PUBLISHER The Swedish Archaeological Society & Nordic Academic Press EDITORS Sophie Bergerbrant & Alison Klevnäs REVIEWS EDITOR Daniel Sahlén DIGITAL EDITOR Gustav Wollentz EDITORIAL BOARD Benjamin Alberti Elisabeth Arwill-Nordbladh Anders Carlsson Kerstin Cassel Catherine Frieman Roberta Gilchrist Yannis Hamilakis Carl Knappett Gavin Lucas Lynn Meskell Nick Shepherd Lena Sjögren Brit Solli Fredrik Svanberg Julian Thomas Anna Wessman SUBSCRIPTION Current Swedish Archaeology is published in one annual volume. Price per volume excl. post- age: SEK 200 for individuals, SEK 400 for institutions. Subscription orders should be sent to: Current Swedish Archaeology c/o Förlagssystem AB Box 30104 104 25 Stockholm Tel: 08-737 86 66 Email: csa@forlagssystem.se www.arkeologiskasamfundet.se/csa www.nordicacademicpress.com © The Swedish Archaeological Society & the Authors 2019 Nordic Academic Press Box 148 221 00 Lund Email: info@nordicacademicpress.com Revision of English language: Alison Klevnäs Graphic design: Lönegård & Co & Anders Gutehall Image processing & typesetting: Anders Gutehall Boat illustration on cover: Inger Kåberg Printed by Holmbergs, Malmö 2019 ISSN 1102-7355 (print) ISSN 2002-3901 (online) The Swedish Archaeological Society Vol. 27 2019 CURRENT SWEDISH ARCHAEOLOGY Editors: Sophie Bergerbrant & Alison Klevnäs The Swedish Archaeological Society In 1947 the first meeting to establish the Swedish Archaeological Society was held at the Museum of National Antiquities in Stockholm. The Society is the common body for professional archaeologists in Sweden, regardless of specialism. According to the statutes the purpose of the Society is to further Swedish archaeological research and to support this research by granting scholarships. The Society is especially tasked with attending to the vocational interests of archaeologists. This task is to be carried out by taking part in public debate, by influencing public opinion, and by being a body to which proposed measures are submitted for consideration. The Society also arranges discussions and seminars on archaeological topics. The Society’s board currently has fourteen members from universities, mu- seums and archae ological institutions in various parts of Sweden. Ingrid Berg from Uppsala University is the present chair. In 1993 the Society began issuing its annual journal Current Swedish Archaeology. Since then the journal has presented articles mirroring current archaeological research and theoretical trends. Sophie Bergerbrant & Alison Klevnäs Editorial .............................................................................................................. 7 THEME Alexandra Ion Who Are We as Historical Beings? Shaping Identities in Light of the Archaeogenetics ‘Revolution’ .......................... 11 John C. Barrett The Archaeology of Population Dynamics .......................................................... 37 Martin Furholt De-contaminating the aDNA–Archaeology Dialogue on Mobility and Migration: Discussing the Culture-Historical Legacy ............................................................ 53 Anna Källén, Charlotte Mulcare, Andreas Nyblom & Daniel Strand Archaeogenetics in Popular Media: Contemporary Implications of Ancient DNA ...................................................... 69 Marko M. Marila Slow Science for Fast Archaeology .................................................................... 93 Artur Ribeiro Science, Data, and Case-Studies under the Third Science Revolution: Some Theoretical Considerations ..................................................................... 115 Daniela Hofmann Commentary. Archaeology, Archaeogenetics and Theory: Challenges and Convergences ......................................................................... 133 Contents ARTICLES Anna Sörman Casting in the Longhouse: The Organization of Metalworking in Late Bronze Age Settlements in South-Eastern Sweden ................................................................................ 143 Fredrik Fahlander Fantastic Beings and Where to Make Them: Boats as Object-Beings in Bronze Age Rock Art ............................................... 191 Matthias S. Toplak The Warrior and the Cat: A Re-Evaluation of the Roles of Domestic Cats in Viking Age Scandinavia ........ 213 REVIEW & NOTICES Ingrid Berg Review: Johannes Siapkas. Antikvetenskapens teoretiska landskap II: Från Olympia till Leonidas (The Theoretical Landscape of Classical Studies II: From Olympia to Leonidas) .............................................................................. 247 Richard Grönwall & Rebecka Jonsson Sandby Borg: New Perspectives for Iron Age Archaeology in the Baltic Region. Report from an Archaeological Conference at Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden. 8–10 May 2019 ..................................................................... 251 Magnus Djerfsten The Eastern Link: The Largest Archaeological Excavation Program in the History of Sweden? ................................................................................ 254 Christina Rosén Recent Excavations at Nya Lödöse ................................................................... 256 CURRENT SWEDISH ARCHAEOLOGY VOL. 27 2019 | https://doi.org/10.37718/CSA.2019.00 7 Editorial This year for the first time Current Swedish Archaeology presents a themed section with a collection of peer-reviewed discussion papers on a shared topic, instead of a keynote article and commentaries. In the future we plan to vary the format between keynotes and themed sections – each time fol- lowed by individual research papers covering our usual breadth of subjects and periods. For 2019 the theme format enables us to bring you nine fully reviewed papers, along with commentary, reviews and notices. We are also pleased that, with our second volume in six months, CSA production is now back on schedule. The use of natural science approaches in archaeology has long been dis- cussed and debated. Kristian Kristiansen’s keynote in CSA volume 22 re- sparked this debate and is one of our most downloaded papers. This year’s theme comes from a workshop called Can science accommodate multiple ontologies? The genetics revolution and archaeological theory, held in the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cam- bridge in June 2018. Results from ancient DNA research often reach media headlines and hence huge audiences. How do interactions between genetic evidence and archaeological knowledge play out? The articles in this sec- tion reflect critically on relations between archaeogenetics and archaeology. The theme is introduced by Alexandra Ion, who presents the background to the workshop and goes on to evaluate narratives of archaeogenetics in relation to different audiences. It continues with a paper by John Barrett, looking at current interpretations of aDNA data and how they have been used to question earlier models that argued for the uptake of farming by indigenous hunter-gatherer populations. With the paper by Martin Furholt we stay within the sphere of the gene- tic interpretation of the spread of human populations, but this time in the https://doi.org/10.30.37718/CSA.2019.00 CURRENT SWEDISH ARCHAEOLOGY VOL. 27 20198 Editorial third millennium BC. The author argues that new genetic results have not had any meaningful impact on the way we view prehistory, despite the debate they create. He contends that aDNA results have been tacked onto some of the most outdated narratives in European prehistory, arguing in- stead for a practice-based approach to how new transregional objects and practices are integrated into local contexts. Next come Anna Källén, Charlotte Mulcare, Andreas Nyblom & Daniel Strand, the team behind the project Code–Narrative–History, funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond. They analyse the public debate resulting from two archaeogenetics papers based on human remains from central Sweden, including the ‘Viking warrior woman’. The authors show that there is sig- nificant interlacing of scientific, political and media discourses in and around archaeogenetic papers, and argue that aDNA researchers need to give greater consideration to public impact when they communicate results. Marko Marila argues for slow science in his paper. Using the discus- sions around slow science and the related idea that scientific importance is a matter of concern rather than fact, he proposes that archaeologists should start to cultivate methods of deceleration. The last peer-reviewed paper in this section is written by Artur Ribeiro and makes the case that while the so-called Third Science Revolution has brought significant enhancement in terms of scientific methods and ap- proaches, it risks transforming archaeology into a methodologically mo- nistic discipline. Ribeiro contends that especially when it comes to Big Data analysis, there is a risk that archaeological evidence is reduced to those ele- ments that are quantifiable. Daniela Hofmann wraps up the theme with a commentary. She con- cludes that the papers clearly show the issues that trouble archaeologists when engaging with Big Data, in particular aDNA. The strongest message to emerge from the papers is that this is not about unlearning and relearn- ing things we thought we knew about the prehistoric societies, but the need to defend different kinds of questions and approaches, and the idea that different ways of knowing are important. Three general research articles follow. The first, by Anna Sörman, explores bronze casting in the Scandinavian Late Bronze Age. Her study shows that traces of bronze casting frequently occur in Late Bronze Age settlements in south-eastern Sweden. By using an empirical, bottom-up ap- proach to the examination of spatial and social contexts of bronze casting, Sörman provides new insight into the social organization of metalworking. She shows that domestic arenas often hosted varied and complex remains of metalworking staged at various outdoor and indoor hearths, often located in the core areas of settlements. The author concludes that metalworking CURRENT SWEDISH ARCHAEOLOGY VOL. 27 2019 | https://doi.org/10.37718/CSA.2019.00 9 Editorial was not organizationally conceptualized as levels, but that it was a multi- faceted, communicative and user-oriented practice. We stay in the Bronze Age with the next paper by Fredrik Fahlander, who takes us from metalwork to boat motifs in rock carvings. He argues that rather than seeing the boat motif as representing real or symbolic boats in some form, we should see them as autonomous articulations, made to do something rather than to represent. Through this change of perspective we can understand the hybrid character of the boat motif as something which has no original elsewhere. Cats – the roles of cats in Viking Age society – are the topic of the last research paper in this volume. Matthias Toplak uses literary and archaeo- logical sources to understand cats from a human-animal relations perspec- tive, arguing that the cat was a symbolically, functionally and probably also emotionally important companion for humans beyond the borders of sex or gender in Late Iron Age Scandinavia. This year we expanded the CSA editorial team with two new members. Digital Editor Gustav Wollentz is working on moving the journal into the 2020s with a new digital platform for our Open Access model. Dan- iel Sahlén is the editor for reviews and notices. In this volume we have one review of a new book, a report from a recent conference, and two notices introducing fieldwork of international significance. In the future we hope to be able to present further short notices about current archaeological excavations, new exhibitions, and other events of interest to our national and international readerships, and we welcome contact from those respon- sible for relevant work. The review is of Johannes Siapkas’ 2018 Antikvetenskapens teoretiska landskap II: Från Olympia till Leonidas (The Theoretical Landscape of Classical Studies II: From Olympia to Leonidas), one of a series by the author mapping the theoretical underpinnings of knowledge production within classical studies. Then comes a report from the conference Sandby borg – New perspec- tives for Iron Age archaeology in the Baltic region, which was held at Linnaeus university, Kalmar, in May 2019, as part of a research project on the Sandby borg ringfort and massacre site. Articles discussing Sandby borg have previously been published in CSA volume 25. Next Christina Rosén describes the huge rescue excavation of Nya Lödöse, now part of Gothenburg. The excavation took place as part of exten sive city development between 2013 and 2018. The resulting archae- ological data cover periods from the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries AD and give significant new information about town-dwelling in late medieval and early modern Sweden. CURRENT SWEDISH ARCHAEOLOGY VOL. 27 201910 Editorial The final notice in this volume is written by Magnus Djerfsten and in- troduces the ongoing and planned archaeological surveys and excavations in advance of the ‘Eastern Link’ – the new high speed railway which will require huge numbers of rescue excavations, particularly in the county of Östergötland. Up to 250 archaeologists will be employed during the years 2023 to 2025, with probably over 500 ancient monuments to be excavated. We look forward to many interesting results from these excavations in a region with a high density of archaeological remains. In the last editorial we mentioned the planned #metoo-related conference organized by the Swedish Archaeological Society (Svenska Arkeologiska Samfundet) that was going to take place in November 2019 in Växsjö, in cooperation with the Department of Cultural Sciences at Linnaeus Univer- sity. Due to unforeseen circumstances the conference has been moved to 2-4 April 2020, at the same venue. For more information, please see the web- page of the Swedish Archaeological Society. For those of you who cannot make it, a review of the conference will appear in the next volume. Wishing you a great 2020. We hope it will be full of new funding opp- or tunities for Sweden’s academic journals. Sophie Bergerbrant & Alison Klevnäs editors of Current Swedish Archaeology