Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion - AHKR
Recent Submissions
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Nude heritage selfies as a visual practice
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)In the mid-2010s, the media reported a series of disturbances at heritage sites caused by visitors taking nude self-photographs or selfies. In this article, nude selfies are analysed as a visual practice, and it is discussed ... -
Jakt og fangst på Hardangervidda og Nordfjella 4000–1500 f.Kr. : Regionalitet, kulturell variasjon og sosiale endringsprosesser i neolitikum og eldre bronsealder
(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, ... -
Tax Havens of the British Empire : Development, Policy Responses, and Decolonization, 1961-1979
(Doctoral thesis, 2022-12-16)Despite the centrality of tax havens to the global political economy, up to this point historians have largely neglected in-depth research on the origin of the global phenomenon. Literature within an International Political ... -
Rurale levesett, rural livsstil : Ei arkeologisk studie av fem mellomaldergardar på Vestlandet
(Doctoral thesis, 2022-12-09)Livet på den norske landsbygda i mellomalder er kjenneteikna av eit auka press på jordbruket og mindre grad av sjølvstyre for gardbrukarar – dette kunne leie til færre moglegheiter for folk på gardar å uttrykke sosial og ... -
High-resolution sediment analysis reveals Middle Bronze Age byre-houses at the site of Oppeano (Verona province, NE Italy)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022-08-31)High-resolution sediment analysis allowed us to identify two Middle Bronze Age (MBA 1, 1650–1550 cal a BCE) byre-houses at the waterlogged site of Oppeano “4D”, south of Verona (Veneto region, NE Italy). The site lies in ... -
Environmental influences on human innovation and behavioural diversity in southern Africa 92–80 thousand years ago
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Africa’s Middle Stone Age preserves sporadic evidence for novel behaviours among early modern humans, prompting a range of questions about the influence of social and environmental factors on patterns of human behavioural ... -
Sedimentary and geomorphic evidence of Saharan megalakes: A synthesis
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)It has long been recognised that the Sahara Desert contains sediment, landform and palaeoecological evidence for phases of increased humidity during the Quaternary period. Many authors have also suggested that during some ... -
Food security in Roman Palmyra (Syria) in light of paleoclimatological evidence and its historical implications
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Food security in ancient urban centers is often discussed but rarely formally modelled. Despite its location in an inhospitable desert where food production is a constant challenge ancient Palmyra grew from a small oasis ... -
Spaces, Places and Things. The Spatial Dimension of Early Indian Ocean Exchange
(Chapter, 2022)Early exchange along the maritime Silk Road not only spanned immense distances, but was also subject to—among other things—seasonal weather systems, hazardous waters, arid and sparsely populated coastlines with few suitable ... -
Post-cinematic spectatorship in virtual reality: Negotiating 3DoF and 6DoF in ‘Queerskins: Ark’
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Queering Cultural Memory Through Technology: Transitional Spaces in AR and VR
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)While cinema boasts of a long history that has placed the representation and aesthetics of memory at its centre, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) are only starting to shape their own aesthetic and narrative ... -
What is Queer Heritage? Queercache and the Epistemology of the Closet
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)The present article explores the possibility of queer heritage. In 2017, artists Kalle Hamm and Dzamil Kamanger organised a community art project called Queercache in Helsinki, and I use it as a case study on the heritagisation ... -
Multiple phases of human occupation in Southeast Arabia between 210,000 and 120,000 years ago
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Changing climatic conditions are thought to be a major control of human presence in Arabia during the Paleolithic. Whilst the Pleistocene archaeological record shows that periods of increased monsoon rainfall attracted ... -
The effect of formation processes on the frequency of palaeolithic cave sites in semiarid zones: Insights from Kazakhstan
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Central Asian caves with Palaeolithic deposits are few, but they provide a rich record of human fossils and cultural assemblages that has been used to model Late Pleistocene hominin dispersals. However, previous research ... -
Aker og den norske samarbeidstradisjonen
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Fra 1950-årene utviklet Aker seg til å bli et stort konsern og en motor i norsk verkstedindustri. I Aker, på bedrifts- og konsern-nivå, vokste det fram et tett samarbeid mellom ledelse og fagforeninger, sentrert rundt ... -
Václav Marek’s approach to the indigenous Sami religion
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Historiske fortellinger om 22. juli
(Master thesis, 2022-05-20)Temaet for denne studien er lærebokfortellinger om terrorangrepene den 22. juli 2011. Masteroppgaven undersøker hvilke fortellinger som er tilstede i lærebøkene og hva slags funksjoner disse fortellingene har. Lærebøkenes ... -
1804: Saint Faust i Bergen. Nøytralitet, territorialrett og folkerett.
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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 ...
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