Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion - AHKR
Recent Submissions
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Fritak og religiøse spenninger i skolen
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Fritaksretten i grunnskolen gjør at elever kan unngå å delta i opplæringsaktiviteter i skolen som oppleves som praktisering av eller tilslutning til en annen religion eller et annet livssyn, eller som med bakgrunn i det ... -
Hvordan arvet man et skipsmeglerfirma? En aktørstudie av skipsmeglere fra Joachim Grieg & Co. analysert ut fra en brevsamling 1927-1931
(Master thesis, 2021-11-23)The aim of this thesis is to analyze a collection of letters written by Joachim Grieg & Co.’s co-owner Halfdan Grieg senior to his son Halfdan Grieg junior throughout 1927-1931. To that end, the thesis question is divided ... -
Extreme Justice: Decapitations and Prone Burials in Three Late Roman Cemeteries at Knobb's Farm, Cambridgeshire
(Journal article, 2021)Excavations at Knobb's Farm, Somersham, Cambridgeshire, uncovered three small late Roman cemeteries, positioned at the edge of a farming settlement. The 52 burials found included 17 decapitated bodies and 13 prone burials ... -
The Seventeenth-Century Vida of the Proselyte Abraham Pelengrino, alias Manoel Cardoso de Macedo: Analysis and Translation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The 1668-9 Cópia da vida de bemaventurado, claiming to be a copy of text written by Manoel Cardoso de Macedo who later adopted the name Abraham Pelengrino (d. 1652), is a unique testimony of an early modern conversion to ... -
Fortidshandtering på museum
(Doctoral thesis, 2021-12-10)The purpose of this phd-project has been an investigation of numerous ways museums creates connections between the past, present and the future. I have choose to use the constructed Norwegian term “fortidshåndtering”, ... -
Urbanization and Riverine Hinterlands: A Proposal for an Integrative High-Definition and Multi-Scalar Approach to Understanding Ancient Cities and their Dynamic Natural Resources
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Rivers have always been a magnet for human settlement, providing resources, such as water, food, and energy, and communication and travel routes. Climate- and human-made changes to the environment can easily affect the ... -
El danés peligroso. Semblante humano de Gustav Henningsen. Evocación a cuatro manos.
(Journal article, 2020)Gustav Henningsen, besides being a great researcher, is also an out of the ordinary personality. His enthusiasm is always apparent. He had few pupils, but left an indelible mark on them. Two of them share their story. -
Fordoms makt : Elevers fortellinger om andregjøring – bruk, praksis og erfaringer
(Doctoral thesis, 2021-10-22)The power of prejudice : Students' stories about othering – use, practice, and experiences. This PhD-research project is based on interviews with 33 young people exploring the use of prejudice among students. Applying ... -
A Protocorinthian aryballos with a myth scene from Tegea
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)During the preparation of the new exhibition in the Museum of Tegea it was discovered that one composed fragment from a Protocorinthian aryballos with a complicated, figured representation, found during the excavations of ... -
Traces of Trade in the Tarim Basin: A case for applying network models to the study of ancient trade
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This article will discuss the possibilities and limitations of network models and analysis in tracing ancient trade routes. In addition to a general discussion of network models, the article will present a short case study, ... -
The 100,000–77,000‑Year Old Middle Stone Age Micromammal Sequence from Blombos Cave, South Africa: Local Climatic Stability or a Tale of Predator Bias?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)In this paper, we present a case study of the micromammal sequence from Marine Isotope Stage 5 (130,000–71,000 YBP) at Blombos Cave on the southern Cape coast of South Africa. Our analyses of the micromammal assemblage ... -
The Manichaean Church in Kellis
(Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies; 100, Book, 2021)The Manichaean Church in Kellis presents an in-depth study of social organisation within the religious movement known as Manichaeism in Roman Egypt. In particular, it employs papyri from Kellis (Ismant el-Kharab), a village ... -
Scaling up and zooming in: global history and high-definition archaeology perspectives on the longue durée of urban–environmental relations in Gerasa (Jerash, Jordan)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Combining global perspectives with localized case studies and integrating scientific and material evidence of environmental change in historical narratives are amongst the main challenges for the field of global history ... -
Associations and Interactions in Urban Networks of the Roman Near East
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Relational approaches have profoundly changed archaeology and related fields in recent years. This has shifted focus from agents to the interaction between them. Past processes, however, are finished and gone, and the only ... -
'Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. Das Schicksal der Handschrift Bergen, UB, MS 1550.5'
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Book review: Considering Comparison: A Method for Religious Studies by Oliver Freiberger, New York, Oxford University Press, 2019
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Review essay: Apples and Oranges: Explorations In, On, and With Comparison, written by Bruce Lincoln
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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