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Makrosubfossil- og pollenanalyser fra forhistoriske åkerlag, hustomter og graver på Tjora : Tjora gnr. 10, bnr. 5, 17 og 19, Sola kommune
(Oppdragsrapport;2011/24, Research report, 2011)Det er analysert pollen- og makrosubfossilprøver fra lengdesnitt med dokumenterte fossile åkerlag. I området var det mulig å se ardspor. I det minerogene laget med ardspor var det både pollen av korn (Cerealia) og ugras, ... -
Mapping past human land use using archaeological data: A new classification for global land use synthesis and data harmonization
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)In the 12,000 years preceding the Industrial Revolution, human activities led to significant changes in land cover, plant and animal distributions, surface hydrology, and biochemical cycles. Earth system models suggest ... -
Mariakirken i Bergen, Inventar
(Oppdragsrapport;2011/20, Research report, 2011)Mariakirken i Bergen sto i 2009 foran en omfattende restaurering av kirkebygget, med forventet ferdigstillelse i løpet av 2014. Som en følge av bygningsarbeidene ble det, i samråd med Riksantikvaren, anbefalt at kirkens ... -
Maritime Site Protection and the Fetch Method: an example from Rogaland, Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)Predictions of future requirements for the protection of maritime archaeological sites are made using the fetch method which has been developed to evaluate the quality of landing-places and navigable channels. The very ... -
Markets and horse fighting sites in southern Norway – their socioeconomic significance, origin, and demise (AD 1300‑1800)
(Chapter, 2021)This study presents the first comprehensive mapping of a type of assembly site in South Norway for competitions, especially horse fights and races, called a skeid (ON skeið, English ‘race, run’). The number of place names ... -
Maskinell flateavdekking : historikk og potensial
(AmS-Varia;43, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2005)After giving a short historical survey of the methods development in Norway and especially the combination of archaeological and natural (pollen and macrofossil analysis) methods departing form the excavations at Forsand ... -
Maskinell flateavdekking og utgravning av forhistoriske jordbruksboplasser
(AmS-Varia;26, Book, 1996)A major scientific breakthrough in Norwegian archaeology was seen in the 1980'ies. The investigation of agricultural sites in cultivated fields was revolutionized by the introduction of large-scale mechanical removal of ... -
Medieval and early modern ceramics in urban and rural Norway as evidence for trade within the Hanseatic world
(AmS-Skrifter;27, Chapter, 2019)In Norway, pottery from the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries is always imported and mostly concentrated in the urban centres. The few finds of pottery from this period in a non-urban context can, however, shed light on ... -
Mennesker og natur i fjellet i Sør-Norge etter siste istid med hovedvekt på mesolitikum
(AmS-Varia;51, Book, 2010)The main aim of the project is to interpret people’s relationship to nature with emphasis on the culture of huntergatherers in the mountain area of South Norway in the Mesolithic period. The palaeoenvironment and traces ... -
Menneskers forhold til vær og klima i forhistorien. Skisser til metodeutvikling
(AmS-Varia;43, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2005)Ideas to development of methods with regard to the human conditions to the weather and the climate in the past are outlined. The first method is based on the human’s challenges and consequences in connection to the climate ... -
Mesolithic cross-crafting: Experiments with the manufacture of bone blanks from elk metapodials
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Mesolithic man and the rising sea spotlighted by three tapes-transgressed sites in SW Norway
(Chapter, 1995)The Holocene (Tapes) transgression in West Norway, which started c. 900 y b.p. and ended between 6700 and 4500 b.p., did not invariably disturb Mesolithic coast-line situated settlement sites. In SW Norway, several sites, ... -
Metallsøkerfunn i Rogaland 2003-2018 : Rapport
(Oppdragsrapport;2019/10, Research report, 2019)1. Metalldetektorsøking utført av frivillige har ført til at et stort antall gjenstander av metall fra forhistorisk tid og middelalder har blitt levert inn til Arkeologisk museum og Rogaland fylkeskommune. Dette har bidratt ... -
Micromorphological indicators for degradation processes in archaeological bone from temperate European wetland sites
(Journal article, 2017)Micromorphological investigations of archaeological bones make it possible to study decay processes and the associated depositional environment in one go. A selection of micromorphological thin sections from soil samples ... -
Middle Bronze Age land use practices in the northwestern Alpine foreland – A multi-proxy study of colluvial deposits, archaeological features and peat bogs
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-06)This paper aims to reconstruct Middle Bronze Age (MBA; 1600–1250 BCE) land use practices in the northwestern Alpine foreland (SW Germany, Hegau). We used a multi-proxy approach including the analysis of biogeochemical ... -
Miljøovervåking og sikringsarbeid ved Myrvatnet 2016 : Gård: Østebø, gnr. 63, bnr. 21, Gjesdal kommune, Rogaland
(Oppdragsrapport;2016/21, Research report, 2016)19.10.2016 ble det gjennomført en befaring/undersøkelse av de registrerte steinalderlokalitetene (ID 61153, 33929, 162260, 14246, 33928, 61147, 43952, 162263, 61146, 4432 (funnsted), 14249, 14245, 162261, 61152 (funnsted), ... -
Missing boats - or lacking thoughts?
(Journal article, 2013-06)At the Wenner-Gren Supper Conference held at Harvard University on 6 November 1953, the British archaeologist Christopher Hawkes described a four-step ‘ladder’ of inductive reasoning. The lowest and most easily accessible ... -
Mistet på sjøen? En nyoppdaget fiskekrok fra steinalderen i Søgne, Vest-Agder
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)I dette bidraget har vi presentert en nyoppdaget fiskekrok funnet i et prøvestikk på grunt vann ved Tømmervigodden i Søgne. Vi har presentert funnkonteksten og sammenlignet sjøbunns- forholdene med andre, bedre undersøkte ... -
Multi-omic detection of Mycobacterium leprae in archaeological human dental calculus
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Mineralized dental plaque (calculus) has proven to be an excellent source of ancient biomolecules. Here we present a Mycobacterium leprae genome (6.6-fold), the causative agent of leprosy, recovered via shotgun sequencing ... -
A multiproxy approach to understanding the impact of the Storegga tsunami upon Mesolithic hunter-fisher-gatherers across different regions of western Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)The Storegga tsunami (c. 8150 cal BP) is geologically well attested from various isolation basins across the west Norwegian coast. Ascertaining the impact it had upon the Mesolithic peoples who lived through it, however, ...