Per Ole Rindel

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

• 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

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)

Education

1998      PhD, Saxo Institute, section of Archaeology, UCPH

1991       mag.art. in Prehistoric Archaeology, Institute for Prehistoric and Classical Archaeology, UCPH

Employments

2004 -     Associate professor, Institute for Archaeology and Ethnology/Saxo-institute, UCPH

2004   Amanuensis (assistant lecturer), Institute for Archaeology and Ethnology, UCPH

2001-04: Assistant professor, Institute for Archaeology and Ethnology, UCPH

1999-2000: Amanuensis (assistant lecturer), Institute for Archaeology and Ethnology, UCPH

1997-1999: Research assistant, Institute for Archaeology and Ethnology, UCPH

1994-96:  PhD candidate, Institute for Archaeology and Ethnology, UCPH

1991-94:  Archaeologist, Sønderskov Museum

Institutional responsibilities

Chair of Board of Studies, Saxo Institute, UCPH, 2020-2021

Member, Board of Studies, Saxo Institute, UCPH, since 2007

Member, Board of Studies for Prehistoric Archaeology, Institute for Archaeology and Ethnology/Saxo Institute, UCPH, 2002-2007,

Head of programme, Prehistoric Archaeology, Saxo Institute, UCPH, 2020-2021

Coordinator of programme, Prehistoric Archaeology, Saxo Institute, UCPH, 2010-2019

Vice head of programme, Prehistoric Archaeology, Institute for Archaeology and Ethnology, UCPH, 2002-2004

Chair of dissemination committee, Saxo Institute, UCPH, 2007-2014

IT coordinator and chair of IT committee, Institute for Archaeology and Ethnology, UCPH, 1997-1998 and 2001-2003

Member, merging committee, Institute for Archaeology and Ethnology, UCPH, 2003

Participation in assessment committees

Chair, PhD assessment committee, UCPH, 2005, 2014, 2017, 2018 & 2021

Member, PhD assessment committee, University of Aarhus, 2008 & 2012

Positions of trust outside UCPH

2008-2010: member, Archaeological Board, Agency of Cultural Heritage

2013- : member, Board of Directors, the foundation Ingeniør Svend G. Fiedler og Hustrus legat til fremme af botanisk og arkæologisk forskning

2017- : chair, Board of Directors, the foundation Ingeniør Svend G. Fiedler og Hustrus legat til fremme af botanisk og arkæologisk forskning

2013- : member, Board of Directors, the foundation Kazimierz Salewicz og hustru Marit Jensens Studiefond

Participation in major research programmes

2003-05:  Öresund – barriär eller bro ….? Kulturella kontakter och samhällsutveckling under järnålder och tidig medeltid. 3-year multi-institutional archaeological project related, financed by NOS-H (Nordic research councils in the Humanities).

2000-01:  Kulturelle relationer i Øresundsregionen i jernalder og vikingetid – bebyggelses- og samfundsudvikling i Skåne og på Sjælland 500 f.Kr.-1050 e.Kr. Cross-institutional archaeological project related to the research program of the Øresund University ”Sjælland og Skåne – før, under og efter broen”.

1997-99: Fortid og Flora: 5 year interdisciplinary research project related to the Research Councils research program 'Menneske, landskab og biodiversitet' (Man, Landscape and Biodiversity).

1994-96:  Bebyggelse og Kulturlandskab (Settlement and Landscape): Research program reated to the Humanities Research Council (1993-1997)

Participation in international networks

2015-  :  Archaeological network: Regional and transregional interaction between the Baltic and the Mediterranean spheres in the first Millennium BC (koord.prof.Oliver Nakoinz, Univ.Kiel). The network includes archaeologists from Germany, Norway, Denmark, Poland, Moldova and Russia (https://a-simb.gitlab.io/home/)

2006-08:  Archaeological network Denmark-Poland

1999-     Sachsensymposia (netværk including archaeologists from Norway, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, France, Netherlands, UK and Poland.

Other tasks

2020-     Member in group of consultants in relation to Museum Southeast-Denmark's project regarding Iron Age settlements at Køge North

2020-     Member in group of consultants in relation to Museum Roskilde's project regarding publishing of exavations of Iron Age settlements and cemeteries and burials at Vindinge.