Book Pyre in Grönköping

Abstract

In a paper in Urminne archaeologists from the County Museum in Jönköping review the book En vit fläck på kartan – Norra Småland under bronsålder och järnålder (A blank spot on the map – northern Småland during Bronze Age and Iron Age). The review is an attack as it is written in a very sharp and insolent tone with personal attacks on Påvel Nicklasson verging on libel as well as atracks on the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History in Lund and scholars involved in the production of the book. The attack finishes with demands that the book be banned and withdrawn. In this paper the critique of the book is refuted. Instead of unveiling defects in the book the archaeologists from Jönköping only reveal a lack of professionalism. The call to withdraw a book is very serious and must be refuted on democratic grounds. This kind of demand has been rare in this part of the world in recent decades, but now a possible exception to this has been heard from the County Museum in Jönköping.