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Expanding Horizons in North Atlantic Archaeology
(Chapter, 2022)From the 9th century AD onwards, Norse migration resulted in the spread across the North Atlantic of cultural traits originating in Norway. Although these colonies were dispersed over islands scattered across thousands of ... -
Faces and figures - myth and mentality in the motives of highly decorated pottery from Bergen
(University of Bergen Archaeological Series;8, Chapter, 2015)Archaeological finds of pottery are often seen as a rather dull and dry material, useful yet for dating purpose and occasionally nice as illustration, but with little relevance for insight into the medieval mentality and ... -
Fine-spatial paleoecological investigations towards reconstructing late holocene environmental change, landscape evolution, and farming activity in Barrees, Beara peninsula, southwestern Ireland
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2008)Long-term environmental change and human impact have been reconstructed at fi ne spatial and temporal resolutions in an archaeologically rich, and fl oristically interesting, part of southwestern Ireland, namely the Beara ... -
Folkevandringstidens dyreornamentikk i Sørvestnorge
(Hikuin;29, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2002)Artikkelen diskuterer dyreornamentikken i folkevandringstiden - Nydamstil og Stil I. -
Geo- and ethnoarchaeological investigations of a cave in the Northern Zagros Mountains (Ashkawta Rash, Iraqi Kurdistan)
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Ashkawta Rash Cave was investigated in two short excavation campaigns in 2018 and 2021. Hundreds of anthropogenic layers testify to the use of the cave over the last three millennia. In this article, we combine ethnoarchaeological ... -
Getting to the root of the problem: new evidence for the use of plant root foods in Mesolithic Khunter-gatherer subsistence in Europe
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-08)This paper presents new evidence for the harvesting of edible plant roots and tubers at Northton, a Mesolithic hunter-gatherer site on Harris, in the Western Isles of Scotland, in the north-west corner of Europe. The ... -
Haymaking as the driving force for shieling use from the Viking Age/early Medieval Period : a comparative study of two outfield areas in southwestern Norway
(Chapter, 2022)This paper focuses on the southernmost group of shielings in Norway where haymaking was the driving force for the shieling practice. Two shieling zones in the county of Rogaland that differ in respect to relief and proximity ... -
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 ... -
Hellere i Rogaland og bruken av landskapet i førromersk jernalder
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Formålet med denne artikkelen er å diskutere hvordan hellere i Rogaland ble anvendt i førromersk jernalder, og hvilken rolle de har spilt i utnyttelsen av landskapet. Utgangspunktet for diskusjonen er en heller ved navn ... -
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 ... -
Historical Spruce Abundance in Central Europe: A Combined Dendrochronological and Palynological Approach
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Spruce is the most cultivated tree species in modern forestry in Central Europe, since it has the ability to grow on many soil types with profitable biomass accumulation. However, even-aged and uniform spruce forests are ... -
Household goods for winter travel and leisure in Norway : objects, games and processes of enculturation
(Chapter, 2023)In this paper, we shed new light on winter travel; our point of departure is the household goods related to medieval winter transportation in Scandinavia. Because most areas lacked cart roads, there was a network of trails ... -
How are teeth better than bone? An investigation of dental tissue diagenesis and state of preservation at a histological scale (with photo catalogue)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-07)Teeth are often the preferred substrate for isotopic and genetic assays in archaeological research. Teeth can yield isotopic signals from different periods of an individual's lifetime, useful in dietary reconstruction, ... -
If sherds could tell. Imported ceramics from the Hanseatic hinterland in Bergen, Norway. Producers, traders and consumers: who were they, and how were they connected?
(Chapter, 2015)The urban archaeology of medieval Norway is in one respect similar to that of other medieval European towns; pottery forms by far the largest amount of finds. However, unlike the situation in any other European ... -
Impulses of agro-pastoralism in the 4th and 3rd millennia BC on the south-western coastal rim of Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2006)A review of the available archaeological and palaeoecological evidence from the coastal heathlands of south-western Norway was compiled to reveal the processes of neolithisation proceeding from the Early Neolithic towards ... -
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 ... -
InSituFarms. Archaeological Deposits in a Changing Climate Case Baŋkgohppi, Unjárgga gielda/Nesseby k., Finnmark
(NIKU Rapport;, Research report, 2017)«Case Baŋkgohppi»inngår som ett av tre overvåkingsstudier av kulturlag i forskningsprosjektet «InSituFarms». Undersøkelsen fant sted i en mødding fra yngre steinalder i Baŋkgohppi i Unjárgga gielda, Finnmark. Målet for ... -
Intensification of agriculture in southwestern Germany between the Bronze Age and Medieval period, based on archaeobotanical data from Baden-Württemberg
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)A system of farming with an alternation of land use between being cultivated or left fallow as grassland (Feldgraswirtschaft) developed in southwestern Germany since the Bronze Age. It involved fallow periods, where the ... -
Introduksjonen av dreiekvernen i Sørvest-Norge
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Kvernsteiner, er det noe spennende, da? Tunge og uhåndterlige tar de opp stor plass i magasin rundt om i både Norge og Europa, ofte uten at noen har ofret en tanke på deres potensial som forskningsobjekter. Selv om de har ... -
The Iron Age and Medieval portage at Haraldseid, southwest Norway. Legends, place names and archaeology
(Chapter, 2023)The old Norse term eið occurs in many Scandinavian place names. It denotes a passage over land between two trafficable waters, i.e., an isthmus which could be utilised as a portage for boats, people and cargo. Thus, the ...