This booklet contains three inaugural lectures presented at Moesgård on the 22nd October 2004. On this day three scholars were appointed to professorships at the Institute of Anthropology, Archaeology and Linguistics at the University of Aarhus: two adjunct professors - James Gramham-Campell and Claus von Carnap-Bornheim - both elected for their outstanding qulifications within early Medieval and late Iron Age archaeology respectively, and one extraordinarily appointed professor, Helle Vandkilde, whose professorship on Globalisation and Archeology was made possible through a strategic investment by the Danish Research Council for the Humanities, 2004-2009.