Oxygen consumption measurement was used to study potential oxidative degradation reactions occurring in wooden artefacts from the Viking age Oseberg collection in Norway. Model samples of fresh birch were impregnated with ...

Writers’ museums often privilege the biographical person of the author rather than their literary works. Here we present a model which can be used not only as a method of analysis, but also as as an inspiration that can ...

This paper shows that local differences in house orientation in settlements from the Early Neolithic in Central Europe reflect a regular chronological trajectory based on Bayesian calibration of 14C-series. This can be ...

Based on mortuary evidence from the Norwegian Viking Age (AD 750–1050), this article seeks to present an argument for cemeteries as key components of social memory and collective experience. Rather than focusing on cemeteries ...

Single and multielement archaeological geochemistry has been applied to research and rescue projects for many decades to enhance our understanding of the past use of space. Often applied on one contextual plane, this ignores ...

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, ...

Starting out from the question of how history and law relate to each other, the article traces the influence of historical interpretations in the making of the Nuremberg Trials, taking these as examples for transitional ...

Archaeologists typically use radiocarbon ages to date human activities on archaeological sites. However, radiocarbon ages can also serve as independent proxies for human demographic patterns through space and time. Spatial ...

Our research at the large LBK settlement site of Vráble, southwest Slovakia, revealed dynamics of social integration and antagonisms unfolding in an agglomerated, early farming community. During its lifespan from 5250 to ...

This paper discusses how coastal societies in northwestern Scandinavia were able to rise in power by strategically utilizing the natural ecology and landscape in which they were situated. From two case studies (the Norwegian ...

til under religiøsitetens kulturarv, nemlig brudebenker. I Norge var møbelet spesielt populært på 1600- og 1700-tallet og vi kjenner til rundt 50 stykker fra tiden før 1800. Selv om de er laget for samme formål er det store ...

This article looks at drug trafficking, trade, and pilgrimage between Lebanon, Syria, and Palestine during the mandate period, arguing that a Levantine geography continued both as lived experience and conceived space even ...

Hunter‐gatherers, especially Pleistocene examples, are not well‐represented in archeological studies of niche construction. However, as the role of humans in shaping environments over long time scales becomes increasingly ...

The maritime expansion of Scandinavian populations during the Viking Age (about ad 750–1050) was a far-flung transformation in world history1,2. Here we sequenced the genomes of 442 humans from archaeological sites across ...

The unique ceramic production site at Augland in southernmost Norway thrived for more than 250 years until its demise in the troubled Migration Period. Contrary to previous opinions, we argue that production ended around ...

Greenpigmentsinmicro-samplestakenfromthreelate-medievalpaintedobjectsfromNorwegianchurcheshavebeen investigated with the aim to characterize their constituents and understand how they relate to damagesobserved in passages ...

This paper aims to expand our understanding of the processes involved in the production of the artificial pigment Egyptian blue through the scientific examination of pigments found in the first century BCE workshop of the ...

Amazonia has drawn the interest of researchers over the last few decades as a region with evidence for extensive ancient/past indigenous landscape domestication. Among the major issues surrounding the nature of landscape ...

In the regions of southern Scandinavia and northern Germany, within the Neolithic ( c. 4100–1700 BCE), two episodes of intensified monumental burial construction are known: Funnel Beaker megaliths mainly from c. 3400–3100 ...

Two brooches from the same hand? A detailed study of Migration Period relief brooches “From the same hand” is a phrase repeatedly used in studies of Migration Period brooches. We explore if it is possible to establish ...

Since aDNA research suggested a marked gene influx from Eastern into Central Europe in the 3rd millennium bc, outdated, simplistic narratives of massive migrations of closed populations have re-appeared in archaeological ...

Political economy approaches have been criticized for their focus on top-down processes with insufficient attention to non-elite agency. Here, we expand archaeological applications of political economy by integrating a ...

The red, brown, yellow and green pigment lumps from the Hellenistic pigment production site of the ancient agora of Kos (Dodecanese, Greece) are the focus of this paper. A selection of pigments is examined through a ...

This thesis consists of an object-centred conservation studies approach, focusing on a selection of late-medieval polychrome sculptures as primary source material. The aim has been to combine material investigations with ...

Aardal Copperworks in Western Norway were a small royally owned copperworks that operated at an enormous loss during the first decades of the eighteenth century. When the king did not close it down after short time, he had ...

Micro-samples from 57 original paint tubes used between 1904 and 1909 by the Norwegian painter, Harriet Backer were studied with inductively coupled plasma–optical emission spectroscopy (ICP–OES). This accurate elemental ...

The availability and popularity of portable non-invasive instrumentation for the study of paintings has increased due to a shift away from using micro-invasive techniques. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) is ...

In der Theiß-Region an der nördlichen Peripherie der südosteuropäischen Tellkulturen beobachten wir zwischen 5300 und 4450 v. u. Z. das Auftreten großer bevölkerungsreicher Siedlungen, die durch die Kombinationen ...

Long-held ideas concerning early Neolithic Linearbandkeramik (LBK) settlements in central Europe have been thoroughly challenged in recent years, for example, regarding their internal organisation or the use-life of ...

The Neolithic and Bronze Age burial ground of Flintbek provides a well-documented case study of a monumental landscape, whose shaping and development through ritual practices of monument building can be studied over the ...

Walled sites attributed to the Xiongnu steppe empire (2nd century b.c.–1st century a.d.) constitute the earliest investments in explicitly non-mortuary built environments among pastoralists of the Mongolian Steppe. These ...

This paper explores the capacity of museums to stimulate critical reflection and dialog on constructions of human difference, and thereby to serve as agents of social change. The study draws on material from focus groups ...

A late-Hellenistic production site was found at the eastern stoa of the agora of Kos. The presence of destroyed fire-structures indicates pyrotechnological processes, related to pigment manufacture and metallurgy. Pigment ...

The thesis titled Challenging Gender: a reconsideration of gender in the Viking Age using the mortuary landscape aims to test the generally accepted belief that gender in the Viking Age was a strictly observed segregation ...

In the mid‐twentieth century a number of central banks around the western world lost their operational autonomy and were placed under government control. The origin of these policy changes can be traced to the intellectual ...

The introduction of agriculture is known to have profoundly affected the ecological complexion of landscapes. In this study, a rapid transition from C3 to C4 vegetation is inferred from a shift to higher stable carbon ...

The aim of this work was to assess how improvements to the indoor environment could affect the future condition, frequency and costs of major conservation-cleaning campaigns on the monumental paintings (1909–1916) by Edvard ...

The lack of accurate locational information on abandoned medieval and later graveyards constitutes a considerable challenge to national and local bodies tasked with their protection and management. These sites are increasingly ...

Weak mediators normally need to borrow leverage from more powerful players to provide efficient mediation. This situation requires strong co-operation between the weak mediator and more powerful actors or coalitions involved ...

During the recent survey and documentation work at and around Kastro Apalirou 7 churches have been documented, 2 inside, and 5 outside the walls in the immediate vicinity of the kastron. This article will present what we ...

The poleis on the plain around present-day Tripolis, and particularly Mantineia and Tegea, loom in the ancient sources on Arcadia, and with good reason. Both were important actors in politics and warfare in Greece in the ...

This study proposes a method for the classification of lithic raw materials by means of hyperspectral imaging, a non-destructive fast analytical technique. The information potential of this approach was tested on a dwelling ...

The Norwegian Government Pension Fund, or more commonly the Norwegian Petroleum Fund, established in 1990, is the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund. The fund is commonly regarded as a successful product of economic ...

Leadership in human rights was added to the ‘engagement policy’ in Norway’s foreign policy from the late 1970s, and the country emerged as a supporter of initiatives to draft new human rights treaties. This paper compares ...

This article presents a variant of a so-called ‘Anglo-Saxon workbox’ found in a woman’s grave dating to the late 700s–early 800s in Setesdal, southern Norway. It is the only one known from Norway, but it is similar to a ...

This paper presents distribution patterns and stable carbon and nitrogen isotope measurements of recently excavated faunal remains from two middens at Khami, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Zimbabwe. The middens are dated ...

Niels Hofman Bang (1776-1855) var botaniker, agronom og eier av stamhuset Hofmansgave. Niels Hofman Bangs Rejsedagbog (1797-1800) er en transkribert utgave av de delene av Hofman Bangs dagbok som særlig dreier seg om ...

Terror, Edmund Burke argued, is the “common stock of everything that is sublime,” capable of producing delight when held at a certain distance. What puzzled Burke was the question of “how any species of delight can be ...

In the last decade, elitist philanthropy exploded in certain parts of the West and so did philanthropy of outlaw motorcycle clubs. The question is, under whatconditions does philanthropy become an effective strategy of ...

Denne artikkelen introduserer en viktig side ved norsk arbeiderbevegelse som i stor grad har påvirket debatten om den russiske revolusjonen og Sovjetunionen her til lands. Artikkelen gir et bakteppe for det som skjedde i ...

Nazi Germany’s place in the wider world is a controversial topic in historiography. While scholars such as Ian Kershaw argue that Hitler’s dictatorship must be understood as a unique national phenomenon, others analyze ...

Elite Indian fashion designers consciously attempt to abstract the essence of Indianness from India’s numerous and geographically multiply localized crafts, turning their designs into a montage of exquisite handwork ...

Despite vibrant paradigmatic shifts in archaeological thought, Norwegian heritage legislation remains unchanged since the 1970s and is anchored in a traditional identity ideology assuming continuous links between contemporary ...

Racism, especially anti-Semitism, is typically seen as a crucial point of distinction between Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. Based on a range of new materials, this article shows that Nazi policies of social exclusion ...

Salt crystallization is accepted to represent one of the major causes for the degradation of building and ornamental stone. As such, it has attracted the attention of researchers, who over the years have progressively ...

Travelling the world in her capacity as United Nations Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights, Farida Shaheed frequently witnessed intense disagreement over events in the past. Although history is one of the ...

In this contribution, a late-medieval technique for constructing polychrome wooden sculptures is discussed. This rare ‘composite block’ method employed blocks made from wainscot boards glued together. The technique is ...

Mange har fått sin første formidlingserfaring som arkeologistudenter, og jeg er blant dem. Først som omviser for skoleklasser på Historisk museum, og så et møte med elever fra Ruste skole på en av mine første utgravninger. ...

The subject matter of local history is said to be local communities. Several characteristics are often mentioned - shared resource base, stability, common history and traditions, shared culture, belonging and group ...

Niels Tønder Lund var det som i samtiden ble betegnet som "Naturelsker eller Naturven". I det lå at han ikke hadde vitenskapen som profesjon, men dyrket den som amatør. Vanlige betegnelser var Natur-Elskere, Botanikens ...

In the wake of the 1973 October War, US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Syrian President Hafez al-Assad led the United States and Syria in reviving their long-dead diplomatic relationship. This process began amidst ...

An investigation of the Kumla altar at the Swedish History Museum was undertaken during a collaborative project between conservation education programmes from three Nordic universities. Students from Conservation Studies ...

Tatere og sigøynere ble ikke nødvendigvis forskjellsbehandlet på et kollektivt plan i det norske politi- og domstolsapparatet. Det er en av konklusjonene til historiker Chalak Kaveh i hans ferske avhandling om temaet. Til ...

This article, grounded in long-term ethnographic research among producers of contemporary luxurious embroideries and fashions in Lucknow, a North Indian city famous for its golden age as a powerful cultural center of ...

Grounded in long-term ethnographic fieldwork in New Delhi’s fashion industry, this article explores the pressing question on the designer’s mind, namely: how do I align the desires of others with my (master)-desire? This ...

Pre-World War II art historical research on late medieval altarpieces in Norway was concerned predominantly with creating groups of artworks connected to masters on the Continent, by focusing on stylistic features in both ...

Asiarta Foundation and the Getty Conservation Institute have collaborated in research to study Vietnamese lacquer paintings. The primary aim of the project is to gain a deeper understanding of the materials and techniques ...

Until now, Philip Grierson's tentative dating of Charlemagne's monetary reform to 793/4 has been generally accepted. His dating was based not only on numismatic evidence but also on his attempt to set this event in the ...

Avhandlinga undersøker i kva grad Filmavisa (Norsk Filmrevy) bidrog til å legitimere det re-etablerte demokratiet i dei fyrste etterkrigsåra. I frå premieren 21. mai 1945 og i dei komande årgangane gav Filmavisa si ...

Indian democracy has often been characterized as "a puzzle" that "defies theories". But any theory on democratic practice will need to take into account the world's largest democracy. We assert that Indian democracy is ...

Jewellery often occur in women’s graves from the period c. AD 400–650/700 in Scandinavia. On the basis of theories of ethnicity as a dynamic, situational and multidimensional phenomenon, and the concept of dress/costume ...

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Diagrams, maps, and other forms of graphic visualization are nowadays discussed as a specific mode of communication, graphicacy, typical of the modern age with its ever-increasing role of visual media in social life. This ...

Innholdsfortegnelse<br><br> Forord<br> Vold og drap i Guds navn<br> Världskrig och ordkrig<br> Kampen om Hegra festning<br> La stokkbåten være i fred<br> Festlige (?) fester idag og i vikingtiden<br> Samarbeid ...

Innholdsfortegnelse<br><br> Forord<br> Palestinernes rettmessige krav<br> Polarhelter i skyggen<br> Faren som blir neglisjert<br> Kollektivt landssvik<br> Klisterføre og raude krossar<br> Industrialiseringens mange ...

Innholdsfortegnelse<br><br> Forord<br> Tid for åpenhet i fortellingen om krigen i Norge<br> Trafficking AS<br> Russlands ombudsmann<br> Vikingen i Europa – Hvem var han?<br> Lokalt demokrati eller makelighet for ...

Hamre’s dissertation analyses Argentine history textbooks for the secondary school in the genre’s first fifty years of existence. Nine bodies of manuals by as many authors are studied from a historiographical perspective, ...

After the division of Cyprus in 1974 into a Greek Cypriot south and a Turkish Cypriot north, approximately 30,000 immigrants from Turkey moved to north Cyprus. The period between 1974 and 1980 is the time during which these ...

The article dissects current utopian visions of future Indian superpowerdom and traces them to underlying convergences between right wing political Hindu nationalism and philanthrocapitalism. By looking at how utopian ...

Innholdsfortegnelse<br><br> Forord<br> Om innvandrere og «sådant ukrud»<br> Remember, remember the 4th of November<br> Osloavtalen 20 år etter: Hverken suksess eller fiasko<br> Ènstatsløsningen: et glemt ...

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Many porous materials are damaged by pressure exerted by salt crystals growing in their pores. This is a serious issue in conservation science, geomorphology, geotechnical engineering and concrete materials science. In all ...

I 1929 fikk Norge en egen slaktelov som innebar et ufravikelig krav om bruk av bedøvelse for slakt av husdyr. I motsetning til hva som har blitt hevdet av norske politiske myndigheter helt opp til i dag, påviser Andreas ...

Leder. Av Henriette Mikkelsen Hoel og Erik Tobias Taube (side 3)<br><br> Samfunnsengasjert arbeiderhistoriker eller venstresidas falske kartmaker? Intervju med Knut Kjeldstadli. Av Dag Jostein Juvkam og Erik Tobias Taube ...

Leder. Av Erik Tobias Taube og Miriam Finset Ingvaldsen (side 3)<br> «Svenskene lærte tyskerne å bli prøyssere»: Intervju med Øystein Rian. Av Miriam Finset Ingvaldsen og Aslak Kittelsen (side 6–13)<br> A Fontibus: Legg ...