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Reconcilable differences: Using retrospective photogrammetry to bridge the divide between analogue and digital site data collected during long-term excavation projects
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Over the last 30 years, high-resolution site documentation has rapidly developed, with analogue drawings and film photography being replaced with high-precision digital recordings. Today, most archaeological field data ... -
Hvordan forstå endringer i før-moderne sharia? Et nærmere blikk på den rettsvitenskapelige tradisjonen i perioden 1200–1800
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Sharia blir ofte framstilt som noe strengt og uforanderlig. Både konservative muslimer og såkalte islam-kritikere presenterer gjerne sharia som statisk og avledet av Koranen og sunnaen en gang for alle. At endring skjer ... -
Buddhist Minorities
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This article first discusses some main aspects of contemporary Buddhist minorities in the world and notes that in the 20th century, for the first time in history, a large multiplicity of Buddhist traditions became available ... -
Thinking with the primstav today
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A Mismatched Piece in a Cultural Middle Stone Age Puzzle: Traces of Human Activity Dated to 90 kya (MIS 5) at Sites EDAR 134 and 155 in the Eastern Sahara, Sudan
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This article presents the results of research carried out at two previously unreported Eastern Desert Atbara River project (EDAR) Middle Stone Age (MSA) sites—EDAR 134 and EDAR 155. Luminescence dating results indicate ... -
Cross-linguistic patterns of meta-discourse: Disciplinary Similarities and Section-based differences
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This study examines metadiscourse markers across a corpus of Estonian and Lithuanian journal articles in the field of linguistics. We aim to 1) compare the global use of all the metadiscourse markers across the languages ... -
Paleolithic eyed needles and the evolution of dress
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Eyed needles are among the most iconic of Paleolithic artifacts, traditionally seen as rare indicators of prehistoric clothing, particularly tailoring. However, recent finds across Africa and Eurasia show that other ... -
Populærkultur og religion i gamle dager. Historiske og komparative innfallsvinkler til medier, mangfold og levd religion
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Kan læreplanmålene i LK20 om populærkultur og medier brukes som innfallsvinkel til å arbeide historisk og komparativt i KRLE og Religion og etikk? Gjennom å drøfte begrepene populærkultur og media opp mot noen konkrete ... -
What Is Happening to Religious Studies? Six Narratives
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Ochre communities of practice in Stone Age Eswatini
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Our species and other hominins have used earth mineral pigments since at least ~500,000 years ago, if not earlier. Its preservation and ubiquity within archaeological records across sub-Saharan Africa are well documented, ... -
Investigating level descriptors and their impact on validity
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This article presents a validation study which investigates the relationship between mastery level descriptors and item difficulty in the National Tests of English (NTE) in Norway. The aim is to establish the extent to ... -
Palmyra: At the Crossroads of the Ancient World
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)The Syrian oasis city Tadmor, better known as Palmyra, has received by far the most attention within scholarship on the Roman Near East over recent decades. New evidence and recent research allow us to better understand ... -
The Role of Parental Language Profile and Home Linguistic Environment in Shaping Teenagers' Multilingual Identity
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)In the multilingual context of Norway, language policy at the macro level supports the development of multilingualism. At the meso level, parental language beliefs and ideologies and language practices in interactions among ... -
Beyond Macroethics: Developing an Ethical Framework for Interview Data Collection and Analysis to Acknowledge Participant Rights
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2025)Participant rights and voices are protected through institutional ethical considerations in the social sciences and applied linguistics. Yet, several ethical concerns remain. In addition to adhering to institutional ... -
Transmission and Canonization: The Role of Swahili Scholars in the Canonization of Minhāj al-Ṭālibīn
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Shaping Clay and Tracing Tradition: A Technological Analysis of Kotedalen and Porsvika Ceramics
(Master thesis, 2024-12-04)Denne avhandlingen benytter rammeverket chaîne opératoire for å analysere og beskrive produksjonen av keramiske skår fra to neolittiske lokaliteter i Sørvest-Norge: 57 skår (inkludert sammensatte skår) fra Kotedalen og 19 ... -
A cross-linguistic study of lexical and derived antonymy
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Antonymy is the lexical relation of opposition. The nature of the oppositeness may differ – e.g., contradictory (‘true’–‘false’) or gradable (‘tall’–‘short’) – and there may be variation as to the relationship in their ... -
Sign duration and signing rate in British Sign Language, Dutch Sign Language and Swedish Sign Language
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)In this article, we look at sign duration and signing rate in corpora of three sign languages – British Sign Language (BSL), Dutch Sign Language (NGT), and Swedish Sign Language (STS). We investigate whether token frequency ... -
Taphonomic and zooarchaeological analysis of fauna from the Howiesons Poort and post-Howiesons Poort at Klasies River main site: Examining links between the environment and subsistence behaviour in Marine Isotope Stages 4 and 3
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Marine Isotope Stages (MIS) 4 and 3 were significant periods encompassing some 50,000 years, including at least two techno-cultural entities: the Howiesons Poort (HP) and post-HP. Exploring subsistence and environmental ... -
Preservation of plant-wax biomarkers in deserts: implications for Quaternary environment and human evolutionary studies
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Analysis of plant-wax biomarkers from sedimentary sequences can enable past environmental and hydrological reconstruction and provide insights into past hominin adaptations. However, biomarker preservation in desert contexts ...
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