Publications

Research articles

Schjerven, N.; Bilotti, G., Kempf, M. and Reiter, S. S. 2026. "Comparing Connectivity Patterns in Prehistoric Germany by Means of Network Analysis, Artefact and Site Distribution and a Reassessment of Human Mobility (87Sr/86Sr)" OpenArchaeology 12(1): https://doi.org/10.1515/opar-2025-0077.

Walsh, M. J., Reiter, S. S., Prentiss, A. M. and Frei, K. M. 2025. “Re-thinking a Sacred Space: The evolution of burial practices as seen from a Bronze Age tumulus from Karlstrup, Denmark” Danish Journal of Archaeology 14(1): 1-26. 10.7146/dja.v14i1.138023.

Reiter, S. S.; Staniuk, R.; Kolár, J.; Bulatović, J.; Rose, H. A.; Ryabogina, N.; Speciale, C.; Schjerven, N.; Paulsson, B. S.; Lee, V. Y. K.; Canteri, E.; Revill, A.; Dahlberg, F.; Sabatini, S.; Frei, K. M.; Racimo, F.; Ivanova-Bieg, M.; Traylor, W.; Kate, E. J.; Derenne, E.; Frank, L.; Woodbridge, J.; Fyfe, R.; Shennan, S.; Kristiansen, K.; Thomas, M. G. and Timpson, A. 2024. “The BIAD Standards: Recommendations for Archaeological Data Publication and Insights from the Big Interdisciplinary Archaeological Database” Open Archaeology 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1515/opar-2024-0015

Reiter, S. S., Møller, N.A., Jørkov, M-L. S., Bech, J-H., Frei, R., and Frei, K. M. 2023. “Tales from Ginderup Mound in Thisted County, Denmark: Further investigations of Female Mobility in the Nordic Bronze Age” Danish Journal of Archaeology 12(1). https://doi.org/10.7146/dja.v12i1.134830.

Reiter, S. S. “The Archaeological Voice” in Hofmann, D., Hanscan, E., Furholt, M., Bača, M., Reiter, S. S., Vanzetti, A., Kotsakis, K., Petersson, H., Niklasson, E., Hølleland, H. and Frieman, C. 2021. “Forum: Populism, Identity Politics and the Archaeology of Europe” European Journal of Archaeology, 1-37. https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2021.29.

Reiter, S. S., Møller, N. A., Nielsen, B. H., Bech, J-H., Olsen, A-L. H., Schjellerup Jørkov, M-L., Kaul, F., Mannering, U. and Frei, K. M. 2021 “Into the fire: Investigating the introduction of cremation to Nordic Bronze Age Denmark: A comparative study between different regions applying strontium isotope analyses” PlosOne. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0249476.

Reiter, S. S., Frei, K. M., Nørgaard, H. W. & Kaul, F. 2019. “The Ølby Woman: A Comprehensive Provenance Investigation of an Elite Nordic Bronze Age Oak-Coffin Burial”. Danish Journal of Archaeology. https://tidsskrift.dk/dja/article/view/114995/165533.

Reiter, S. S. and Frei, K. M. 2019. Interpreting Past Human Mobility Patterns: A Model. European Journal of Archaeology, 22 (4), 454-469. https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2019.35.

Rassmann, K., Bátora, J., Müller-Scheessel, N., Reiter, S. S., Ivanova, M., Behrens, A., Radloff, K., and Bača, M. (2018) “Tracing taphonomic processes: Multiple layer analysis of ceramic distribution from surface collection and excavation at the Early Bronze Age settlement of Vráble-Fidvár” Slovenská Archeológia: 66(2): 219-234.

Frei, K. M.; Villa, C.; Jørkov, M. L.; Allentoft, M. E.; Kaul, F.; Ethelberg, P.; Reiter, S. S.; Wilson, A. S. M., Taube, M.; Olsen, J.; Lynnerup, N.; Willerslev, E.; Kristiansen, K. and Frei, R. (2017) “A Matter of Months: High precision migration chronology of a Bronze Age female” PLoS ONE 12(6), [e0178834]. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0178834.

Müller-Scheeβel, N.; Bátora, J., Reiter, S. S.; Radloff, K.; Tóth, P. (2016) “Prospection Results in the Žitava Valley” Študijné Zvesti Archeologického ústravu Slovenskej Akadémie vied Nitra. 79-95.

Nowaczinski, E.; Schukraft, H.; Rassmann, K.; Müller-Scheeßel, N.; Reiter, S. S.; Hecht,S.; Eitel, B.; Bubenzer, O. and Bátora, J. (2015) "A Multidimensional Research Strategy for the Evaluation of Settlement Pits: 3D Electrical Resistivity Tomography, Magnetic Prospection and Soil Chemistry" Journal of Archaeological Science 22(4): 233-253.

Reiter, S. S. 2004. "Shipwreck Collections: Treasures of L’Herminie" MARITimes: The Magazine of the Bermuda Maritime Museum 17(2): 20-21.

Book chapters

Fahlander, F., Hjorungdal, T., Lund, J., Reiter S. S. and Sørensen, M-L. (in press) “Gender” The Oxford Handbook of Scandinavian Archaeology. Oxford, Oxford University Press.

Reiter, S. S. “Written in Blood? An exploration of the possibility of European Identity in the Bronze Age through examination of political habitus, origin myth, material culture, economics, mobility, aDNA, and linguistics” 2025. In Nørgaard, H. and Reiter, S.S. (eds) Bronzization: Essays in Bronze Age Archaeology. Bicester: Archaeopress. 3-17. 10.32028/9781803279213

Kaul, F., Frei, K. M. and Reiter, S. S. 2024. ”Razors, Bronze Age Transformations, Long Distance Exchange and Guest-Friendship” in Ballmer, A. and Neumann, D. (eds.): Imitations, Simulations, Mock-ups and Illusions: Special Variants and Interpretations in Material Culture: Case Studies from Prehistoric Europe. Heidelberg: Propylaeum. https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.1445.c20615

Reiter, S. S. and Frei, K. M. 2024 “One step further: Reflections on gendered mobility studies of ancient individuals through examination of recent data from European prehistory” in Gaydarska, B. and Matic, U. (eds) Gender Trouble and Current Archaeological Debates. Themes in Contemporary Archaeology: New Aspects of Gender” pp 101-111. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-68157-8_8.

Walsh, M. J. and Reiter, S. S. 2024. “Societies that sacrifice? Examining the potential for attendant sacrifices in the Nordic Bronze Age” in Walsh, M.J.; O’Neill, S. and Sørensen, L. (eds) In the Darkest of Days: Exploring Human Sacrifice and Value in Southern Scandinavian Prehistory. Oxford: Oxbow. ISBN 9781789258592

Reiter, S. S. and Frei, K. M. 2023. “The ‘Ultimate Gift’: A gift that kept on giving? A fresh look at recent strontium isotope data on elite mobility patterns from individuals from Nordic Bronze Age Denmark relative to extant anthropological models” in Contente, C. and Séguy, I. (eds) Migrations et mobilités humaines au fil du temps: approaches transdisciplinaires. Barcelona, Bellaterra: 111-140. http://hdl.handle.net/10230/57105.

Walsh, M., Reiter, S. S., Frieman, C. J., Kaul, F. and Frei, K. M. 2022. “In the Company of Men: Potential alternative masculinities in the Nordic Bronze Age” in Tornberg, A., Svensson, A. and Apel, J. (eds) Life and Afterlife in the Nordic Bronze Age: Proceedings of the 15th Nordic Bronze Age Symposium held in Lund, Sweden June 11-15, 2019. Acta Archaeologica Ludensia Series Prima 4(37): 159-182.

Reiter, S. S. and Frei, K. M. 2021. “Examining alternative constructions of power and mobility in the Early Nordic Bronze Age: A case study of a local elite female from Denmark” in C. Trémeaud (ed) Les Nouvelles d’Archéologie, 163, 24-32.

Nørgaard, H. W. and Reiter, S. S. 2020. “La Spécialisation à l’âge du bronze nordique (1500-1100 BC): Des métallurgistes, des ateliers et le potentiel des informations par rapport à l’organisation du travail du bronze à l’âge du bronze ancien et moyen”. in Peake, R., Bauvais, S. Hamon, C. and Mordant, C. (eds) La spécialisation des productions et les spécialistes prehistoriques. Specialised productions and specialists in prehistory. Paris: Société préhistorique française.

Müller-Scheeβel, N. Batora, J., Gresky, J., Reiter, S.,S,, Stucky, K. and Rassmann, K. 2020. “In search of the modus operandi. Reopenings of Early Bronze Age burials at Fidvár near Vráble, southwest Slovakia” in Aspöck, E., Klevnäs, A. and Müller-Scheeβel, N. (eds) Grave Disturbances. Oxford: Oxbow. 189-205.

Rassmann, K., Reiter, S. S., Bátora, J. and Müller-Scheeβel, N. (2017) “The Vráble Toolbox: A Multidisciplinary Investigation of Settlement Change” in Heeb, B. S., Szentmiklosi, A., Krause, R. and Wemhoff, M. (eds.). Settlement Change in Prehistory Timioşoara, Rumania June 6-8 2016. Berliner Beiträge zur Vor- und Frühgeschichte. Band 21. Staatliche Museum zu Berlin-Stiftung Preuβischer Kulturbesitz. Berlin. 89-100.

Reiter, S. S. (2015) “La vérité dépasse-t-elle la fiction? L’identité et le genre à l’âge du Bronze ancien dans le sud-ouest de la Slovaquie” in Trémaud, C. (ed) Genre et archéologie, dossier du Les Nouvelles de l’archéologie 140:16-22.

Reiter, S. S. and Frei, K. M (2015) "Migration and Identity at the Early Bronze Age Cemetery of Jelšovce, Southwest Slovakia: The Strontium Evidence" in Suchowska-Ducke, P.; Reiter, S. and Vandkilde, H. (eds) Forging Identities. The Mobility of Culture in Bronze Age Europe. Report from a Marie Curie Project 2009-2012 with a Concluding Conference at Aarhus University, Moesgaard 2012. BAR International Series 2771: 221-130.

Reiter, S. S. 2014. "A Choreography of Place: Globalization and Identity in the Bronze Age" in Reiter, S., Nørgaard, H.W., Kölcze, Z. and Rassmann, C. (eds) Rooted in Movement. Aspects of Mobility in Bronze Age Europe. Jutland Archaeological Society, Aarhus. 15-22.

Reiter, S. S. 2013. "Identity lies in the eye of the beholder: a consideration of identity in archaeological contexts" in Ginn, V., Enlander, R. and Crozier, R. (eds) Exploring Prehistoric Identity in Europe: Our Construct or Theirs? Oxbow, Oxford: 14-21.

Edited monographs

Nørgaard, H. W. and Reiter, S. S. (eds) 2025. Bronzization: Essays in Bronze Age Archaeology. Archaeopress: Oxford.

Suchowska-Ducke, P.; Reiter, S. S. and Vandkilde, H. (eds) 2015. Forging Identities. The Mobility of Culture in Bronze Age Europe. Report from a Marie Curie Project 2009-2012 with a Concluding Conference at Aarhus University, Moesgaard 2012. BAR International Series 2771.

Reiter, S. S., Nørgaard, H. W., Kölcze, Z. and Rassmann, C. (eds) 2014. Rooted in Movement. Aspects of Mobility in Bronze Age Europe. Jutland Archaeological Society, Aarhus.

Outreach and other communication

Reiter, S. S. 2026. “How much is your body worth?” ArchaeoSnack (online; published 16.5.2026)

Reiter, S. S. 2026. “Where would you send your heart to find peace?” ArchaeoSnack. (online; published 24.2.2026)

Renaud, J-L and Reiter, S. S. 2025. “Historian Inspires Medieval Food Revival in Eastern France” The European Archaeologist 86. Newsflash

Reiter, S. S. 2025. “Current Archaeology Awards LIVE! 2025: Archaeology’s equivalent of the Oscars” The European Archaeologist 84. Conference Report

Reiter, S. S., Walsh, M. J. and Mytum, H. 2025 “Community Spotlight: The StoryArchCommunity” The European Archaeologist 84. Community Spotlight

Reiter, S. S. 2024. “Solid Sterling Science Communication: Current Archaeology LIVE!” The European Archaeologist 80. https://www.e-a-a.org/EAA/Publications/TEA/EAA/Navigation_Publications/TEA_home.aspx?hkey=7c57bc79-2a7f-483f-9208-bc851ee47f0e.

Reiter, S. S. 2024. “Looking Beyond the Grave: Sustainability and Death” SciSnack [online]. Available https://www.scisnack.com/2024/05/21/looking-beyond-the-grave-sustainability-and-death/. (Published 21 May, 2024).

Reiter, S. S. interview with Wilts, G. 2024. “On archaeology, travel, dreams and politics: TEA’s S. Reiter interviews Geesche Wilts, the powerhouse behind the archaeology and travel blog Miss Jones” The European Archaeologist 79: https://www.e-a-a.org/EAA/Navigation_Publications/TEA_79_content/Special_Section.aspx#79_missjones.

Reiter, S. S. and Frei, K. M. 2023. "Stereotype: Mobile women are a modern phenomenon" in Hofmann, D.; Frieman, C. J. and Nyland, A. J. (eds) Migration Narratives in Archaeology. Sidestone Press: 34. ISBN: 9789464262025. https://www.sidestone.com/books/migration-narratives-in-archaeology.

Frei, K. M. and Reiter, S. S. 2023. "Narrative: Mobile women in the Bronze Age" in Hofmann, D.; Frieman, C. J. and Nyland, A. J. (eds) Migration Narratives in Archaeology. Sidestone Press: 60. ISBN: 9789464262025. https://www.sidestone.com/books/migration-narratives-in-archaeology.

Reiter, S. S. 2023. “Whither archaeology in a digital age? Lessons from the European Archaeology Days Forum” The European Archaeologist 76: https://www.e-a-a.org/EAA/Publications/Tea/TEA_76/Special_Section/EAA/Navigation_Publications/Tea_76_content/Special_Section.aspx#76_digital.

Reiter, S. S. 2023. “Practicing Solidarity: A Closer Look at EAA’s Decision-Making Process in Choosing Conference Locations” The European Archaeologist 75: 11-14. https://www.e-a-a.org/EAA/Publications/Tea/TEA_75/Special_Section/EAA/Navigation_Publications/Tea_75_content/Special_Section.aspx.

Reiter, S. S. and Frei, K. M. 2022. “Bronze Age Women. Innovative methods: Unexpected stories of Bronze Age female mobility, leadership and global networks” The New Historia. https://historia.3.nftest.nl/pattern/innovative-methods/.

Reiter, S. S. and Frei, K. M. 2022. “The Ølby Woman” The New Historia. https://historia.3.nftest.nl/schema/the-lby-woman/.

Reiter, S. S. 2022. “Commercial Archaeology: Where the grass turves are always greener?” The European Archaeologist 73 (summer). https://www.e-a-a.org/EAA/Publications/Tea/Tea_73/Commercial_archaeology/EAA/Navigation_Publications/Tea_73_content/Commerical_archaeology.aspx

Reiter, S. S. 2022. “Newsflash from Hungary: Exhibition curators’ work made impossible, profound last-minute changes in exhibition content” The European Archaeologist 71 (winter). https://www.e-a-a.org/EAA/Publications/Tea/TEA_71/Newsflash/EAA/Navigation_Publications/Tea_71_content/Newsflash.aspx#71_hungary.

Reviews

Reiter, S. S. 2024. Review Just One Damned Thing After Another. Accent Press Ltd. Abercynon. The European Archaeologist 81. https://www.e-a-a.org/EAA/Navigation_Publications/TEA_81.aspx

Reiter, S. S. 2016. Review Ritual in Early Bronze Age Grave Goods: an examination of ritual and dress equipment from Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age graves in England. Edited by Woodward Ann and Hunter John. 310 mm. Pp 616, 41 col figs, 7 maps, 26 charts, 158 tables, appendices, cd. Oxbow Books, Oxford and Philadelphia, 2015. isbn 9781782976943. £80 (hbk).” The Antiquaries Journal 96: 434-435.

Reiter, S. S. 2014. Review The Emergent Past: a relational realist archaeology of Early Bronze Age mortuary practices. By Fowler Chris. 234mm. Pp xii + 333, 26 b&w figs, 14 maps, 6 charts, 25 tables. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2013. isbn9780199656370. £70 (hbk). The Antiquaries Journal (94): 358-359.