In Households, Ed Joel Santos, Bloomsbury Academic
Excavations in Masthugget began in 2020 and are still ongoing as part of a large development in t... more Excavations in Masthugget began in 2020 and are still ongoing as part of a large development in the central parts of Gothenburg, Sweden. Rio Göteborg Natur- och kulturkooperativ has over the last three years headed the extensive excavation project, encompassing a substantial area of 150000 square meters. The area contains the remains from the historical suburb and developing port, with privately owned harbour plots and wooden piers from the 17th to the 21st centuries. Districts with sea- and landbased maritime industries are often referred to as maritime communities or sailortowns. Traditional narratives of sailortowns are sometimes depicted as poor, dangerous, and immoral places with problematic populations. This narrow viewpoint misses the extraordinary vitality and importance of the ports in the pre-modern period.
Historical maps provide snapshots of moments in time while the archaeological remains give tangible evidence of 400 years of constructions, though heavily disturbed by later urban activities. What happens then, if we add a detailed archival source (the land tax) to the analysis by examining one year, 1816? What aspects of a sailortown can be brought forward and what is lost in the confliction between our sources?
These sources capture the emergence, growth, and development of Masthugget from a rural community to a maritime suburb. With its diverse demographic, the district displays a large variety of households, occupations, nationalities and social strata in proximity and interaction. We will discuss the household from the perspective of a maritime community focusing on the harbour plots that held both tenement houses for workers and officials, as well as formal gardens and town houses of the upper bourgeoise, by challenging traditional narratives, through a bottom-up study, analysing a combination of materials and sources. We demonstrate how the pre-industrial maritime household display social diversity and entrepreneurship with vibrant inhabited piers in contrast to dark depictions of the late 19th century.
Buildings in Society: International Studies in the Historic Era
In the last decades there have been several large scale urban excavations in Sweden and Norway an... more In the last decades there have been several large scale urban excavations in Sweden and Norway and new ways of interpreting and understanding the early modern building flora is now possible. This is a study of constructions, layouts and the internal structure of the houses of some of those towns. Some elements had a traditional character and some elements were new, we aim to identify the iterated and the modern ideas in the built environment.
International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 2017
Comparing archaeological features from the various interventions at Nya Lödöse with incidents rec... more Comparing archaeological features from the various interventions at Nya Lödöse with incidents recorded in the historical sources from both Nya Lödöse and Gothenburg as points of departure we examine the tension between the idealized and the actual. Such incidences form the groundwork of our discussion regarding the perception, use, and understanding by contemporaries of the urban fabric in the transition from late medieval to early modern city. During this period, we see that despite international events, daily life was often characterized by petty struggles with neighbors and bureaucracy. The form of the town and how the citizens engaged with it is a key aspect of our work. In Nya Lödöse structure created when the town was first laid out locked the city to the past; Gothenburg which was intended to represent a peak of perfection and remaining unchanging proceeded to experience change almost immediately. Many typical features of early modern towns never occurred in Nya Lödöse despite abandonment and resettlement. Conservatism characterizes Nya Lödöse in a time of extreme political uncertainty. On the other hand, Gothenburg seems to be a more outward-looking city from its foundation, welcoming in immigrants from Germany, the Netherlands and the Atlantic Isles to become citizens of the city.
International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 2017
Comparing archaeological features from the various interventions at Nya Lödöse with incidents rec... more Comparing archaeological features from the various interventions at Nya Lödöse with incidents recorded in the historical sources from both Nya Lödöse and Gothenburg as points of departure we examine the tension between the idealized and the actual. Such incidences form the groundwork of our discussion regarding the perception, use, and understanding by contemporaries of the urban fabric in the transition from late medieval to early modern city. During this period, we see that despite international events, daily life was often characterized by petty struggles with neighbors and bureaucracy. The form of the town and how the citizens engaged with it is a key aspect of our work. In Nya Lödöse structure created when the town was first laid out locked the city to the past; Gothenburg which was intended to represent a peak of perfection and remaining unchanging proceeded to experience change almost immediately. Many typical features of early modern towns never occurred in Nya Lödöse despite abandonment and resettlement. Conservatism characterizes Nya Lödöse in a time of extreme political uncertainty. On the other hand, Gothenburg seems to be a more outward-looking city from its foundation, welcoming in immigrants from Germany, the Netherlands and the Atlantic Isles to become citizens of the city.
In: Liz Thomas & Jill Campbell. Buildings in Society. International Studies in the Historic Era. Archaeopress Arhcaeology. , 2018
In the last decades there have been a serveral large scale urban excavations in Sweden and Norway... more In the last decades there have been a serveral large scale urban excavations in Sweden and Norway and new ways of interpreting and understanding the early modern building flora is now possible. This is a study of constructions, layouts and the internal structure of the houses of some of those towns. Some elements had a traditional character and some elements were new, we aim to identify the iterated and the modern ideas in the built environment.
In the last decades there have been several large scale urban excavations in Sweden and Norway an... more In the last decades there have been several large scale urban excavations in Sweden and Norway and new ways of interpreting and understanding the early modern building flora is now possible. This is a study of constructions, layouts and the internal structure of the houses of some of those towns. Some elements had a traditional character and some elements were new, we aim to identify the iterated and the modern ideas in the built environment.
Comparing archaeological features from the various interventions at Nya Lödöse with incidents rec... more Comparing archaeological features from the various interventions at Nya Lödöse with incidents recorded in the historical sources from both Nya Lödöse and Gothenburg as points of departure we examine the tension between the idealized and the actual. Such incidences form the groundwork of our discussion regarding the perception, use, and understanding by contemporaries of the urban fabric in the transition from late medieval to early modern city. During this period, we see that despite international events, daily life was often characterized by petty struggles with neighbors and bureaucracy. The form of the town and how the citizens engaged with it is a key aspect of our work. In Nya Lödöse structure created when the town was first laid out locked the city to the past; Gothenburg which was intended to represent a peak of perfection and remaining unchanging proceeded to experience change almost immediately. Many typical features of early modern towns never occurred in Nya Lödöse despite abandonment and resettlement. Conservatism characterizes Nya Lödöse in a time of extreme political uncertainty. On the other hand, Gothenburg seems to be a more outward-looking city from its foundation, welcoming in immigrants from Germany, the Netherlands and the Atlantic Isles to become citizens of the city.
New technology have a great potential in how it may come to facilitate and renew the way archaeol... more New technology have a great potential in how it may come to facilitate and renew the way archaeologist deal
with the past during excavations, recordings and surveys. It may generate more correct, detailed and
thorough ways of documenting. As pointed out in the call for papers, there is probably no idea to talk about
“correct documentation” but rather depending on what you want to achieve, more or less usable ways of
documentation. Technology, new or old, may help us in exploring better or more suitable ways of recording
the data.
In this presentation however, we want to stress other factors, which together with better methods and
technologies are important for a more correct and adequate archaeological field work, documentation and
storytelling. Better documentation techniques and methods may not just improve our work but also move
limits for what is possible to examine. For an adequate documentation and storytelling, not just “hard values”
like technology, but also “soft values” like aspects of time, space and social questions are important. These
aspects together with modern techniques of surveying, excavating, documenting and storytelling may catch
more variations and present a more multi-faceted picture of our cities examined.
Throughout the history of archaeological research, particular layers of time, space and social strata have
been marginalized. Exclusions of certain time periods, people or areas can occur unconsciously or
consciously, but the result is the same: the city as an object have not been examined or discussed to its full
extent. We want to call these neglected aspects as physical and social margins, i.e. “peripheral” in a wider
meaning. The point is that we have to think about whose history is emphasized and who remain invisible.
We will discuss these issues thematically followed by a final summarising discussion. As base for our
discussion we will have Sweden, with some views towards other parts of the world. Situations might vary
between countries but the questions at issue should be of relevance overall.
ARCHITECTURE, ARCHAEOLOGY AND CONTEMPORARY CITY PLANNING, 2014
This project aims to achieve a fuller picture of how the city of Gothenburg may have looked
in 1... more This project aims to achieve a fuller picture of how the city of Gothenburg may have looked
in 1698 through collaborative research and digital visualization techniques. We aim to bring life to the
research by asking questions like: why did the streets lean? Were all the urban plots in use? In what
sort of dwellings did the people of Gothenburg live? Where was the pharmacist and which pub did
people attend? And why wasn’t the street at the top of Kvarnberget assigned a name? Answers to these
questions and more are found through research into the City Archives, the War Archives, publications
from historians as well as contemporary descriptions and imagery. This is combined with archaeological
reports, surviving buildings from the 17th century and city plans. Little by little the puzzle can be put
together in a 3D visualisation.
One of the main aspects of the project is to display the sources of the research and how to best convey
the research that has led to each aspect of the town being reconstructed as it is. This will be carried out
in a variety of methods including web deployment and the use of Unreal / Unity.
In Households, Ed Joel Santos, Bloomsbury Academic
Excavations in Masthugget began in 2020 and are still ongoing as part of a large development in t... more Excavations in Masthugget began in 2020 and are still ongoing as part of a large development in the central parts of Gothenburg, Sweden. Rio Göteborg Natur- och kulturkooperativ has over the last three years headed the extensive excavation project, encompassing a substantial area of 150000 square meters. The area contains the remains from the historical suburb and developing port, with privately owned harbour plots and wooden piers from the 17th to the 21st centuries. Districts with sea- and landbased maritime industries are often referred to as maritime communities or sailortowns. Traditional narratives of sailortowns are sometimes depicted as poor, dangerous, and immoral places with problematic populations. This narrow viewpoint misses the extraordinary vitality and importance of the ports in the pre-modern period.
Historical maps provide snapshots of moments in time while the archaeological remains give tangible evidence of 400 years of constructions, though heavily disturbed by later urban activities. What happens then, if we add a detailed archival source (the land tax) to the analysis by examining one year, 1816? What aspects of a sailortown can be brought forward and what is lost in the confliction between our sources?
These sources capture the emergence, growth, and development of Masthugget from a rural community to a maritime suburb. With its diverse demographic, the district displays a large variety of households, occupations, nationalities and social strata in proximity and interaction. We will discuss the household from the perspective of a maritime community focusing on the harbour plots that held both tenement houses for workers and officials, as well as formal gardens and town houses of the upper bourgeoise, by challenging traditional narratives, through a bottom-up study, analysing a combination of materials and sources. We demonstrate how the pre-industrial maritime household display social diversity and entrepreneurship with vibrant inhabited piers in contrast to dark depictions of the late 19th century.
Buildings in Society: International Studies in the Historic Era
In the last decades there have been several large scale urban excavations in Sweden and Norway an... more In the last decades there have been several large scale urban excavations in Sweden and Norway and new ways of interpreting and understanding the early modern building flora is now possible. This is a study of constructions, layouts and the internal structure of the houses of some of those towns. Some elements had a traditional character and some elements were new, we aim to identify the iterated and the modern ideas in the built environment.
International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 2017
Comparing archaeological features from the various interventions at Nya Lödöse with incidents rec... more Comparing archaeological features from the various interventions at Nya Lödöse with incidents recorded in the historical sources from both Nya Lödöse and Gothenburg as points of departure we examine the tension between the idealized and the actual. Such incidences form the groundwork of our discussion regarding the perception, use, and understanding by contemporaries of the urban fabric in the transition from late medieval to early modern city. During this period, we see that despite international events, daily life was often characterized by petty struggles with neighbors and bureaucracy. The form of the town and how the citizens engaged with it is a key aspect of our work. In Nya Lödöse structure created when the town was first laid out locked the city to the past; Gothenburg which was intended to represent a peak of perfection and remaining unchanging proceeded to experience change almost immediately. Many typical features of early modern towns never occurred in Nya Lödöse despite abandonment and resettlement. Conservatism characterizes Nya Lödöse in a time of extreme political uncertainty. On the other hand, Gothenburg seems to be a more outward-looking city from its foundation, welcoming in immigrants from Germany, the Netherlands and the Atlantic Isles to become citizens of the city.
International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 2017
Comparing archaeological features from the various interventions at Nya Lödöse with incidents rec... more Comparing archaeological features from the various interventions at Nya Lödöse with incidents recorded in the historical sources from both Nya Lödöse and Gothenburg as points of departure we examine the tension between the idealized and the actual. Such incidences form the groundwork of our discussion regarding the perception, use, and understanding by contemporaries of the urban fabric in the transition from late medieval to early modern city. During this period, we see that despite international events, daily life was often characterized by petty struggles with neighbors and bureaucracy. The form of the town and how the citizens engaged with it is a key aspect of our work. In Nya Lödöse structure created when the town was first laid out locked the city to the past; Gothenburg which was intended to represent a peak of perfection and remaining unchanging proceeded to experience change almost immediately. Many typical features of early modern towns never occurred in Nya Lödöse despite abandonment and resettlement. Conservatism characterizes Nya Lödöse in a time of extreme political uncertainty. On the other hand, Gothenburg seems to be a more outward-looking city from its foundation, welcoming in immigrants from Germany, the Netherlands and the Atlantic Isles to become citizens of the city.
In: Liz Thomas & Jill Campbell. Buildings in Society. International Studies in the Historic Era. Archaeopress Arhcaeology. , 2018
In the last decades there have been a serveral large scale urban excavations in Sweden and Norway... more In the last decades there have been a serveral large scale urban excavations in Sweden and Norway and new ways of interpreting and understanding the early modern building flora is now possible. This is a study of constructions, layouts and the internal structure of the houses of some of those towns. Some elements had a traditional character and some elements were new, we aim to identify the iterated and the modern ideas in the built environment.
In the last decades there have been several large scale urban excavations in Sweden and Norway an... more In the last decades there have been several large scale urban excavations in Sweden and Norway and new ways of interpreting and understanding the early modern building flora is now possible. This is a study of constructions, layouts and the internal structure of the houses of some of those towns. Some elements had a traditional character and some elements were new, we aim to identify the iterated and the modern ideas in the built environment.
Comparing archaeological features from the various interventions at Nya Lödöse with incidents rec... more Comparing archaeological features from the various interventions at Nya Lödöse with incidents recorded in the historical sources from both Nya Lödöse and Gothenburg as points of departure we examine the tension between the idealized and the actual. Such incidences form the groundwork of our discussion regarding the perception, use, and understanding by contemporaries of the urban fabric in the transition from late medieval to early modern city. During this period, we see that despite international events, daily life was often characterized by petty struggles with neighbors and bureaucracy. The form of the town and how the citizens engaged with it is a key aspect of our work. In Nya Lödöse structure created when the town was first laid out locked the city to the past; Gothenburg which was intended to represent a peak of perfection and remaining unchanging proceeded to experience change almost immediately. Many typical features of early modern towns never occurred in Nya Lödöse despite abandonment and resettlement. Conservatism characterizes Nya Lödöse in a time of extreme political uncertainty. On the other hand, Gothenburg seems to be a more outward-looking city from its foundation, welcoming in immigrants from Germany, the Netherlands and the Atlantic Isles to become citizens of the city.
New technology have a great potential in how it may come to facilitate and renew the way archaeol... more New technology have a great potential in how it may come to facilitate and renew the way archaeologist deal
with the past during excavations, recordings and surveys. It may generate more correct, detailed and
thorough ways of documenting. As pointed out in the call for papers, there is probably no idea to talk about
“correct documentation” but rather depending on what you want to achieve, more or less usable ways of
documentation. Technology, new or old, may help us in exploring better or more suitable ways of recording
the data.
In this presentation however, we want to stress other factors, which together with better methods and
technologies are important for a more correct and adequate archaeological field work, documentation and
storytelling. Better documentation techniques and methods may not just improve our work but also move
limits for what is possible to examine. For an adequate documentation and storytelling, not just “hard values”
like technology, but also “soft values” like aspects of time, space and social questions are important. These
aspects together with modern techniques of surveying, excavating, documenting and storytelling may catch
more variations and present a more multi-faceted picture of our cities examined.
Throughout the history of archaeological research, particular layers of time, space and social strata have
been marginalized. Exclusions of certain time periods, people or areas can occur unconsciously or
consciously, but the result is the same: the city as an object have not been examined or discussed to its full
extent. We want to call these neglected aspects as physical and social margins, i.e. “peripheral” in a wider
meaning. The point is that we have to think about whose history is emphasized and who remain invisible.
We will discuss these issues thematically followed by a final summarising discussion. As base for our
discussion we will have Sweden, with some views towards other parts of the world. Situations might vary
between countries but the questions at issue should be of relevance overall.
ARCHITECTURE, ARCHAEOLOGY AND CONTEMPORARY CITY PLANNING, 2014
This project aims to achieve a fuller picture of how the city of Gothenburg may have looked
in 1... more This project aims to achieve a fuller picture of how the city of Gothenburg may have looked
in 1698 through collaborative research and digital visualization techniques. We aim to bring life to the
research by asking questions like: why did the streets lean? Were all the urban plots in use? In what
sort of dwellings did the people of Gothenburg live? Where was the pharmacist and which pub did
people attend? And why wasn’t the street at the top of Kvarnberget assigned a name? Answers to these
questions and more are found through research into the City Archives, the War Archives, publications
from historians as well as contemporary descriptions and imagery. This is combined with archaeological
reports, surviving buildings from the 17th century and city plans. Little by little the puzzle can be put
together in a 3D visualisation.
One of the main aspects of the project is to display the sources of the research and how to best convey
the research that has led to each aspect of the town being reconstructed as it is. This will be carried out
in a variety of methods including web deployment and the use of Unreal / Unity.
This project aims to achieve a fuller picture of how the city of Gothenburg may have looked
in 1... more This project aims to achieve a fuller picture of how the city of Gothenburg may have looked
in 1698 through collaborative research and digital visualization techniques. We aim to bring life to the
research by asking questions like: why did the streets lean? Were all the urban plots in use? In what
sort of dwellings did the people of Gothenburg live? Where was the pharmacist and which pub did
people attend? And why wasn’t the street at the top of Kvarnberget assigned a name? Answers to these
questions and more are found through research into the City Archives, the War Archives, publications
from historians as well as contemporary descriptions and imagery. This is combined with archaeological
reports, surviving buildings from the 17th century and city plans. Little by little the puzzle can be put
together in a 3D visualisation.
One of the main aspects of the project is to display the sources of the research and how to best convey
the research that has led to each aspect of the town being reconstructed as it is. This will be carried out
in a variety of methods including web deployment and the use of Unreal / Unity.
Vernacular buildings and urban social practice - Wood and people in early modern Swedish society, 2020
Wooden buildings housed the majority of Swedish urban populations during the early modern era. Ho... more Wooden buildings housed the majority of Swedish urban populations during the early modern era. However, the crucial data around which discussions on urban housing pivot is missing and largely forgotten. The buildings have disappeared due to fire, demolition, and modernity. They were built during turbulent periods of urban transformation; disdained for their sometimes-rural look and for the fire hazard they represented, simultaneously appreciated for being warm, affordable and movable. The contextualisations of this study reveal how the wooden house played a fundamental part in forming what it is to be urban in Sweden, and in forming Swedish history. The wooden building stock was particularly apt for mass-production and moving, which helped realise the idea of the ideal town plan in the comprehensive transformation of Swedish urban space. The early modern wooden house is becoming more widespread as archaeological remains and less prominent as preserved buildings every year, thus examination and comparison of the two distinct datasets combined with historical records is important in this study. The author establishes how log timber, timber-framing and post and plank buildings were used for a wide range of functions in both central and peripheral locations and within all strata of society. New strategies for creating warm housing were developed, clearly affordable to the populace. Changes in, and continuity of layouts, featured simultaneously within the building stock, while the storeyed house attributed to evolution of the multi-unit structure. Surprisingly, this study discloses that timber-framing was more prevalent geographically and functionally than previous research indicated.
Medeltidens taklag, dess mönster och variation i system och tekniker undersöks i Robin Gullbrands... more Medeltidens taklag, dess mönster och variation i system och tekniker undersöks i Robin Gullbrandssons lic-avhandling Hidden Carpentry. Kyrktak i Norra Småland och Västergötland har inventerats och examinerats genom byggnadsarkeologiska studier. Författarens byggnadstekniska analys baseras på nyckelegenskaper som visar på en tydlig mångfald i ytbearbetning. En variationsrikedom som dock avtar mot 1100-talets slut. Han för en intressant kulturhistorisk beskrivning där han kontrasterar 1100-talets fertila tekniska miljö mot senmedeltidens konstruktionsmässiga konservatism. Gullbrandsson har genom sin inventering och dokumentation tillfört kulturmiljövården en fantastisk ny resurs genom sitt samlade corpus i ett byggnadsarkeologiskt arkiv.
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papers by Andrine Nilsen
Historical maps provide snapshots of moments in time while the archaeological remains give tangible evidence of 400 years of constructions, though heavily disturbed by later urban activities. What happens then, if we add a detailed archival source (the land tax) to the analysis by examining one year, 1816? What aspects of a sailortown can be brought forward and what is lost in the confliction between our sources?
These sources capture the emergence, growth, and development of Masthugget from a rural community to a maritime suburb. With its diverse demographic, the district displays a large variety of households, occupations, nationalities and social strata in proximity and interaction. We will discuss the household from the perspective of a maritime community focusing on the harbour plots that held both tenement houses for workers and officials, as well as formal gardens and town houses of the upper bourgeoise, by challenging traditional narratives, through a bottom-up study, analysing a combination of materials and sources. We demonstrate how the pre-industrial maritime household display social diversity and entrepreneurship with vibrant inhabited piers in contrast to dark depictions of the late 19th century.
with the past during excavations, recordings and surveys. It may generate more correct, detailed and
thorough ways of documenting. As pointed out in the call for papers, there is probably no idea to talk about
“correct documentation” but rather depending on what you want to achieve, more or less usable ways of
documentation. Technology, new or old, may help us in exploring better or more suitable ways of recording
the data.
In this presentation however, we want to stress other factors, which together with better methods and
technologies are important for a more correct and adequate archaeological field work, documentation and
storytelling. Better documentation techniques and methods may not just improve our work but also move
limits for what is possible to examine. For an adequate documentation and storytelling, not just “hard values”
like technology, but also “soft values” like aspects of time, space and social questions are important. These
aspects together with modern techniques of surveying, excavating, documenting and storytelling may catch
more variations and present a more multi-faceted picture of our cities examined.
Throughout the history of archaeological research, particular layers of time, space and social strata have
been marginalized. Exclusions of certain time periods, people or areas can occur unconsciously or
consciously, but the result is the same: the city as an object have not been examined or discussed to its full
extent. We want to call these neglected aspects as physical and social margins, i.e. “peripheral” in a wider
meaning. The point is that we have to think about whose history is emphasized and who remain invisible.
We will discuss these issues thematically followed by a final summarising discussion. As base for our
discussion we will have Sweden, with some views towards other parts of the world. Situations might vary
between countries but the questions at issue should be of relevance overall.
in 1698 through collaborative research and digital visualization techniques. We aim to bring life to the
research by asking questions like: why did the streets lean? Were all the urban plots in use? In what
sort of dwellings did the people of Gothenburg live? Where was the pharmacist and which pub did
people attend? And why wasn’t the street at the top of Kvarnberget assigned a name? Answers to these
questions and more are found through research into the City Archives, the War Archives, publications
from historians as well as contemporary descriptions and imagery. This is combined with archaeological
reports, surviving buildings from the 17th century and city plans. Little by little the puzzle can be put
together in a 3D visualisation.
One of the main aspects of the project is to display the sources of the research and how to best convey
the research that has led to each aspect of the town being reconstructed as it is. This will be carried out
in a variety of methods including web deployment and the use of Unreal / Unity.
Conference Presentations by Andrine Nilsen
Historical maps provide snapshots of moments in time while the archaeological remains give tangible evidence of 400 years of constructions, though heavily disturbed by later urban activities. What happens then, if we add a detailed archival source (the land tax) to the analysis by examining one year, 1816? What aspects of a sailortown can be brought forward and what is lost in the confliction between our sources?
These sources capture the emergence, growth, and development of Masthugget from a rural community to a maritime suburb. With its diverse demographic, the district displays a large variety of households, occupations, nationalities and social strata in proximity and interaction. We will discuss the household from the perspective of a maritime community focusing on the harbour plots that held both tenement houses for workers and officials, as well as formal gardens and town houses of the upper bourgeoise, by challenging traditional narratives, through a bottom-up study, analysing a combination of materials and sources. We demonstrate how the pre-industrial maritime household display social diversity and entrepreneurship with vibrant inhabited piers in contrast to dark depictions of the late 19th century.
with the past during excavations, recordings and surveys. It may generate more correct, detailed and
thorough ways of documenting. As pointed out in the call for papers, there is probably no idea to talk about
“correct documentation” but rather depending on what you want to achieve, more or less usable ways of
documentation. Technology, new or old, may help us in exploring better or more suitable ways of recording
the data.
In this presentation however, we want to stress other factors, which together with better methods and
technologies are important for a more correct and adequate archaeological field work, documentation and
storytelling. Better documentation techniques and methods may not just improve our work but also move
limits for what is possible to examine. For an adequate documentation and storytelling, not just “hard values”
like technology, but also “soft values” like aspects of time, space and social questions are important. These
aspects together with modern techniques of surveying, excavating, documenting and storytelling may catch
more variations and present a more multi-faceted picture of our cities examined.
Throughout the history of archaeological research, particular layers of time, space and social strata have
been marginalized. Exclusions of certain time periods, people or areas can occur unconsciously or
consciously, but the result is the same: the city as an object have not been examined or discussed to its full
extent. We want to call these neglected aspects as physical and social margins, i.e. “peripheral” in a wider
meaning. The point is that we have to think about whose history is emphasized and who remain invisible.
We will discuss these issues thematically followed by a final summarising discussion. As base for our
discussion we will have Sweden, with some views towards other parts of the world. Situations might vary
between countries but the questions at issue should be of relevance overall.
in 1698 through collaborative research and digital visualization techniques. We aim to bring life to the
research by asking questions like: why did the streets lean? Were all the urban plots in use? In what
sort of dwellings did the people of Gothenburg live? Where was the pharmacist and which pub did
people attend? And why wasn’t the street at the top of Kvarnberget assigned a name? Answers to these
questions and more are found through research into the City Archives, the War Archives, publications
from historians as well as contemporary descriptions and imagery. This is combined with archaeological
reports, surviving buildings from the 17th century and city plans. Little by little the puzzle can be put
together in a 3D visualisation.
One of the main aspects of the project is to display the sources of the research and how to best convey
the research that has led to each aspect of the town being reconstructed as it is. This will be carried out
in a variety of methods including web deployment and the use of Unreal / Unity.
in 1698 through collaborative research and digital visualization techniques. We aim to bring life to the
research by asking questions like: why did the streets lean? Were all the urban plots in use? In what
sort of dwellings did the people of Gothenburg live? Where was the pharmacist and which pub did
people attend? And why wasn’t the street at the top of Kvarnberget assigned a name? Answers to these
questions and more are found through research into the City Archives, the War Archives, publications
from historians as well as contemporary descriptions and imagery. This is combined with archaeological
reports, surviving buildings from the 17th century and city plans. Little by little the puzzle can be put
together in a 3D visualisation.
One of the main aspects of the project is to display the sources of the research and how to best convey
the research that has led to each aspect of the town being reconstructed as it is. This will be carried out
in a variety of methods including web deployment and the use of Unreal / Unity.
The contextualisations of this study reveal how the wooden house played a fundamental part in forming what it is to be urban in Sweden, and in forming Swedish history. The wooden building stock was particularly apt for mass-production and moving, which helped realise the idea of the ideal town plan in the comprehensive transformation of Swedish urban space.
The early modern wooden house is becoming more widespread as archaeological remains and less prominent as preserved buildings every year, thus examination and comparison of the two distinct datasets combined with historical records is important in this study. The author establishes how log timber, timber-framing and post and plank buildings were used for a wide range of functions in both central and peripheral locations and within all strata of society.
New strategies for creating warm housing were developed, clearly affordable to the populace. Changes in, and continuity of layouts, featured simultaneously within the building stock, while the storeyed house attributed to evolution of the multi-unit structure. Surprisingly, this study discloses that timber-framing was more prevalent geographically and functionally than previous research indicated.