Browsing Museum of archaeology by Subject "VDP::Humaniora: 000::Arkeologi: 090"
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Böhringer See, western Lake Constance (Germany): an 8500 year record of vegetation change
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-09)During the last 35 years, a number of high-resolution pollen diagrams were made for the western Lake Constance area. Up to now, 12 such records exist, most of them covering the time from the early Neolithic to the present, ... -
Brenselsstrategi i yngre romertids jernfremstilling. En case-study i skogsutnyttelse og bruk av brensel fra Sandeid, Vindafjord kommune, Rogaland
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Relatively little charcoal analysis has been conducted in western Norway, despite its considerable potential to contribute to the interpretation of archaeological sites. This is especially relevant in the case of ironworking ... -
Burial : settlement relations at Forsandmoen, Southwest Norway
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2023)In 2017, a pre-development excavation of two burial mounds and surrounding buildings was carried out within the densely settled archaeological site of Forsandmoen, southwest Norway. The investigation provided an opportunity ... -
Challenging an old theory – Portable X-ray fluorescence(pXRF) analyses of greenstone adzes in Rogaland, southwestern Norway
(Chapter, 2022)The first large scale regional provenance analysis of greenstone and diabase adzes in western Norway was undertaken forty years ago. The study identified two social territories, which have been central in Norwegian archaeology ... -
«Det monterløse museum»: En etnografisk undersøkelse av et arkeologisk universitetsmuseum som møtested for arkeologiske praksiser og museal gjøren
(PhD thesis UiS;646, Doctoral thesis, 2022-04)Avhandlingen undersøker prosesser som er virksomme i kunnskapsproduksjonen i det tverrfaglige fagmiljøet og i formidlingen ut mot publikum ved Arkeologisk museum, Universitetet i Stavanger. Dette gjør den ved å studere hva ... -
Encircling the craft traditions of freshwater fishing: an archaeological and experimental study of wheel-shaped net sinkers in the Scandinavian interior (AD 800–1300)
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This paper investigates wheel-shaped net sinkers, that is hoops made of rods and with plaited birch bark fibres, clasping a sinker stone in the centre. Recently recovered from forest and mountain lakes of central Scandinavia, ... -
Encounters with Animals from Lost Worlds
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Endringer i korndyrking gjennom 3500 år i Sola, Sørvest-Norge
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Carbonised cereal grains recovered from settlement structures, field layers and graves have been <sup>14</sup>C-dated, calibrated and are presented in summed probability curves. The cereal grains are recovered from thirteen ... -
Et finsmedverksted fra tidlig vikingtid på Sømme ved Hafrsfjord
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)In Norway, Viking-age non-ferrous metal working is primarily related to trading sites like Kaupang in Vestfold. The remains of a workshop at Sømme in Rogaland demonstrates, however, that this kind of craft also took place ... -
Evolutionary relationships within the lamioid tribe Synandreae (Lamiaceae) based on multiple low-copy nuclear loci
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016-07)The subfamily Lamioideae (Lamiaceae) comprises ten tribes, of which only Stachydeae and Synandreae include New World members. Previous studies have investigated the phylogenetic relationships among the members of Synandreae ... -
Expanding Horizons in North Atlantic Archaeology
(Chapter, 2022)From the 9th century AD onwards, Norse migration resulted in the spread across the North Atlantic of cultural traits originating in Norway. Although these colonies were dispersed over islands scattered across thousands of ... -
Fremstillinger av steinalderens jeger-sankere i lærebøker : Arkeologisk kunnskapsproduksjon i skolen
(PhD Theses;703, Doctoral thesis, 2023)Avhandlingen handler om arkeologisk kunnskapsproduksjon i skolen. Studien består av 23 lærebøker tilknyttet læreplanene L97 og K06. Jeg undersøker hvordan representasjoner av og fortellinger om steinalderens jeger-sankere ... -
Geo- and ethnoarchaeological investigations of a cave in the Northern Zagros Mountains (Ashkawta Rash, Iraqi Kurdistan)
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Ashkawta Rash Cave was investigated in two short excavation campaigns in 2018 and 2021. Hundreds of anthropogenic layers testify to the use of the cave over the last three millennia. In this article, we combine ethnoarchaeological ... -
Haymaking as the driving force for shieling use from the Viking Age/early Medieval Period : a comparative study of two outfield areas in southwestern Norway
(Chapter, 2022)This paper focuses on the southernmost group of shielings in Norway where haymaking was the driving force for the shieling practice. Two shieling zones in the county of Rogaland that differ in respect to relief and proximity ... -
Household goods for winter travel and leisure in Norway : objects, games and processes of enculturation
(Chapter, 2023)In this paper, we shed new light on winter travel; our point of departure is the household goods related to medieval winter transportation in Scandinavia. Because most areas lacked cart roads, there was a network of trails ... -
How are teeth better than bone? An investigation of dental tissue diagenesis and state of preservation at a histological scale (with photo catalogue)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-07)Teeth are often the preferred substrate for isotopic and genetic assays in archaeological research. Teeth can yield isotopic signals from different periods of an individual's lifetime, useful in dietary reconstruction, ... -
Intensification of agriculture in southwestern Germany between the Bronze Age and Medieval period, based on archaeobotanical data from Baden-Württemberg
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)A system of farming with an alternation of land use between being cultivated or left fallow as grassland (Feldgraswirtschaft) developed in southwestern Germany since the Bronze Age. It involved fallow periods, where the ... -
The Iron Age and Medieval portage at Haraldseid, southwest Norway. Legends, place names and archaeology
(Chapter, 2023)The old Norse term eið occurs in many Scandinavian place names. It denotes a passage over land between two trafficable waters, i.e., an isthmus which could be utilised as a portage for boats, people and cargo. Thus, the ... -
Kvalitetshåndverk og elitemiljøer
(Chapter, 2023)Nordsjøkysten fra Agder til Sogn, som åpner opp mot De britiske øyer og kontinentet, fremstår i folkevandringstiden som et kjerneområde for håndverksprodukter av høy kvalitet. Dette kommer til uttrykk gjennom konsentrasjoner ... -
Kystnære bergkunststeder på Nord-Jæren
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)The majority of the open-air rock art sites in the county of Rogaland are located near the shoreline along the fjord systems surrounding the city of Stavanger. In the area the shoreline variation from the Bronze Age and ...