I have my academic background from Lund University, where I took my BA in Classical and prehistoric archaeology apart from studies in history, medieval archaeology, Italian and ancient Greek. My PhD dissertation has the title Caleacte. Production and exchange in a North Sicilian town c 500 BC-AD 500 and studies the commercial exchange and production in a minor town on the north coast of Sicily during a millennium. The study puts Caleacte in a wider context, particularly its dependence on and interaction with the empires which governed it during its lifetime; Syracuse and above all, Rome. The dissertation is based on the results of the excavations at Caronia and Caronia Marina 1999-2001 by the superintendency of Messina, in which I participated.

I have continued my interests in ancient economy and one result of that is a paper on the amphora types Lamboglia 2 and Dressel 6A. Through the study of the ceramic fabric, analysis of names on stamps and their relation with epigraphy, I am arguing that these very common types which were exported all over the Mediterranean were produced mainly on the island Issa (modern Vis, ) and the central Dalmatian coast. Until now, they have been regarded as a product of mainly the Italian Adriatic coast.

Together with Marina Prusac (KHM, University of Oslo) I have 2008-2011 directed the small-scale The Valley Project. Itr studies the change of cultural identities in the Neretva Valley (southern Croatia/south-western Bosnia-Hercegovina) in ancient / during the period 200 BC-100 AD. Through the study of settlement patterns, import and export as well as epigraphic and literary sources, the aim is to understand how the Illyrian population changed its cultural identities over time in interplay with Greek and Roman culture.

I am leading (also with Marina Prusac) the Villa Adriana project, the campaigns 2011-2012 in collaboration with the Norwegian institute in Rome. The project focuses on a until now unknown Roman villa in the outskirts of Hadrian‟s villa near Tivoli outside Rome. The function and dating as well as a more profound understanding of the topographic context of the villa are central aims. The excavation of the villa gives a unique opportunity to follow how a late republican/early Augustan villa was transformed over time and finally probably became part of the vast complex of the emperor Hadrian.

My interest in both ancient economy and cultural identities is also expressed in a small project (in collaboration with Carla Antonaccio, Duke University), where I through lipid analysis of transport amphorae from the Archaic Sikel settlement Cittadella (Morgantina) am trying to assess to which degree the shape of Archaic amphorae can be connected with the connect, and which impact such imports of wine and olive oil had on social and cultural identities.

Publications

Lindhagen, A. „Excavations at Proprietà Lolli, Villa Adriana, 2011‟, forthcoming.

Lindhagen, A. „Kalè Akté, il “Bel Promontorio” e la fondazione di Ducezio. Nuove ricerche e interpretazioni‟, forthcoming.

Lindhagen, A. „Narona. The life of a gateway settlement,‟ in Ancient ports – the geography of connection, eds. Höghammar, K. och Lindhagen, A, Boreas, forthcoming (2012).

Lindhagen, A, „The freedmen milieus at Delos and Narona – New perspectives on the Lamboglia 2 wine-trade‟, in Recent Swedish research about Ancient Greece. Problems and Solutions. Celebration of the Sixtieth Anniversary of the Swedish Institute at Athens, forthcoming.

Lindhagen, A, „Amphorae from a taberna in Regio V, 1, 24a at Pompeii‟, digitalt publicerad på Svenska Pompejiprojektets hemsida (www.pompejiprojektet.se).

Lindhagen, A. ‟Morgantina, Desilo och de törstiga barbarerna. historia om mentaliteter och landskap‟, i Tankemönster. En festskrift till Eva Rystedt, eds. Östenberg, I. et al., Lund 2010, 125-132.

Lindhagen, A., ‟The transport amphoras Lamboglia 2 and Dressel 6A: a central Dalmatian origin?‟, JRA 22, 2009, 83-108.

Lindhagen, A., Caleacte. Production and exchange in a north Sicilian town c. 500 BC-AD 500, doktorsavhandling, Lunds Universitet, Lund 2006.

Lentini, M.C., Göransson, K., Lindhagen, A.,„Excavations at Sicilian Caronia, ancient Kale Akte, 1999 - 2001. With a contribution by Paola Pelagatti,‟ OpRom 27, 2002, 79-108.