I’m a Swedish Archaeologist who have specialised in the Prehistory (Stone and Bronze Age)of the Baltic Islands Åland and Gotland and Archaeology of the Pacific with special focus on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) and Samoa. I have a broad experience of archaeology and cultural heritage management in these both settings and I have worked with contract archaeology, as museum curator, researcher and university lecturer. My interest in archaeology and my curiosity of past material achievements was inspired at young age when I saw runic stone monument every day walking to school. I have since mainly directed my research towards monuments and landscapes to understand the long-time dynamics and complex societies. I would label myself a semi-empirical researcher where I consider the material remains to be a foundation for archaeological research and important to analyse in various ways using methods from natural science but equally important is to understand their place in the landscape and the mindscape of people both then and now. I’m an Associate Professor and University Lecturer and have been the Academic Head of Department at Gotland University since 2008 and have affiliations as Adjunct Professor at The National University of Samoa since 2011 and Honorary Fellow at The Australian National University
To see more about my research and maybe download some of my articles you can go to:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Helene_Martinsson-Wallin
https://uppsala.academia.edu/Hele

Architectural Anthropology, Austronesian Prehistory, Cultural Change, Cultural Heritage, Heritage Management, Material Culture, Migration, Polynesian Chiefdoms, Post-Colonialism, Spatial Theory, Time, Monuments

Archaeology

European Society for Oceanists (ESfO)

Polynesia

Ancestral Oceania
First and Early contacts