Browsing Museum of archaeology by Document Types "Chapter"
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A new flotation machine for macrofossils and archaeological objects
(AmS-Varia;37, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2000)At Museum of Archaeology, Stavanger, a new flotation machine has been constructed. The AMS-machine (Advanced Macrofossil Separation) is able to treat wet as well as dry soil samples and the machine is specially developed ... -
Beastly Belonging in the Premodern North
(Chapter, 2018)This article discusses the representations of animals on maps from the Middle Ages and early modern period that depict Scandinavia. It argues that examining animal images on maps of Scandinavia, like the Carta marina made ... -
Bebyggelse, landskap og lokalklima
(AmS-Varia;49, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2009)The purpose of the project is to investigate how the landscape and vegetation influenced the temperature and wind conditions at Tastarustå and ultimately the settlement and the growing conditions at the site, which was ... -
Becoming people : early iron age courtyard sites in Norway as arenas for rites de passage
(AmS-Skrifter;23, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2010)This paper suggests that the courtyard sites of western Scandinavia were primarily arenas for transformation rituals from childhood to manhood. These were central, defining practices for both individuals and society as a ... -
Borgund and the Borgundfjord fisheries
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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 ... -
Children in the bog
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"Drink and eat, don't forget god” – decorated stoneware in a period of religious and political unrest and conflict
(Chapter; Conference object, 2023)In northern Europe, the 16th century was a period characterised by the breakthrough of the Reformation and the establishment of national states. Following the technological principles of printing and adapting the motifs ... -
Eksempler på klassifisering av atmosfæriske sirkulasjonsmønsstre over Nord-Atlanteren og Europa 1881-1993 etter en statistisk metode
(AmS-Varia;24, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 1995)Marked variations in temperature and precipitation, associated with variations in the atmospheric circulation, have occurred over the North Atlantic and Europe during the last hundred years. This paper presents examples ... -
Encircling the living space of early postglacial reindeer hunters in the interior of southern Norway
(Chapter, 2003)Seven tent rings, six evident and one analytically segregated, found on sites at Store Myrvatnet and Store Fløyrlivatnet in the mountains of SW Norway, are presented. C14-dated between c. 9600 and 9000 uncal. BP these range ... -
Encounters with Animals from Lost Worlds
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Evig eies kun det tapte - med alle sine hemmeligheter. Refleksjoner rundt en gjenstand av kleberstein funnet ved Håelva på Jæren
(AmS-Varia;49, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2009)A polished, dark-green soapstone artefact, found by accident at Njærheim beside the estuary of the River Hå in the Jæren district of Southwest Norway in the 1980-ies, is described and discussed. It is 128 mm long, weighs ... -
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 ... -
Faces and figures - myth and mentality in the motives of highly decorated pottery from Bergen
(University of Bergen Archaeological Series;8, Chapter, 2015)Archaeological finds of pottery are often seen as a rather dull and dry material, useful yet for dating purpose and occasionally nice as illustration, but with little relevance for insight into the medieval mentality and ... -
Folkevandringstidens dyreornamentikk i Sørvestnorge
(Hikuin;29, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2002)Artikkelen diskuterer dyreornamentikken i folkevandringstiden - Nydamstil og Stil I. -
Fra hall til stove
(AmS-Varia;43, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2005)With the introduction of cross-timbered dwelling houses around 1000 AD, a several thousand years old building tradition in Norway was broken. The cross-timbering technique that in fact was well known at this time, being ... -
Hafrsfjord og nokre andre stadnamn kring fjorden på Nord-Jæren
(AmS-Varia;53, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2011)This article deals with the fjord name Hafrsfjord and other place-names from the Hafrsfjord area in northern Jæren (Southwest- Norway). The author discusses the etymology and the semantics of the fjord name and related ... -
Haugen som gravfelt
(AmS-Varia;58, Chapter, 2016-12)Preconceptions about the construction and function of burial mounds can heavily influence the degree of complexity one is apt to see in the field. Rather than seeing a burial mound as the result of a single moment in time, ... -
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 ...