Per Ole Rindel

• Presentation
• CV
• Research outputs
• Prizes
• Activities

Primary fields of research

Geographical and chronological specialization: 

The Iron Age and Viking Age in Southern Scandinavia, especially the Pre Roman Iron Age (a.o. in the network SIMB

Thematic specialization

• Settlement dynamics and formation of village communities
• Fortifications and fortified settlements
• Settlement and landscape
• landscape archaeology
• continuity and change

Current research

• settlement and landscape in the PreRoman Iron Age  at Grøntoft, Western Jutland
• the fortified settlement from the Late PreRoman Iron Age at Lyngsmose, Western Jutland
• the fenced village from the Late PreRoman Iron Age at Nørre Holsted, Southern Jutland

Teaching

I teach/have teached several courses at BA and MA level including: Archaeology, period 3 (Neolithic and Bronze Age in Denmark and Northern Europe); Archaeology, period 4 (Early Iron Age in Denmark and Northern Europe); Archaeological Documentation and Analysis; Archaeological Field Techniques and Excavation; Introduction to Archaeology; European Connections (and related excursions in Europe); Archaeological Research Project. Furthermore I have supervised projects on BA and MA level.

Supervision of MA theses

I mainly supervise theses concerning the Iron Age but also more methodological theses.

Ph.D supervision

I have supervised 3 theses as main supervisor:

• 2019: Defining Wetlands. New perspectives on wetland living with case studies from early Iton Age in North Zealand, Denmark (with Tim Flohr Sørensen)
• 2019: Den typologiske udvikling af østsjællandske huse fra førromersk til germansk jernalder – et værktøj til udredning af bosættelsesmønstre, bebyggelsesudvikling og ressourceområder (with Tim Flohr Sørensen)
• 2021: I konflikt med det sædvanlige. Social kompleksitet i Vestjyllands hav- og fjordlandskab i perioden 1-1200 e.Kr. (with Tim Flohr Sørensen and Daniel Löwenborg)