Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion - AHKR
Recent Submissions
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Ancient Cities: Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age
(Journal article, 2022)In this paper we present an overview of the Ancient Cities project’s outcomes and experiences with producing and testing digital educational material in the field of archaeology. In the first part, the Massive Open Online ... -
Trade, Traders, and Religion in Gateway-Cities of the Roman East
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Long distance merchants occupied socially liminal positions in pre-modern societies, operating across in-groups that were mostly defined by birth. This created a double need for social cohesion within the merchant collective ... -
Introduction: Historical and contemporary South Asian religions
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Early pilgrimage traditions in South Asia
(Chapter, 2021)This chapter looks at early history of pilgrimage in South Asia. Sacred sites that were believed to offer rewards to those who visited them have been a significant feature of South Asian religious traditions since at least ... -
Widengren, Gnosticism, and the Religionsgeschichtliche Schule
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The Paradox of Palmyra: An Ancient anomalopolis in the Desert
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Palmyra, the UNESCO world heritage site that tragically made headlines following ISIS’s destruction of several of its key monuments in 2015, was once a thriving city in the heart of the Syrian Desert. Settled from Neolithic ... -
An initial assessment of zooarchaeological assemblage sizes from South Africa
(Journal article, 2022)Large faunal assemblages remain a concern in zooarchaeology. Without sufficiently large assemblages, interpretations about the past are less secure. The number of potential taxa in an assemblage is related to various factors ... -
Religions around the Arctic: Source Criticism and Comparisons
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A kinship network analysis of Palmyrene genealogies
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)In this proof-of-concept study we investigate the potential and chal-lenges of a formal network approach for the examination of 1st to 3rd century CE kinship networks in ancient Palmyra (in present-day Syria). The recent ... -
Rhinoceros from the Middle Stone Age in the Eastern and Western Cape of South Africa
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)In southern Africa, the Middle Stone Age (MSA), spanning more than 200,000 years, is a critical time period, in which Homo sapiens first appears. MSA sites located in the Eastern and Western Cape provinces of South Africa ... -
Church and Cultures in the Catholic Missionary Renewal of the Early 20th Century: Critical Issues in the Thought of Costantini, Manna, and Vanzin
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This article investigates the relationship between the church and indigenous cultures in the field of missionary renewal in the early 20th century, focusing on three influential Catholic figures: Celso Costantini, Paolo ... -
Habsburg Studies under Siege: Notes on Recent Early Modern Scholarship
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Dialog, interessekamp og integrasjon: Islamsk Råd Norge og det norske samfunnet siden 1993
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Pilot fires: Preliminary Report from Interdisciplinary Actualistic Fire Experiments
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Hearth formation processes are complex. They involve multiple actions, reactions, and activities before, during, and after an active fire and can also impact a wide range of materials and sediments at an archaeological ... -
Zhoukoudian Upper Cave personal ornaments and ochre: Rediscovery and reevaluation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Personal ornaments have become a key cultural proxy to investigate cognitive evolution, modern human dispersal, and population dynamics. Here, we reassess personal ornaments found at Zhoukoudian Upper Cave and compare them ... -
New evidence of bone tool use by Early Pleistocene hominins from Cooper’s D, Bloubank Valley, South Africa
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Bone tool-use by Early Pleistocene hominins is at the centre of debates in human evolution. It is especially the case in South Africa, where 102 bone tools have been described from four Early Stone Age archaeological sites, ... -
The spread of the cult of Asclepius in the context of the Roman army benefited from the presence of physicians: A spatial proximity analysis
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The article applies a GIS based approach to the study of the spread of the cult of Asclepius, the Greco-Roman healing god, during the Roman period. It explores the role of soldiers and physicians in the spatial dissemination ... -
Covid-1984. En studie av motnarrativ om koronatiltak
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The first Covid-19 infection in Norway was discovered in February 2020, and within two weeks the country went into lockdown. Covid-19, or corona, resulted in a number of measures, such as closing down schools and kindergartens, ...
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