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From Homeland to Home; Using Soapstone to Map Migration and Settlement in the North Atlantic
(UBAS - University of Bergen Archaeological Series, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2017-08)One of the most characteristic features of Viking material culture is the use of soapstone (steatite) to make vessels, lamps and other artefacts. As soapstone was a readily available material in the Viking homelands, the ... -
Multi-ethnic Involvement? Production and Use of Soapstone in Northern Norway
(UBAS - University of Bergen Archaeological Series, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2017-08)The northern Norwegian soapstone quarries display small, mainly rectangular extractions possibly for the production of smaller types of artifact or a kind of blank or rough out for various objects. In addition, some soapstone ... -
Soapstone Quarrying, a Stoneworker’s Approach
(UBAS - University of Bergen Archaeological Series, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2017-08)Practical activities are best expressed and understood through practice. Present understanding of former times’ crafts practice are mainly based on theoretical interpretations of the traces and products left behind. By ... -
Trade and Hierarchy: The Viking Age Soapstone Vessel Production and Trade of Agder, Norway
(UBAS - University of Bergen Archaeological Series, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2017-08)The Viking Age soapstone vessel production and trade in Norway was a spatially allocated enterprise due to limited access to raw materials and the logistically confining topography of the country’s rugged landscapes. In ... -
A Versatile Resource - The Procurement and Use of Soapstone in Norway and The North Atlantic Region
(UBAS - University of Bergen Archaeological Series, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2017-08)Soapstone is a remarkable rock. While it is very workable due to a high content of talc, the softest known mineral in existence, it is also durable, heat-resistant and has a high heat storage capacity. These properties ... -
Mesolithic Soapstone Line-sinkers in Western Norway: Chronology, Acquisition, Distribution, Function and Decoration
(UBAS - University of Bergen Archaeological Series, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2017-08)Soapstone sinkers are commonly found at coastal Mesolithic sites in western Norway.The large majority of these sinkers weigh less than 10 g (small sinkers), and a few weigh between 150 and 200 g (large sinkers). They were ... -
Bakestones – Production and Trade in the Middle Ages
(UBAS - University of Bergen Archaeological Series, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2017-08)During the Middle Ages, bakestones, or stone griddles, were an important part of Norwegian households, representing everyday products required for the preparation of food over the hearth. Demand for these Tools formed the ... -
Cistercian Soapstone. Production and Delivery of Building Material from Lyse Abbey to Bergen in the 13th century
(UBAS - University of Bergen Archaeological Series, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2017-08)Geochemical analyses of four medieval building stones in the collections of the University Museum of Bergen and one sample from a standing church have demonstrated a geological provenance to the soapstone quarry located ... -
Soapstone in Northern Norway: Archaeological and Geological Evidence, Quarry and Artifact Survey Results
(UBAS - University of Bergen Archaeological Series, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2017-08)Archaeological research on the extraction, distribution and utilization of soapstone artifacts in northern Norway has been limited, but systematic geological documentation of soapstone exposures that includes quarry activity ... -
From Soapstone Quarries to Churches: Control, Ownership and Transport Along the Helgeland Coast in North Norway
(UBAS - University of Bergen Archaeological Series, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2017-08)Several soapstone quarries are found along the coast of Helgeland in north Norway, including some on islands in the mouth of Vefsnfjorden, where there are significant ancient workings. Several medieval stone churches in ... -
Soapstone Vessels from Town and Country in Viking Age and Early Medieval Western Norway. A Study of Provenance
(UBAS - University of Bergen Archaeological Series, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2017-08)In this study geological and archaeological data and analytic methods are combined and explored to find the geological source for 146 late Iron Age/Viking Age and early medieval soapstone vessels from the Hordaland region ... -
The Sandbekkdalen Quarry, Kvikne: A Window into Early Iron Age Soapstone Exploitation in Norway
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From Numeric Data to Cultural History - A Typological and Chronological Analysis of Soapstone Vessels from the Medieval Bryggen Wharf in Bergen, Norway
(UBAS - University of Bergen Archaeological Series, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2017-08)This paper’s task is to establish a typology and a finer chronology of medieval Norwegian soapstone vessels used primarily as cooking pots. The case study includes 806 soapstone vessels from BRM 0 the Bryggen site located ... -
A Western Norwegian Log Building Technique. Log Constructions in Bergen in Relation to Other Medieval Towns and Still Standing Medieval Buildings in Rural Norway
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Fine Belt-Buckles of Walrus Ivory - also Made in Greenland
(UBAS, University of Bergen Archaeological Series; 8, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2015)It is usually believed that finely shaped and decorated objects found in Greenland were imported from elsewhere. However, a broken and discarded rough-out of a walrus-ivory beltbuckle found in 1997-1998 at a rescue excavation ... -
How Archaeology Saved Bryggen
(UBAS, University of Bergen Archaeological Series; 8, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2015)In 1976, Bryggen’s Museum opened its doors to an audience that for more than twenty years had heard reports of extraordinary discoveries and rare objects found during the archaeological excavations at Bryggen. Following a ... -
‘svá kona sem karlmaðr.’ Women in Old Norse Society
(UBAS, University of Bergen Archaeological Series; 8, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2015)Women in Old Norse society were far from having equal rights with men. According both to Norwegian and Icelandic laws, daughters would inherit half as much as sons from their parents; if husband and wife had co-ownership, ... -
Urbanization, Continuity and Discontinuity
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‘Female’ Activities, ‘Female’ Artefacts? A Theoretical Approach to Women and Gender in Medieval Bergen
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The Hinterland Connection: Metalworking as Entangled Social Practice
(UBAS, University of Bergen Archaeological Series; 8, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2015)For many years and in many articles, archaeologist Ingvild Øye has discussed the relations between medieval urban centres and the agrarian hinterland in Norway. A recurrent topic has been the extent of farming and livestock ...