Browsing Articles (AmS) by Document Types "Peer reviewed"
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333 years of copper mining in the Røros region of the Mid-Scandic highlands - written sources versus natural archives
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010)The progression of industrial, rural and agrarian development is studied from sediment cores collected from two kettlehole lakes, Doktortjønna and Sandtjønna, in the vicinity of the mining town of Røros, focusing ... -
61. A pollen record from Lake Öagöl (south-Swedish Uplands): 1500 years of land-use history
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-08)Lake Öagöl (57° 12′ 34″; 14° 48′ 03″) is situated in the central part of the province of Småland, southern Sweden, a region characterised by mixed woodlands and small-scale agriculture. The investigated lake has a circular ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Agricultural Resilience during the 6th Century Crisis: Exploring Strategies and Adaptations Using Plant-Macrofossil Data from Hove-Sørbø and Forsandmoen in Southwestern Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Major changes in the archaeological material in Rogaland, southwestern Norway, from the mid-6th century AD have been interpreted as a population decline and an economic recession connected to the 6th century crisis. This ... -
An interdisciplinary approach to the understanding of past settlement and farming: two cases from SE Norway.
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010-12)An interdisciplinary approach involving analysis of plant macrofossils, pollen and soil micro morphology in combination with large-scale stripping of top soil, was applied in order to get a comprehensive understanding of ... -
Anders Lauritsen Smith – barokkens store mester?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Stavanger domkirke er utsmykket med en prekestol og fem epitafier skåret og malt i perioden 1658–1676. Det barokke inventaret er i kunsthistorien tilskrevet Anders Lauritsen Smith. Nye funn i primærkilder slik som regnskap, ... -
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 ... -
"Anna Ridler: A Contemporary Tulipmania"
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Anna Ridler is an artist and researcher who is interested in exploring how systems function and are built. She works with new technologies and scientific knowledge, exploring how they are created in order to better understand ... -
Arealkrav i jærlandskapet: En studie av medias fremstilling
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)The Jæren landscape in south-west Norway is one of the most productive agricultural areas in the country. It is also an area with population increase and with favorable locations for wind-parks. These different claims on ... -
Borgund and the Borgundfjord fisheries
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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, ... -
Brenselsstrategi i yngre romertids jernfremstilling. En case-study i skogsutnyttelse og bruk av brensel fra Sandeid, Vindafjord kommune, Rogaland
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Relatively little charcoal analysis has been conducted in western Norway, despite its considerable potential to contribute to the interpretation of archaeological sites. This is especially relevant in the case of ironworking ... -
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 ... -
Carbonised cereal from three late neolithic and two early bronze age sites in western Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2000)Carbonised cereals were found in three Late Neolithic and two Early Bronze Age sites in western Norway. One site, Hjelle is located in northwestern Norway with no close connection to the sea. The Skrivarhelleren site is ... -
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. ... -
Characteristics of early Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua L.) catches based on otoliths recovered from archaeological excavations at medieval to early modern sites in northern Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)We compared stock origin, size- and age-distributions, and length growth rates derived from Atlantic cod otoliths from archaeological excavations at two sites in northern Norway: Vágar in Lofoten (68°12′N, AD 1156–1285) ... -
Children in the bog
(BAR International Series;2271, Peer reviewed; Chapter, 2011) -
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 ...