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Archaeologist of the Viking Age

Alexandra SanmarkFSA FRHistS
Born1970
Occupation(s)Archaeologist
Academic
Academic background
Alma materUniversity College London
ThesisThe Christianisation of Scandinavia: a comparative study (2006)
Academic work
DisciplineArchaeology
Sub-disciplineEarly-medieval archaeology
Iron Age Scandinavia
Viking archaeology
InstitutionsUniversity of the Highlands and Islands
Uppsala University

Alexandra Sanmark FSA FRHistS (b. 1970) is an archaeologist specialising in Iron Age Scandinavia and the Viking Age.

Career

Sanmark took undergraduate and postgraduate study at the University of London before gaining her PhD in 2006 on the Christianisation of Scandinavia from University College London. Sanmark is a Reader in Medieval Archaeology at the University of the Highlands and Islands and associate professor of archaeology at Uppsala University.

She was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London on 2 February 2010, and as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2010.

Select publications

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  • Sanmark, A. 2017. Viking Law and Order, Places and Rituals of Assembly in the Medieval North. Edinburgh University Press.
  • Sanmark, A. 2014. "Christianity, Survival and Re-Emergence", Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology .
  • Sanmark, A. 2013. "'Patterns of Assembly. Norse Thing Sites in Shetland' Debating the Thing in the North I, Selected Papers from Workshops Organized by The Assembly Project", Journal of the North Atlantic Special Volume 5.
  • Sanmark, A. and Semple, S. 2013. "Assembly in North West Europe: collective concerns for early societies?", European Journal of Archaeology 16(3).
  • Carver, M., Sanmark, A., and Semple, S. (eds) 2010. Signals of Belief in Early England: Anglo-Saxon Paganism Revisited. Oxbow.
  • Sanmark, A. 2009–10. "The Case of the Greenlandic Assembly Sites", Journal of the North Atlantic Special Volume 2, 178–192.

References

  1. ^ "Dr Alexandra Sanmark, MA, FSA, FSA Scot, FRHist". University of the Highlands and Islands. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
  2. Sanmark, Alexandra (2006). The Christianisation of Scandinavia: a comparative study (Thesis). UCL.
  3. "Dr Alexandra Sanmark". Society of Antiquaries of London. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
  4. "Fellow of The Royal Historical Society, Alexandra Sanmark". University of the Highlands and Islands. Retrieved 24 July 2020.


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