Kristina Jennbert is Professor emerita in Archaeology at the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Lund University, Sweden.

Already in the 1970s I felt that archaeology was an experience, when we as students had a field course in Ulamossen at Vikhög outside Lund. In the summer we excavated a Stone Age settlement in Ageröds bog. Archaeology is fascinating. Not just the practical work but also the theoretical perspectives. How can we use material culture and text fragments to interpret human history and life conditions with long time perspectives, from Stone Age to modern times? My multi-periodic interest in the history of mentality characterizes my research, my courses and lectures, and affects my life and work. To meet students wass essential, thus I had seminars and lectures in most courses in archaeology. The subjects included the Neolithic , Bronze Age, Iron Age; theoretical archaeology, archeology of religion, history of mentality, and ethics. During many years I had a special interest in peruvian archaeology in relation with a Linneaus Palme project in Lima.

 

Her research interests focus on human-animal relations, ethics, the archaeology of religion oriented towards Scandinavian pre Christian religion, landscape archaeology, and storehouse archaeology.

 

Jennbert has published Animals and Humans. Reccurrent symbiosis in archaeology and Old Norse religion (2011).  She co-edited the anthology Old Norse religion in long term perspective. Origins, change, and interaction (2006) with Anders Andrén and Catharina Raudvere as the final publication of their project Roads to Midgard.

The anthology Exploring the Animal Turn Human-Animal Relations in Science, Society and Culture (2014; Andersson Cederholm, Björck, Jennbert and Lönngren) examines ethical human-animal relations with interdisciplinary perspectives based on the concept of the Animal Turn. Jennbert's later research on human-animal relations concerns prehistoric dogs, breeding and human relationships to dogs together with her colleague the osteologist, professor emerita Elisabeth Iregren. Several articles and lectures have aroused great public interest.

 

The book Kullabergs grottor - mellan istid och nutid was published 2009. Jennbert has published several articles on landscape archaeology in the Kullen area in southern Sweden. In an ongoing project Kullaberg and the Dawn of Maritime Lifeways: Tracing the Northern Pioneers (starts 2026, Adam Boethius P1), Jennbert contributes with her experience and knowledge of the Kullaberg area.

 

The archaeological collections and the re-excavation of archaeological material in research publications and storehouses is a research theme that has engaged Jennbert for many years. One example is the article Revisiting the Nabberör Boat Grave: A Multiproxy Analysis of a Vendel Period Multiple Burial on the Swedish Island of Öland (Ekengren, Macheridis, Wilhelmsson, Jennbert and Iregren that present a reflexive, transdisciplinary reassessment of the boat grave; a methodological necessecity within the subjects.

The publication Among stone axes, bronze swords and arrowheads at Krapperup. Carl Gyllenstierna's collection of antiquities and archaeological investigations (2024) is also in the line of storehouse archaeology: Why collect antiquities? What makes the collector a collector? How does the collector's life biography affect the collection? What role do the values ​​and legislation of the time play? What relevance do archaeological collections have today? Through clues from a variety of sources, the archaeological collection, archaeological research and manor culture are linked with the societal transformation that took place in the country during the 19th century.