SHFA - Svenskt Hällristnings Forsknings Arkiv

SHFA:s biträdande föreståndare, prof. Christian Horn, pratar om hällristare och deras kunskap i Magasinet i Norsesund. Alla är varmt välkomna till en spännande kväll nästa tisdag.

Följ med på en spännande kväll om hällristningar och människorna bakom dem!

Vad visste de som ristade i hällarna?
Under bronsåldern ristade människor i Skandinavien tusentals bilder i berghällar – båtar, människor och symboler som fortfarande väcker frågor. Vad visste egentligen de som skapade dem? Hur gick arbetet till? Och vilken roll hade dessa personer i samhället?

Tisdag 24 mars kl. 19.00 får vi höra Christian Horn, professor i arkeologi vid Göteborgs universitet, berätta om ny forskning där 3D-teknik, datavetenskap och geologi ger nya ledtrådar till hällristarnas kunskap och betydelse.

📍 Magasinet i Norsesund (ett stenkast från stationen)
☕ Fika från kl. 18.30
🎟 Gratis för medlemmar i Norsesundsgruppen Konst och Kultur
(90 kr för övriga – medlemskap 200 kr/år eller 300 kr/hushåll)

Varmt välkomna till en kväll där vi tillsammans blickar flera tusen år tillbaka i tiden!

Six newly discovered Bronze Age mines in Spain - May explain the origin of Scandinavian Bronze During an archaeological survey conducted in February, researchers from the Maritime Encounters programme at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, identified six previously unregistered Bronze Age mines in Extremadura, southwestern Spain. The discoveries may represent a crucial piece of the puzzle i...

Adoranten is an established international journal for rock art research with over 50 years of publication history. In 2025, the journal transferred from the Scandinavian Society for Prehistoric Art to SHFA. We’ve just launched a new website and submission system through KB’s Publicera platform.

👉 https://publicera.kb.se/adoranten/

All articles are published in open access and receive a DOI. You can submit an article for consideration for the 2026 volume now.

Check out the 2023 and 2024 volumes now - all previous volumes to be uploaded soon!

Version 1.4 of the SHFA website has been released!

Try for example the search term shield bearers:
https://shfa.dh.gu.se/search=Sk%C3%B6ldb%C3%A4rare

The update focusses on summarising the data in the public archive and enabling future rock art research. It includes many updates, but some key ones include:

Search Results
✨New summary view of the search results with charts that are downloadable as images or csv files
✨Image type filter in the gallery view

Free-text Search
✨Autocomplete suggestions for the free-text search box
🛠️Suggested search terms updated when page loads

Advanced Search
✨New fields for 3D models and regional searches
🛠️Combining search terms and fields in the Advanced Search

Map View
✨Bounding box showing the extent of sites in the current page of results
✨Shore displacement data from SGU

Image Panel
✨Descriptions for Norwegian sites fetched from Riksantikvaren
✨Fetch image citations automatically using browser plug-ins for citation software
🛠️Improved clickable metadata beneath the image viewer

General
✨Contact form to let us know if you run into any issues or reuse any of the images

📚Detailed search guide

🐛Bug fixes

🚨Rock art researchers using digital methods🚨
The call for papers and posters at CAA 2026 (Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology) is now open. The rock art session invites contributions on the use of digital and computational approaches to exploring the production and consumption of rock art and related visual communication systems. Full details below.

Conference: CAA 2026, Vienna (31 March – 4 April 2026)
Deadline: 26 October 2025

Session: S8: Digital Methods in Rock Art Research II. Connecting
People: Reconstructing the Contexts of Past Visual Communication Systems

👉 Session Abstract: https://2026.caaconference.org/conference-sessions/ #:~:text=S8,-%3A%20Digital%20Methods%20in
👉 Call for Papers: https://2026.caaconference.org/call-for-papers-and-posters/

Conference Sessions – CAA 2026 Conference Sessions S1: Hic sunt dracones? Link ‘em all! Linked Open Data, Wikidata and CIDOC CRM in Archaeology Session Organisers: Florian Thiery, Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie (LEIZA), Mainz, Germany & Research Squirrel Engineers Network Martina Trognitz, Austrian Centre for Digital Humanit...

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Please tell us how we’re doing with our online archive (https://shfa.dh.gu.se/)! This way we can build your feedback into the next versions.

If you could, take a few minutes to respond to our survey: https://forms.office.com/e/uphn01JsKU

The survey is anonymous and available in English and Swedish (you’ll find the language options in the top right corner).

Thank you!