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Stone Building : Organization and Development of Construction Technology in Eastern Norway c. 1130 - 1537
(Doctoral thesis, 2023-04-28)Steinbygging med bruddstein og kalkmørtel ble introdusert til Norge tidlig på 1100-tallet. Teknologien var ny og krevde kunnskap som tidligere ikke var kjent i landet. Avhandlingen omhandler hvordan steinbygningene ble ... -
Hidden Depths: The Wicked Problem of Groundwater Management in a Spanish Aquifer, 1964–1990
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)International transfers of expertise and technology in the postwar era provided access to previously untapped aquifers around the world. Large-scale groundwater use transformed environments and economies but created new ... -
Trade Port Dogs - A comparative study of dog bones from the three mediaeval ports of Gásir, Trondheim, and Bergen
(Master thesis, 2023-03-11)Denne avhandlingen tar for seg forholdet mellom mennesker og hunder i middelalderens Nord-Atlanterhav (ca. 1030 - 1500 CE). Dette gjennom makro-analyser av zoo-arkeologisk materiale, og data fra tre handelshavner: Gásir ... -
Iconoclasm - A Road to Modernization?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)My point of departure is a conflict over images in the churches in Bergen, Norway in the 1560s, around 30 years after the Reformation. This introduced a brief period of iconoclasm in Denmark–Norway, inspired by Reformed ... -
"To norske vekkelseskristne pastorer". En studie av hvordan livsskildringer tilskriver dem autoritet
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Technological and functional analysis of 80–60 ka bone wedges from Sibudu (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Fully shaped, morphologically standardized bone tools are generally considered reliable indicators of the emergence of modern behavior. We report the discovery of 23 double-beveled bone tools from ~ 80,000–60,000-year-old ... -
A micro-geoarchaeological view on stratigraphy and site formation processes in the Middle, Upper and Epi-Paleolithic layers of Sefunim Cave, Mt. Carmel, Israel
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)This paper presents a micro-geoarchaeological study carried out on the sedimentary sequence exposed at the entrance of Sefunim Cave, Israel, a sequence that spans from the Middle Paleolithic to the early Epipaleolithic ... -
Neural correlates of perceiving and interpreting engraved prehistoric patterns as human production: Effect of archaeological expertise
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022-08-03)It has been suggested that engraved abstract patterns dating from the Middle and Lower Palaeolithic served as means of representation and communication. Identifying the brain regions involved in visual processing of these ... -
U-Th dating, taphonomy, and taxonomy of shell middens at Klasies River main site indicate stable and systematic coastal exploitation by MIS 5c-d
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)The archaeological record, particularly of shellfish, from the Klasies River main site (KRM) is important in understanding the fluctuating nature of coastal occupational patterns and changing coastal ecologies. In this ... -
Hunter-gatherer environments at the Late Pleistocene sites of Mwanganda's Village and Bruce, northern Malawi
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Mwanganda's Village (MGD) and Bruce (BRU) are two open-air site complexes in northern Malawi with deposits dating to between 15 and 58 thousand years ago (ka) and containing Middle Stone Age (MSA) lithic assemblages. The ... -
Technological and geometric morphometric analysis of ‘post-Howiesons Poort points’ from Border Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Lithic assemblages immediately following the Howiesons Poort, often loosely referred to as the ‘post-Howiesons Poort’ or MSA III, have attracted relatively little attention when compared to other well-known phases of the ... -
Kva skal kvinna, barnet og mannen heite? Kjønna namnelover i Noreg frå 1923 til 2003
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Fram til tidleg på 1900-talet rådde eit stort mangfald i namnepraksisar i Noreg. I artikkelen undersøker eg korleis forståingar av kjønn har vore med på å forme namnelovene våre, frå den fyrste i 1923 til den gjeldande ... -
The materiality of Turku Cathedral’s spiritual treasury: Indulgences
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)The article discusses indulgences as an instrument that provided the spiritual treasury of the Church with a material manifestation. We propose that indulgences reflected the Divine within the material world in four ... -
Sjanger
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The Middle Stone Age in the Eastern Desert. EDAR 135 — a buried early MIS 5 horizon from Sudan
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Middle Stone Age (MSA) lithic artefacts coming from dated layers preserved in their original stratigraphic position are still rare in Northeast Africa in general and in Sudan in particular. This paper aims to present the ... -
Genetic examination of historical North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis) bone specimens from the eastern North Atlantic: Insights into species history, transoceanic population structure, and genetic diversity
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Species monitoring and conservation is increasingly challenging under current climate change scenarios. For the North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis) this challenge is heightened by the added effects of complicated ... -
Imaging Norway by using the past
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)The article analyses how history was used in efforts to portray Norway in the postwar period. The main narratives of Norwegian history played a dominating role in the construction of national images during this period. ... -
Popularity of the cult of Asclepius in the times of the Antonine Plague: Temporal modeling of epigraphic evidence
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)The research presented in the article tests quantitatively the existing hypothesis from the academic debate that the Greco-Roman cult of Asclepius was more popular in the times of the Antonine Plague which spread in the ... -
Taking Stock of the Academic Work of Geo Widengren: Some Observations on a Forgotten Classic and an "all-Round Historian of Religion"
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)In the 1950s and 1960s, the Swedish scholar Geo Widengren (1907–1996) was a towering figure on the international landscape of the history of religions. This essay reads Widengren as a forgotten classic, i.e., an author ... -
Håkon og Skule. Svar til Hans Jacob Orning og Knut Arstad
(Journal article, 2022)