Search
Now showing items 21-30 of 33
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
When studying the physical remains from an excavation, focus is naturally at the microscopic level. Fernand Braudel emphasized the necessity to rise above the explanation of individual events and of limited periods, ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
The entire site at Skillingstad, id 140788, consisted of 109 features. However only the eastern part of the site was directly affected by road construction. 41 cairns and five charcoal pits were excavated during this ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
This chapter addresses the economic and societal importance of coastal and freshwater fishing during the Mesolithic of Eastern Norway. Here, new archaeological evidence of fishbone, fishing gear and site locations from ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
This contribution deals with an ornamented and pierced sandstone tablet found at the Late Mesolithic coastal site of Brunstad (Vestfold/Norway) in 2013. The delicately incised decoration comprise net-, wave-, and ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Some cases of grave reopening are easy to detect, as with large plundering holes in great mounds such as the famous case of Oseberg in Norway (see e.g. Bill and Daly 2012), but on other occasions the phenomenon is observed ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Flint is by far the most dominant lithic raw material in the Early Mesolithic of the Oslo fjord area. Recent excavations in Larvik, Vestfold county, conducted by the Museum of Cultural History in Oslo, have revealed four ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion, 2021)
Documentation and examination are the essence of runological fieldwork. As discussed here, the recording aspect concerns the inscriptions, particularly the runes, themselves. The documentation of runic carvings is a ...
(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, ...