Browsing Bergen Open Research Archive by Author "Olsen, Dag Erik Færø"
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As clear as crystal? An attempt at sourcing hydrothermal quartz crystals from the Early Mesolithic site ‘Mohalsen-I’, Vega Island, Norway using LA-ICP-MS and SEM-CL
Spjelkavik, Skule O. S.; Müller, Axel (UBAS – Universitetet i Bergen Arkeologiske Skrifter;12, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2022)This article describes an attempt at sourcing hydrothermal quartz crystals from the Early Mesolithic site Mohalsen-I by comparing four pieces of debitage with quartz crystal samples from 19 known quartz crystal occurrences ... -
Challenging an old theory – Portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF) analyses of greenstone adzes in Rogaland, southwestern Norway
Nyland, Astrid J.; Gebremariam, Kidane Fanta; With, Ruben (UBAS – Universitetet i Bergen Arkeologiske Skrifter;12, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2022)The first large scale regional provenance analysis of greenstone and diabase adzes in western Norway was undertaken forty years ago. The study identified two social territories, which have been central in Norwegian archaeology ... -
Dwellings as population proxies? Identifying reuse of coastal Stone Age housepits in Arctic Norway by means of Bayesian modelling of radiocarbon dates
Vollan, Kenneth Webb Berg (UBAS – Universitetet i Bergen Arkeologiske Skrifter;12, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2022)Almost for a century, the archaeological record of the coastal Stone Age housepit sites in Arctic Norway has been at the centre of attention in many archaeological studies of this region. Although housepit reuse is ... -
Gård og støl. En arkeologisk punktanalyse av Stølsdalen, Jondal kommune, Hordaland
Olsen, Dag Erik Færø (Master thesis, 2006-09-01) -
Jakt og fangst på Hardangervidda og Nordfjella 4000–1500 f.Kr. : Regionalitet, kulturell variasjon og sosiale endringsprosesser i neolitikum og eldre bronsealder
Olsen, Dag Erik Færø (Doctoral thesis, 2020-12-18)Reindeer have been hunted in the mountains of South Norway since shortly after the last ice age. In that time they have served as a meeting place for groups from East and West Norway. In the Neolithic, ca. 4000–2350 BC, ... -
Mobility and material culture in the Middle Mesolithic of Fennoscandia – validating the input from biomolecular studies
Skar, Birgitte (UBAS – Universitetet i Bergen Arkeologiske Skrifter;12, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2022)Similarities in late-glacial lithic technology (direct percussion) of western Europe and the oldest counterparts of Scandinavia appearing around 11,700 BP have sustained arguments for an early postglacial migration from ... -
Placing – fragmenting – circulating: Mesolithic burial and mortuary practices in Norway in a Northern European perspective
Schülke, Almut (UBAS – Universitetet i Bergen Arkeologiske Skrifter;12, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2022)This contribution investigates burial and mortuary practice in the Mesolithic period (9300–3900 BC) in what today is defined as Norway. This issue has received little attention, as poor preservation conditions for bone ... -
Preface
Olsen, Dag Erik Færø (UBAS – Universitetet i Bergen Arkeologiske Skrifter;12, Chapter, 2022) -
A Revised Chronology of the Mesolithic in Southeast Norway
Reitan, Gaute (UBAS – Universitetet i Bergen Arkeologiske Skrifter;12, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2022)A chronological outline of the Mesolithic in southeast Norway was published by Egil Mikkelsen in 1975, dividing the Mesolithic period into four succeeding phases. Since then, this chronology has remained the main framework ... -
The Scandinavian Ice Sheet as a barrier for Human colonization of Norway
Mangerud, Jan; Svendsen, John Inge (UBAS – Universitetet i Bergen Arkeologiske Skrifter;12, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2022)Several times during the Last Ice Age, the ice sheet covered only mountain areas so that it theoretically was possible for humans to colonize coastal areas of Norway. The last time this happened prior to the Last Glacial ... -
The Spatial Context of Technology in the Middle Neolithic – a use-wear study on quartz
Nærøy, Arne Johan (UBAS – Universitetet i Bergen Arkeologiske Skrifter;12, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2022)Prehistoric hunter-gatherer settlement sites were arenas for technological practices as the daily and physical context where technological processes took place. In this perspective, archaeological analyses of site contexts ... -
The Stone Age Conference in Bergen 2017
Olsen, Dag Erik Færø (UBAS – Universitetet i Bergen Arkeologiske Skrifter;12, Book; Peer reviewed, 2022) -
Stone Age rockshelters in the high mountains
Olsen, Dag Erik Færø (UBAS – Universitetet i Bergen Arkeologiske Skrifter;12, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2022)In 2016, the University of Bergen conducted an archaeological field school at Hallingskeid in the high-mountains in Ulvik County, western Norway. One of the sites investigated was a bouldershelter with a cultural layer ... -
The Tananger-hut – A contribution to the diversity of settlement structures in the Early Neolithic in Southwestern Norway
Eilertsen, Krister Scheie (UBAS – Universitetet i Bergen Arkeologiske Skrifter;12, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2022)Complex composite structural remains are rarely encountered on sites from the earlier parts of the younger Stone Age (4000–2300 BC) in southwestern Norway. This hut, an Early Neolithic structure unearthed at Tananger on ...