Articles (AmS)
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Inferring Long-term Landuse Development Through On-site Botanical Analyses at Øvre Øksnevad, Southwestern Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-07)This study analysed pollen and plant macrofossils from mainly Bronze Age and Iron Age funerary, agricultural and settlement remains, to infer local plant exploitation and long-term land-use development at Øvre Øksnevad in ... -
Hidden Stories of Extinction: Hawaiian ʻAhuʻula Feather Capes as Biocultural Artefacts
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-07)Natural history museums have been the natural place to find remnants of extinction, but extinction can also be hidden in cultural artefacts. This article identifies certain possibilities and challenges in telling extinction ... -
The View from the Cheap Seats. An Archaeologist Grappling with Multispecies Entanglements
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Moving beyond entanglement as a generic cue for human-animal relationships requires intellectual enquiry and an engagement with various approaches and different strands of evidence. Christina Fredengren has produced a ... -
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 ... -
Turfs and Timbers - Resource use in the construction of the Viking Age Fortress Borgring, Southeast Denmark
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-07)Viking Age ring fortresses were some of the largest construction projects in Danish prehistory. In this article we reconstruct the amount of turf and timber used in the construction of the Borgring ring fortress and estimate ... -
Evidence of the Storegga tsunami 8200 BP? An archaeological review of impact after a large-scale marine event in Mesolithic Northern Europe
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-12)Around 8,200 years ago, the Storegga tsunami hit the coasts of the Norwegian and North Seas. This event is well known from wide ranging geological and palaeobotanical work undertaken over the last 30 years. Outside of ... -
We Are Not Alone: William King and the Naming of the Neanderthals
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-10)The story of human history was changed forever in 1863 with William King's proposal that we had not always been the sole members of the Homo genus. Yet, more than 150 years after Homo neanderthalensis was first named and ... -
Animist Ontologies in the Third Millennium BCE? Hunter-Gatherer Persistency and Human-Animal Relations in Southern Norway: The Alveberget Case
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-08)This article aims to contribute novel data and perspectives into the long-standing debate about economic strategies in the fourth and third millennium in South Norway, by introducing novel results from a Pitted Ware coastal ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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’ ... -
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 ... -
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, ...
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