Örjan Wikander

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Örjan Wikander (born July 6, 1943 in Helsingborg ) is a Swedish archaeologist and professor in the Department of Archeology and Ancient History at Lund University . His research interests include ancient water management with an emphasis on Roman water mills, Etruscan art and inscriptions, and the relationships between the Senatorial and Eques estates in the Roman Republic. He is editor of the Handbook of Ancient Water Technology (2000). In 1989 he undertook archaeological research at the Karlsmühle in Mertesdorf .

Works (selection)

  • Exploitation of Water-Power or Technological Stagnation? A Reappraisal of the Productive Forces in the Roman Empire. Malmö Museer, Malmö 1987, ISBN 91-40-05072-6
  • Europa i vardande: antiquities. Almqvist & Wiksell, Stockholm 1997, ISBN 91-21-14597-0
  • Handbook of Ancient Water Technology , ed. by Örjan Wikander. Brill, Leiden 2000, ISBN 90-04-11123-9
  • Etruscan Inscriptions from the Collections of Olof August Danielsson. Addenda to CIE II, I, 4. Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities (Medelhavsmuseet), Stockholm 2003, ISBN 91-89242-10-6
  • Antikens historia, Europa i vardande. Liber, Stockholm 2003, ISBN 91-47-05183-3
  • Poets and circled macars. En antique skröna. Wahlström & Widstrand, Stockholm 2008, ISBN 978-91-46-21838-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History ( Memento of March 6, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Accessed May 6, 2008
personal data
SURNAME Wikander, Örjan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Helsingborg