Jes Wienberg

Jes Wienberg is a professor of historical archaeology at Lund University in Sweden. He received his PhD in 1993 from Lund University with a dissertation on the gothicization of the ca. 2700 parish churches in medieval Denmark. He has archaeological field experiences from Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Estonia, covering periods from the Mesolithic to the present. Wienberg’s research focuses on five topics: historical archaeology as a discipline; church architecture and church archaeology; pseudoarchaeology as a phenomenon; memory, monuments and memorials; heritage and world heritage. His numerous publications include De kirkelige institutioner i middelalderens Tønsberg (1991) and Grund og gård i Tønsberg (1992).