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Multiproxy analysis of Upper Palaeolithic lustrous gravels supports their anthropogenic use
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Upper Palaeolithic sites in southwestern France attributed to the Upper Gravettian and the Solutrean yielded sub spherical gravels with a highly shiny appearance that have intrigued researchers since the 1930s. In this ... -
Peptide mass fingerprinting as a tool to assess micromammal biodiversity in Pleistocene South Africa: The case of Klipdrift Shelter
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Remains of small mammals from archaeological sites are often used as palaeoenvironmental proxies in the reconstruction of past environments. Yet, identification of micromammals to species-level based on morphological traits ... -
Farlig fødselskontroll. Om stenging og likvidering av mødrehygienekontorer under annen verdenskrig
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)I 1940 var det tolv mødrehygienekontorer i Norge. De ga opplysning og solgte prevensjon; noen drev også svangerskaps- og spedbarnskontroll. Mødrehygienekontorene var aksjeselskaper eid av arbeiderbevegelsens kvinneorganisasjoner. ... -
The ritual of parikramā, Hinduization of space and the case of Ayodhyā
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)The article looks at the uses of the concept of parikramā (circumambulation of a sacred spot) in the 2019 Supreme Court of India judgement on the Ayodhyā dispute and its aftermath. It unpacks the Hindu majoritarian ... -
Om vitenskapelig redelighet – et svar til Hallvard Tjelmeland
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The stratigraphy and formation of Middle Stone Age deposits in Cave 1B, Klasies River Main site, South Africa, with implications for the context, age, and cultural association of the KRM 41815/SAM-AP 6222 human mandible
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Cave 1B, in the Klasies River Main site complex (KRM), is best known for the recovery of the KRM 41815/SAM-AP 6222 human mandible. After initial skepticism over the modernity of this specimen, it is accepted that the mix ... -
Kulturarvingerne på Lystgården. Hvordan konstruktioner af kulturarv og bæredygtighed flettes sammen og bliver til politisk platform for en hverdagsklimaaktivistisk bevægelse i Bergen
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This article examines the connections between sustainability and cultural heritage in a branch of the everyday climate activist movement Sustainable lives in a suburb of Bergen, Norway. In the material, narrative and ... -
Ochre use at Olieboomspoort, South Africa: insights into specular hematite use and collection during the Middle Stone Age
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Recent excavations at Olieboomspoort (OBP) in the Waterberg Mountains of South Africa confirmed previous research at the site that highlighted an abundance of ochre in the Middle Stone Age (MSA) deposits. Here, we report ... -
Kongespeilet og lovrevisjonene på 1200-tallet
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Artikkelen diskuterer forholdet mellom Kongespeilet og lovrevisjonene fra 1260 og utover. Tidligere forskning, inkludert min egen, har sett en nær sammenheng mellom disse to. Det er til en viss grad riktig, men der er også ... -
Hvordan kan vi forstå påstander om fortielse av fortiden? Betydningen av «fortielse» i fremstillinger av bombingen av Laksevåg 4. oktober 1944
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Fortielse er en mye brukt trope i tekster som omhandler fortiden, særlig innen norsk krigshistorie. Men hva betyr det egentlig? Denne artikkelen diskuterer betydningen av «fortielse» med utgangspunkt i den allierte bombingen ... -
Cro-Magnon personal ornaments revisited
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The Cro-Magnon rock-shelter hosted the first discovered and certainly one of the most important Gravettian burial sites in Europe. However, the copious ornament collection found among the human skeletons was not analysed ... -
A Jewish Qur’an: An Eighteenth-Century Hebrew Qur’an Translation in its Indian Context
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This essay places the Washington Library of Congress Heb. Ms 183, a Hebrew Qur’an translation from eighteenth-century Cochin, in its South Indian context. After pointing out important general differences between early ... -
En religionsvitenskapelig empirisk studie av identitetsopplevelser og reaksjoner på SIANs islamofobiske hatytringer og handlinger
(Master thesis, 2023-12-04)Denne masteroppgaven utforsker ulike opplevelser og erfaring av SIANs islamofobiske ytringer og handlinger blant et utvalg muslimer i Samarbeidsrådet for tros- og livssynsamfunn (STL) Bergen. Formålet med oppgaven er å ... -
Tending the Garden of the Monks : Investigation of a Medieval Copto-Arabic Apophthegmata Patrum Recension
(Doctoral thesis, 2024-01-19)Denne avhandlingen er en studie av en middelaldersk kopto-arabisk Apophthegmata Patrum-recensjon. Apophthegmata Patrum består av ørkenfedrenes historier og visdomsord. I middelalderen var Apophthegmata Patrum en ekstremt ... -
Porta Di Ercolano-Pompeii
(Master thesis, 2023-11-20)This master thesis started as an investigation on the City gate Porta Di Ercolano in Pompeii, and the street inside and outside of this city gate. City gates was an important part of the Roman Cities, and in a lot of cases ... -
Water, Communication, Sight, and the Location of Fortifications on the Strata Diocletiana (Syria) in Late Antiquity
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The Strata Diocletiana was a military road in Late Roman Period Syria. It ran from Damascus to the Euphrates by way of Palmyra. The road was fortified and received its name during the reign of Diocletian (284–305 CE), ... -
Reconstructing formation processes at the Canary Islands indigenous site of Belmaco Cave (La Palma, Spain) through a multiproxy geoarchaeological approach
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The indigenous populations of La Palma (Canary Islands), who arrived on the island from Northwest Africa ca. 2000 years B.P., were predominantly pastoralists. Yet, many aspects of their subsistence economy such as the ... -
To Gender or not To Gender? Exploring Gender Variations through Time and Space
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This article is based on an EAA session in Kiel in 2021, in which thirteen contributors provide their response to Robb and Harris's (2018) overview of studies of gender in the European Neolithic and Bronze Age, with a reply ... -
The Norse Landscape of Skye and the Western Isles
(Doctoral thesis, 2023-10-27)Denne avhandlingen forsøker å svare på følgende spørsmål: Hvorfor valgte nordmenn å bosette seg på Hebridene? Hva var så tiltrekkende med disse områdene at det skulle tiltrekke seg generasjoner av norrøne bosetninger over ... -
Survey Zoroastrians: Online Religious Identification in the Islamic Republic of Iran
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This article contributes to the internationalization of survey methodology by discussing a case from a totalitarian state, the Islamic Republic of Iran. In 2020, GAMAAN (The Group for Measuring and Analyzing Attitudes in ...