Papers from N-TAG TEN, the Proceedings of the 10th Nordic TAG conference at Stiklestad, Norway 2009. Contents: Preamble: Nordic TAG 1985-2009: Past and Future (Kristian Kristiansen); 1) Introduction (Ragnhild Berge, Marek E. Jasinski and Kalle Sognnes); 2) Quartzite at a sieidi: a new life of an offering site? (Tiina Aikas); 3) Without a trace? Rituals and remembrance at rune stones (Cecilia Ljung and Susanne Theden); 4) Reused rock art: Traces of Iron Age activities at Bronze Age rock art sites (Per Nilsson); 5) Material memories among pre-Christian graves in Iceland (Dora Petursdottir); 6) What can a little bird tell if all good things come in threes? Triple cups and bird-shaped pottery as representations of ritualized feasting goods (Christian L. Rsrud); 7) Images of the non-conceivable. On pictorial mimesis within rock art research (Ylva Sjostrand); 8) Accompanying the stone ships. Circular stone settings in relation to the Gotlandic ship settings (Joakim Wehlin); 9) Hard rock studies: cup marks in Eastern Svealand (Roger Wiksell); 10) Material culture and the construction of religious niches (Mads DengsJessen); 11) Theory for the a-theoretical: Niche construction theory and its implications for environmentalArchaeology (Felix Riede); 12) Cultural evolution and archaeology. Historical and current trends (Felix Riede, Jan Apel and Kim Darmark); 13) Close encounters of the copper kind (Vesa-Pekka Herva, Janne P. Ikaheimo, Jari-Matti Kuusela and Kerkko Nordqvist); 13) Import vs. imitation? Towards an understanding of Early Bronze Age weapons in Southern Scandinavia (Zsofia Kolcze); 14) Enter the gripping beast. Innovations and actor-networks in Viking Age towns (Sen M. Sindbak); 15) Cultural heritage tourism in the North: Making information about vulnerable Sami heritage sites accessible to the public or not? (Goril Nilsen); 16) The values archaeologists ascribe to archaeological artefacts: the impact of workplace (Atle Omland); 17) Clay pipes and the habitus of tobacco consumption. An archaeological study of tobacco consumption with special reference to seventeenth century Trondheim (Lise Loktu); 18) The introduction of sails to Scandinavia: Raw materials, labour and land (Lise Bender Jgensen); 19) A technological momentum? Changes in lithic technology during the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Scandinavia (Lotte Eigeland); 20) Iron production in A sterdalen in medieval times - a consequence of regional technological change? (Bernt Rundberget); 21) Mobility, points and people. Technological and social changes towards the Neolithic of Southern Norway (Steinar Solheim); 22) The (sluggish and modest) introduction of iron in southern Sweden: insufficient technology or unprepared receivers? A case study from iron usage in Halland (Per Wranning); 23) Dealing with consequences. The importance of placement (Ulla Zagal-Mach); 24) On war and the memory of war - the Middle Bronze Age burial from Hvidegarden on Zealand in Denmark revisited (Joakim Goldhahn); 25) Merovingian men - fulltime warriors? Weapon graves of the continental Merovingian Period of the Munich Gravel Plain and the social and age structure of the contemporary society - a case study Doris Gutsmiedl-Schumann); 26) Painful heritages. Cultural landscapes of the Second World War in Norway: a new approach (Marek E. Jasinski, Marianne N. Soleim and Leiv Sem); 27) Tools of lethal play. Weapon burials reflecting power structures and group cohesion during the Iron Age in Ostrobothnia, Finland (Jari-Matti Kuusela).

A detailed study of the Bronze Age rock art found in the Stjordal region of central Norway. Based on fieldwork carried out in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Sognnes analyses the imagery of the art and the physical and social landscape in which it exists. Through identifying various spatial and temporal patterns, three inter-connected symbolic systems are identified.