The Nordic meetings on Stratigraphy – 20 years and 10 meetings later

Abstract

The first Nordic Meeting on Stratigraphy took place in Stockholm in 1996. The tenthsession in Helsinki 2015 opened for reflections from the earlier meetings. What was theoriginal intention when we started the conference? Which topics has been discussed overtime, what can we say about geographical and chronological issues? Is it possible to detectnew ways of thinking concerning stratigraphy and contextual archaeology? These arequestions that will be addressed in this paper.