Ingela Bergman

I am an associate professor of archaeology and during the period 1987-2020 I was the director of the Silvermuseet and of the Institute for Arctic Landscape Research (Insarc), which was established in 2009. My research has northern cultural landscapes as its basic theme, focusing on the relationship between social processes, landscape utilization and ecosystem processes in northern environments. The time span extends from the very oldest Stone Age to the 19th century. I have been the leader of several interdisciplinary research projects and research programs, which have been funded by the Riksbank's Jubilee Fund (1999-2003, 2005-2009 and 2012-2017), the Swedish Research Council (2010-2012) and the EU Structural Funds (2001-2003). The research projects have been carried out in an interdisciplinary collaboration with primarily ecologists and forest historians at SLU in Umeå. The questions that my research addresses include:

• landscape strategies as means to communicate value systems and asagents in differentiation processes.
• the importance of cultural interfaces in (pre)historical community formation in northern Norrland.
• the role of landscape and physical heritage in identity processes (from a long-term perspective)
• The establishment, development and landscape impact of reindeer husbandry.
• Anthropogenic fire history and ecosystem change.
• Heritage trees (KMT)
• Plant food and cultivation in capture and pastoral economies.

The research results are mainly published in international journals. I am affiliated to the Department of Forest Ecology and Management at SLU in Umeå. In addition to research, the collaboration also includes teaching for students at advanced level and in postgraduate education.