Alexandra Sanmark (b. 1970) is an archaeologist specialising in

Iron Age Scandinavia Iron Age Scandinavia (or Nordic Iron Age) was the Iron Age, as it unfolded in Scandinavia. It was preceded by the Nordic Bronze Age. Beginnings The 6th and 5th centuries BC were a tipping point for exports and imports on the European contine ...

and the

Viking Age The Viking Age (about ) was the period during the Middle Ages when Norsemen known as Vikings undertook large-scale raiding, colonising, conquest, and trading throughout Europe and reached North America. The Viking Age applies not only to their ...

Career

Sanmark took undergraduate and postgraduate study at the

University of London The University of London (UoL; abbreviated as Lond or more rarely Londin in Post-nominal letters, post-nominals) is a collegiate university, federal Public university, public research university located in London, England, United Kingdom. The ...

before gaining her PhD in 2006 on the Christianisation of Scandinavia from

University College London University College London (Trade name, branded as UCL) is a Public university, public research university in London, England. It is a Member institutions of the University of London, member institution of the Federal university, federal Uni ...

. Sanmark is a Reader in Medieval Archaeology at the

University of the Highlands and Islands The University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) () is an integrated, tertiary institution encompassing both further and higher education. It is composed of 10 colleges and research institutions spread around Inverness, the Highlands and Isl ...

and associate professor of archaeology at

Uppsala University Uppsala University (UU) () is a public university, public research university in Uppsala, Sweden. Founded in 1477, it is the List of universities in Sweden, oldest university in Sweden and the Nordic countries still in operation. Initially fou ...

. She was elected as a Fellow of the

Society of Antiquaries of London The Society of Antiquaries of London (SAL) is a learned society of historians and archaeologists in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1707, received its royal charter in 1751 and is a Charitable organization, registered charity. It is based ...

on 2 February 2010, and as a Fellow of the

Royal Historical Society The Royal Historical Society (RHS), founded in 1868, is a learned society of the United Kingdom which advances scholarly studies of history. Origins The society was founded and received its royal charter in 1868. Until 1872 it was known as the H ...

in 2010.

Select publications

*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 f1 *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

British women historians 21st-century British historians Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London Living people Fellows of the Royal Historical Society Medievalists Alumni of University College London Academic staff of Uppsala University 1970 births 21st-century British archaeologists British women archaeologists Medieval archaeologists {{UK-archaeologist-stub