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The Apparatus of Swedish contract archaeology and its relationship with society. At the top is The Swedish National Heritage Board (NHB). The NHB regulates the system, but does not usually take an active part in projects. Below are the three main parties in contract archaeology: the County Administrative Board (CAB), the developer and the archaeology contractor. The apparatus produces administrative results (mainly for government agencies); scientific results (ideally for universities, educational institutions, museums and other archaeological contractors); and dissemination to the public and news media. Model by author, after figure in Arnberg and Gruber (2014:168).
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The Swedish contract archaeology (CA) system has witnessed changes and new goals in the last couple of decades, becoming more steered by the market while new demands have come from Swedish cultural heritage legislation and policies for producing relevant knowledge to society and widening the inclusion of the public. In this paper I examine the Swed...
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... this view on the 'apparatus', we can deconstruct the CA system and assess the relationships between the com-prising parts, and how the apparatus relates to the state, heritage-making and society at large. A model of this CA apparatus is presented in Figure 2. ...
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... did, however, acknowledge the necessity for new thinking in dissemination, where several archaeological contractors wished for enhanced effort levels and more public participation. Also, it was recognized that target groups, methods and channels for dissemination need to be defined more clearly by the CABs (Riksantikvarieämbetet 2022:28, 51, 57). ...
