Sophie Bergerbrant
Researcher
Department of HistoricalAbout Sophie Bergerbrant
Sophie Bergerbrant’s main research interest is the European Bronze Age, with a particular focus on burial, the movement of people, textile production, warfare and gender.
She defended her thesis Bronze Age identity: Costume, conflict and contact in Northern Europe 1600-1300 BC at the University of Stockholm in 2007.
She then contributed to smaller research projects at the University of Stockholm before moving to Trondheim for a post-doc position (2010-2013) in the large HERA-funded research project Creativity and Craft production in Middle and Late Bronze Age Europe. Here, her work focused on textiles and textile production in the Bronze Age.
She moved to Gothenburg to be a researcher in the project The Rise: Travels, transmissions and transformations in temperate northern Europe during the 3rd and 2nd millennium BC: the rise of Bronze Age societies lead by Professor Kristiansen.
She were the PI in the project Bronze Age wool economy: production, trade, environment, husbandry and society (THESP). The project is funded by Riksbankens Jublieumsfond. Co-investigators in the project is Serena Sabatini and Karin M. Frei. She works with the textile production in the Middle Bronze Age in Hungary. http://historiskastudier.gu.se/english/research/bronze-age-wool-economy
She is also involved in a small project about the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age in the Nossan area, Västergötland, Sweden. This is a collaboration with Maolu Blank.
She is currently a resercher in Towards a new European Prehistory. Integrating aDNA, isotopic investigations, language and archaeology to reinterpret key processes of change in the prehistory of Europe. In the project she is focuing on the depostion of human remains in wetlands from the Bronze Age and Early Iron Age.
Sophie Bergerbrant is an experienced editor, including peer-reviewing articles and the production of four large volumes of collected papers, and she is a former technical editor for the Journal JONAS (Journal of Nordic Archaeological Science). She is now one of two main editoris fro Current Swedish Archaeology.
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Dating loom weights from Százhalombatta-Földvár,
Hungary
Sophie Bergerbrant, Magdalone Vicze
Archaeological Textiles Review - 2020-01-01 -
Editorial
Sophie Bergerbrant, Alison Klevnäs
Current Swedish Archaeology - 2020-01-01 -
Kartläggning av svenska arkeologibranschens respons till #utgrävningpågår – en
rapport
Stella Macheridis, Ingrid Berg, Sophie Bergerbrant, Per Nilsson
- 2020-01-01 -
Crossroads – Archaeology Before and After
#excavationinprogress
Ingrid Berg, Sophie Bergerbrant
Current Swedish Archaeology - 2020-01-01 -
Textile Production and Specialisation in Bronze Age
Europe
Serena Sabatini, Sophie Bergerbrant
The Textile Revolution in Bronze Age Europe: Production, Specialisation, Consumption / edited by Serena Sabatini, Sophie Bergerbrant. - 2020-01-01 -
Wool Textiles in the Early Nordic Bronze Age: Local or
Traded?
Sophie Bergerbrant
The Textile Revolution in Bronze Age Europe: Production, Specialisation, Consumption / edited by Serena Sabatini, Sophie Bergerbrant. - 2020-01-01 -
Editorial
Sophie Bergerbrant, Alison Klevnäs
Current Swedish Archaeology - 2019-01-01 -
The Textile Revolution in Bronze Age
Europe
Serena Sabatini, Sophie Bergerbrant
- 2019-01-01 -
Mapping human mobility during the third and second millennia BC in present-day
Denmark
Karin M Frei, Sophie Bergerbrant, Karl-Göran Sjögren, Marie Louise Jörkov, Niels Lynnerup, Lise Harvig, Morten Allentoft, Martin Sikora, T Douglas Price, Robert Frei, Kristian Kristiansen
PLoS ONE - 2019-01-01 -
Välkommen till
ullåldern
Sophie Bergerbrant, Serena Sabatini
Populär arkeologi - 2019-01-01 -
Howard Williams / Melanie Giles (eds), Archaeologists and the
Dead.
Sophie Bergerbrant
Germania - 2019-01-01 -
Approaching sheep herds origins and the emergence of the wool economy in continental Europe during the Bronze
Age
Serena Sabatini, Sophie Bergerbrant, L. Brandt, A. Margaryan, M. E. Allentoft
Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences - 2019-01-01 -
Transcultural fostering in the Bronze
Age?
Sophie Bergerbrant
Tidens landskap; En vänbok till Anders Andrén / redaktion Cecilia Ljung [och 8 andra]. - 2019-01-01 -
Editorial
Sophie Bergerbrant, Alison Klevnäs
Current Swedish Archaeology - 2019-01-01 -
Revisiting the <Egtvedt
girl>
Sophie Bergerbrant
Arkeologi og kulturhistorie fra norskekysten til Østersjøen. Festskrift til professor Birgitta Berglund / Editors Ragnhild Berge & Merete Moe Henriksen - 2019-01-01 -
Bronsålderns
fotfolk
Sophie Bergerbrant
Populär arkeologi - 2018-01-01 -
Revitalising
gender?
Sophie Bergerbrant
Norwegian Archaeological Review - 2018-01-01 -
Women on the move in the Nordic Bronze Age: a case study based on rock art and
costume.
Sophie Bergerbrant, Anna Wessman
J. Dodd & E. Meijer (red.), Giving the Past a Future: Essays in Archaeology and Rock Art Studies in Honour of Dr. Phil. h.c. Gerhard Milstreu - 2018-01-01 -
Creativity and spindle whorls at the bronze age tell of Százhalombatta-Földvár,
Hungary
Sophie Bergerbrant
Creativity in the European Bronze Age: Understanding innovation in pottery, textile and metalwork production / Lise Bender Jørgensen, Joanna Sofaer, Marie Louise Stig Sørensen. - 2018-01-01 -
Identifying commoners in the Bronze Age: burials outside
barrows
Sophie Bergerbrant, Kristian Kristiansen, Morten E. Allentoft, Karin M. Frei, T. Douglas Price, Karl-Göran Sjögren, Anna Tornberg
New Perspectives on the Bronze Age: Proceedings from the 13th Nordic Bronze Age Symposium, held in Gothenburg 9th June to 13th June 2015 - 2017-01-01 -
Identity, individuals and agency in the Bronze
Age
Sophie Bergerbrant
New Perspectives on the Bronze Age: Proceedings from the 13th Nordic Bronze Age Symposium, held in Gothenburg 9th June to 13th June 2015 - 2017-01-01 -
Introduction
Sophie Bergerbrant, Kristian Kristiansen
New Perspectives on the Bronze Age: Proceedings from the 13th Nordic Bronze Age Symposium, held in Gothenburg 9th June to 13th June 2015 - 2017-01-01 -
New Perspectives on the Bronze Age: Proceedings from the 13th Nordic Bronze Age Symposium, held in Gothenburg 9th June to 13th June
2015
Sophie Bergerbrant, Anna Wessman
- 2017-01-01 -
Aging well: Treherne’s ‘warrior’s beauty’ two decades
later
Catherine J. Frieman, Joanna Brück, Katharina Rebay-Salisbury, Sophie Bergerbrant, Sandra Montón Subías, Joanna Sofaer, Christopher J. Knüsel, Helle Vandkilde, Melanie Giles, Paul Treherne
European Journal of Archaeology - 2017-01-01 -
Philippe Della Casa / Constanze Witt (eds), Tattoos and Body Modifications in Antiquity. Proceedings of the Sessions at the EAA Annual Meetings in The Hague and Oslo, 2010/11. Zurich Studies in Archaeology volume 9. Chronos, Zürich
2013.
Sophie Bergerbrant
Germania Philippe Della Casa / Constanze Witt (eds), Proceedings of the Sessions at the EAA Annual Meetings in The Hague and Oslo, 2010/11. Zurich Studies in Archaeology volume 9. Chronos, Zürich 2013. - 2016-01-01 -
Textiles at the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) Meeting
2015
Sophie Bergerbrant
Archaeological Textile Review - 2016-01-01 -
Rooted in Movement. Aspects of Mobility in the Bronze Age
Europe
Sophie Bergerbrant
KUML - 2015-01-01 -
Bronze Age Children: Three Case
Studies
Sophie Bergerbrant
Med hjärta och hjärna. En vänbok till professor Elisabeth Arwill-Nordbladh - 2014-01-01 -
Ordinary or extraordinary? Redressing the problem of the Bronze Age corded
skirt
Sophie Bergerbrant
Current Swedish Archaeology - 2014-01-01 -
A stich in
time
Sophie Bergerbrant
A Stich in Time: Essays in honour of Lise Bender Jørgensen - 2014-01-01 -
Tools of Textile production in Roman Iron Age burials and settlements on Funen,
Denmark
Sophie Bergerbrant
A Stich in Time: Essays in honour of Lise Bender Jørgensen - 2014-01-01 -
A stich in time: Essays in Honour of Lise Bender
Jørgensen
Sophie Bergerbrant, Sølvi Helene Fossøy
- 2014-01-01 -
Appearance in Bronze Age Scandinavia as seen from the Nybøl
burial
Sophie Bergerbrant, Lise Bender Jørgensen, Sølvi Helen Fossøy
European Journal of Archaeology - 2013-01-01 -
Studying Creativity in Bronze Age Textiles: CinBA – A HERA Research
Project
Lise Bender Jørgensen, Sophie Bergerbrant, Antoinette Rast-Eicher
NESAT XI The North European Symposium for Archaeological Textiles XI. 10-13 May 2011 in Esslingen am Neckar - 2013-01-01 -
TEXTILES AND TEXTILE PRODUCTION IN EUROPE: FROM PREHISTORY TO AD
400
Sophie Bergerbrant
The Archaeological Journal - 2013-01-01 -
Violent Death and Wetlands: Sketal Remains from
Gotland
Sophie Bergerbrant, Christina Fredengren, Petra Molnar, Camilla Löfqvist
Counterpoint: Essays in Archaeology and Heritage Studies in Honour of Professor Kristian Kristiansen - 2013-01-01 -
Introduction
Sophie Bergerbrant, Serena Sabatini
Counterpoint: Essays in Archaeology and Heritage Studies in Honour of Professor Kristian Kristiansen - 2013-01-01 -
Counterpoint: Essays in Archaeology and Heritage Studies in Honour of Professor Kristian
Kristiansen
Sophie Bergerbrant, Serena Sabatini
- 2013-01-01 -
Migration, Innovation and Meaning: sword depositions on Lolland, 1600-1100
BC
Sophie Bergerbrant
Exchange Networks and Local Transformations: Interaction and local change in Europe and the Mediterranean from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age - 2013-01-01 -
Creativity and Corded Skirts from Bronze Age
Scandinavia
Sølvi Helene Fossøy, Sophie Bergerbrant
Textile: The Journal of Cloth & Culture - 2013-01-01