Blar i Articles (AmS) på emneord "arkeologi"
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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 ... -
Making them draw : the use of drawings when researching public attitudes towards the past
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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 ... -
Mesolithic cross-crafting: Experiments with the manufacture of bone blanks from elk metapodials
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Mesolithic man and the rising sea spotlighted by three tapes-transgressed sites in SW Norway
(Chapter, 1995)The Holocene (Tapes) transgression in West Norway, which started c. 900 y b.p. and ended between 6700 and 4500 b.p., did not invariably disturb Mesolithic coast-line situated settlement sites. In SW Norway, several sites, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Missing boats - or lacking thoughts?
(Journal article, 2013-06)At the Wenner-Gren Supper Conference held at Harvard University on 6 November 1953, the British archaeologist Christopher Hawkes described a four-step ‘ladder’ of inductive reasoning. The lowest and most easily accessible ... -
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 ... -
New insights into late Holocene farming and woodland dynamics in western Ireland with particular reference to the early medieval horizontal watermill at Kilbegly, Co. Roscommon
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011-01)motorway construction, at the edge of a small mire in Kilbegly Townland, County Roscommon, provided the opportunity for palaeoecological investigations of peat and fossil moss-polster samples in a part of western Ireland ... -
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 ... -
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’ ... -
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 ... -
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 ...