Björn Ambrosiani

Björn Ambrosiani (born 8 March 1928) is a Swedish archaeologist and former civil servant. He worked at the Swedish History Museum and the Swedish National Heritage Board, as a research director among other positions.

Ambrosiani led a number of excavations at different sites. In the 1960s he led the excavations at Henriksdalsberget, and from 1969–71 and again from 1990–95 he was responsible for excavations of the Viking-age trading center Birka. The first project was the first at Birka since that led by Hjalmar Stolpe in the 1870s.

Publications

• Fornlämningar och bebyggelse. Studier i Attundalands och Södertörns förhistoria (1964).
• Ambrosiani, Björn (1983). "Regalia and symbols in the boat-graves". In Lamm, Jan Peder & Nordstrom, Hans-Åke. Vendel Period Studies: transactions of the Boat-Grave Symposium in Stockholm, February 2–3, 1981. Studies – The Museum of National Antiquities, Stockholm. 2. Stockholm: Statens Historiska Museum. pp. 23–30. ISBN 978-91-7192-547-3.
• Birka vikingastaden. Vol. 1, [Jakten på Svarta jordens hemligheter har börjat!] (1991)
• Birka vikingastaden. Vol. 2, [Sensationella fynd i Stolpes schakt] : [unika gjutformar från vikingatidens verkstäder!] (1992)
• Birka vikingastaden. Vol. 3, [Askan i svarta jorden avslöjar: de första husen!] (1993)
• Birka vikingastaden. Vol. 4, [Smycken och djurben bland 40000 fynd – vattensållet avslöjar livet för 1200 år sedan] (1994)
• Birka vikingastaden. Vol. 5, [Vikingastaden lever upp igen i TV:s modell av 800-talets Birka] (1995)
• Clarke, Helen & Ambrosiani, Björn, Towns in the Viking Age (London: Leicester University Press, 1991; revised edition 1995)
  • Swedish edition: Vikingastäder (Höganäs: Wiken, 1993)
  • Japanese edition: ”Vaikingu to tosi” (Tokyo: Tokai University Press, 2001)

References

"Björn Ambrosiani - Uppslagsverk - NE". www.ne.se. Retrieved 9 March 2017.