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Picking up the Pieces : Contextualizing Utilized Blade Fragments from Two Assemblages in Southwest Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This article centers on a discussion of blade fragments from two Late Mesolithic assemblages recovered during a recent excavation project in Rogaland, southwest Norway. Analysis undertaken during post excavation cataloging ... -
The population genomic legacy of the second plague pandemic
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Human populations have been shaped by catastrophes that may have left long-lasting signatures in their genomes. One notable example is the second plague pandemic that entered Europe in ca. 1,347 CE and repeatedly returned ... -
Prehistoric reindeer hunting in the southern Norwegian highlands
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2008)In contrast to the European alpine areas and lowland plains, where Rangifer tarandus L. became extinct during the final Late Glacial, the species has survived in a wild state in relatively unchanged natural environments ... -
Prehistoric reindeer trapping by stone-walled pitfalls: news and views
(Prehistoric Society Research Papers;1, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2009)Rectangular stone-walled pitfalls, in contrast to originally wood-clad, oval or circular earth-dug traps of varying size, known from large parts of interior central and northern Fennoscandia and some circumpolar areas, ... -
Prehistorical cereal raising at Forsandmoen, south-western Norway : changes between the Bronze Age and the Iron Age
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 1992)On the Forsandmoen site, Rogaland, SW-Norway, a macrofossil study of 7810 charred cereal grains from nine houses representing a time span of about 800 years (from 2990 +/- 70 BP to 2140 +/- 70 BP uncalibrated) is described. ... -
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 ... -
Refleksjoner rundt ny teknologi som supplement til etablert praksis. Eksempler fra dokumentasjon av Rogalands bergkunst med 3D-skanner.
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)The Norwegian University museums responsibility and practice related to recording and documenting cultural heritage sites and archaeological objects, require solid management. Technologies, tools and methods that have ... -
Rock art preservation : improved and ecology‐based methods can give weathered sites prolonged life
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2006)Rock art is defined as systematic and man-made depressions or paintings on a smooth rock surface. In contrast to other cultural monuments, they have hardly any ecological importance. Nevertheless rock art sites should ... -
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, ... -
A rune-like carving on a terra sigillata bowl from the early medieval cemetery of Deiningen, Bavaria
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-10)Excavations in 2020 of the inhumation grave of an adult female, from within a known early medieval cemetery north of the village of Deiningen in the Donau-Ries district, western Bavaria ... -
Settlement organization in Iron Age Scandinavia and beyond: Traditions, terminologies, regionalities and methodologies
(Chapter, 2023)The nature of settlement organization is a core question in archaeological excavations and research. In some respects, settlement archaeological research in Scandinavia is characterized by variances notably in research ... -
Settlement structure and landscape use in Southwest Norway in the last millennium BC
(Chapter, 2023)This study discusses settlement patterns and the interaction between farms during the last millennium BC in Rogaland. It is based on a collocation of 792 radiocarbon dates from 250 different sites retrieved through ... -
Settlement, resources and routes in Iron Age Forsand
(Chapter, 2022)Forsandmoen is a prehistoric settlement site continuously in use from the Early Bronze Age to the Late Iron Age. This paper uses the large settlement as a case study to explore the duality of the agrarian and the outfield ... -
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 ... -
Small sites, great potential – The Mesolithic in Rogaland
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This paper looks at small Mesolithic sites with limited artefacts assemblages from Rogaland. A common characteristic of these sites is that they tend to lie in the vicinity of larger sites that contain a range of tool types ... -
Some erroneous radiocarbon dates of lacustrine sediments
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 1989)In some cases radiocarbon dating of both the NaOH soluble fraction and the insoluble fractionof lacustine sediments give different ages as a result of dating errors : (1) the insoluble fraction is too old, due probably to ... -
Something about children
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2008)The paper deals with the epistemological background of archaeology's conceptualisation of children's identities in the past. In the advancement of child archaeology there is something about children that catches the eye ... -
Southwest Norway at the Pleistocene/ Holocene Transition: Landscape Development, Colonization, Site Types, Settlement Patterns
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2003)This article contributes a western Norwegian perspective to the ongoing debate on the timing and nature of the earliest colonization of northern Europe. Despite there being a theoretical possibility of Late Glacial settlement, ... -
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 ...