Articles (AmS)
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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 ... -
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 ... -
If sherds could tell. Imported ceramics from the Hanseatic hinterland in Bergen, Norway. Producers, traders and consumers: who were they, and how were they connected?
(Chapter, 2015)The urban archaeology of medieval Norway is in one respect similar to that of other medieval European towns; pottery forms by far the largest amount of finds. However, unlike the situation in any other European ... -
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 ... -
Når materiell kultur blir digital - ei viktig vending i norsk arkeologi
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Arkeologifaget og studier av materiell kultur har vokst fram og blitt formet gjennom flere hundre år, og har hverken vært skjermet mot eller upåvirket av impulser utenfra i løpet av denne perioden. Derimot har faget ... -
Hellere i Rogaland og bruken av landskapet i førromersk jernalder
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Formålet med denne artikkelen er å diskutere hvordan hellere i Rogaland ble anvendt i førromersk jernalder, og hvilken rolle de har spilt i utnyttelsen av landskapet. Utgangspunktet for diskusjonen er en heller ved navn ... -
A review of the dodo and its ecosystem: insights from a vertebrate concentration Lagerstätte in Mauritius
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016-03)The dodo Raphus cucullatus Linnaeus, an extinct and flightless, giant pigeon endemic to Mauritius, has fascinated people since its discovery, yet has remained surprisingly poorly known. Until the mid-19th century, almost ... -
Late Neolithic Agriculture in Temperate Europe — A Long-Term Experimental Approach
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-02)Long-term slash-and-burn experiments, when compared with intensive tillage without manuring, resulted in a huge data set relating to potential crop yields, depending on soil quality, crop type, and agricultural measures. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
The telltale potency of a simple milligram of charcoal found in a hearth left by Mesolithic reindeer hunters in the Norwegian mountains.
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-07)The discovery and excavation of superimposed, information-rich Pre-Boreal hunting sites around the mountain lakes of Myrvatn and Fløyrlivatn in Southwest Norway have been the subject of archaeological debate. A brief review ... -
Eastern pioneers in westernmost territories? Current perspectives on Mesolithic hunter-gatherer large-scale interaction and migration within Northern Eurasia.
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016-03)The aim of this paper is to present a dynamic approach to material culture that may inform new perspectives on large-scale hunter–gatherer interactions and migrations within Early Holocene northern Eurasia. Recent analyses ... -
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 ...
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