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. Beginnings The 6th and 5th centuries BC were a tipping point for exports and imports on the European continent. The ever-increasing conflicts and wars ...

and the

Viking Age The Viking Age () was the period during the Middle Ages when Norsemen known as Vikings undertook large-scale raiding, colonizing, conquest, and trading throughout Europe and reached North America. It followed the Migration Period and the Ger ...

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-nominals) is a federal public research university located in London, England, United Kingdom. The university was established by royal charter in 1836 as a degree ...

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

University College London , mottoeng = Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £143 million (2020) , budget = ...

. Sanmark is a Reader in Medieval Archaeology at the

University of the Highlands and Islands , type = federal, public , image_name = UHI Coat of Arms.jpg , image_size = 150px , established = 2011 – University status 1992 – UHI Millennium Institute , chancellor = The Princess Royal , vice_chancellor = , budget = £139m (2022 ...

and Associate Professor of Archaeology at

Uppsala University Uppsala University ( sv, Uppsala universitet) 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 opera ...

. She was elected as a Fellow of the

Society of Antiquaries of London A society is a group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction, or a large social group sharing the same spatial or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations. Societ ...

on 2 February 2010, and as a Fellow of the

Royal Historical Society The Royal Historical Society, 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 Histori ...

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 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 Uppsala University faculty 1970 births 21st-century archaeologists British women archaeologists {{archaeologist-stub