Browsing Publikasjoner fra CRIStin by Subject "arkeologi"
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A Scandinavian Relief Brooch: Artistic Vision and Practical Method Combined
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-12)THIS PAPER considers the craftspeople that created ornamental metalwork, the contexts in which they operated, and the communication they had with their contemporaries. The study focuses on the Dalem brooch, a 6th-century ... -
Animist Ontologies in the Third Millennium BCE? Hunter-Gatherer Persistency and Human-Animal Relations in Southern Norway: The Alveberget Case
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-08)This article aims to contribute novel data and perspectives into the long-standing debate about economic strategies in the fourth and third millennium in South Norway, by introducing novel results from a Pitted Ware coastal ... -
The Blurry Third Millennium. "Neolithisation" in a Norwegian Context
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-04)In this article, we critically review recurrent tropes, implicit frameworks, and unexplained concepts in current research on the process of “Neolithisation” in the western part of southern Norway. Two models are on offer, ... -
Böhringer See, western Lake Constance (Germany): an 8500 year record of vegetation change
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-09)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, ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
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 -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Karismatisk bergkrystall fra Ryfylkeheiane? Smykkestein som identitetsmarkør i yngre jernalder
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-11)In the 1960s and 1970s, large scale surveys related to hydro power developments in montane areas in Southwest Norway, recorded several rock crystals deposits and sites where crystals from these had been used both in the ... -
Kartlegging av middelalderske kirkesteder i Norge med Georadar: Resultater fra Furulund, Hylestad og Habbarstad kirkesteder
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)I Norge er det registrert flere hundre nedlagte kirkesteder fra middelalderen, der en betydelig andel mangler sikker stedfesting. Kirkestedene, som befinner seg over hele landet, ligger ofte i områder som i dag benyttes ... -
Lithic stories of broken relations after the Storegga tsunami in Mesolithic western Norway?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Major changes in lithic technologies are often explained by either migration or crisis. Here we argue that continuity and minor adjustments in lithic production can tell equally dramatic tales of altered social situations. ...