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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) -
Colonizing contrasting landscapes. The pioneer coast settlement and inland utilization in southern Norway 10,000-9500 years before present
(Journal article, 2012)This article contributes a western Scandinavian perspective to the discussion of the human colonization of former glaciated landscapes. Four assumptions concerning the peopling of the Norwegian coast are discussed: 1) a ... -
Comments on the Social Context of Settlement in Norway in the First Millennium AD
(Journal article, 2001)The interpretation of the social and political organization in Norway during the Iron Age and the Viking Period is about to change. Norwegian historians studying the intermediate period between the Viking Age and the High ... -
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 ... -
Den mystiske og anvendelige skålgropa - skålgroper i Rogaland knyttet til ferdsel, knutepunkter og kultsteder i landskapet
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Approximately 110 rock art sites and more than 100 decorated slabs/stones are known from Rogaland County, southwestern Norway. This article looks at cupmarks and their relationship to travelling routes and nodal points ... -
"Drink and eat, don't forget god” – decorated stoneware in a period of religious and political unrest and conflict
(Chapter; Conference object, 2023)In northern Europe, the 16th century was a period characterised by the breakthrough of the Reformation and the establishment of national states. Following the technological principles of printing and adapting the motifs ... -
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 ... -
An early set of clasps from Østabø in Sandeid, south-western Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)An early set of clasps from Østabø in Sandeid, south-western Norway -
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 ... -
Encircling the craft traditions of freshwater fishing: an archaeological and experimental study of wheel-shaped net sinkers in the Scandinavian interior (AD 800–1300)
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This paper investigates wheel-shaped net sinkers, that is hoops made of rods and with plaited birch bark fibres, clasping a sinker stone in the centre. Recently recovered from forest and mountain lakes of central Scandinavia, ... -
Encircling the living space of early postglacial reindeer hunters in the interior of southern Norway
(Chapter, 2003)Seven tent rings, six evident and one analytically segregated, found on sites at Store Myrvatnet and Store Fløyrlivatnet in the mountains of SW Norway, are presented. C14-dated between c. 9600 and 9000 uncal. BP these range ... -
Encounters with Animals from Lost Worlds
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Endringer i korndyrking gjennom 3500 år i Sola, Sørvest-Norge
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Carbonised cereal grains recovered from settlement structures, field layers and graves have been <sup>14</sup>C-dated, calibrated and are presented in summed probability curves. The cereal grains are recovered from thirteen ... -
Et finsmedanlegg fra yngre jernalder utenfor Stavanger
(Journal article, 2015)I 2013 undersøkte Arkeologisk museum, Universitetet i Stavangeret finsmedanlegg datert til overgangen mellom merovingertid og vikingtid i Sømmevågen innerst i Hafrsfjorden på Nord-Jæren.Dette er første gang det er undersøkt ... -
Et finsmedverksted fra tidlig vikingtid på Sømme ved Hafrsfjord
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)In Norway, Viking-age non-ferrous metal working is primarily related to trading sites like Kaupang in Vestfold. The remains of a workshop at Sømme in Rogaland demonstrates, however, that this kind of craft also took place ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...