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Helene Agerskov Rose

Researcher

Department of Historical Studies
Mail
helene.agerskov.rose@gu.se
Visiting address
Renströmsgatan 6
41255 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 200
40530 Göteborg

About Helene Agerskov Rose

Helene Agerskov Rose is a Danish archaeologist and osteologist specialising in archaeological science and scientific dating. Her research focuses on the timing and tempo of social and cultural change in past societies, particularly in Scandinavian archaeology from later prehistory to the Viking Age. A central part of her research is the development and application of Bayesian chronological modelling. She combines radiocarbon dating with archaeological and osteological information to build high-resolution chronologies and investigate changes in material culture, burial practices and past societies. More recently, her research has expanded towards integrating archaeological, isotopic and palaeogenomic evidence to investigate human mobility, migration and cultural change. Her research is strongly interdisciplinary, bringing together approaches and expertise from archaeology, osteology, radiocarbon science, isotope analysis and palaeogenomics.

Helene has been a researcher at the Department of Historical Studies, University of Gothenburg, since 2023, where she is part of the interdisciplinary ERC Synergy project COREX. Her research within COREX focuses on Bayesian chronological modelling and the integration of chronological and archaeological datasets in investigations of major transformations in European prehistory. From 2016 to 2023, she was based at the Centre for Baltic and Scandinavian Archaeology (ZBSA) in Schleswig, Germany, where she conducted doctoral and postdoctoral research within the Collaborative Research Centre CRC1266 ‘Scales of Transformation’ at Kiel University.

Helene was PI of the Danish-German URNFIELD network project, funded by Interreg Deutschland-Danmark (2021–2022). The project brought together researchers and heritage institutions across northern Europe and established an international research network on Late Bronze Age–Early Iron Age urnfields. It resulted in the edited volume Beyond Urnfields – New Perspectives on Late Bronze Age–Early Iron Age Funerary Practices in Northwest Europe (Rose et al. 2023).

Helene has been an editor of the Danish Journal of Archaeology since 2022, contributing to editorial assessment and journal development.

Teaching

Helene teaches archaeology at undergraduate, Master’s and doctoral level, including Scandinavian Iron Age archaeology, burial archaeology, archaeological science, human osteology and quantitative methods. She coordinates undergraduate courses in Scandinavian Iron Age archaeology and burial archaeology, supervises Bachelor’s and Master’s theses, and teaches research proposal development at doctoral level.