“…For archaeologists it has also been common to use the material culture as a contrast or complement to written documents, thereby nuancing notions of subaltern living conditions (e.g. Stensrud 1974;Lundsjö 1975;Winberg 1977;Jonsson 1980;Rosén 1991Rosén , 1999Bäck 1992;Kolstad 1996;Dalen 1999;Svensson 2001Svensson , 2007Lind et al 2002-3;Holm 2005;Andersson 2007;Johansson and Lindholm 2007;Welinder 2007;Lindholm 2009;Svensson et al 2009;Eymundsson 2011;Amundsen, Enger, and Ringen 2012).…”