Örjan Wikander

Örjan Wikander ( born July 6, 1943 in Helsingborg) is a professor in the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Lund. His research interests include water management in the ancient world with an emphasis on Roman water mills, art and inscriptions of the Etruscans and the relationships between the estates of the senators and Eques in the Roman Republic. He is the editor of the Handbook of Ancient Water Technology ( 2000). In 1989 he undertook archaeological research at Charles Mill in Mertesdorf.

Works (selection)

  • Exploitation of Water -Power or Technological Stagnation? A Reappraisal of the Productive Forces in the Roman Empire. Malmö Museer, Malmö 1987, ISBN 91-40-05072-6
  • Europe i vardande: antiques. Almqvist & Wiksell, Stockholm 1997, ISBN 91-21-14597-0
  • Handbook of Ancient Water Technology, ed. Örjan Wikander. Brill, Leiden 2000, ISBN 90-04-11123-9
  • Etruscan Inscriptions from the Collections of Olof August Danielsson. Addenda to CIE II, I, 4 Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities ( Medelhavsmuseet ), Stockholm 2003, ISBN 91-89242-10-6
  • Antikens historia, Europe i vardande. Liber, Stockholm 2003, ISBN 91-47-05183-3
  • Poets och cirkelmakaren. En antique skröna. Wahlström & Widstrand, Stockholm 2008, ISBN 978-91-46-21838-8
Etruscan civilization Roman aristocracy
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