Browsing Kulturhistorisk museum by Title
Now showing items 1696-1715 of 1920
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)During the Viking Age, Arctic Scandinavia was a source of exquisite furs, down, walrus ivory, and other commodities that met with high demand in England and on the Continent. Hitherto, the earliest firm evidence of this ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)The use of large-scale, high-resolution ground-penetrating radar surveys has increasingly become a part of Norwegian cultural heritage management as a complementary method to trial trenching surveys to detect and delineate ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)In the early 1980s, a runestone fragment with a Christian inscription from the early eleventh century was discovered in Harstad town, northern Norway, in excavated masses originating from the farm Ervika. Runestones are ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)In this article, I have tried to discuss the Fimbulwinter theory in a research historical perspective, in order to disentangle the premises presented by both advocates and critics alike. By and large, the current debate ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)In continental and north-western Europe armed cavalry – aided by the introduction of the stirrup – was closely linked to the emergence of feudalism but was this also the case in Scandinavia? Were the resulting military ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)Recent paleoclimatic research has revealed that volcanic events around 536–540 AD caused severe, short-term global cooling. For this same period, archeological research from various regions evidences significant cultural ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)In 1931, several osseous and lithic artefacts, as well as fish and whalebones, were discovered in the wetland at the Jortveit farm in Southern Norway. In 2018–19, a small-scale excavation at the original find location took ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)All too often archaeological objects are found as stray finds. As such, they have little or no contextual information, which often makes them difficult to handle analytically and in terms of their exhibition appeal. As a ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)The Mesolithic burial from Brunstad, Vestfold, Eastern Norway, dating to c. 5900 cal BC, represents rare evidence of Mesolithic mortuary practice in Norway. While Mesolithic settlement finds are abundant in the region, ...
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(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)AD 536 is a poignant date in European history and marks the advent of a series of documented environmental changes that affected societies across Europe in various ways. Sudden and severe climate deterioration led to vast ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)Abstract - The discovery of a Norwegian Viking penny on 18 August 1957, at Naskeag Point, the prehistoric Native American settlement close to Blue Hill Bay, Brooklin, Hancock County, ME, USA (also known as the “Goddard ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)The earliest settlement of Latvia occurred at the very end of the Late Glacial, after the retreat of the ice sheet. Important evidence of this earliest occupation is the wellknown site Salaspils Laukskola. Previous research ...
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(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
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(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
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(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)Two of the most significant archaeological monuments on Karmøy are the burials from Storhaug and Grønhaug. Consisting of impressive mounds containing large chamber graves in ships, they belong to the most exclusive and ...
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(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)The question of the co-location of different kinds of assembly, such as Old Norse things, churches, games and markets, is a familiar debate in archaeology and history. A close connection between thing and church sites is ...
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(Book / Bok / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2011)The third volume covering the excavations of 1998–2003 in the Viking-period town of Kaupang examines a range of artefacts and discusses the inhabitants of the town: their origins, activities and trading connexions. Certain ...
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(Research report / Forskningsrapport, 2021)Høsten 2019 gjennomførte arkeologer fra Kulturhistorisk museum, Universitetet i Oslo, de første mer omfattende utgravningen av en steinalder lokalitet ved Mjøsa. Undersøkelsen skjedde i forbindelse med byggingen av ny ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)The paper explores the emergence and development of arable farming in southeastern Norway by compiling and analyzing directly dated cereals from archaeological contexts. By using summed probability distributions of radiocarbon ...