Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion - AHKR
Recent Submissions
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At the Crossroad of the Ancient World : The role of the kingdom of Kroraina on the Silk Roads between the third and fifth centuries CE
(Doctoral thesis, 2020-12-04)This dissertation sets out to study the Silk Road exchange network of late antiquity, seeking a framework for how this wide-reaching phenomenon should be understood. It proposes to do so by a novel bottom-up approach to ... -
Flateretusjerte pilspisser i Hordaland: En typologisk og kronologisk studie
(Master thesis, 2021-01-13)The purpose of this study is to analyse the bifacial arrowheads found in Hordaland county in Western Norway to see if there is any morphological and chronological variation in the material. A typological method was applied ... -
...al min længsel og uro... : om einslege borgarskapskvinner rundt århundreskiftet
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Keramikk fra norske bronsealdergraver : En studie av morfologi, kronologi, forbindelser og deponeringspraksiser i tidsrommet 1700-500 f.Kr.
(Doctoral thesis, 2020-11-27)This thesis provides new, fundamental insights into the morphological features, chronology and development of Bronze Age ceramics from Norwegian burial contexts (1700-500 BC). It furthermore focuses on how different ... -
Fellesskap og individualitet. Kjønna etternamnsval blant norske menn i heterofile parforhold
(Doctoral thesis, 2020-12-11)Few Norwegian men change their surnames as part of a heterosexual couple. My aim was to understand the meanings men attach to surnames in heterosexual relationships by studying four central topics in men’s surname stories ... -
Marknadsplassar omkring Hardangervidda. Ein arkeologisk og historisk analyse av innlandets økonomi og nettverk i vikingtid og mellomalder
(Doctoral thesis, 2017-12-01)The period from the late Viking Age to the High Middle Ages, c. 950–1350, was an era of economic expansion, where towns were formed, populations increased, and royal and church power were established. This thesis examines ... -
Fremveksten av offshoreskipsfarten på Vestlandet 1970-2010
(Master thesis, 2020-06-23)This master thesis examines how the offshore shipping in the western part of Norway has developed from 1970 to 2010. Since the offshore shipping is contained by many different shipowning actors. Of this reason the thesis ... -
Islamic Law: The Sources
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2019)The historiography of the early development of Islamic law, the Sharia, is highly contentious both among Muslims and secular historians. In economic field, this takes the form of the growth of an ‘Islamic banking system’, ... -
Making Invisible Changes Visible: Animal Examples and the Communication of Biodiversity Loss
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Communicating biodiversity loss and other environmental threats is never only about relating natural science data. How different environmental discourses are presented, how they intertwine, and what concepts of nature are ... -
Leaving Hinduism: deconversion as liberation
(Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2020)Dr. Bhimrao Amebdkar (1891–1956) was an activist intellectual, journalist, lawyer and a prominent figure in Indian politics. A Mahar, Ambedkar campaigned against the various sorts of discrimination suffered by so-called ... -
Med tente lys inn i varmen. Lucia-tog i norske skoler og barnehager
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Hovedhensikten med denne artikkelen er å løfte frem Lucia-togene i norske skoler og barnehager som et eksempel på hvordan forståelse av religion og tradisjon forhandles i møte med en stadig mer kompleks og mangfoldig barne- ... -
Hovedtendenser i norsk historievitenskap 1969–2015 belyst gjennom doktoravhandlinger
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)An analysis of 361 doctoral dissertations in history, accepted at the universities of Oslo, Bergen, Trondheim, and Tromsø in the years 1969–2015, shows that the discipline of history has become increasingly diverse. This ... -
Etter liberalismen kommer nasjonalismen: 1880-årene viser vei
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)After Liberalism Comes Nationalism, as in the 1880s: The article rejects the widespread parallels drawn between the rise of populism in the present day and the rise of authoritarianism and fascism in the interwar years. ... -
Risk Perception through Exemplarity: Hurricanes as Climate Change Examples and Counterexamples in Norwegian News Media
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)This article explores how hurricanes are used in news media to exemplify the consequences of climate change. This is done by a close reading of Norwegian newspaper articles on the hurricanes Katrina (2005), Sandy (2012), ... -
The chronological, sedimentary and environmental context for the archaeological deposits at Blombos Cave, South Africa
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-08-01)The site of Blombos Cave (BBC) is well known for archaeological remains that have advanced our understanding of the development of modern human behaviour during the Middle Stone Age (MSA). Occupation of the cave occurred ... -
Om Magnus Erikssons kroninger og kildene til dem
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)Magnus Eriksson ble kronet i Stockholm sommeren 1336, ifølge en svensk annalnotis som konge over Sverige, Norge og Skåne. To islandske annalnotiser hevder at kroningen skjedde uten de norske biskopenes og riksrådets samtykke, ... -
At the threshold of the Viking Age: New dendrochronological dates for the Kvalsund ship and boat bog offerings (Norway)
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Kvalsund in the Herøy archipelago, Møre og Romsdal County, provides a sheltered harbour in a high-risk seascape along the west coast of Norway: the peninsula Stadlandet is considered the most dangerous part of the seaway ... -
Japan mellom eigenart og internasjonalisme
(Master thesis, 2020-06-24)
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