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 ...

The dodo Raphus cucullatus Linnaeus, an extinct and flightless, giant pigeon endemic to Mauritius, has fascinated people since its discovery, yet has remained surprisingly poorly known. Until the mid-19th century, almost ...

This massive volume (slightly less than 2.5 kg) on Anglo-Saxon chronology, edited by John Hines and Alex Bayliss, is the result of a multi-disciplinary and collaborative project begun in 1997. Prior to the project ...

Major changes in the archaeological material in Rogaland, southwestern Norway, from the mid-6th century AD have been interpreted as a population decline and an economic recession connected to the 6th century crisis. This ...

Stavanger domkirke er utsmykket med en prekestol og fem epitafier skåret og malt i perioden 1658–1676. Det barokke inventaret er i kunsthistorien tilskrevet Anders Lauritsen Smith. Nye funn i primærkilder slik som regnskap, ...

Anna Ridler is an artist and researcher who is interested in exploring how systems function and are built. She works with new technologies and scientific knowledge, exploring how they are created in order to better understand ...

This article discusses the representations of animals on maps from the Middle Ages and early modern period that depict Scandinavia. It argues that examining animal images on maps of Scandinavia, like the Carta marina made ...

During the last 35 years, a number of high-resolution pollen diagrams were made for the western Lake Constance area. Up to now, 12 such records exist, most of them covering the time from the early Neolithic to the present, ...

In 2017, a pre-development excavation of two burial mounds and surrounding buildings was carried out within the densely settled archaeological site of Forsandmoen, southwest Norway. The investigation provided an opportunity ...