The research presented in this work was conducted while I held a Marie Curie Fellowship of the European Commission at the Swedish National Heritage Board (Riksantikvarieämbetet) in Stockholm, Sweden. All views presented and not directly attributed to others are mine alone and I bear sole responsibility for the content of this work.

A very large number of people have assisted me during my research with various queries, and some permitted me also to cite from their email messages to me. I would like to thank them all and apologize that, on this occasion, I cannot provide a full list of names. Special thanks are due to Ingrid Pfeiffer in Bremen, who heard about my project and undertook her own survey to assist me, and to Karen D Vitelli and her students Wendy Eliason, Justin Franklin, Emily Freund, and Betsey Wiegman in the Spring 2003 Archaeological Ethics class of the Department of Anthropology at Indiana University, USA, who supported my research through a video montage entitled Dinosaurs, Dullards, and Danger: Representations of Archaeology in Popular Culture. I am particularly grateful to all those who took the time to talk to me at length about specific topics in relation to my research. They include Peter Addyman, Jonathan Bateman, Göran Burenhult, Mike Heyworth, Magnus Krantz, Jesper Ohlsson, Francis Pryor, Gunter Schöbel, and John Walker.

Over the past two years, various audiences at conferences in Stockholm, Uppsala, Washington, DC, St. Petersburg, Härnosand and Skara, at Universities in Stockholm, Berlin, Bristol, Tübingen and Vienna, at Upplands Museum in Uppsala, and within my own institution in Stockholm and Mölndal gave me opportunities to discuss parts of my work and receive valuable feedback. I would also like to thank my colleagues in Stockholm over these two years, many of whom helped with informal suggestions or comments. Parts of this manuscript have been read by Ewa Bergdahl, Tom Carlsson, Göran Gruber, Håkan Karlsson, Karol Kulik, Nick Merriman, Bodil Petersson, George S. Smith, and Tom Stern and I am grateful to them all for their suggestions, especially to Björn Magnusson Staaf for his thorough readings and intensive discussions.

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