Blar i Articles (AmS) på forfatter "Bang-Andersen, Sveinung"
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Colonizing contrasting landscapes. The pioneer coast settlement and inland utilization in southern Norway 10,000-9500 years before present
Bang-Andersen, Sveinung (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 ... -
Encircling the living space of early postglacial reindeer hunters in the interior of southern Norway
Bang-Andersen, Sveinung (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 ... -
Mesolithic man and the rising sea spotlighted by three tapes-transgressed sites in SW Norway
Bang-Andersen, Sveinung (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, ... -
Missing boats - or lacking thoughts?
Bang-Andersen, Sveinung (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 ... -
Prehistoric reindeer hunting in the southern Norwegian highlands
Bang-Andersen, Sveinung (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
Bang-Andersen, Sveinung (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, ... -
Southwest Norway at the Pleistocene/ Holocene Transition: Landscape Development, Colonization, Site Types, Settlement Patterns
Bang-Andersen, Sveinung (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2003)This article contributes a western Norwegian perspective to the ongoing debate on the timing and nature of the earliest colonization of northern Europe. Despite there being a theoretical possibility of Late Glacial settlement, ... -
The Mesolithic of Western Norway : prevailing problems and possibilities
Bang-Andersen, Sveinung (Chapter, 1995)The landscape and settlement development in West Norway until c. 5200 y. b.p. is broadly outlined. An evaluation of the source material reveals lacunaes which delimit detailed information on topics such as daily life, ... -
The telltale potency of a simple milligram of charcoal found in a hearth left by Mesolithic reindeer hunters in the Norwegian mountains.
Bang-Andersen, Sveinung (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-07)The discovery and excavation of superimposed, information-rich Pre-Boreal hunting sites around the mountain lakes of Myrvatn and Fløyrlivatn in Southwest Norway have been the subject of archaeological debate. A brief review ...