Memories of Disaster: Tracing the Material and Immaterial Remains of the 1648 Intagan Landslide
摘要
Geoarchaeological studies of disasters rely on the preservation of material records. The subdiscipline of historical archaeology supplements these with written and oral accounts that require extensive criticism. In this case study, I investigate the 7 October 1648 Intagan landslide, one of the deadliest geological disasters in Scandinavian history. It has generated a vast scattered corpus of written and cartographic sources. Archaeological finds around the former riverport Åkerström have been attributed to the landslide, but these do not stand up to closer examination.