Browsing Department of Cultural History by Title
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The impact of farming on prehistoric culinary practices throughout Northern Europe
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)To investigate changes in culinary practices associated with the arrival of farming, we analysed the organic residues of over 1,000 pottery vessels from hunter-gatherer-fisher and early agricultural sites across Northern ... -
Introduction to an anthropology of wealth
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)In this introduction, we aim to demystify the concept of wealth, too entangled in financial discourses, which have generally reduced it to ‘accumulated assets’. This is at odds with the intricate cultural history of wealth ... -
An Introduction to Egalitarian Thought and Dynamics
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)In this introduction we approach egalitarianism as an upsetting force that in various ways has shaped much of modern, especially Western, human history. We outline philosophical trajectories from the Enlightenment onward; ... -
Introduction to Pentecostal Witchcraftand Spiritual Politics in Africa and Melanesia
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Is Cross‐Section Shape a Distinct Feature in Plant Fibre Identification?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Correct identification of textile fibres is an important issue in archaeology because the use of different materials can yield crucial information about the society that produced the textiles. Textiles made of plant and ... -
Kvastad A4. En tidligmesolittisk lokalitet og en undersøkt kvartsåre
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2018)Lokaliteten Kvastad A4 omfatter to utgravningsfelt – ett vestlig og ett østlig. Det østlige omfatter fem mindre funnkonsentrasjoner datert til slutten av tidligmesolitikum, ca. 8500–8300 f.Kr. Det vestlige omfatter en ... -
Lena Liepe, A Case for the Middle Ages: The Public Display of Medieval Church Art in Sweden, 1847–1943. (Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien Handlingar: Antikvariska Serien 55.) Stockholm: Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien, 2018. Pp. 258. 230 kr. ISBN: 978-9-1740-2461-6.
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Metal-Detecting Rallies: Characterizing the Phenomenon, Understanding the Challenges, and Identifying Strategies for Heritage Protection
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Hobby metal detectorists search for archaeological finds as individuals and within groups, the latter being the focus of this article. Such groups come together as “clubs” and “meetings,” but also as part of large, often ... -
Modern and Contemporary Religious Medals and Medallic Art
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A multiproxy approach to understanding the impact of the Storegga tsunami upon Mesolithic hunter-fisher-gatherers across different regions of western Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)The Storegga tsunami (c. 8150 cal BP) is geologically well attested from various isolation basins across the west Norwegian coast. Ascertaining the impact it had upon the Mesolithic peoples who lived through it, however, ... -
Nupen Lokalitet 1 (ID 269743) og Lokalitet 3 (269831). Dyrkningslag fra bronsealder og en forstyrret steinalderlokalitet
(Arkeologiske utgravingsrapporter fra Fornminneseksjonen;12 - 2023, Research report, 2023-06-15)To lokaliteter har blitt arkeologisk undersøkt på gården Nupen i Sande kommune, Møre og Romsdal. Lokalitetsområdet ligger på ytterkysten rett nord for Stad, men delvis beskyttet bak mindre øyer mot vest. Lokalitetene ble ... -
Old Fragments of Women's Costumes from the Viking Age - New Method for Identification
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The origin, founding and development of Bergen. What happened - when - and who made it happen?
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Overvåking i forbindelse med etablering av OV-ledning. Funn av kokegrop/røstegrop fra tidligneolitikum.
(Arkeologiske utgravingsrapporter fra Fornminneseksjonen;14 - 2023, Research report, 2023-11-14)I løpet av to dager i oktober 2023 ble det gjennomført en arkeologisk overvåking på gnr. 181, bnr. 2 på Markastå i Ullensvang, i forbindelse med etablering av ny overvannsledning (OV). Denne graves i traseen til en ... -
Pentecostalism and Witchcraft: Spiritual Warfare in Africa and Melanesia
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Post-Tridentine Mass Attendance as Devotion to the Suffering Christ
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Continuing the long tradition of the allegorical interpretation of the Mass, the seventeenth- and eighteenth century ideal of proper mass attendance was devotion to the suffering Christ, inextricably linked to each step ... -
Professional-Collector Collaboration
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)This article introduces the first of what will ultimately be two collections of case studies in archaeologist–responsible/responsive artifact collector collaboration. Focused on the United States, the articles in this issue ... -
Prosjekt Norheimsund Videregåande Skule. Arkeologisk undersøkelse Norheimsund sentrum. Aktivitet- og bosetningsspor fra bronse- og jernalder.
(Arkeologiske utgravingsrapporter fra Fornminneseksjonen;, Research report, 2023-02)Denne rapporten omhandler den arkeologiske undersøkelsen av lokaliteten Askeladden id 273943, Sandve gnr. 11 bnr 30, som foregikk høsten 2022, i Kvam kommune, Hordaland i Vestland fylke (fig. 1). Totalt ble det undersøkt ... -
Scener fra vikingtid som kilde til kosmologi
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)Viking Age art is dominated by animal motifs. In particular, the so-called ‘gripping-beasts’ spread from the end of the eighth century. This article discusses a couple of examples of motifs on archaeological objects in ...