• Becoming a Canon : Texts, Community and Authority in the Canonization of Minhāj al-ṭālibīn wa-ʿumdat al-muftīn on the Swahili Coast, 1856-1963 CE 

  Noor, Mohamed Aidarus (Doctoral thesis, 2025-05-09)

  Minhāj al-ṭālibīn wa-ʿumdat al-muftīn er en svært viktig fiqh-tekst skrevet av den syriske shāfiʿī-juristen Zakariyyāʾ Yaḥyā b. Sharaf al-Nawawī (631/1233-676/1277). På Swahili-kysten, som ligger på den vestlige bredden ...

• Cnut’s Gift of a Swithun-relic to Dacia – a Gift to Denmark or Norway? 

  Haug, Eldbjørg (Chapter, 2022)

• International Human Adaptability Studies in Skot Sami Societies in the 196os 

  Andresen, Astri (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  This article investigates the work of a group of scientists who spent their summers in Sami villages in Northern Finland researching a then-emerging topic: human adaptability. Although their research began as a Finnish ...

• A computational perspective on the dynamics of early architecture 

  Goldgeier, Hadas; Muller, Antoine; Grosman, Leore (Journal article, 2025)

  Changes and variation in the shape of architectural remains have often been tied to changes in social structure and organization, demography, hierarchy, subsistence, mobility and more. While there is an immeasurable amount ...

• Dïhte Saaraahka – Njaarkesne 1720-låhkoen 

  Rydving, Håkan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  Goh åvtetje dotkijh Saaraahkan funksjovnh buerkiestamme, gaajhkh ïebnhdan bïjre våaroeminie nuhtjin, ovmessie dajvijste jïh tïjjeboelhkijste. Dan gaavhtan dah guvviem dejstie skaepiedamme mij ij naan dajvesne, ij naan ...

• Initial Upper Palaeolithic material culture by 45,000 years ago at Shiyu in northern China 

  Yang, Shi-Xia; Zhang, Jia-Fu; Yue, Jian-Ping; Wood, Rachel; Guo, Yu-Jie; Wang, Han; Luo, Wu-Gan; Zhang, Yue; Raguin, Emeline; Zhao, Ke-Liang; Zhang, Yu-Xiu; Huan, Fa-Xiang; Hou, Ya-Mei; Huang, Wei-Wen; Wang, Yi-Ren; Shi, Jin-Ming; Yuan, Bao-Yin; Ollé, Andreu; Queffelec, Alain; Zhou, Li-Ping; Deng, Cheng-Long; d'Errico, Francesco; Petraglia, Michael (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  The geographic expansion of Homo sapiens populations into southeastern Europe occurred by ∼47,000 years ago (∼47 ka), marked by Initial Upper Palaeolithic (IUP) technology. H. sapiens was present in western Siberia by ...

• The Norwegian language policy in higher education: an evaluation of policy design 

  Teigland, Nina; Gazzola, Michele (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2025)

  This article evaluates the design of the official language policy of the Norwegian government in the field of higher education, which was set out in two white papers in 2008 and 2020. The language policy aims to avoid ...

• Assigning a social status from face adornments: an fMRI study 

  Salagnon, M.; d'Errico, Francesco; Rigaud, S.; Mellet, E. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  For at least 150,000 years, the human body has been culturally modified by the wearing of personal ornaments and probably by painting with red pigment. The present study used functional magnetic resonance imaging to explore ...

• Evidence from personal ornaments suggest nine distinct cultural groups between 34,000 and 24,000 years ago in Europe 

  Baker, Jack; Rigaud, Solange; Pereira, Daniel; Courtenay, Lloyd A.; d'Errico, Francesco (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  Mechanisms governing the relationship between genetic and cultural evolution are the subject of debate, data analysis and modelling efforts. Here we present a new georeferenced dataset of personal ornaments worn by European ...

• A tale of two Germanias: Translations of Tacitus into Danish in the Revolutionary Decade 

  Hatlebakk, Peter Sebastian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  Tacitus’ Germania was translated into Danish twice in the 1790s, first by the historian and jurist Gustav Ludvig Baden (1764–1839) in 1795, and then by his father, the professor of rhetoric Jacob Baden (1735–1805) in 1797. ...

• Norske folkeminnesamlingar tilgjengelege i eit felles digitalt arkiv: SAMLA 

  Ågotnes, Hans Jakob (Journal article, 2024)

• Discrimination and (against/among/in/of) religious minorities 

  Stausberg, Michael (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  This contribution reviews the emergence of the modern concept of discrimination in the spirit of the ideology of equality. It distinguishes between four varieties of discrimination related to religion: religious discrimination, ...

• Fishing further inland? The role of the transition to agriculture on fishing practices in the Soconusco region, Mexico 

  Alsgaard, Asia Victoria; Thakar, Heather B. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  In the Soconusco region of Mexico, the abundance of larger-bodied, carnivorous fish decreased relative to smaller-bodied, omnivorous/herbivorous fish between the terminal Late Archaic (4700–4000 BP [2700–2000 BCE]) and ...

• Forteljingar om utdanningssystemet og førestillinga om ein norsk fredstradisjon 

  Angell, Svein Ivar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  Denne artikkelen undersøkjer i kva grad og på kva måte førestillinga om ein norsk fredstradisjon kan lesast ut av ulike engelskspråklege publikasjonar om det norske utdanningssystemet frå 1940-åra fram til slutten av ...

• Tooth in the spotlight: exploring the integration of archaeological and genetic data to build multidisciplinary narratives of the Past 

  d'Errico, Francesco; Doyon, Luc; Zilhão, Joao; Baker, Jack (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  The article addresses the challenges posed by the interdisciplinary collaboration that led to the recent Nature article presenting results of the extraction of ancient human DNA from a perforated deer tooth found in Denisova ...

• Norse Whetstones in Slavic Areas - Indicators of Long-Distance Networks During the Viking Age and the Middle Ages 

  Baug, Irene; Filipowiak, Wojciech; Jansen, Øystein James; Røhr, Torkil Sørlie (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  SCANDINAVIAN ARTEFACTS FROM THE VIKING AGE ONWARDS are found in Slavic areas, suggesting interactions between Slavs and Scandinavians. In this paper, whetstones from present-day Norway are regarded as a proxy for this ...

• Reconcilable differences: Using retrospective photogrammetry to bridge the divide between analogue and digital site data collected during long-term excavation projects 

  Unhammer, Ole Fredrik; Haaland, Magnus Mathisen; Armitage, Simon James; Henshilwood, Christopher Stuart; Niekerk, Karen Loise van (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  Over the last 30 years, high-resolution site documentation has rapidly developed, with analogue drawings and film photography being replaced with high-precision digital recordings. Today, most archaeological field data ...

• A Mismatched Piece in a Cultural Middle Stone Age Puzzle: Traces of Human Activity Dated to 90 kya (MIS 5) at Sites EDAR 134 and 155 in the Eastern Sahara, Sudan 

  Michalec, Grzegorz; Andrieux, Eric; Kim, Ju Yong; Sohn, Young Kwan; Cendrowska, Marzena; Ehlert, Maciej; Armitage, Simon James; Moska, Piotr; Szmit, Marcin; Nassr, Ahmed; Masojć, Mirosław (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  This article presents the results of research carried out at two previously unreported Eastern Desert Atbara River project (EDAR) Middle Stone Age (MSA) sites—EDAR 134 and EDAR 155. Luminescence dating results indicate ...

• Paleolithic eyed needles and the evolution of dress 

  Gilligan, Ian; d'Errico, Francesco; Doyon, Luc; Wang, Wei; Kuzmin, Yaroslav V. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  Eyed needles are among the most iconic of Paleolithic artifacts, traditionally seen as rare indicators of prehistoric clothing, particularly tailoring. However, recent finds across Africa and Eurasia show that other ...

• Ochre communities of practice in Stone Age Eswatini 

  MacDonald, Brandi Lee; Velliky, Elizabeth Catherine; Forrester, Bob; Riedesel, Svenja; Linstädter, Jörg; Kuo, Alexandra; Woodborne, Stephan; Mabuza, Ayanda; Bader, Gregor (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)

  Our species and other hominins have used earth mineral pigments since at least ~500,000 years ago, if not earlier. Its preservation and ubiquity within archaeological records across sub-Saharan Africa are well documented, ...

View more