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Apr 13, 1947 77 years old
Swedish archaeologist
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About Lars Larsson Archaeologist
- Lars Larsson (born 1947) is a Swedish writer,photographer, and adventurer.
- Chair of prehistoric archaeology at Lund University in Sweden.
- Larsson has devoted most of his research career to the Stone Age in southernmost Sweden.
- Among his fieldwork may be noted excavations at the Ageröd bog, famous Late Mesolithic cemeteries at Skateholm, a Mesolithic shell midden and a Neolithic megalithic tomb in Portugal. In the 1990s, Larsson directed excavations of Middle Palaeolithic cave settlements in northern Zimbabwe.
- In the 90s and 00s he has also made important contributions to the study of the 1st Millennium AD through excavations at Uppåkra near Lund. In 1989, Larsson was elected as a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, and in 2001, member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
- Beginning in 2008, he is Head Editor of the Academy's journal Fornvännen.
