Publications

The following volumes have been published in the series Ålands Kyrkor, published by Åland’s Museum :

Ringbom, Åsa & Christina Remmer, Ålands kyrkor, Volym I, Hammarland och Eckerö, Mariehamn 1995, (300 pages, 307 images), ISBN 951-8946-41-8.

Ringbom, Åsa och Christina Remmer, Ålands kyrkor, Volym II., Saltvik, Ekenäs 2000, (280 pages, 275 images), ISBN 951-8946-72-8.

Ringbom, Åsa & Christina Remmer, Ålands kyrkor, Volym III, Sund och Vårdö, Mariehamn 2005 (336 pages, 378 images), ISBN 952-5614-03-4.

Freestanding volumes in the series:

Ringbom, Åsa, Åländska kyrkor berättar. Nytt ljus på medeltida konst, arkitektur och historia, Vasa 2010 (160 pages, 188 images). Form: April Kommunikation, Vaasa Graphics 2010. ISBN 987-952-5614-34-3. (Available via Adlibris).

Ringbom, Åsa, The Voice of the Åland Churches – New light on Art, Architecture and History, published by Ålands Museum, Form: April Kommunikation, Vaasa Graphics 2011, 160 pages, 188 images. ISBN 987-952-5614-43-8 (translation of Åländska kyrkor berättar from 2010). (Available via Adlibris). Chapter 3, On the necessity of interdisciplinary research: The Voice chapter 3

2014

Recent Advances in Radiocarbon Dating of Ancient Roman Mortar and Concrete, Poster presented by Åsa Ringbom and John R. Hale at the Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, Chicago January 2-5 2014. Poster Chicago 2014 

Åsa Ringbom, Alf Lindroos, Jan Heinemeier, Pia Sonck-Koota: 19 Years of Mortar Dating-Learning from Experience, Radiocarbon, Vol 56, Nr 2, 2014, p 619–635. Ringbom et al. 19 years of mortar dating

2013

Åsa Ringbom, Jan Heinemeier, Alf Lindroos: Mörteldatering og Kirkearkeologi, Aktuel Naturvidenskab 6:30-34, 2013. Aktuel Naturvidenskab 6-2013

2012

Alf Lindroos, Lior Regev, Markku Oinonen, Åsa Ringbom, Jan Heinemeier, 14C Dating of Fire-Damaged Mortars From Medieval Finland, RADIOCARBON, Vol 54. Nr. 3-4 2012 p. 915-931. Lindroos et al. Radiocarbon 2012

Åsa Ringbom, Maria Magdalena på Åland, legend och spridning. Sanct Olof, Mariehamn. 2012.

2011

Ringbom, Åsa, Tvärvetenskap och Ålands kyrkor – äntligen klarnar kronologin.. Föredrag hållet vid Finska Vetenskaps-Societetens symposium Aktuell forskning den 24 maj 2010, Societas Scientiarum Fennica, Sphinx årsbok 2010-2011, 17-28.

Building Roma Eaterna. Current research on Roman Mortar and Concrete. Proceedings of the conference March 27-29 2008. Editors Åsa Ringbom and Robert L. Hohlfelder, Assistant editors Pia Sjöberg and Pia Sonck-Koota, Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum 128 2011. Societas Scientiarum Fennica. 258 pages. ISBN 978-951-653-348-4.
The volume includes, among others, the following articles by the mortar dating team:
Ringbom Å, Heinemeier J, Lindroos A, Brock F. Mortar dating and roman pozzolana, results and interpretations. 187-208. Ringbom et al. BRA

Langley MM, Maloney SJ, Ringbom Å, Heinemeier J, Lindroos A. A Comparison of Dating Techniques at Torre de Palma, Portugal: Mortars and Ceramics, 242-256. Langley et al. BRA

Hodgins G, Lindroos A, Ringbom Å, Heinemeier J, Brock F. 14C Dating of Roman Mortars – Preliminary Tests Using Diluted Hydrochloric Acid Injected in Batches, 209-213. Hodgins et al. BRA

Lindroos A, Heinemeier J, Ringbom Å, Brock F, Sonck-Koota P, Pehkonen M, Suksi J. Problems in Radiocarbon Dating of Roman Pozzolana Mortars, 214-230. lindroos et al. BRA

Ringbom, Åsa, Alf Lindroos, Jan Heinemeier and Kenneth Gustavsson, Dating Stone Churches in the Outer Åland Archipelago, in Archaeology and History of Churches in the Baltic Region, Symposium, June 8-12, 2010, Visby Sweden. Edited by Joakim Hansson and Heikki Ranta, Visby 2011, 141-170. Ringbom et al. Visby

Lindroos, Alf, Åsa Ringbom, Riikka Kaisti, Jan Heinemeier, Gregory Hodgins and Fiona Brock, The Oldest Parts of Turku Cathedral C-14 Chronology of Fire Damaged Mortars, in Archaeology and History of Churches in the Baltic Region, Symposium, June 8-12, 2010, Visby Sweden. Edited by Joakim Hansson and Heikki Ranta, Visby 2011, 108-121. Lindroos et al. Visby

Sjöberg, Pia, Alf Lindroos and Åsa Ringbom, Radiocarbon Dating of the Medieval Churches of the Åboland Archipelago, in Archaeology and History of Churches in the Baltic Region, Symposium, June 8-12, 2010, Visby Sweden. Edited by Joakim Hansson and Heikki Ranta, Visby 2011, 172-195. Sjoberg et al. Visby

2010

Heinemeier, Jan, Åsa Ringbom, Alf Lindroos, Árný E Sveinbjörnsdóttir: Successful AMS 14C Dating of Non-Hydraulic Lime Mortars from the Medieval Churches of the Åland Islands, Finland. RADIOCARBON, Vol 52, Nr 1, 2010. Heinemeier et al. Radiocarbon 2010

2009

Ringbom Å, Heinemeier J, Lindroos A. 2008. Lugnande besked om murbruksdatering. SKAS 4, Suomen Keskiajan Arkeologian Seura, (ISSN 1445-0334): 50-60 (with a summary in English).

Ringbom Å, Heinemeier J, Lindroos A, Sveinbjörnsdottir À. Projektet Ålands kyrkor och murbruksdatering – rapport från en metodutveckling. Proceedings från det 9 Nordiska kyrkoarkeologiska symposiet i Kalundborg, hikuin 36, 2009, ISBN 978-87-90814-57-1, 129-158.Ringbom et al. hikuin 36

Heikki Ranta, Joakim Hansson, Alf Lindroos, Åsa Ringbom, Jan Heinemeier, Fiona Brock & Gregory Hodgins, Om dateringen av Gotlands kyrkor, Proceedings från det 9 Nordiska kyrkoarkeologiska symposiet i Kalundborg, hikuin 36, 2009, ISBN 978-87-90814-57-1. 85-100.Ranta et al. hikuin 36

2008

Poster presentation by Åsa Ringbom, Alf Lindroos, Jan Heinemeier, John Hale, Lynne Lancaster, Fiona Brock, at the Archaeological Institute of America, Annual meeting in Chicago, 3-6 January.
Our poster was awarded Judges Choice – Best Poster”. Chicago poster 2008

2007

Alf Lindroos, Åsa Ringbom, Jan Heinemeier, A. Sveinbjörnsdottir, ”Mortar dating using AMS 14C and sequential dissolution: Examples from Medieval, non-hydraulic lime mortars from the Åland Islands, SW Finland”. Radiocarbon, volume 49, April 2007, 47-67.Lindroos et al. Radiocarbon 2007

2006

Ringbom, Åsa, Dolphins and Mortar Dating, Santa Costanza reconsidered, in
Japanese, Rekishigaku Kenkyukai, 2006, Printed in Japan, ISBN
4-205-20609-2, pp 61-102, Translated by Hirofumi Sugawara

Ringbom Å., Hale J., Heinemeier J., Lindroos A. and Brock F. 2006. The use of mortar dating in archaeological studies of Classical and Medieval structures. Proceedings of the Second International Congress on Construction History, Volume 3, p 2613-2633.

Ringbom Å., Hale J., Heinemeier J., Lindroos A. and Brock F. 2006. Mortar dating in Medieval and Classical archaeology. CHS (Construction History Society) Newsletter 73 (ISSN 0951 9203), p 11-18. . (pdf. Fil)

Heinemeier, J., Å. Ringbom, J. Hale, L. Lancaster, A. Lindroos, Á.E. Sveinbjörnsdóttir: AMS mortar dating in Medieval and Classical Archaeology – a decade of development and testing. 19th International Radiocarbon Conference, Oxford, April 2006, Book of Abstracts, 94 (2006).

Ringbom, Åsa, Hale, John, Heinemeier, Jan, Lindroos, Alf och Lynne Lancaster, Murbruksdatering i klassisk arkeologi, Fossa, 2/2006. Suomen Klassillisen Arkeologian Seura, Sällskapet för Klassisk Arkeologi i Finland, Societas Archeaeologiae Classicae Fennica.

2005

Ringbom, Åsa & Christina Remmer, Ålands kyrkor, Volym III, Sund och Vårdö, Mariehamn 2005 (336 sidor, 378 bilder), ISBN 952-5614-03-4.

Ringbom, Åsa, Murbruksdatering, en ny potential inom klassisk arkeologi. Sphinx, årsbok – vuosikirja – yearbook, 2004, 2005, Societas Scientiarum Fennica, Finska Vetenskaps-Societeten-Suomen Tiedeseura-The Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters, 2005, 93-106.

Lindroos, Alf, Carbonate Phases in Historical Lime Mortars and Pozzolana Concrete: Implications for 14C Dating, Department of Geology and Mineralogy, Åbo Akademi University, Diss. Åbo 2005.

Ringbom, Åsa & Christina Remmer, Ålands kyrkor, Volym III, Sund och Vårdö, Mariehamn 2005 (336 sidor, 378 bilder).

2004

Ringbom, Åsa, Gustavsson, Kenneth, Lindroos, Alf, Heinemeier, Jan, and Sveinbjörnsdottir, Arny, ”Mortar dating – a method with a potential for the future, Bilan et Perspectives des Études Médiévales (1993-1998), Euroconférence (Barcelone, 8-12 juin 1999) Actes du IIe Congrès Européen d’Étydes Médiévales édités par Jacqueline Hamesse, Brepols Tournhout, Belgium, 2004, 195-207, illustrations, 718-723.

Ringbom, Åsa, Markus Hiekkanen ja tieteellisyys, Tieteessä tapahtuu, 3.2004, 33-38.

Ringbom, Åsa, Ännu en gång, Markus Hiekkanen, Tieteessä tapahtuu, 5.2004, 44-45.

2003

Hale, J., J. Heinemeier, L. Lancaster, A. Lindroos and Å. Ringbom,
Dating Ancient Mortar, American Scientist, Volume 91, 2003, 130-137.

Ringbom, Åsa, John Hale, Jan Heinemeier, Lynne Lancaster and Alf Lindroos, ”When did the Mortar Harden? A new method for dating buildings and other structures through AMS radiocarbon analysis”. Poster presented at the XVI International Congress of Classical Archaeology, The Associazione Internationale di Archeologia Classica, Harvard University August 24, 2003.

Ringbom, Åsa, Dolphins and Mortar Dating: Santa Costanza reconsidered, in Songs of Ossian, Festschrift in honour of Professor Bo Ossian Lindberg, Taidehistoriallisia Tutkimuksia-Konsthistoriska Studier, 27, Helsinki 2003, 22-42. Dolphins and Mortar Dating, Santa Costanza reconsidered.

2002

Hale, J. R., Å.Ringbom, A.Lindroos, and J. Heinemeier, A datação por radiocarbono de argamassas, facendo uso de técnica AMS (Espectrometra de Massa com Acelerador), in A Cidade: Revista Cultural de Portalegre, Número 13-14, 1999-49. 2000, Câmara Municipal de Portalegre, 2002, 145-156.

Remmer Christina : Min sommar kyrka. Sanct Olof 2002-2003:44-48

2001

Ringbom, Åsa, De återfunna socknebudskärlen från Finström, St. Olof, 2001.

Ringbom, Åsa, Alf Lindroos, Arny Sveinbjörnsdottir, Lynne Lancaster, John R. Hale and Jan Heinemeier, ”AMS 14C Dating of Mortar; a Method in Progress for Classical Archaeology”, AIAC NEWS 29/30, Bollettino informativo dell’ Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica, Roma. Guigno/Settembre 2001, 2-4.

2000

Ringbom, Åsa, ”Stone churches of Åland”, Art in Finland, From the Middle Ages to the present day, 2000, 16-18.

Ringbom, Åsa och Christina Remmer, Ålands kyrkor, Volym II., Saltvik, Ekenäs 2000, 280 s., 275 ill.

1998

Ringbom, Åsa, Reflections on Liturgical Drama in Mediaeval Scandinavian Art. Roma, magistra munde. Iteneraria culturae medievalis, Meilanges offerts au Père L.E. Boyle, Louvain.la.Neuve.
Hale, John R. and Ringbom, Åsa, 1998, Dating ancient plaster, mortar, and concrete: A new application of C-14 technology (Abstract). American Journal of Archaeology, volume 102, number 2, page 386.

Ringbom, Åsa, ”Stenkyrkor på Åland”, Konsten i Finland, Helsingfors 1998, 16-18.

Ringbom, Åsa, ”Ahvenanmaan kivikirkot”, Suomen taiteen historia, Helsinki 1998, 16-18.

1997

Ringbom, Åsa, “The churches of the Åland Islands and 14C dating of mortar”, Method and theory in Historical Archaeology – Papers of the ‘Medieval Europe Brugge 1997, Conference – Volume 10, 103-112.

Heinemeier, Jan, Högne Jungner, Alf Lindroos, Åsa Ringbom, Thorborg von Konow och Niels Rud, “AMS 14C dating of lime mortar”, i: Beam interactions with materials and atoms, Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research, Section B, volume 123, Nos 1-4, March (II) 1997, 487-495.

Heinemeier, Jan, Åsa Ringbom, Högne Jungner, Alf Lindroos, Torborg von Konow, Proceedings of the VII Nordic Conference on the Application of Scientific Methods in Archaeology, Savonlinna, Finland, 7-11 sept. 1996. Ed.Torsten Edgren, Iskos 11. Suomen Muinaismuistoyhdistys, 1997, ISBN 951-9057-27-7.

1996

Ringbom, Åsa, Gerhard Hakkarainen, Thomas Bartholin, och Högne Jungner, ”Åland Churches and Their Scientific Dating”, Proceedings of the Sixth Nordic Conference on the Application of Scientific Methods in Archaeology, Esbjerg 1993, Arkeologiske rapporter nr 1, 1996, 291-302.

Remmer, Christina, Mårten Johansson Målare, Sanct Olof, Mariehamn, 1995/96, 100-119.

1995

Ringbom, Åsa, Motivics and Mariology, Maria in Sole in St. Michael’s Church of Finström, Icon to Cartoon, A tribute to Sixten Ringbom. Taidehistoriallisia Tutkimuksia-Konsthistoriska studier 16, Editors Marja-Terttu Knapas and Åsa Ringbom, Helsinki 1995 Helsingfors, 273-287.

Ringbom, Åsa.”Ålands kyrkor – svar till Markus Hiekkanen”, Historisk tidskrift för Finland 1995/2, 263-266.

Ringbom, Åsa & Christina Remmer, Ålands kyrkor, Volym I, Hammarland och Eckerö, Mariehamn 1995, 300 s., 307 ill. s. ISBN 951-8946-41-8.

1994

Ringbom, Åsa, ”Dateringen av Ålands kyrkor”, i Historisk Tidskrift för Finland, 3. 1994 årg. 79, Helsingfors 1994, 459-493.

1993

Ringbom, Åsa, ”Wennikorset”, ”I Herrens hus”, och ”Jomalalejonet”, i Ålandsboken, Mariehamn 1993, 26-31.

Ringbom, Åsa, ”Altarskåpet i Hammarland – rekonstruktion och ikonografi”, i Det iconographiske blik. Festskrift til Ulla Haastrup, Kobenhavn 1993, 111-118.

Ringbom, Åsa, ”Naturvetenskapliga dateringsmetoder och Ålands kyrkor”, i Festskrift tillägnad Kalevi Pöykkö, Konsthistoriska studier 14, Helsinki 1993, 27-35.

Remmer, Christina, Altartavlor i Eckerö kyrka, Sanct Olof 1992/1993, 25-39.

1992

Ringbom, Åsa, ”Early Christianization of the Åland Islands?”, Religion and Belief, Pre-printed Papers Volume 6, Medieval Europe 1992, York 1992, 143-150.

1991

Ringbom, Åsa, ”De åländska kyrkorna berättar.” Historiallinen arkisto 96. Suomen Historiallinen Seura 1991, s 49-81.

Ringbom, Åsa, ”Aaland” i: Enciclopedia dell’arte Medievale. Volume I. Istituto della fondata da Giovanni Treccani, Roma 1991, 1-3.

Remmer, Christina, Skarpans lutherska kyrka – ett 150 års minne, Åländsk Odling, 1991, 21-30.

Ringbom, Åsa, ”Boetius Murenius – en åländsk ikonoklast?”, i: Tro og bilde i Norden i Reformasjonens århundre. Foredrag fremlagt ved det 11 nordiska symposion for ikonografiske studier. Granavollen 16-21 september 1988. Red. Martin Blindheim, Erla Hohler och Louise Lillie, Oslo 1991, s 253-267.

1986

Ringbom, Åsa, ”Sundskorset – ett medeltida minneskors?” i Väster om Skiftet, uppsatser ur Ålands historia, Åbo Akademi, Historiska institutionen, Meddelanden 8. Red. Sune Jungar & Nils Erik Villstrand, Åbo 1986, s 11-45