Helle Vandkilde, short CV

Personal Data

Born 1955. Female, married with two children (15 and 17 years old)

Academic positions and accomplishments

-  university education combines classical archaeology (exam.art. Odense University 1978) and prehistoric archaeology (cand.mag. Aarhus University 1986).

 - degree of doctor philosophiae at Aarhus University in November the 1st 1996 based on my habilitation work "From Stone to Bronze. The Metalwork of the Late Neolithic and Earliest Bronze Age in Denmark".

-  assistant professor (post-doc) at the Institute of Archaeology and Ancient History, Lund University 1998-2004.

-  docent at Lund University in 1999

- visiting professor in winter term 2003-2004 at Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte, Christian-Albrechts-Universität in Kiel.

- professor at Aarhus University from February 2004. The professorship was made possible through a special initiative of the Danish Research Council for the Humanities with reference to the research theme "Material culture and social identification: globalisation in the past and the present".  

Scholarships, Honorary Prizes, Research Grants, and Fundraising

Carlsberg Foundation 1984, 1994-1997. Queen Margrethe II's Archaeological Foundation 1987, 1993. Erik Westerby Foundation 1990. Novo Nordisk Foundation 1994. The Danish Research Council for the Humanities 1987, 1998-2003. Clara Lachmann Foundation 1992. Berit Wallenberg Foundation 1998, 2002. NOS-H (Nordiska Samarbetsnämnden för Humanistisk Forskning) 1993-94; NorFA 1993-94, Wenner-Gren Foundations 1997. Gyllenstierne-Krapperup Foundation 2000. Erik Phillip-Sørensen Foundation 2000. Letterstedtska Foundation 2000. Ebbe Kocks Foundation 2001, 2002, 2004. Crafoordska Foundation  2001. Fil dr Uno Otterstedts Foundation 2001. Member of "Vetenskabssocieteten" at Lund Universitet 1999. Member of Aarhus University's Academic Association 2003. The Erik Westerby-Foundation's Honorary Prize (100.000 kr) in 2005.

Commitees

External referee to the Norwegian Research Council 2001 onwards. External referee British Academy 2005. Lectureship at Oslo University 2005. Professorship at South Danish University 2005. Post-doc position Stockholm University 2006. Several PhD dissertations.

Research Interests

Material culture as carrier of culture and memory. Critical research history. Social theories and their usability in archaeology. The relationship between archaeology and social anthropology. War and warriorhood. Bronze Age social practice. Social identification and global processes.

Research coordination and international cooperation

Participant in the TOMBA project 1999-2001: EU-financed projekt about the rich weapon burials in the Bronze Age in cooperation with Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum in Mainz.

Head of the Pile-project 1998-2005 People, Settlement and Landscape in Scania 2800-1300 BC. Fieldwork at Pile south of Malmö: structures and conjunctures in Scania and Europe around 2000 f.Kr.

Coordinator of the PhD supervision at the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Lund University 2000-2004. Member of the board of the Danish PhD School of archaeology 2005-.

Coordinator of the project Warfare and Society from the Perspectives of Archaeology and Social Anthropology. The Danish Research Council for the Humanities 1998-2003 under the special initiative of 'Civilization and War'.

Partner in the Svenska Riksbank and EU-financed international project: The Emergence of European Communities. Household, Settlement and Territory in Later Prehistory (2300-300 BC).

Research Council for the Humanities: International Bronze Age Network 2005-2006 (400.000 kr). "Cultural Identity and Global Process in the Bronze Age". Partners at the universities of Gothenburg and  Cambridge; Deutsches Archäologisches Institut. (DAI Eurasien-Abteilung-Berlin).

Galathea III 2006: "Globalisation in the past and in the present: Ethno-archaeological investigations of material culture and identity in Melanesia". Partner ANU, Canberra. Cooperation between archaeology and social anthropology.

Academic production (february 2006)

In total

Peer reviewed publications: 22 (including 2 monographs)

Not peer reviewed proceedings: 14

Edited books: 4

Other publications: 7

Monographs

Vandkilde H. 1996. From Stone to Bronze. The Metalwork of the Late Neolithic and Earliest Bronze Age in Denmark. Doctoral thesis, Aarhus University: Jutland Archaeological Society. Aarhus University Press.

Vandkilde, H. 2006. Culture and Change in Central European Prehistory, 6^th to 1^st millennium BC. (155 normal manuscript pages, c. 140 figs). Aarhus University Press, forthcoming.

Edited books

Olausson, D. & Vandkilde, H. (eds.) 2000. Form-Function-Context. Material Culture Studies in Scandinavian Archaeology. Acta Archaeologica Lundensia Series. Lund.

Gillis, C., Olausson, D. & Vandkilde, H. (eds.) 2004. Dawn of Europe. From Stone Age to Cities. The Report Series of the Department of Archaeology at Lund University.

Otto, T., Thrane, H. & Vandkilde, H. (eds.) 2006. Warfare and Society. Archaeological and Social Anthropological Perspectives. Aarhus University Press.

Vandkilde, H. (ed.) forthcoming. Archaeology and Anthropology. Inaugural Lectures of the Institute of Anthropology, Archaeology, and Linguistics at Aarhus University 1996-2004. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press.

Articles

Vandkilde, H., Rahbek, U. & Rasmussen, K.L. 1996. "Radiocarbon dating and the Chronology of Bronze Age Southern Scandinavia". In Randsborg, K. (ed.), Absolute Chronology. Archaeological Europe 2500-500 BC. Acta Archaeologica vol. 67 - 1996. Acta Archaeologica supplementa vol. I. pp. 183-198.

Vandkilde, H. 1997, 2000, 2003ff. Catalogue and introduction to the catalogue of pithoi (typological classification of relief decoration and tempering). In Hallager, Erik & Halllager, Birgitta P. (eds.), The Greek-Swedish Excavations at the Agia Aikaterini Square Kastelli, Khania 1970-1987, Chania. Vol. I-III have appeared (historical levels; LM IIIC-LM IIIB:2; LMIIIB:1-LM IIIA:2), whereas Vol. IV-VI are in progress (LM IIIA:1-LM II; LM I; MM-EN). Skrifter utgivna av svenska institutet i Athen, 4., XLVII.II. Stockholm: Poul Åströms Förlag.

Vandkilde, H. 1998a. "Den senneolitiske offernedlæggelse i den jyske Gallemose: tid-rum dimensioner og fremmede forbindelser". In Løken, T. (ed.), Bronsealder i Norden - Regioner og interaksjon (7. Nordiske Bronzealdersymposium). AmS-Varia 33. Stavanger. pp. 7-22.

Vandkilde, H. 1998b. "Denmark & Europe: typochronology, metal composition and socio-economic change in the Early Bronze Age". In Mordant, C., Pernot, M. and Rychner, V. (eds.) L'atelier du bronze en Europe du XX au VIII siècle avant notre ère. Actes du colloque international "Bronze' 96". Tome I (session de Neuchatel): Les analyses de composition du métal: leur apport à l'archéologie del'Age du Bronze. Paris: CTHS. pp. 119-135.

Vandkilde, H. 1998c. "Metalwork, Depositional Structure and Social Practice in the Danish Late Neolithic and Earliest Bronze Age". In Mordant, C., Pernot, M. and Rychner, V. (eds.) L'atelier du bronze en Europe du XX au VIII siècle avant notre ère. Actes du colloque international Bronze' 96. Tome III (session de Dijon): L'atelier du bronzier: élaboration, transformation et consommation du bronze en Europe du XXe au VIIIe siècle avant notre ére. Paris: CTHS. pp. 243-257

Vandkilde, H. 1999. "Social Distinction and Ethnic Reconstruction in the earliest Danish Bronze Age". In Clausing, C. & Egg, M. (eds.) Eliten in der Bronzezeit. Ergebnisse zweier Kolloquien in Mainz und Athen. Monographien des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums 43. Mainz. pp. 245-276.

Vandkilde, H. 2000. "Material Culture and Scandinavian Archaeology. A Review of the Concepts of Form, Function, and Context". In Olausson D. & H. Vandkilde (eds.). Form, Function, and Context. Material Culture Studies in Scandinavian Archaeology. Acta Archaeologica Lundensia series. Lund. pp. 1-47.

Vandkilde, H. 2001. "Beaker Representation in the Danish Late Neolithic". In Nicolis, F. (ed.), Bell Beakers Today. Pottery, people, culture and symbols in prehistoric Europe. Proceedings of the international Colloquium, Riva del Garda (Trento, Italy), 11-16 May 1998. Provincia Autonome di Trento. Servizio Beni Culturali. Ufficio Beni Archeologici. pp. 333-360.

Vandkilde, H. 2003. "Commemorative tales: archaeological responses to modern myth, politics, and war". World Archaeology 35(1): pp. 126-144. (Theme: The Social Commemoration of Warfare, edited by Roberta Gilchrist).

Vandkilde, H. 2004. five articles : "Bronze Age Scandinavia" (Vol. II: p. 72-80), "Spišský Štvrtok" (Vol. II: p. 31-33), "Tollund Man" (vol. I: p. 26-28), "Bronze Age Cairns" (Vol. II: p. 82-85), "Bronze Age Oak Coffins" (Vol. II: p. 80-82). In Bogucki, P. & Crabtree, P. (eds.): Ancient Europe 8000 B.C. - A.D. 1000: Encyclopedia of the Barbarian World. Volume I-II. New York: Thomson & Gale/Charles Scribner's Sons.

Vandkilde, H. 2004."Central Europe 6000 BC - AD 1" (52 printed pages and 141 figs) in Gillis, C., Olausson, D. & Vandkilde, H. (eds.). Dawn of Europe. From Stone Age to Cities. The Report Series of the Department of Archaeology at Lund University.

Vandkilde, H. 2005. "A Review of the Early Late Neolithic Period in Denmark: Practice, Identity and Connectivity". www.jungstein.SITE.de , pp. 1-51.

Vandkilde, H. 2005. "A Biographical Perspective on Ösenringe from the Early Bronze Age. In Kienlin, T. (ed.) Die Dinge als Zeichen: Kulturelles Wissen und materielle Kultur. Internationale Fachtagung an der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main 3.-5- April 2003. Universitäts-forschungen zur prähistorischen Archäologie 125. Bonn: Habelt. pp. 263-281.

Vandkilde, H. 2006. "Archaeology and War. Presentations of Warriors and Peasants in Archaeological Interpretations". In Otto, T., Thrane, H. & Vandkilde, H. (eds.): Warfare and Society.  Archaeological and Social Anthropological Perspectives. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press. pp. 59-76.

Vandkilde, H. 2006. "Warriors and Warrior Institutions in the European Copper Age". In Otto, T., Thrane, H. & Vandkilde, H. (eds.): Warfare and Society. Archaeological and Social Anthropological Perspectives. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press. pp. 355-384.

Vandkilde, H. 2006. "Warfare and Gender according to Homer: An Archaeology of an Aristocratic Warrior Culture". In Otto, T., Thrane, H. & Vandkilde, H. (eds.): Warfare and Society. In Archaeological and Social Anthropological Perspectives. Aarhus: Aarhus University. pp. 477-490.

Vandkilde, H. 2006. "Warfare, Weaponry and Material Culture - an Introduction" In Otto, T., Thrane, H. & Vandkilde H. (eds.). Warfare and Society. Archaeological and Social Anthropological Perspectives. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press & Jutland Archaeological Society. pp. 443-450.

Vandkilde, H. 2006. "Warfare and pre-State Societies - an Introduction". In Otto, T., Thrane, H. & Vandkilde H. (eds.). Warfare and Society. Archaeological and Social Anthropological Perspectives. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press. pp. 105-111.

Otto,T, Thrane, H. & Vandkilde, H. 2006. "Warfare and Society. Archaeological and Social Anthropological Perspectives.  An Introduction".  In Otto, T., Thrane, H. & Vandkilde H. (eds.). Warfare and Society. Archaeological and Social Anthropological Perspectives. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press. pp. 9-19.

Vandkilde, H. 2006. "A Review of the Early Late Neolithic Period in Denmark: Practice, Identity and Connectivity". Forthcoming in Offa.

Vandkilde, H. n.d. "Metallurgy, Inequality, and Globalisation in the Bronze Age. A commentary of the papers in the Metallurgy Session. To appear in the proceedings of the Nebra conference Biel, Peter & Bertemes Francois (eds.). Der Griff nach den Sternen. Wie Europas Eliten zu Macht und Reichtum kamen February 2005.

Vandkilde, H. n.d. „Archaeology, Anthropology and Globalization. Inaugural lecture, October 22^nd 2004". In Vandkilde, H. (ed.), Archaeology and Anthropology. Inaugural Lectures of the Institute of Anthropology, Archaeology, and Linguistics at Aarhus University 1996-2004. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press. Net publication http://www.aal.au.dk/global/index.

Vandkilde, H. n.d. "Material culture - methods, meanings and use: A commentary to the British-Scandinavian PhD Course in Archaeology at UCL, London 23-26 May 2005". Papers of the Institute of Archaeology.

For a general readership

Vandkilde, H. 1998d. "The Princely Burials of the Únetice Culture." In 25^th Council of Europe Art Exhibition: Demakopoulou, K., Eluère, C., Jensen, J., Jockenhövel, A., Mohen, J.P. (eds.) 1998. Gods and Heroes of the Bronze Age. Europe at the Time of Ulysses. Copenhagen: the National Museum of Denmark; Bonn: Kunst und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland; Paris: Galeries nationales du Grand Palais; Athens: National Archaeological Museum. pp. 103-105. In English, German, French, and Greek.

Vandkilde, H. & Bertelsen, K.B. 2000. "Krig og Samfund i et arkæologisk og socialantropologisk perspektiv". In: Høiris, O., Madsen, H.J., Madsen, T., & Vellev, J. (eds.), Menneskelivets mangfoldighed. Arkæologisk og antropologisk forskning på Moesgård. Moesgårds Jubilæumsskrift. Aarhus: Jysk arkæologisk Selskabs Skrifter. pp. 115-126.

Vandkilde, H. 2002. "To arkæologiske fortællinger om krigere og bønder". Statens Humanistiske Forskningsråd Tidskrift Humaniora 2/17. årgang. pp. 29-34.

Vandkilde, H. 2002. "Krigere og Bønder i Europas stenalder og bronzealder". Jordens Folk årgang 37, nr. 2, pp. 44-50.