Dr. Mathias Bjørnevad-Ahlqvist
Mathias Bjørnevad-Ahlqvist is a researcher specialising in ritualised practices of the Mesolithic and Neolithic. He has particularly focused on interdisciplinary and biographical approaches to hoarding. Furthermore, he has published on heritage-related issues with Native American and First Nation objects in Danish museums, and he has worked as Research Assistant on the DFF-funded Deep Histories of Migration project, which assessed the connectivity across Northern Europe in the Early Neolithic based on the statistical analyses of ritual practices.
Books by Mathias Bjørnevad-Ahlqvist
The early Neolithic of Northern Europe
New approaches to migration, movement and social connection
Edited by Daniela Hofmann, Vicki Cummings, Mathias Bjørnevad-Ahlqvist & Rune Iversen | Forthcoming
In Britain, Ireland and Southern Scandinavia, the Early Neolithic is characterised by monumental constructions (e.g. causewayed enclosures, dolmens) and by specific traditions of depositional practice. Some aspects of these practices are similar in both regions,…