• Palaeoenvironmental and sea level changes during the Holocene in Eastern Saudi Arabia and their implications for Neolithic populations 

  Parker, Adrian; Morley, Mike W.; Armitage, Simon James; Engel, Max; Parton, Ash; Preston, Gareth W.; Russ, Hannah; Drechsler, Philipp (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  This paper presents the key findings of a multidisciplinary study investigating the nature and timing of coastal landscape evolution in eastern Saudi Arabia during the Holocene. To date, most sea level reconstructions for ...

• «Je suis sick of this shit»: Terrorangrep, memetisk kultur og digitale sorgriter 

  Kverndokk, Kyrre (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  This paper discusses the performativity and spreadability of digital slogans and visual expressions after the terrorist attacks in Oslo and Utøya in Norway in 2011 and Paris in November 2015. The analysis is based on online ...

• Climate Change in Urban Biographies: Stage, Event, Agent 

  Seland, Eivind Heldaas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  How do archaeologists understand the relationship between climate, climate change, and urban biographies? In this article, I argue that urban biographies should be approached as the life stories they claim to be, with ...

• Issues of theory and method in the analysis of Paleolithic mortuary behavior: A view from Shanidar Cave 

  Pomeroy, Emma; Hunt, Chris O.; Reynolds, Tim; Abdulmutalb, Dlshad; Asouti, Eleni; Bennett, Paul; Bosch, Marjolein; Burke, Ariane; Farr, Lucy; Foley, Robert; French, Charles; Frumkin, Amos; Goldberg, Paul; Hill, Evan; Kabukcu, Ceren; Lahr, Marta Mirazón; Lane, Ross; Marean, Curtis; Maureille, Bruno; Mutri, Giuseppina; Miller, Christopher; Mustafa, Kaify Ali; Nymark, Andreas; Pettitt, Paul; Sala, Nohemi; Sandgathe, Dennis; Stringer, Chris; Tilby, Emily; Barker, Graeme (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  Mortuary behavior (activities concerning dead conspecifics) is one of many traits that were previously widely considered to have been uniquely human, but on which perspectives have changed markedly in recent years. Theoretical ...

• Cultural diversity on the fringe of the Empire. Review of Ted Kaizer (ed.): Religion, Society, and Culture at Dura-Europos (2016). 

  Meyer, Jørgen Christian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

• Jews and Christians United: The 1701 Prosecution of Oliger Paulli and his Dutch Printers 

  Kunert, Jeannine; van der Haven, Alexander (Journal article, 2020)

  Numerous religious texts were printed that would have been censored, elsewhere including Jewish religious texts. Yet freedom had its limits. In August 1701, Amsterdam’s judiciary council ordered the books authored by the ...

• The Cosmology of Lists in Ancient and Contemporary Societies 

  Gilhus, Ingvild S. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  This essay is my keynote address to the conference Religions, Science and Technology in Cultural Contexts: Dynamics of Change, NTNU, Trondheim (2012), on the topic of ‘lists’: omen compendia, lists of gods, lists of the ...

• Eschatology and Conversion in the Sperling Letters 

  van der Haven, Alexander (Chapter, 2020)

• Den teosofiske losjen ‘Klippen’: Alternativ religiøsitet på Leirvik i Stord på 1920-talet 

  Natvig, Richard Johan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  In May 1922, a new theosophical lodge was founded in Leirvik, a small town on the west coast of Norway, by local members of the Norwegian Theosophical Society. The lodge was headed by the at the time famous Ole Olvik, ...

• Witchcraft and Slavery in Cartagena de Indias 

  Knutsen, Gunnar Winsnes (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  The witchcraft trials in the Spanish Inquisition's tribunal in Cartagena de Indias had direct links to the trials in Northern Spain. These trials started just after the trials in the Basque country in 1610-14, and show the ...

• Not going anywhere? Migration as a social practice in the early Neolithic Linearbandkeramik 

  Hofmann, Daniela (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  This paper argues that personal and group migration (as a subset of mobility) was a central feature of Linearbandkeramik (c. 5500-4900 cal BC) life, and not confined to short-term events along the agricultural frontier. ...

• Early human impacts and ecosystem reorganization in southern-central Africa 

  Thompson, Jessica; Wright, David K.; Ivory, Sarah J; Choi, Jeong-Heon; Nightingale, Sheila; Mackay, Alex; Schilt, Flora; Otarola-Castillo, Erik; Mercader, Julio; Forman, Steven L.; Pietsch, Timothy; Cohen, Andrew S.; Arrowsmith, J. Ramon; Welling, Menno; Davis, Jacob; Schiery, Benjamin; Kaliba, Potiphar; Malijani, Oris; Blome, Margaret W.; O'Driscoll, Corey A.; Mentzer, Susan M.; Miller, Christopher E.; Heo, Seoyoung; Choi, Jungyu; Tembo, Joseph; Mapemba, Fredrick; Simengwa, Davie; Gomani-Chindebvu, Elizabeth (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021-05-05)

  Modern Homo sapiens engage in substantial ecosystem modification, but it is difficult to detect the origins or early consequences of these behaviors. Archaeological, geochronological, geomorphological, and paleoenvironmental ...

• Vil man ha forskning i museene? Museumspolitiske mål og hindringer for forskningsarbeid 

  Fjell, Tove Ingebjørg; Ryymin, Teemu; Ågotnes, Hans-Jakob (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  The Norwegian museum policy states that research is an important part of museum activities. Numerous structural and more employee-directed measures have been implemented, nationally and locally in the museums, to further ...

• Being Persian in Late Mamluk Egypt: The Construction and Significance of Persian Ethnic Identity in the Salons of Sultan Qāniṣawh al-Ghawrī (r. 906–922/1501–1516) 

  Mauder, Christian (Journal article, 2020)

  People identified as Persians constituted one of the most prominent groups of nonlocal inhabitants in Mamluk Egypt, and earlier scholarship has paid considerable attention to Egyptian-Persian relations. Nevertheless, the ...

• Håkon og Skule 1217–1240 

  Bagge, Sverre Håkon (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  Artikkelen diskuterer forholdet mellom Håkon Håkonsson og hans rival Skule fra valget av Håkon i 1217 til Skules opprør og fall 1239–40. Håkons saga, skrevet i 1260-årene, er nesten vår eneste kilde til dette. Selv om den ...

• The cryptic case of Otomys sloggetti (Sloggett’s vlei rat): Interpreting murid molar morphology in the fossil record 

  Matthews, Thalassa; Nel, Turid Hillestad (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  Vlei rats (Family: Muridae; Subfamily: Otomyinae) have a widespread distribution in southern Africa. They are favoured prey of barn and spotted eagle owls, and frequently become associated with archaeological deposits when ...

• Hidden in plain sight: A microanalytical study of a Middle Stone Age ochre piece trapped inside a micromorphological block sample 

  Haaland, Magnus Mathisen; Strauss, André M.; Velliky, Elizabeth; Mentzer, Susan M; Miller, Christopher E.; Van Niekerk, Karen Loise; Henshilwood, Christopher (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  A complete Middle Stone Age ochre piece was unintentionally collected and fully preserved within a micromorphological block sample intended to characterise a 74 ± 3 ka occupation horizon at Blombos Cave, South Africa. ...

• Geoarchaeological investigation of occupation deposits in Blombos Cave in South Africa indicate changes in site use and settlement dynamics in the southern Cape during MIS 5b-4 

  Haaland, Magnus Mathisen; Miller, Christopher E.; Unhammer, Ole Fredrik; Reynard, Jerome P.; Van Niekerk, Karen Loise; Ligouis, Bertrand; Mentzer, Susan M; Henshilwood, Christopher (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  The archaeological assemblage recovered from the Middle Stone Age (MSA) levels in Blombos Cave, South Africa, is central to our understanding of the development of early modern humans. Here, we demonstrate that the cultural ...

• Early anthropogenic use of hematite on Aurignacian ivory personal ornaments from Hohle Fels and Vogelherd caves, Germany 

  Velliky, Elizabeth; Schmidt, Patrick; Ludovic, Bellot-Gurlet; Sibylle, Wolf; Conard, Nicholas J. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  The Aurignacian (ca. 43–35 ka) of southwestern Germany is well known for yielding some of the oldest artifacts related to symbolic behaviors, including examples of figurative art, musical instruments, and personal ornaments. ...

• Gravspråk i et fjordlandskap: Regional variasjon i jernalderens Hardanger 

  Drageset, Anne (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  Denne artikkelen presenterer en makroanalyse av ca. 1500 graver fra jernalderen (500 f.Kr.–1050 e.Kr.) i Hardanger. Hovedformålet er å undersøke om det er mulig å gjenkjenne et særegent regionalt gravspråk. En samlet ...

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