• "...en pludselig og stærk omvæltning"? Eldre jernalder og overgangen til yngre jernalder i Trøndelag. Praksis og overregionale nettverk. 

      Grønnesby, Geir (Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU;2019:276, Doctoral thesis, 2019)
      Sammendrag av avhandlingen Avhandlingen har som mål å diskutere samfunnsorganisasjon i eldre jernalder i Trøndelag og overgangen til yngre jernalder. Avhandlingen drøfter om de arkeologiske sporene i eldre jernalder i ...
    • The genetic history of Scandinavia from the Roman Iron Age to the present 

      Rodriguez-Varela, Ricardo; Moore, Kristjan H.S.; Ebenesersdottir, Sunna; Kilinc, Gulsah; Kjellström, Anna; Papmehl-Dufay, Ludvig; Alfsdotter, Clara; Berglund, Birgitta; Alrawi, Loey; Kashuba, Natlija; Sobrado, Veronica; Lagerholm, Vendela Kempe; Gilbert, Edmund; Cavalleri, Gianpiero L.; Hovig, Eivind; Kockum, Ingrid; Olsson, Tomas; Alfredsson, Lars; Hansen, Thomas F.; Werge, Thomas; Munters, Arielle R.; Bernhardsson, Carolina; Skar, Birgitte; Christophersen, Axel; Turner-Walker, Gordon; Gopalakrishnan, Shyam; Daskalaki, Evangelia; Omrak, Ayca; Perez-Ramallo, Patxi; Skoglund, Pontus; Girdland-Flink, Linus; Gunnarsson, Fredrik; Hedenstierna-Jonson, Charlotte; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius; Lidén, Kerstin; Jakobsson, Mattias; Einarsson, Lars Petter; Victor, Helena; Krzewinska, Maja; Zachrisson, Torun; Storå, Jan; Stefánsson, Kári; Helgason, Agnar; Götherström, Anders (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      We investigate a 2,000-year genetic transect through Scandinavia spanning the Iron Age to the present, based on 48 new and 249 published ancient genomes and genotypes from 16,638 modern individuals. We find regional variation ...
    • Healthscaping Trondheim? Investigating Water and Waste Management in Medieval and Early Modern Trondheim, and the Implications for the Health of the People 

      Swensen, Elisabeth Forrestad (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2024:128, Doctoral thesis, 2024)
      English summary «Healthscaping Trondheim? Investigating Water and Waste Management in Medieval and Early Modern Trondheim, and the Implications for the Health of the People.” Healthscaping refers to the action of making ...
    • High-Definition Archaeology, Small-Scale Narratives and Monetary Practice in Medieval Scandinavian Urbanization 

      Christophersen, Axel (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      High-definition archaeology is an efficient tool to study medieval urban economic practices. Medieval economy has been synthesized in ‘grand narratives’ which obscure the regional and local variations of economic practice. ...
    • The management of drinking water in Trondheim from 950 to 1777 as a source for attitudes towards health 

      Swensen, Elisabeth Forrestad; van Oosten, Roos; Christophersen, Axel (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      This article aims to illuminate how the management of drinking water and public health in Trondheim, Norway changed from 950 to 1777, from a private to public responsibility. A systematic analysis of five excavations in ...
    • Medieval Urban Environment: Between mental and Material Practices 

      Christophersen, Axel (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      This article raises the question of how natural conditions and social practices interacted and provided groundbreaking premises for the development of the medieval urban physical environment. The main hypothesis is twofold: ...
    • Multi-omic detection of Mycobacterium leprae in archaeological human dental calculus 

      Fotakis, Anna K.; Denham, Sean Dexter; Mackie, Meaghan; Orbegozo, Miren Iraeta; Mylopotamitaki, Dorothea; Gopalakrishnan, Shyam; Sicheritz-Pontén, Thomas; Olsen, Jesper V.; Cappellini, Enrico; Zhang, Guojie; Christophersen, Axel; Gilbert, Thomas; Vågene, Åshild J (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Mineralized dental plaque (calculus) has proven to be an excellent source of ancient biomolecules. Here we present a Mycobacterium leprae genome (6.6-fold), the causative agent of leprosy, recovered via shotgun sequencing ...
    • The population genomic legacy of the second plague pandemic 

      Gopalakrishnan, Shyam; Ebenesersdottir, S.Sunna; Lundstrøm, Inge K.C.; Turner-Walker, Gordon; Moore, Kristjan H.S.; Luisi, Pierre; Magaryan, Ashot; Martin, Michael D.; Ellegaard, Martin Rene; Magnusson, Olafur T.; Sigurdsson, Asgeir; Snorradóttir, Steinunn; Magnúsdóttir, Droplaug N.; Laffoon, Jason E.; van Dorp, Lucy; Liu, Xiaodong; Moltke, Ida; Avila-Arcos, María C.; Schraiber, Joshua G.; Rasmussen, Simon; Juan, David; Galabert, Pere; De-Dios, Toni; Fotakis, Anna K.; Iraeta-Orbegozo, Miren; Vågene, Åshild J.; Denham, Sean Dexter; Christophersen, Axel; Stenøien, Hans K.; Vieira, Filipe G.; Liu, Shanlin; Günther, Torsten; Kivisild, Toomas; Moseng, Ole Georg; Skar, Birgitte; Cheung, Christina; Sandoval-Velasco, Marcela; Wales, Nathan; Schroeder, Hannes; Campos, Paula F.; Gudmundsdottir, Valdis B; Sicheritz - Ponten, Thomas; Petersen, Bent; Halgunset, Jostein; Gilbert, Edmund; Cavalleri, Gianpiero L.; Hovig, Eivind; Kockum, Ingrid; Olsson, Tomas; Alfredsson, Lars; Hansen, Thomas F.; Werge, Thomas; Willerslev, Eske; Balloux, Francois; Marquès-Bonet, Tomás; Lalueza-Fox, Carles; Nielsen, Rasmus; Stefánsson, Kári; Helgason, Agnar; Gilbert, Thomas P. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Human populations have been shaped by catastrophes that may have left long-lasting signatures in their genomes. One notable example is the second plague pandemic that entered Europe in ca. 1,347 CE and repeatedly returned ...