Lars Larsson (archaeologist)

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Lars Larsson, born in 1947, is chair of prehistoric archaeology at Lund University in Sweden. Larsson has devoted most of his research career to the Stone Age in southernmost Sweden. Among his fieldwork may be noted excavations at the Ageröd bog, famous Late Mesolithic cemeteries at Skateholm, a Mesolithic shell midden and a Neolithic megalithic tomb in Portugal.

In the 1990s, Larsson directed excavations of Middle Palaeolithic cave settlements in northern Zimbabwe. In the 90s and 00s he has also made important contributions to the study of the 1st Millennium AD through excavations at Uppåkra near Lund.

In 1989, Larsson was elected member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters. Beginning in 2008, he is Head Editor of the Academy's journal Fornvännen.