Faculty of Humanities
Recent Submissions
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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 ... -
Forteljingar om utdanningssystemet og førestillinga om ein norsk fredstradisjon
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Denne artikkelen undersøkjer i kva grad og på kva måte førestillinga om ein norsk fredstradisjon kan lesast ut av ulike engelskspråklege publikasjonar om det norske utdanningssystemet frå 1940-åra fram til slutten av ... -
Tooth in the spotlight: exploring the integration of archaeological and genetic data to build multidisciplinary narratives of the Past
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)The article addresses the challenges posed by the interdisciplinary collaboration that led to the recent Nature article presenting results of the extraction of ancient human DNA from a perforated deer tooth found in Denisova ... -
Norse Whetstones in Slavic Areas - Indicators of Long-Distance Networks During the Viking Age and the Middle Ages
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)SCANDINAVIAN ARTEFACTS FROM THE VIKING AGE ONWARDS are found in Slavic areas, suggesting interactions between Slavs and Scandinavians. In this paper, whetstones from present-day Norway are regarded as a proxy for this ... -
Synthetic ethnography: Field devices for the qualitative study of generative models
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Advancements in generative artificial intelligence have led to a rapid proliferation of machine learning models capable of synthesizing text, images, sounds, and other kinds of content. While the increasing realism of ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Thinking with the primstav today
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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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
What Is Happening to Religious Studies? Six Narratives
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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 ... -
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 ...
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