Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion - AHKR
Recent Submissions
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Food security in Roman Palmyra (Syria) in light of paleoclimatological evidence and its historical implications
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Food security in ancient urban centers is often discussed but rarely formally modelled. Despite its location in an inhospitable desert where food production is a constant challenge ancient Palmyra grew from a small oasis ... -
Spaces, Places and Things. The Spatial Dimension of Early Indian Ocean Exchange
(Chapter, 2022)Early exchange along the maritime Silk Road not only spanned immense distances, but was also subject to—among other things—seasonal weather systems, hazardous waters, arid and sparsely populated coastlines with few suitable ... -
Post-cinematic spectatorship in virtual reality: Negotiating 3DoF and 6DoF in ‘Queerskins: Ark’
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Queering Cultural Memory Through Technology: Transitional Spaces in AR and VR
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)While cinema boasts of a long history that has placed the representation and aesthetics of memory at its centre, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) are only starting to shape their own aesthetic and narrative ... -
What is Queer Heritage? Queercache and the Epistemology of the Closet
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)The present article explores the possibility of queer heritage. In 2017, artists Kalle Hamm and Dzamil Kamanger organised a community art project called Queercache in Helsinki, and I use it as a case study on the heritagisation ... -
Multiple phases of human occupation in Southeast Arabia between 210,000 and 120,000 years ago
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Changing climatic conditions are thought to be a major control of human presence in Arabia during the Paleolithic. Whilst the Pleistocene archaeological record shows that periods of increased monsoon rainfall attracted ... -
The effect of formation processes on the frequency of palaeolithic cave sites in semiarid zones: Insights from Kazakhstan
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Central Asian caves with Palaeolithic deposits are few, but they provide a rich record of human fossils and cultural assemblages that has been used to model Late Pleistocene hominin dispersals. However, previous research ... -
Aker og den norske samarbeidstradisjonen
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Fra 1950-årene utviklet Aker seg til å bli et stort konsern og en motor i norsk verkstedindustri. I Aker, på bedrifts- og konsern-nivå, vokste det fram et tett samarbeid mellom ledelse og fagforeninger, sentrert rundt ... -
Václav Marek’s approach to the indigenous Sami religion
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Historiske fortellinger om 22. juli
(Master thesis, 2022-05-20)Temaet for denne studien er lærebokfortellinger om terrorangrepene den 22. juli 2011. Masteroppgaven undersøker hvilke fortellinger som er tilstede i lærebøkene og hva slags funksjoner disse fortellingene har. Lærebøkenes ... -
1804: Saint Faust i Bergen. Nøytralitet, territorialrett og folkerett.
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Felles ramme, ulikt resultat? : En analyse av historiedidaktiske emner ved UiO og UiT med bakgrunn i politiske føringer og institusjonelle valg
(Master thesis, 2022-06-03)In this thesis I analyze the results of history didactic courses at UiO and UiT, based on public notes and institutional choices. I examine these result in a programmatically level, in relation to sixth form teacher education ... -
Kirkeorganisasjonen i Bergen bispedømme i første halvdel av 1300-tallet
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Religion-marked Spaces and Memories of Violence in Mumbai : Inhabiting and Remembering
(Doctoral thesis, 2022-06-10)Mumbai (erstwhile Bombay) is home to several religion-based segregated spaces, particularly of minority religions. In an ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2015-2018, I explore the relationship that inhabitants of ... -
Ancient Cities: Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age
(Journal article, 2022)In this paper we present an overview of the Ancient Cities project’s outcomes and experiences with producing and testing digital educational material in the field of archaeology. In the first part, the Massive Open Online ... -
Trade, Traders, and Religion in Gateway-Cities of the Roman East
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Long distance merchants occupied socially liminal positions in pre-modern societies, operating across in-groups that were mostly defined by birth. This created a double need for social cohesion within the merchant collective ... -
Introduction: Historical and contemporary South Asian religions
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Widengren, Gnosticism, and the Religionsgeschichtliche Schule
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Early pilgrimage traditions in South Asia
(Chapter, 2021)This chapter looks at early history of pilgrimage in South Asia. Sacred sites that were believed to offer rewards to those who visited them have been a significant feature of South Asian religious traditions since at least ...
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