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Transforming images: Exploring powerful children
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2008)The perception of children as vulnerable, instead of powerful, beings is the opposite of what is found to be the case in the historic evidence. The paper investigates the relationship between ideology and material culture ... -
Kildesikring og kaoskontroll : om bevaringsideologier og forvaltningsstrategier i en digital tidsalder
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2008)Norwegian museums have been the subject of a great deal of public attention in recent years. Unfortunately, this is not because of their interesting, compelling and thought-provoking exhibitions, but because of poor ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Surroundings, Beginnings and Formation of a Journal – a dialogue with NAR's alpha editor Bjørn Myhre
(Journal article, 2008)Bjørn Myhre played a key role in the establishment of Norwegian Archaeological Review. All in all, 17 volumes of NAR were produced under his editorial leadership (1968–1978 and 1985–1990). Bjørn Myhre was born in Stavanger ... -
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 ... -
'Those who survived the battlefields' - Archaeological investigations in a prisoner of war camp near to Quedlinburg (Harz Mountains / Germany) from the First World War
(Journal article, 2009)In 2004, the site of a prisoner of war camp from the First World War was investigated archaeologically during a large rescue excavation project initiated by highway construction works in the municipality of Quedlinburg in ... -
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, ... -
Making them draw : the use of drawings when researching public attitudes towards the past
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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 ... -
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 ... -
Children in the bog
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The early Neolithic Volling site of Kildevang : its chronology and intra-spacial organisation
(Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission;89, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2011)Due to the lack of large undisturbed sites, questions relating to the early Neolithic I (ENI) transition in Scandinavia, 6,000 years ago, reapeatedly get caught up in discussions of chronology and the nature of the fragmentary ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The early settlement of south Norway after the last deglaciation: a diasporic perspective
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012-10)Based on a theoretical approach of diaspora theory and the use of ethnographical comparative analysis, it is argued that the early settlement of South Norway probably brought about diasporic conditions. Archaeological and ... -
Bosetning og lokalklimatiske utfordringer i Rogaland i forhistorien
(Viking;76, Journal article, 2013)Været er en viktig faktor for menneskers levevilkår. I dag har vi et velfungerende og operativt værvarslingssystem. Vi har kunnskap om sammenhengen mellom vindhastighet og ødeleggelser og om topografiske forholds betydning ...