles

... Og hvorfor skulle han ha interesse av det? Både hans far og hans sønn reiste runesteiner i vikingtidens sedvanlige stil (Jacobsen og Moltke 1943;Imer 2014), og i hvert fall hans sønn lyktes svaert godt som haerfører og erobrer -og først og fremst det (Randsborg 2008;Kjaer 2014). Den rike intellektuelle arven oppstår fra intet og forsvinner like brått. ...

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Om dateringen av den store JellingsteinenOn the dating of the Great Jelling Stone

... Th e concept of a 'world system' , taken from Wallerstein's analysis of the emergence of modern capitalism, is a convenient analytic framework in which to understand these processes (Kohl 1987 ;Knapp 1998 ;Killebrew 2005 : 23-4). Globalization is still another heuristic framework currently being utilized in the analysis of the interconnected relations of the ancient Near East and the Mediterranean basin in the latter half of the second millennium bce (Randsborg 2001 ;La Bianca and Scham 2006 ). Th ese analyses emphasize the interaction between regions and political entities, wherein both major (core regions, palace systems) and minor (periphery and semi-periphery regions, small city-states) players impacted diff erent and dynamically developing levels of the system. ...

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The Southern Levant (Cisjordan) during the Late Bronze Age

... bought the collection. In the fi rst half of the 19th century the Danish archaeologist Christian Jürgensen Thomsen created a new exhibition concept for the collection of Nordic antiquities of the Royal Museum in Copenhagen (Randsborg 2008). Not only did he divide the Prehistoric material into a Three Age System; he also exhibited specimens with similar function densely aligned in typological sequences. ...

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The Fibulae of Ingvald Undset

... In the countryside, peasant farmers produced surplus to support the elites and their oppida (Grau Mira 2003; Molinos and Ruiz Rodriguez 1994;Ruiz Rodriguez and Molinos 1993;Ruiz Rodriguez et al. 1991). Peer polities created competition leading to complexity, as long-distance trade created centers and peripheries that fueled the rise of marginal elite wannabes with prestige goods (Frankenstein and Rowlands 1978;Haselgrove 1976;Randsborg 1980;Wells 1980b). The organizing principles of these ''chiefly'' societies (reified by the interpretation of Iron Age elites as chiefs or petty kings) were assumed to be either kinship based or politically based, following the ideas of Service and Fried on the differences between chiefdoms and states (Chase-Dunn and Hall 1991;Miller et al. 1989;Renfrew 1986;Rowlands 1987Rowlands , 1994Rowlands and Frankenstein 1998;Rowlands et al. 1987). ...

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Unity and Diversity in the European Iron Age: Out of the Mists, Some Clarity?