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Helganeset - en produksjonsplass for selolje. Spekk-kokegroper i en sørlig kontekst.
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014)Ytterst i havgapet på Helganeset ved Haugesund lufthavn i Karmøy kommune, Rogaland, ble det sommeren 2011 gjennomført arkeologiske undersøkelser. På en av de utgravde lokalitetene ble det avdekket to kokegroper fra eldre ... -
Changing perceptions of rock art: storying prehistoric worlds
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-03)Temporality and changeability are here considered vital characteristics of rock art, expressed through shifting light and moving bodies. Demonstrating deliberate use of non-quantifiable elements such as light is challenging. ... -
Karismatisk bergkrystall fra Ryfylkeheiane? Smykkestein som identitetsmarkør i yngre jernalder
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-11)In the 1960s and 1970s, large scale surveys related to hydro power developments in montane areas in Southwest Norway, recorded several rock crystals deposits and sites where crystals from these had been used both in the ... -
Agrarian storytellers. Pollen and charred plant macrofossils of ancient field layers.
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This paper offers a descriptive overview and main trends of pollen and macrofossil data obtained from 19 archaeological sites in Rogaland, SW Norway, excavated between 1998 and 2018. The dataset covers the period from late ... -
Petrified Life or Living Stone? The Problems of Categorisation. Exemplified by Fossils Found at Stone Age Sites in Rogaland, Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)During archaeological excavations, artefacts are collected, tagged and stored. Based on these, archaeologists interpret peoples’ social identity, relations and even world view. However, a narrow range of ‘natural objects’ ... -
Spenner i en overgangstid. Sene småspenner i den turbulente overgangen mellom eldre og yngre jernalder.
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-11)To understand the transition between the Early and the Late Scandinavian Iron Age, and the turbulent time around the year 536, we are dependent on our ability to recognize the changes in the artefacts. A chronology with ... -
Main Territories in South Norway in the Mesolithic
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-04)The focus of this paper is on regionality, the use of main territories and how they are interlinked in the Mesolithic in south Norway during the culmination of the settlement of the mountain area, 8500–7600 cal BP. The ... -
Quantifying archaeo-organic degradation – A multiproxy approach to understand the accelerated deterioration of the ancient organic cultural heritage at the Swedish Mesolithic site Ageröd
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-09)Despite a growing body of evidence concerning accelerated organic degradation at archaeological sites, there have been few follow-up investigations to examine the status of the remaining archaeological materials in the ... -
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, ... -
On the Fringe. Sheepdogs and Their Status Within Bronze Age Ontologies in Scandinavia
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This contribution draws mainly on images of dogs, humans and sheep from Nordic Bronze Age rock art sources, but living arrangements within the household and depositional patterns of dog bones on settlements are also ... -
Roe deer as raw material for Middle Mesolithic fishhooks? An experimental approach to the manufacture of small bone fishhooks
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Bone fishhooks have occasionally been retrieved from bone assemblages at coastal sites dating to the Middle Mesolithic phase (8300-6300 cal. BC) in Southern Norway and Western Sweden (the north-eastern Skagerrak region, ... -
Skjeletta frå Stavanger domkyrkje - ei lang og innfløkt soge
(Norsk arkeologisk årbok;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-11)In 1967‒68 an area under Stavanger Cathedral was excavated, which revealed more than 30 inhumations without any grave goods. Remains of 22 skeletons were boxed individually and sent to the Anatomic Institute at the University ... -
To spenner fra samme hånd? Folkevandringstidens relieffspenner i detalj
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Two brooches from the same hand? A detailed study of Migration Period relief brooches “From the same hand” is a phrase repeatedly used in studies of Migration Period brooches. We explore if it is possible to establish ... -
InSituFarms. Archaeological Deposits in a Changing Climate Case Baŋkgohppi, Unjárgga gielda/Nesseby k., Finnmark
(NIKU Rapport;, Research report, 2017)«Case Baŋkgohppi»inngår som ett av tre overvåkingsstudier av kulturlag i forskningsprosjektet «InSituFarms». Undersøkelsen fant sted i en mødding fra yngre steinalder i Baŋkgohppi i Unjárgga gielda, Finnmark. Målet for ... -
A Scandinavian Relief Brooch: Artistic Vision and Practical Method Combined
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-12)THIS PAPER considers the craftspeople that created ornamental metalwork, the contexts in which they operated, and the communication they had with their contemporaries. The study focuses on the Dalem brooch, a 6th-century ... -
Long-term changes in regional vegetation cover along the west coast of southern Norway: The importance of human impact
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-03-01)Questions: How open was the landscape prior to agriculture? Did agriculture start earlier in the south than in the north? How did the vegetation change in different regions after the introduction of agriculture? Location: ... -
Introduksjonen av dreiekvernen i Sørvest-Norge
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Kvernsteiner, er det noe spennende, da? Tunge og uhåndterlige tar de opp stor plass i magasin rundt om i både Norge og Europa, ofte uten at noen har ofret en tanke på deres potensial som forskningsobjekter. Selv om de har ... -
Early Neolithic human bog finds from Falbygden, western Sweden. New isotopic, osteological and histological investigations
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-12)Departing from two recently dated finds of human bones in wetlands from the area of Falbygden in western Sweden, this paper describes the finds in detail and sets them in a wider context of depositional practices in the ... -
Deep time rock art in SW-Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Rogaland in SW Norway has a large number of rock art sites within relatively limited geographical areas. I wish to present a longlived rock art tradition that marked places within the landscape using five examples of ... -
'Those who survived the battlefields' - Archaeological investigations in a prisoner of war camp near to Quedlinburg (Harz Mountains / Germany) from the First World War
(Journal article, 2009)In 2004, the site of a prisoner of war camp from the First World War was investigated archaeologically during a large rescue excavation project initiated by highway construction works in the municipality of Quedlinburg in ...
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