I 2015 gjennomføre Kulturhistorisk museum utgravninger i Løten og Elverum kommuner, region Innlandet. Bakgrunnen var Statens vegvesens planer om å bygge ut riksveiene 3 og 25 for å skape en bedre veiforbindelse mellom ...

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 ...

The exploitation of the borderland, where Løten and Elverum represent contact points for the interaction between the agricultural areas Hedmarken and areas of dense forest in inland Norway, is the focus point of this book. ...

2.8 ABSTRACT: A PAST BORDERLAND – LANDSCAPES, COMMUNICATION ROUTES AND THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORDS OF LØTEN AND ELVERUM IN EASTERN NORWAY The rich soils in the central parts of the region of Hedmarken in the inland region ...

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, ...

Agricultural history in pre-modern societies is commonly characterized by relatively long periods of stability, interspersed by a small number of large- scale transformations. The main aim of this article is to identify ...

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 ...

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The Skagerrak coast and the Oslo fjord area in southeastern Norway are exceptionally well suited for studies of the long-term use and settlement of the coastal zone. Here, processes of continuous land upheaval during all ...

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, ...

This chapter addresses socio-political structure and change through the examination of spatial and temporal differences in the deposition of brooches in burial contexts and aspects of burial practices. Diachronic sub-regions ...

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 ...

In 2016 the Museum of Cultural History set out to excavate a large burial mound on the northern shores of Lake Mjøsa. The site, however, proved to be a smithy from the medieval period, placed on top of a natural mound. In ...

This chapter draws out the implications of two issues raised by contributions to the volume: the holding of slaves in Scandinavia; and the question of whether Gotlanders were involved in the slave trade in the ninth and ...

The chapter explores memorialization and particular readings of history in Sri Lanka after the ending of the civil war in 2009. The victor of the war, the Sri Lankan government, has systematically destroyed not only sites ...

Around 8200 years ago, the gradual rise in Holocene temperatures was interrupted by a marked cooling period, which is referred to as the 8200 cal BP event. The event is detected as a significant fall in temperatures in ...

Excavations at Gjærlu, Rømma, Kroksti and Skramstad were mainly focused on cooking pits. In addition to the 118 cooking pits that have been found, a clearance cairn underneath cultivation layers at Gjærlu and two kilns at ...

Metal detecting at a cooking pit site at Rømma in Løten, Hedmark (discussed in chapter 7), lead to the discovery of a brooch formed like a bird. The brooch is unusual and has no exact parallels. This paper presents the ...

This chapter’s discussion of rulers and polities in 1st-millennium Scandinavia is based on evidence on the upper echelon of ‘central places’, those that may arguably be regarded as ruler’s sites, as well as on written ...

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 ...

In 2015, the Museum of Cultural History organized a large excavation project in Løten, Hedmark with over 90 sites. During the project both clearance cairns and cairns interpreted as graves were excavated. The field at ...

Man over board – on missing skeletal remains, lack of artefacts and the symbolic meaning behind cairn and mound constructions This paper builds on the results from the excavation of the field of cairns at Skillingstad (see ...

The paper explores enhanced visualisation of site distribution, with the purpose of understanding shifts in landscape preferences from Middle to Late Neolithic in East Norway. It includes single finds and artefacts from ...

Large cooking-pit sites in Norway are discussed as a source to the thing-system in the Early Iron Age. The sites represent traces of large-scale gatherings associated with judicial activities, amongst others, and extend ...

This chapter identifies and discusses some of the ways in which kinship may be of use to IR scholars. The chapter offers examples of how kinship relations have manifested themselves historically in international relations, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Krøgenes D5 ble undersøkt på en godt skjermet, liten flate omkranset av berg 14 meter over dagens havnivå. De ca. 2600 gjenstandsfunnene fra utgravingen består nær utelukkende av flint, foruten sju skår av keramikk og ...

Lokaliteten Krøgenes D1 fordelte seg på tre ulike terrasser mellom 16 og 22 moh. i nordøstvendt, slakt hellende terreng. Ved utgravingen ble de tre terrassene behandlet som en enhet til tross for høydeforskjellene. ...

I forkant av byggingen av ny E18 mellom Tvedestrand og Arendal i Aust-Agder gjennomførte Kulturhistorisk museum, Universitetet i Oslo, omfattende arkeologiske utgravninger i årene 2014 til 2016. Innenfor den 23 km lange ...

Undersøkelsen av Kvastad A1 resulterte i 2210 funn av flint, bergkrystall, kvarts og kvartsitt. To tydelig adskilte aktivitetsområder ble undersøkt, et sørlig og et nordlig. Disse var begge små og med få funn. Selv om ...

Da Krøgenes D7 og Krøgenes D10 var i bruk i steinalderen, lå de henholdsvis øst og vest for en smal vik innenfor dagens Krøgeneskilen. Lokalitetene lå bare ca. 50 m fra hverandre og på om lag samme høyde over havet. Høyden ...

When interpreting and disseminating the localisation of Stone Age sites along the rugged coast of Norway, it is always pertinent to include knowledge about sea level at the time the various sites were in use. This is ...

Wooden artefacts from the Oseberg collection contain various metal compounds arising from factors such as alum-treatment, the use of metal joiners and storage in metal tanks. Such compounds can significantly influence the ...

Krøgenes D2 ble undersøkt i regi av E18 Tvedestrand–Arendal-prosjektet i 2014. Ved utgravningen ble det samlet inn ca. 20 500 funn av flint, bergart, kvarts, kvartsitt og sandstein, katalogisert under C59689. Lokaliteten ...

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, ...

This paper focuses on light as a fundamental key to the visual perception of matter and form in the earthly world, its role in a Christian perspective, and how this is communicated in the physical polychrome object as a ...

This chapter provides an outline of the scholarly problems that the Avaldsnes Royal Manor Project was designed to address, the central theme explored being the political institutions and processes in the first millennium ...

The spectacular raised stone north of the St Óláfr’s Church at Avaldsnes, the so called Jomfru Marias synål (Virgin Mary’s Sewing Needle), is the most prominent preserved prehistoric monument at the site. Before its height ...

The Norwegian ‘courtyard sites’ have variously been interpreted as special cultic, juridical, or military assembly sites, which served at more than the purely local level. Previously, on the basis of studies of artefacts ...

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The precise state of the juridical division and organisation in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries is still to some extent unresolved and has been the subject of debate. By reconstructing the judicial areas I hope to ...

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Avaldsnes, Kormt, and the Karmsund Strait are frequently mentioned in the Old Norse written sources, often referred to as the residence and burial site of kings. The site has attracted the attention of scholars since the ...

The post-Roman rise in trade, urbanisation, monetisation, and kingship are prominent fields of research in early medieval archaeology and history (e.g. Henning 2007; Hodges 2000; McCormick 2001; Sindbæk 2007; Wickham 2009; ...

The emotion most often expressed in runic inscriptions particularly on sticks and bones from the medieval towns of Norway, which often have graffiti-like texts, is love, at times more specifically erotic interest. The ...

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When we started planning this session proposal it was our intention to provide a forum in which to discuss new results and perspectives on the very old question of long-distance connections and exchange throughout Europe ...

I denne artikkelen undersøkes tingorganisasjonen i Frostatingslag i yngre jernalder og middelalder. Sentralt står ringtunene på Værem, Skei, Heggstad og Hustad (ca. 600–1050), sett i sammenheng med Øyrating (etablert tidlig ...

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 ...

In this chapter, we argue that the strong maritime focus in South Scandinavian Bronze Age rock art could be seen as the result of a fusion of two diff erent maritime legacies. The fi rst legacy relates to the North ...

Pursuing the ARM research strategy (Ch. 4), this chapter summarises, analyses, and contextualises the evidence on aristocratic presence at Avaldsnes and along the Karmsund Strait presented in previous chapters in this book. ...

During many of the 3,400 years prior to the royal manor’s waning following the fire in AD 1368, aristocratic presence is evident at Avaldsnes and along the Karmsund Strait (Ch. 27). What was the nature and context of that ...

In this chapter, Avaldsnes and the land along the Karmsund Strait are considered in a west-Scandinavian context. Was the manor one of a kind? Why did aristocrats reside there, and what may be inferred about their activities? ...

Dronning Margrete Valdemarsdatter (1353–1412) er Skandinavias middelalderdronning par excellence. 79 Mange tidligere og senere dronninger har hatt stor innfytelse i politikken. Ingen har likevel utøvd samme grad av direkte ...

There are many ways a deceased person can be brought to rest, and the shape and position of the funerary structures are likewise many. In the North-East Necropolis of Hierapolis can be followed a funerary history spanning ...

I denne artikkelen skal vi studere Værnes rolle i det tidlige kongedømme i jernalder og middelalder. Hvorfor ble gården så viktig? Hva var den sosiale og økonomiske bakgrunnen for fylkeskirken? Vi skal belyse ved hjelp av ...

In Scandinavia, large scale abandonment of farms and farmlands is recorded in the 6th century. Most scholars today argue that this was linked to contemporary plague epidemics and climate change. The different social ...

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