and in a few cases in Bronze Age studies (e.g.

The Kullen district has a striking geographical scenery and a multitude of cultural settings and locales constructed during thousands of years. Thus, the approach of the mental lands-cape enlarges the perspective for interpreting archaeological sites and human life-ways. You have to enter into this landscape. As a rambler (Swedish promenör), I am familiar with the surroundings and convinced through my per-sonal ramblings that this landscape must always have functioned as a kind of material category. The landscape is a metaphorical reality, active in the production and usage of objects (e.g. Bradley 2000) and important in the networking between people in the past, as it is today. Obviously, there is a mental lands-cape in the physical settings. The personal experience of a specific lands-cape is as important as the traditional archaeo-logical work with analysis of the archaeological fragments from excavated or surveyed sites. Personal familiarity is the entry to knowledge, and as the material culture this is the basis for perceiving the practical and symbolic values in past landscapes (Jennbert 2000). The perspec-tive has been challenged frequently withi