CURRICULUM VITAE
ANNELI EKBLOM, Ph. D, Docent
PERSONAL DETAILS
Name
Date of Birth
Qualifications
Doctoral degree
Postdoctoral positions
Docent level
Present position
Anneli Ekblom
12 May 1969
BA, MA, Ph D, Docent
Ph D: 22 October 2004 in Archaeology. Title: Changing
Landscapes: an environmental history of Chibuene Mozambique.
Supervisor: Prof Paul Sinclair
Sep 2005-Aug 2008: Environmental Change institute Oxford
University Centre for Environment (OUCE).
Docent 22 November 2011
60% Lecturer Department of Archaeology and Ancient History
(until 2014.06.01):
• 15% coordinator of Ma programme in Global Environmental
History
• 10% Project leader in Research node Mind & Nature
• 35% Teaching and supervision
40% Researcher Department of Archaeology and Ancient History:
• VR funded project “Landscape transformations and socioecological management in Limpopo National Park,
Mozambique.”
Extra teaching at CSD Uppsala and Cemus:
• Since 2008: Course planning group, lecturer and
examination for the block Global Environmental History in
A course in Sustainable development
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
Jan 2009-2011
Research fellow/forskarassistent. Dept of Archaeology and Ancient
history, Uppsala University.
Jan 2000-present
Geark (private consultancy, self employed). Uppsala.
Archaeobotanical specialist in contract archaeology
Sep 2008-Dec 2008
Coordinator for CEFO Ph D research seminar, CSD Uppsala
Sep 2005-Aug 2008
Post doctoral research assistant. Environmental Change institute,
Oxford University Centre for Environment
May 2005, Aug 2005
Centre for Environmental and Development studies, Uppsala
University
Nov 2004-Feb 2005
Archaeobotanist. Swedish board of Antiquities, Uppsala
Aug 2004
Centre for Environmental and Development studies, Uppsala
University
Aug 1998-Sep 1999
Archaeobotanist. Swedish board of Antiquities, Uv-Syd, Lund
Apr 1997-March 1998
Archaeological fieldwork, Swedish board of Antiquities, Uv-Syd,
Lund
June 1996
Fieldwork assistant. Archaeological fieldwork in collaboration with
Direççaõ naçional de Cultura, Mozambique
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PROJECT LEDERSHIP
Jan 2013- :Programme director of masterprogramme in Global Environmental History, Uppsala
University. http://www.arkeologi.uu.se/Utbildning/Master/global-environmental-history/
Jan 2013- :Project leader for VR funded “Landscape transformation and socio-ecological
management, Limpopo National Park, Mozambique. (2013.01.01-2015.12.31). 50% salary. Dnr
2012-1063. http://www.arkeologi.uu.se/Forskning/Projekt/landscape-transformations/
Dec 2012- :Project leader for Mind & Nature research node at faculty of Arts, Uppsala
University (2012.01.01-2014.12.31) http://www.histfilfak.uu.se/mind-nature/?languageId=3
SUPERVISION (Ph.D.)
 2010. (Assistant supervisor) Elinor Breman, Pattern and process in grass-dominated
ecosystems: vegetation dynamics at the grassland-savanna ecotone in South Africa during
the Holocene. Ph D Dissertation. Department School of Geography and the Environment.
Oxford, Oxford University.
 2012. Marilee Wood. Interconnections: Glass beads and trade in southern and eastern
Africa and the Indian Ocean - 7th to 16th centuries AD. Archaeology and Ancient history,
Uppsala University: Glassbeads and trade, Mozambique. Ph D Dissertation, Archaeology and
Ancient history, Uppsala University.
 2013. Marjaana Kohtamäki. Transitions: a landscape approach to social and cultural
changes in southern Mozambique 5000 BC-1000 AD. Archaeology and Ancient history,
Uppsala University.
 In prep. Rikke Wulf. Lessons from Šaduppûm : Land Use, Administration and Inter-Site
Relationships in the Tigris-Diyala Triangle ca. 2000-1765 BC. Archaeology and Ancient
history, Uppsala University, (due 2015).
 In prep, Ezekia Mtetwa. Iron production and urbanism in around the Urban Centre Great
Zimbabwe, AD 1000-1500 AD. Archaeology and Ancient history, Uppsala University (due
2017).
 In prep, Anna Shoemaker. Settlement and economic change and continuity, c. AD 900-1750,
in the Amboseli basin, Kenya. Archaeology and Ancient history, Uppsala University (due
2018).
 In prep, Petek Nik. Sociocultural fragmentation and economic change as responces to
climate variation in the Lake Baringo Basin, Kenya. Kenya. Archaeology and Ancient
history, Uppsala University (due 2018).
Educational background
My educational and research background is very broad spanning over the Arts, Social and
Natural Sciences. Most of my publications so far lie in the intersection between Historical
Ecology, Environmental History, Long term Ecology, Ecological Theory and links with applied
conservation and most recently development theory and social studies (Ekblom 2012, ongoing
project). Geographically my main research focus has been on southern Africa, but I have also
supervised theses from Cameroon, Sweden. I have also worked in Sweden with Environmental
History and filed archaeology for many years.
Postgraduate courses
Graduate courses
Theory och method, 10 weeks; Archaeobotany, 5 weeks; African
archaeology, 5 weeks; African civilization, 5 weeks;
Geoarchaeology, 5 weeks
Msc Archaeology (combined degree: Archaeology, Quaternary
geology, Anthropology). 09.91-06.92 Dept of Archaeology,
Gothenburg University, 09.92-06.95 Dept of Quaternary geology,
Gothenburg University, 02.96-06.97 Dept of Archaeology and
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Ancient History, Uppsala University, 01.96-06.96 Dept of
Anthropology, Uppsala University.
Commision of Trust
Sep 2013Sept 2009Sept 2009-
Scientific steering committee of IHOPE.
Board member, Societas Archaeologica Upsaliensis, contract
archaeology
Board member, elected representative, Dep of Archaeology, UU.
Selection of international conference presentations
2003, April: Arizona SAFA (Society of Africanist Archaeologists) Socio-environmental
dynamics, Chibuene southern Mozambique
2005, March: Bloemfontein GSAA (Geological Association of Southern Africa) Landscape
transformations in coastal Mozambique, Chibuene
2005, March: Skukuza, Annual Savanna Science Network Meeting. Landscape transformations
in coastal Mozambique, Chibuene
2007, March: Skukuza, Annual Savanna Science Network Meeting, Climate and vegetation
variability, Mapimbi Kruger National Park
2013, March: Skukuza, Annual Savanna Science Network Meeting. Bridging the gap; what have
we learned from ten years of palaeoecological research in Kruger and Greater Limpopo Park? (Coauthor)
2013, July: Orpen. The Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area (GLTFCA) a Decade
after Inception: Taking Stock of Current Socio-Ecological Research. Title: Long term Ecology
and ecological Management in Limpopo National Park (co-authored with Michel Notelid)
Teaching experience
 Historical Ecology (Ma course 7,5 hp, Vt 2012)
http://www.arkeologi.uu.se/Utbildning/Master/Historical_Ecology/
 African environmental and development history (Ph D course, 7.5 HP, Cemus research
school 2004: http://www.cemus.uu.se/cefo/afrika/kursbeskrivning.pdf).
 Africa and the world (Ph D course, 7.5 hp, Cemus research school 2005:
http://www.cemus.uu.se/cefo/africa05/Cemus_Africa_05.pdf)
 2009-2011: Afrikansk och jämförande arkeologi (A-kurs Archaeology
coursecoordinator; Ht 2009, Ht 2010, HT 2011. course planning: 2002, 2003, 2004)
 2010-2013: Arkeologi och Landskap (B-kurs Archaeology, course planning och
coursecoordinator Vt 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013)
 2012: C-kurs i arkeologi skrivmoment (Course planning och coursecoordinator and
supervisor Ht 2012)
Course planning
 2013- : coordinator and supervisor for Masters programme in environmental history,
Uppsala University.
 2012-2013: Planning and teaching for A course “Människa och miljö” Liberal Arts
Education, Gotland.
 2008-2014: Course planning group for Cemus: Global miljöhistoria 2008-2010 (Amasters, 7.5 hp, lecturer, supervisor of course projects, examinator 2009-2011)
 2010-2013: member of planning group for revision and coordination of undergraduate
teaching at department of Archaeology and Ancient History, and Gotland-Uppsala.
 2011-2014: Course planning group for Cemus: Sustainable development A
 2008: Course planning group for Cemus: Actors and strategies for change
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ANNELI EBLOM
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
1. Peer reviewed articles
Ekblom, A., Risberg, J., Holmgren, K. (2014) Forest–savanna dynamics in the coastal lowland
of southern Mozambique since c. AD 1400. The Holocene 18(8):1247-1257.
Ekblom, A., B. Eichorn, P. Sinclair, S. Badenhorst, A. Berger. (2014). Landuse history and
resource utilisation 400 AD to the present, at Chibuene, southern Mozambique. Vegetation
History and Archeobotany 23:15–32.
Ekblom, A. (2012). Livelihood security, vulnerability and resilience – a historical analysis of
Chibuene, Southern Mozambique. Ambio 41(5):479-89
Sinclair, P.J.J., Ekblom, A., Wood, M. (2012). Trade and society on the south-east Africa
Coast in the later first millennium AD; the case of Chibuene. Antiquity 86, 723-737.
Ekblom, A., Gillson, L., Holmgren, K., Risberg, J., Chidoub, Z. (2012) Rainfall variability and
vegetation dynamics of the lower Limpopo Valley, Southern Africa, 500 AD to present.
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 363–634 (2012) 69–78
Holmgren, K., Risberg, J., Freudendahl, J., Ekblom, A., Mugabe, J., Sitoe, S., Achimo, M.
(2012). Variations in precipitation during the last 2300 years at Lake Nhauhache,
Mozambique. Journal of Paleolimnology 48:311–322
Ekblom, A., Gillson, L and Notelid, M (2011). A historical ecology of Limpopo Natural Park
and lower Limpopo valley. Journal of Archaeology and Ancient history 1
Badenhorst, S., Sinclair, P., Ekblom, A. and Plug, I. 2011. Faunal remains from Chibuene, an
Iron Age coastal trading station in central Mozambique. Southern African Humanities 23:115
Macamo, S., Risberg, J. Ekblom, A. (2011). The archaeology of Afro-Portuguese settlements
and site formation processes in the Zambezi valley, Mozambique. Zimbabwean Prehistory
29, 38-54.
Ekblom, A. & Gillson L. (2010a). Hierarchy and scale: testing the role of water, grazing and
Nitrogen in the savanna landscape of Limpopo National park Mozambique. Landscape
Ecology 25: 1529-1546.
Ekblom, A. & Gillson L. (2010b). Fire history and fire ecology of Northern Kruger KNP and
Limpopo national park PNL, southern Africa. The Holocene 20: 1063-1077
Ekblom, A. & Gillson L. (2010c). Dung fungi as indicators of past herbivore abundance,
Kruger and Limpopo National park. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
296: 14–27
Ekblom, A. (2010). Miljöhistoria och dess frestelser. The Cefo Interdisciplinary Working
Paper Series Cefo-IWPS 1. http://uu.divaportal.org/smash/get/diva2:369388/FULLTEXT01.pdf
Gillson, L., Ekblom A. (2009a). Untangling anthropogenic and climatic influence on riverine
forest in the Kruger National Park, South Africa. Vegetation. Vegetation history and
Archaeobotany 18: 171–185.
Gillson, L., Ekblom A. (2009b). Resilience and treshholds in savannas: nitrogen and fire as
drivers and responders in ecosystem change. Ecosystems 12: 1189–1203
Ekblom, A. (2008) Forest-savanna dynamics in the coastal lowland of southern Mozambique
since 400 AD. The Holocene 18: 1247-1257
Ekblom, A. and Stabell B. (2008). Paleohydrology of lake Nhaucati, c. 400 AD-present, Lake.
Journal of Paleolimnology 40: 1127-1141.
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Gillson, L., Ekblom A., Willis K. J., Froyd, C. (2008). Palaeo-invasions: the link between
pattern, process and scale in invasion ecology? Landscape Ecology 23:757–769.
3. Bookchapters and books
Ekblom, A. et al (In prep) Arkeologi och Landskap. Uppsala, Uppsala University.
Ekblom, A. and Notelid, M. (2012). Miljöhistorier: personliga, globala, lokala historier om
dåtid, nutid och framtid. CSD Uppsala och institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia,
Uppsala universitet.
Ekblom, A. (In press) Vad har hållbar utveckling med arkeologi att göra? I: Herschend,
Frands (red) Arkeologi och samhälle. Uppsala, Arkeologi och antik historia.
Ekblom, A. (In Press). Archaeology, historical sciences and environmental conservation. In:
Stump, D., Isendahl, C. ed. Oxford Handbook of historical Ecology and Applied
Archaeology. Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Ekblom, A and Notelid, M. (2010). A white mans bush? A comparison of socio-politics in the
creation of Kruger National and Limpopo National Parks. In: Friman, E and Gallardo, G.
and reds. Politizised Nature – Global Exchange, Resources and Power. Cefo publication
series 2. Uppsala, Cemus, CSD Uppsala. http://www.divaportal.org/smash/get/diva2:355862/FULLTEXT02.pdf
Forsman, C. Ekblom, A. (2007). Sädeskorn i ritualen under äldre bronsåldern i Sommaränge
skog. I: Notelid, M. Att nå andra sidan, om begravning och ritual i Uppland. Arkeologi E4
Uppland – Studier. SAU. 349-364.
Ekblom A., Lagerstedt A. (2007). Att hitta till stallet, en gård från förromersk järnålder i
Falltorp. Arkeologi E18. Från Bergslagsbygd till Bondebygd 2007. 66-77.
Ekblom, A. 2004. Changing landscapes, an environmental history of Chibuene, southern
Mozambique, c AD 400-present. Uppsala. Department of Archaeology and Ancient History,
African and Comparative Archaeology.
Regnell M. Ekblom, A. (2000). Strandmiljö och växtutnyttjande. In: Karsten P & B.
Knarrström. Skånska spår Archaeology längs västkustbanan. Tågerup specialstudier.
Swedish board of Antiquities.
5. Position papers and popular science papers
Ekblom, A. (2013). Landskap, landskapsbruk och förvaltning av naturresurser i det antika
Grekland. Medusa 3, 7-12.
Ekblom, A., Notelid, M.(2013).Arkadien.I Weiberg, Erica, Carlsson, Susanne, Ekroth, Gunnel
(red.) Institutionens historier: En vänbok till Gullög Nordquist, 3-12 Uppsala: Institutionen
för arkeologi och antik historia.
Ekblom, A., Notelid, M. (2012). Natur skövlas i miljöns namn. Uppsala Nya Tidning, debatt
21/6 2012.
6. Published Reports
Ekblom, A., Almgren, E., Andersson, J. 2014. Arkeobotanik. I: Anneli Sundkvist och Sanna
Eklund. Gilltuna- där man följde traditionen. Särskild undersökning av boplatslämningar
från förrromersk järnålder till vikingatid. Fornlämningar Västerås 1252 och 1356,
Västmanland. SAU rapport 2013:4.
Ekblom, A. 2013. Landskapsutnyttjande och markanvändning. I: Fredrik Andersson, Susanna
Eklund, Ann Lindkvist, Anneli Sundkvist med bidrag av Anneli Ekblom. Rasbo-Hov.
Särskild arkeologisk undersökningar inför omdragningen av väg 288, Jälla-Hov. SAU
rapport 2013:4.
Bergman, J., Ekblom, A., Heimdahl, J. (2011) Makrofossilanalys och stratigrafibedömning. I:
Lena Beronius Jörpeland, et al. Återigen i Gamla Uppsala. Utbyggnad av Ostkustbanan
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genom Gamla Uppsala Uppland; Gamla Uppsala socken; Gamla Uppsala.
Riksantikvarieämbetet, Upplandsmuseet, Societas Archeologica Upsaliensis.
Ekblom, A. (2010) Makroskopisk analys RAÄ 249. I: Dardel, E., Hed Jacobson, A., Lindblom,
C., Runer, J. och K. Svensson. Hjulsta gård och gravfält. Rapporter från Arkeologikonsult
2010:2157.
Ekblom, A. (2008). Makrofossiltabell. I: Lagerstedt, A. och L. Lindwall. Äldre järnålder i
Väster Hacksta - Hus, hägn och gård. RAÄ 1060, 1061 och 1062. Västerås stad,
Västmanlands län. Rapporter från Arkeologikonsult 2008:2067.
Ekblom, A. (2007). Makrofossilanalys. I: Forsman C. & Victor, H. Sommaränge Skog,
begravningar och ritualer och bebyggelse från senneolitikum, bronsålder och
folkvandringstid. SAU skrifter 18.
Ekblom, A (2007). Makrofossil analys. In: Onsten-Molander, A & J Wikborg, Kyrsta,
Förhistoriska boplatslämningar. SAU skrifter 17.
Ekblom, A. (2007). Makrofossilanalys. I: Lövstaholm. Boplatslämningar från yngre bonsålderfolkvandringstid utmed Samnan. RAÄ, UV GAL, rapport 2007:1.
Ekblom, A. (2006). Makrofossilanalys. I: Molander, A & J Wikborg. Trekanten och
Björkgården, boplatslämningar från brons och järnålder vid Fullerö. Uppsala. SAU skrifter
13.
Ekblom, A. (2005). Makrofossilanalys. In: Eklund S. Vaxmyra, två boplatser på var sida av en
bäck. Uppsala. SAU rapporter 8.
Ekblom, A. (2001). Makrofossil analys från Kumla Övergård, Rapport för SAU. Uppsala.
Geark. Material publicerat i Persson M, F. Andersson, M Guinard & A Lindkvist.
Bronsålderslämningar i Kumla. Uppsala. SAU skrifter 3.
Ekblom, A. (2000). Makrofossil. In: Bäckström, Y, H. Hulth & J Wikborg. Eldstäder och
gravar i Roteberg, Sollentuna. Uppsala. SAU skrifter 2. Uppsala.
Ekblom, A. Regnell, M. (1999). Makrofossil analys från Källarholmen och Agundaborg.
Bilaga 5. In: Hansson, M. Agundaborg och Källarholmen- två medeltida ”borgar” i
Småland, 83-87. University of Lund. Institute of Archaeology. Report series No. 68.
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