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Style: A Strait Jacket on Hunters’ Rock Art Research?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)Most research on the Palaeolithic cave paintings in Southern Europe has aimed at proving development of different kinds by detecting different styles. The use of style as a dating method has affected our entire view upon ... -
*Sæheimr: Just a Settlement by the Sea? Dating, Naming Motivation and Function of an Iron Age Maritime Place Name in Scandinavia
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Derivations of the maritime place name *Sæheimr—‘the settlement by the sea’—are known from 54 examples from different parts of Scandinavia. Traditionally, these are thought to describe merely a feature of the terrain that ... -
Tales of Middle Mesolithic cultural transformations and marine adaptation: The case of a simple hatchet of whale bone
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Submerged archaeological sites from the early Holocene, along the south-western and western Norwegian coastline are important sources of new information about stone-age human populations and coastal adaptation. In this ... -
Tent, hut or house? A discussion on Early Mesolithic dwellings in light of the site Mohalsen 2012-II, Vega, Northern Norway
(Chapter, 2017)Our research excavation of the site Mohalsen 2012-II on Vega in Northern Norway presented us with the remains of a pioneer-age dwelling believed to have been in use during the last part of the Early Mesolithic period, c. ... -
Testing osteometric species determination on zooarchaeological dolphin remains from Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age sites in Ash-Sharqiyyah, Sultanate of Oman
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Different Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age sites located in the Ras al-Hadd cape and Ras al-Jinz Bay area (Ash-Sharqiyyah South Governorate, Sultanate of Oman) have provided thousands of zooarchaeological dolphin remains ... -
"The bear Cave of Velfjord" - an archaeological and faunal historical survey
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Karst caves have received little archaeological attention in Norway to date and little is known of their potential role in Scandinavian prehistory. The authors present the finds, observations, and analyses of an archaeological ... -
The Brabant-style gros of Dendermonde: counterfeit or official issue?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Metallurgic analysis is applied to determine the silver content of an imitation gros tournois, presumably struck at Dendermonde. The results are used to discuss whether or not this type is a (contemporary) forgery. -
The City Is Alive - Still! Comment on Bisserka Gaydarska, "The City is dead! Long Live the City!"
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The Hydrothermal Breccia of Berglia-Glassberget, Trøndelag, Norway: Snapshot of a Triassic Earthquake
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)The quartz-K-feldspar-cemented breccia of Berglia-Glassberget in the Lierne municipality in central Norway forms an ellipsoid structure 250 m × 500 m in size. The hydrothermal breccia is barren in terms of economic commodities ... -
The northern Scandinavian viking hall: A case study from Viklem in Ørland, Norway
(Chapter, 2019)Our aim with this paper was to discuss two possible Viking Age and Early medieval wooden hall buildings from Viklem at Ørlandet in relation to the Scandinavian Viking Age halls. To do this we analysed the buildings from ... -
The Postgraduate Research Methods Course in Conservation: The Practical Approach Taken at the University of Gothenburg
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)The theory-led Master’s Research Methods course in the Department of Conservation at the University of Gothenburg was completely redesigned for the 2013 autumn term from a theory-led to a student-oriented learning format. ... -
The Sandbakken Qarry, Kvikne: A Window into Early Iron Age Soapstone Exploitation in Norway
(Chapter, 2017)The oldest known example of large-scale soapstone exploitation in Norway is found at Kvikne (south central Norway), where quarrying took place during the pre-Roman Iron Age (5th to 1st century BC). The quarry is located ... -
THE SOIL SCIENCE & ARCHAEO-GEOPHYSICS ALLIANCE (SAGA): going beyond prospection
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Archaeological sites can be discovered and recorded in a high-resolution and non-invasive manner using geophysical methods. These measure the spatial variation of a range of physical properties of the soil which may be ... -
Tjæreproduksjon i myrmiler: En særegen midtnorsk tradisjon
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Det har blitt produsert tjære i minst 2000 år her i landet. Gjennom historien har det vært ulike måter å produsere tjære på og arkeologiske undersøkelser har sammen med historiske kilder gitt oss et innblikk i de metoder ... -
Transforming bodies and rock art. Late Bronze Age mortuary rituals at Sandbrauta.
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This article explores how the practice of including rock art in burials from the Bronze Age in Scandinavia was influenced by and incorporated into the new ideas and practices brought about by the introduction of cremation. ... -
Tunanlegget på Tjøtta - en økonomisk og demografisk miljøstudie
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Two Swedish Late Modern Period foetal burial shrouds
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Two thousand years of Landscape—Human interactions at a coastal peninsula in Norway revealed through pollen analysis, shoreline reconstruction, and radiocarbon dates from archaeological sites
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Object-vector (OV) cells are cells in the medial entorhinal cortex (MEC) that track an animal’s distance and direction to objects in the environment. Their firing fields are defined by vectorial relationships to free-standing ... -
UAV LiDAR in coastal environments: Archaeological case studies from Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, and Vega, Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)LiDAR has become fairly integrated into archaeological practice at a global scale. This has gradually evolved to include UAV LiDAR. Nevertheless, considerable biases remain, including with regard to geographical regions, ...