Does sexuality have a past? A growing body of archaeological research on sexuality
demonstrates that the sexual politics of the past were as richly varied and complex as those …

In popular culture, such diverse characters as occultist Aleister Crowley, Doors musician Jim
Morrison, and performance artist Joseph Beuys have been called shamans. In anthropology …

This accessible study of Northern European shamanistic practice, or seidr, explores the way
in which the ancient Norse belief systems evoked in the Icelandic Sagas and Eddas have …

In 1968, a weapon grave with brooches was found at Suontaka Vesitorninmäki, Hattula,
Finland. Since then, the grave has been interpreted as evidence of powerful women, even …

Advances in the use of archaeological theory by maritime archaeologists are proposed after
a brief review of recent literature on the subject. A disparity in theoretical discussion between …

Fig. 4.1. An engraving of grave Bj. 581 published in Ny Illustrerad Tidning. Public domain. 48
Fig. 4.2. Hjalmar Stolpe's (a) and Holger Arbman's (b) plans of grave Bj. 581. Image (a) from …

A remarkable array of people have been called shamans, while the phenomena identified
as shamanism continues to proliferate. This second edition of the Historical Dictionary of …

While some researchers continue to focus fruitfully on traditional issues, in recent years new
perspectives, some strongly revisionist, have developed within European Iron Age …

In this volume two important veins of interdisciplinary research into the medieval period in
Scandinavia and the Baltic region are merged, namely the Christianization process and …

This study focuses on two hypotheses at the heart of a debate concerning cooperation, socio-
political complexity, and religious belief. One of these contends that moralizing high gods …