Browsing Kulturhistorisk museum by Title
Now showing items 428-447 of 1920
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(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)This chapter introduces current topics in the discussion of human encounters with coasts and coastal areas in what is termed the Mesolithic period (c. 9500–3800 cal bc), with special focus on northern and western Europe, ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)In this article, the ways in which those hobby metal detectorists searching for protected objects in the ploughsoil and archaeologists in Norway have collaborated and communicated throughout the public history of metal ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)From the mid-1800s to the late 1960s, conservation by alum salts (KAl(SO4)2·12H2O—potassium aluminium sulphate), using various recipes, was a common method to prevent shrinkage and to strengthen waterlogged archaeological ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)Abstract The Oseberg Viking ship burial is one of the most extensive collections of Viking wooden artefacts ever excavated in Norway. In the early twentieth century, many of these artefacts were treated with alum in order ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)Butvar B-98 and PDMS-OH both have a demonstrable ability as consolidants for archaeological wood. This makes them both potential treatment options for the Oseberg collection, which is one of the most important archaeological ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)This issue inaugurates the First Book Symposium as a feature in the pages of Social Analysis. Instead of including ourselves among the journals that devote a section to book reviews in their regular issues, as we have done ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)An unidentified white substance was observed on the exterior parts of the southern side of Hopperstad Stave Church, located in Vik in Sogn and Fjordane (Norway). One of the 28 remaining stave churches in the country, ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)The colossal Constantinian bronze portrait in the Capitoline Museum stands out as a unique example of Roman, large-scale portraiture. It is a rare bronze portrait of colossal size, which included a lot of material of a ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)Viking Age burial mounds are usually interpreted with reference to their exterior dimensions, the funerary treatment of the deceased and the artefacts placed within them. The process of constructing these mounds, however, ...
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(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)While in Northwestern Europe the Pre-Roman Iron Age traditionally is considered to represent a continuous and unbroken development from the end of the Bronze Age to the beginning of the Roman Iron Age, this is not the case ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)The heterogeneity and molecular weight of a chitosan of low molecular weight (molar mass) and low degree of acetylation (0.1) for potential use as a consolidant for decayed archaeological wood were examined by sedimentation ...
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(Book chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)Since the early 2000s, several large-scale cooking-pit sites have been uncovered in Norway and interpreted as traces of large gatherings. Similar cooking-pits are increasingly found by development-led excavations across ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)The first corpus edition of Norwegian runic inscriptions appeared as part of Ole Worm’s Monumenta Danica and contained only fifty items. In 1864, Sophus Bugge began working with runes and later conceived the idea of producing ...
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(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2002)Var grekernes mynter datidens flagg? Dette og andre historiske spørsmål drøftes i en doktoravhandling fra Universitetet i Oslo, hvor myntvesen og samfunnsliv på den greske øya Kos står i sentrum. I studien blir den materielle ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)Abstract A series of historical textile fragments belonging to the Guggenheim collection had been previously studied by FORS and IRR imaging. The need for further analysis emerged in order to get a better understanding of ...
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(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)This article discusses the centralisation of religious ritual practices in Scandinavia in the second half of the first millennium. This is explored through detailed investigation of the courtyard sites at Skei and Heggstad, ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)In the 1990s, Christopher Prescott (1996) asked if there really was a Neolithic in Norway, by questioning the meaning of the term ‘Neolithic’. Prescott’s main point was to critically examine when farming practices were ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)Archaeological documentation from surveys and excavations in Norway are created by a limited number of actors. Excavations are mainly carried out by the five university museums. NIKU (Norwegian Institute for Cultural ...