PROFIL PRACOWNIKA: Per Martin Olof Rundkvist

Brief scholarly biography

• Born in Stockholm 1972, raised in Sweden and the USA.
• BA Stockholm University 1992, PhD Stockholm University 2003.
• Adjunct lecturer at the Linnæus University, Umeå University and Gothenburg University 2012-2017.
• Managing editor of the archaeological research quarterly Fornvännen 1999-2018.
• Directed many excavations and metal detector surveys from 1997 on.

Scientific interests

The Bronze, Iron and Middle Ages of Scandinavia; elite sett­lements, burial, artefacts, typology, chronology, gender, religious conver­sion, multivariate statistics, metal detector sur­veys, stratigraphy, landscape studies, wetland sites, castles, public engagement, blogging.

Membership of scholarly institutions and organisations

• Elected member of Internationales Sachsen­sym­posion
• Honorary Research Fellow, University of Exeter 2005-2008
• Visiting Research Fellow, University of Chester, 2008-2011, 2011-2015
• Scandinavian correspondent for the journal Antiquity, 2006-2012
• Recipient of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters’ silver medal for antiquarian achievement 2019

Books

• 2003. Barshalder 1. A cemetery in Grötlingbo and Fide parishes, Gotland, Sweden, c. AD 1-1100. Excavations and finds 1826-1971. Stockholm Archaeological Reports 40. Institutionen för arkeologi, Stockholms Universitet. ISBN 91-631-3530-2. [251 pp.]
• 2003. Barshalder 2. Studies of Late Iron Age Gotland. Stockholms Universitet. ISBN 91-631-3732-1. [101 pp.]
• 2004. Barshalder 3. Rojrhage in Grötlingbo. A multi-component Neolithic shore site on Gotland. Martin Rundkvist, Christian Lindqvist & Karl Thorsberg. Stockholm Archaeo­logical Reports 41. Institutionen för arkeologi, Stock­holms universitet. ISBN 91-631-4947-8. [35 pp.]
• 2011. Mead-halls of the Eastern Geats. Elite Settle­ments and Political Geography AD 375-1000 in Ös­tergötland, SwedenRoyal Swedish Academy of Letters, Proceedings, Antiquarian Series 49. Stockholm. ISBN 978-91-7402-405-0. [165 pp.]
• 2015. In the Landscape and Between Worlds. Bronze Age Deposition Sites Around Lakes Mälaren and Hjäl­maren in Sweden. Archaeology and Environment 29. Umeå university. ISBN 978-91-7601-213-0. [153 pp.]
• 2016. [Essays] Arkeologi är choklad, inte potatis. Essäer. Self-published e-book. ISBN 978-91-639-2057-8. [106 pp.]
• 2019. At Home at the Castle. Lifestyles at the Medieval strong­holds of Östergötland, AD 1200–1530. Länsstyrelsen Östergötland. Linköping. ISBN 978-91-7488-477-7. [137 pp.]
• 2021. Kiöping, Nils Mattsson & Rundkvist, Martin. Travelogue and Autobiography 1647–1656: Coastal Africa, the Red Sea, Persia, Mesopotamia, Coastal India, Sri Lanka, South-East Asia. Historiska serien vol. 39. Stockholm: Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien. ISBN 978-91-88763-26-6.

Selected papers and book chapters

• 2003. Snake brooches of south Scandinavia. Ørsnes types L1, L2, J and H3. Ed. Birgitta Hårdh. Fler fynd i centrum. Materialstudier i och kring Uppåkra. Uppåkrastudier 9. Acta Archaeologica Lundensia, series in octavo 45. Department of Archaeology, University of Lund. [25 pp.]
• 2008. A Viking boat grave with amber gaming pieces excavated at Skamby, Östergötland, Sweden. Martin Rundkvist & Ho­ward Williams. Medieval Archaeology 52 (2008). London. [34 pp.]
• 2010. Domed oblong brooches of Vendel Period Scandina­via. Ørsnes types N & O and similar brooches, including transitional types surviving into the Early Viking Period. Hård, B. (ed.). Från romartida skalpeller till senvikingatida urnesspännen. Nya materialstudier från Upp­åkra. Uppåkrastudier 11. Lund. [74 pp.]
• 2012. The Secondary Use of Picture Stones on Gotland Prior to the First Stone Churches, With a Typology of Picture Stone Outline Shapes. Gotländskt Arkiv 2012. Visby. [16 pp.]
• 2014. Geophysical investigations on the Viking Period platform mound at Aska in Hagebyhöga parish, Sweden. Martin Rundkvist & Andreas Viberg. Ar­chaeological Prospection 2014. Chichester. [8 pp.]
• 2021. Noble shape, humble metals. Bronze and silver shield-head and snake-head rings of Roman era Scandinavia. Praehistorische Zeitschrift 96:2. Berlin. doi.org/10.1515/pz-2021-2020 [14 pp.]
• 2022. Husby in Glanshammar: cloisonné production, Viking silver deposition and memorialisation. Martin Rundkvist & Florent Audy. Praehistorische Zeitschrift 97. Berlin. doi.org/10.1515/pz-2022-2016 [10 pp.]
• 2023. Five hoards in eighty years. Landscape perspectives on new Bronze Age hoard finds around Lake Mälaren in Sweden. Praehistorische Zeitschrift 98. doi.org/10.1515/pz-2023-2024 [16 pp.]
• In press 2023. Gold foil figures and human skulls in the royal hall: Aska in Hagebyhöga, Östergötland, Sweden. M. Rundkvist, A. Löfving, R. Gustavsson, J. Heimdahl & A. Viberg. Antiquity 97 (August 2023). Durham.