Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion - AHKR
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Felles ramme, ulikt resultat? : En analyse av historiedidaktiske emner ved UiO og UiT med bakgrunn i politiske føringer og institusjonelle valg
(Master thesis, 2022-06-03)In this thesis I analyze the results of history didactic courses at UiO and UiT, based on public notes and institutional choices. I examine these result in a programmatically level, in relation to sixth form teacher education ... -
Kirkeorganisasjonen i Bergen bispedømme i første halvdel av 1300-tallet
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Religion-marked Spaces and Memories of Violence in Mumbai : Inhabiting and Remembering
(Doctoral thesis, 2022-06-10)Mumbai (erstwhile Bombay) is home to several religion-based segregated spaces, particularly of minority religions. In an ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2015-2018, I explore the relationship that inhabitants of ... -
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, ...
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