A Viking Age assemblage and the relations within : A case study of a burial mound from Husby-Långhundra in Uppland.

This master thesis comprises an assemblage theoretical approach to a Viking Age burial mound. Traditionally assemblages in archaeology are static and homogenous arrangements. Recent research though looks to assemblages as constantly transforming and in flux. These vibrant matters consistent of different components neatly tucked together and intertwined always becoming and changing at the same time. With this approach of assemblage theory to a material of the burial mound “Gullhögen” the main focus will be to recognize which possibilities and what restrictions this kind of perspective has to offer to burial archaeology. Also, the aim of this study is to try and see how relations can become when human and non-human entities interact with the mound. Also, how the mounds inner and outer burial forms effect can have caused an affect in the past and still causes an affect today. This is done through different examples and a case study. With support in earlier interpretations it is argued here what the assemblage theoretical approach “intrinsic assemblage” has to offer in ways of a more vivid and nuanced way to interpret the burial mound and its monumentality as an arrangement with its own intentions and true capabilities to affect its surroundings and the humans and non-humans entities that interact with it