Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion - AHKR
Recent Submissions
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The right to opt out: a comparative analysis of exemption schemes in Scandinavian public schools and the impact of cultural bias
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2025)As societies become increasingly diverse, questions arise about how the state can accommodate cultural and religious plurality while safeguarding fundamental human rights, such as freedom of religion and the right to ... -
Using luminescence dating to constrain lake sediment records: A new age model for the 1.38 Ma lake Malawi drill core, Eastern Africa
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)The 2005 Lake Malawi deep scientific drill core is the longest and most continuous high-resolution record from the continental tropics, extending to ∼1.38 Ma. While extensive sets of paleoclimate proxy data have been ... -
Heritage as a gift of public space: The removal of Lenin Memorials in Finland in 2022
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)In Finland, two public Lenin sculptures were removed by the cities of Kotka and Turku after Russia launched its war against Ukraine in 2022. This article focuses on the expulsion of the sculptures, and how their status as ... -
Perspectives on Palmyrene Long-Distance Trade
(Chapter, 2024)The famous oasis city of Palmyra, located in the Syrian Desert, has long been the subject of scholarly research; and over the last decade, it has been the focus of three key projects based at Aarhus University in Denmark. ... -
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
(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 ... -
Jihadismens barn: Historia til Den libyske islamske kampgruppa LIFG
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Kva kan LIFG lære oss om den libyske borgarkrigen og jihadistiske organisasjonar? -
Cnut’s Gift of a Swithun-relic to Dacia – a Gift to Denmark or Norway?
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International Human Adaptability Studies in Skot Sami Societies in the 196os
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
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Discrimination and (against/among/in/of) religious minorities
(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
(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 ...
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