In 2000, a second early Anglo-Saxon cemetery was found at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk, 500m north of the famous royal burial-ground. The new burial-ground probably began as a ‘folk' cemetery where the rites of cremation and inhumation were practiced. Nevertheless, the findings suggest a wealthy local population in the period just prior to the founding of the mound cemetery at Sutton Hoo. A small Bronze Age barrow and part of an Iron Age field system were recorded. It is argued that these earthworks survived to at least the time of the Anglo-Saxon cemetery, and that they influenced its location and layout. Just over thirty early Anglo-Saxon graves were recorded, including thirteen weapon-burials. Grave-goods from the inhumation burials and a program of radiocarbon dates for the cremation burials indicate that the majority date to the second half of the 6th century just as the earliest, ritually-related funerals started at Sutton Hoo. Ultimately, this raises the possibility of an ancestral connection between the buried populations of the two cemeteries. Thus, the findings present a key new episode for our understanding of the origins of Sutton Hoo, and potentially therefore of the kingdom of East Anglia and its dynasty.

Some 2,000 years ago, certain unfortunate individuals were violently killed and buried not in graves but in bogs. What was a tragedy for the victims has proved an archaeologist’s dream, for the peculiar and acidic properties of the bog have preserved the bodies so that their skin, hair, soft tissue, and internal organs―even their brains―survive. Most of these ancient swamp victims have been discovered in regions with large areas of raised bog: Ireland, northwest England, Denmark, the Netherlands, and northern Germany. They were almost certainly murder victims and, as such, their bodies and their burial places can be treated as crime scenes. The cases are cold, but this book explores the extraordinary information they reveal about our prehistoric past.

As artists have increasingly utilised modern materials and techniques, it has presented the conservator with a host of new and complex problems that need to be addressed. As such, this is a subject of great interest to conservators, many of whom had expressed an interest in an event that could supplement their existing knowledge in this field. In response to this, the Institute of Conservation’s Paintings Group decided that this would be an appropriate theme for a conference that could provide a platform for contributors to disseminate their research on a number of topics relating to the conservation of contemporary art works. In addition, a call was put out for contributors who might be developing new and innovative techniques and materials to address conservation problems, or who might be utilising well-known materials that are already in the conservator’s toolkit in a new capacity.

A collection of papers from the ICON Paintings Group Conference: 'Modern Conservation: What's new?' (2014) discussing various aspects of the modern conservation of art. It covers a wealth of topics such as the deterioration and conservation of contemporary works of art and problems posed by it; appraisal of new conservation materials and their properties; and new and innovative techniques that are being developed and used to address conservation problems. The book also includes case studies, investigating modern conservational materials and complex ethical issues.

"Dalemfunnet", utgitt i serien Norske Oldfunn. Norske oldfunn er en publikasjonsserie utgitt av Kulturhistorisk museum.
Lotte Hedeager er redaktør for boka Dalemfunnet, og har jobbet mye med europeisk og skandinavisk historie fra vårt første årtusen.

For more than a century flint daggers have been among the most closely studied and most heavily published later prehistoric lithic tools. It is well established that they are found across Europe and beyond, and that many were widely circulated over many generations. Yet, few researchers have attempted to discuss the entirety of the flint dagger phenomenon. The present volume brings together papers that address questions of the regional variability and socio-technical complexity of flint daggers and their production. It focuses on the typology, chronology, technology, functionality and meaning of flint and other lithic daggers produced primarily in Europe, but also in the Eastern Mediterranean and East Asia, in prehistory. The 14 papers by leading researchers provide a comprehensive overview of the state of knowledge concerning various flint dagger corpora as well as potential avenues for the development of a research agenda across national, regional and disciplinary boundaries. The volume originates from a session held at the 2011 meeting of the European Association of Archaeology but includes additional commissioned contributions.

“Fortidens slagmarker” er, som titlen angiver, en bog om fortidens slagsmarker og oldtidens krige, kampe og konflikter. Bogen er baseret og dokumenteret på baggrund af gamle fund bestående af våbenudstyr fundet i grave, skeletter mærket af vold, og våbenskatte og offerfund i gudelunde. Jeanette Varberg er ærkæolog og søger uden tvivl sine eventyr i arkæologien. Hun er noget lig Danmarks svar på Indiana Jones, og med “Fortidens slagmarker” bliver du inviteret ind i en rejsefortælling, som bliver fortalt på sin helt egen måde af Jeanette Varberg, som selv har jagtet historien og fortiden.

Megalithic monuments are among the most striking remains of the Neolithic period of northern and western Europe and are scattered across landscapes from Pomerania to Portugal. Antiquarians and archaeologists early recognized the family resemblance of the different groups of tombs, attributing them to maritime peoples moving along the western seaways. More recent research sees them rather as the product of established early farming communities in their individual regions. Yet the diversity of the tombs, their chronologies and their varied cultural contexts complicates any straightforward understanding of their origins and distribution. Megalithic Architectures provides new insight by focusing on the construction and design of European megalithic tombs - on the tomb as an architectural project. It shows how much is to be learned from detailed attention to the stages and the techniques through which tombs were built, modified and enlarged, and often intentionally dismantled or decommissioned. The large slabs that were employed, often unshaped, may suggest an opportunistic approach by the Neolithic builders, but this was clearly far from the case. Each building project was unique, and detailed study of individual sites exposes the way in which tombs were built as architectural, social and symbolic undertakings. Alongside the manner in which the materials were used, it reveals a store of knowledge that sometimes differed considerably from one structure to another, even between contemporary monuments within a single region. The volume brings together regional specialists from Scandinavia, Germany, Britain, France, Belgium and Iberia to offer a series of uniquely authoritative studies. Results of recent fieldwork are fully incorporated and much of the material is published here for the first time in English. It provides an invaluable overview of the current state of research on European megalithic tombs.

I denne boka gir noen av Norges mest erfarne sankere deg en oversikt over de beste spiselige plantene. Vakre bilder og tydelige omtaler hjelper deg med å finne riktig plante. Du finner også informasjon om hvordan du kan holde plantene friske lenge, hvor du har lov til å plukke og hvordan du kan unngå giftige planter. Ikke minst finner du grunnoppskrifter på supper, pesto og mye mer, og en rekke tips om hvordan plantene kan brukes.

I «Norske skriveregler» finner du reglene du trenger for å skive på papir og skjerm. Du vil blant annet finne reglene for komma og annen tegnsetting, bindestrek og tankestrek, du får råd om stor og liten bokstav, og vanlige forkortelser. Her vil du også få hjelp til nettekster, for eksempel finner du oppskrifter på e-post og elektronisk signatur, tips til hvordan du lager hypertekst, råd om nettsider, og om hvordan man går fra manus til trykt tekst.

Kari Vetlesen har hatt stor suksess med sin forrige bok om krydder - og nå følger hun opp en bok spesielt om de norske viltvoksende kryddervekstene. Boka omtaler rundt 50 viltvoksende kryddervekster i Norge, både vekster som er opprinnelig hjemmehørende her, og innførte vekster som finnes forvillet og/eller naturalisert og som kan benyttes som krydder og smakstilsetning i mat og drikke. Med oppskrifter på bruk i mat, sauser og saft.
Plantene omtales med vekstform og voksesteder, bruksområder i mat, drikke og innen folkemedisinen, samt historiske fakta. Plantene er satt opp i alfabetisk rekkefølge, etter norske navn. I tillegg vil boken inneholde navn på nordiske språk: dansk, svensk, finsk, islandsk og samisk, samt engelsk og latin. Et eget kapittel om botanikk. Boken er rikt illustrert med tegninger og fotografier.

How did small-scale societies in the past experience and respond to sea-level rise? What happened when their dwellings, hunting grounds and ancestral lands were lost under an advancing tide? This book asks these questions in relation to the hunter-gatherer inhabitants of a lost prehistoric land; a land that became entirely inundated and now lies beneath the North Sea. It seeks to understand how these people viewed and responded to their changing environment, suggesting that people were not struggling against nature, but simply getting on with life – with all its trials and hardships, satisfactions and pleasures, and with a multitude of choices available. At the same time, this loss of land – the loss of places and familiar locales where myths were created and identities formed – would have profoundly affected people's sense of being. This book moves beyond the static approach normally applied to environmental change in the past to capture its nuances. Through this, a richer and more complex story of past sea-level rise develops; a story that may just have resonance for us today.

Denne boka gir en inngående beskrivelse av villreinen i Norge. Den tar blant annet for seg reinens biologi og fysikk, genetikk og slektskap, reinens liv gjennom året, rein og reinjakt i folketradisjonen, villreinforvaltning og rein i forskningen. For første gang gis det dessuten en grundig presentasjon av alle de 23 villreinområdene i Norge (inkludert Svalbard). Rikt illustrert med fotografier, kart og diagrammer.

I landskapet er det bevart bruddstykker av det som en gang fantes. En røys her. En gravhaug der. En gammel vei som ikke lenger fører noe sted. I jordbrukslandskapet kan man finne spor fra alle perioder i norsk historie: steinalder, bronsealder, jernalder, middelalder og nyere tid.I heftet «De eldste sporene i jordbrukslandskapet» kan du lese mer om arkeologiske kulturminner, hvordan du kjenner dem igjen og hva som kan gjøres for at de ikke skal bli borte. Publikasjonen er gitt ut av Norges Bondelag i samarbeid med Riksantikvaren, og inneholder 68 sider med mange bilder og nyttige tips.

Publikasjonen viser resultata av prosjektet Heritage of My Environment (HoME), der utvalde kommunar i Polen og Noreg har lært meir om korleis dei kan ta vare på kulturminna sine. Gjennom møte, studieturar og workshops har deltakarane i prosjektet lært meir om korleis kommunane aktivt kan bruke kulturminna for å skape verdiar i sitt lokalmiljø. På denne måten har dei også fått innsikt i historia og utfordringane til kommunane i Polen og Noreg

Museenes samfunnsoppdrag inkluderer i dag arbeid med følsomme og tabubelagte tema som folk flest ikke kjenner til eller ikke vil kjenne til. Museene blir oppfordret til å opptre som aktive samfunnsaktører som skal peke på områder i dagens samfunn som bør belyses for å rette opp bilder fra fortiden, eller for å løfte frem minoriteter og enkeltpersoner som har blitt utsatt for urettferdig behandling. For å få en bredere forståelse av hva en slik behandling betyr for de berørte, jobber museene ofte sammen med enkeltpersoner som bidrar med sine personlige beretninger.

Dette er en inspirasjonsbok og en kokebok om å ta turen ut i naturen og nyte alt det naturen har å by av på ville vekster, bær og sopp. Boken presenterer 54 spiselige ville vekster du finner her i landet. Den viser hvordan man kan bruke de ulike vekstene i en matrett, som krydder eller bare som garnityr. I boken er det artsbestemmende bilder av alle plantene (fotografert ovenfra på en lys eller mørk bakgrunn) og en introduksjonstekst til hver vekst, slik at den skal være enkel å finne (og ikke til å ta feil av). Boken har 89 oppskrifter.

This text develops a new perspective on Late Bronze Age (LBA) Ireland by identifying and analysing patterns of ritual practice in the archaeological record. The bookends of this study are the introduction of the bronze slashing sword to Ireland at around 1200 BC and the introduction and proliferation of iron technology beginning around 600 BC. Therefore, it is societal change related to new technology which defines the period discussed as the Irish Late Bronze Age (LBA) herein. Ritual practices find expression in a range of contexts which can be studied separately. However, they require an overarching, integrated ritual system to contextualise and attempt to understand their broader purpose. Similar rituals were consistently enacted in similar locations across the island of Ireland in the LBA. This indicates shared understanding of the way to enact certain rituals as well as shared understanding of what these practices would achieve.

Mobility is a fundamental facet of being human and should be central to archaeology. Yet mobility itself and the role it plays in the production of social life, is rarely considered as a subject in its own right. This is particularly so with discussions of the Neolithic people where mobility is often framed as being somewhere between a sedentary existence and nomadic movements. This latest collection of papers from the Neolithic Studies Group seminars examines the importance and complexities of movement and mobility, whether on land or water, in the Neolithic period. It uses movement in its widest sense, ranging from everyday mobilities – the routines and rhythms of daily life – to proscribed mobility, such as movement in and around monuments, and occasional and large-scale movements and migrations around the continent and across seas. Papers are roughly grouped and focus on ‘mobility and the landscape’, ‘monuments and mobility’, ‘travelling by water’, and ‘materials and mobility’. Through these themes the volume considers the movement of people, ideas, animals, objects, and information, and uses a wide range of archaeological evidence from isotope analysis; artefact studies; lithic scatters and assemblage diversity.

With a strong emphasis on data, the two volumes of this book demonstrate that mobility was essential to the European Bronze Age by exploring the shared cultural expression of Bronze Age societies in contrast to their simultaneous development of new local and regional characteristics. During this seminal époque, cultural and social formations of an entirely new kind and magnitude came to characterize Europe. The intense and dynamic relations between local and large-scale change processes coincided with increased mobility in different domains and forms, forging new identities and shaping the emergence of Europe as a distinct cultural zone. Through over fifty essays by leading Bronze Age scholars, the reader engages with cultural mobility andconnectivity and the ways in which these forces affected and transformed human behaviour.

The excavations led by Margaret and Tom Jones on the Thames gravel terraces at Mucking, Essex, undertaken between 1965 and 1978 are legendary. The largest area excavation ever undertaken in the British Isles, involving around 5000 participants, recorded around 44,000 archaeological features dating from the Beaker to Anglo-Saxon periods and recovered something in the region of 1.7 million finds of Mesolithic to post-medieval date. While various publications have emerged over the intervening years, the death of both directors, insufficient funding, many organisational complications and the sheer volume of material evidence have severely delayed full publication of this extraordinary palimpsest landscape.

The aim of the study is to examine technological, cognitive and symbolic aspects of metallurgy in southern Norway from the Bronze Age (i.e. 1700-500 cal. BC to the beginning of the Late Neolothic, i.e. c. 2400 cal. BC. Two sets of ideas are scrutinized: 1) ideas that have governed and still govern archaeological concepts of the Bronze Age, and 2) ideas that moulded Bronze Age mentality, arising, it is argued, from physical experience with metallurgy.

This volume brings together a group of peer reviewed papers, most of them presented at a workshop held at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. The event took place on 15–17 October 2011 and was part of the European Research Council (ERC) funded project Cultural Evolution of Neolithic Europe (EUROEVOL 2010-2015). The aim of the EUROEVOL project is to contribute to the new interdisciplinary field of cultural evolution that has developed over the last 30 years, and at the same time use these ideas and methods to address specific questions concerning the links between demographic, economic, social and cultural patterns and processes in the first farming societies of temperate Europe. The aim of the EUROEVOL project is to do that for the first time, and in doing so to provide the basis for a new account of the role of farming in transforming early European societies, c.6000-2000 cal BCE.

I kulturhistoriske museum blir kulturell identitet og kulturelle skilnader formidla til eit breitt publikum. Men kva forteljingar blir eigentleg fortalt i desse utstillingane? Kva bilete av oss og dei andre blir vi presentert for? Dei norske samlingane inngår i ein internasjonal museumskultur prega av ei kolonial fortid samtidig som dei var del av det nasjonale prosjektet. Samspelet mellom det koloniale og det nasjonale har vore eit tema i internasjonal museologi, men er lite reflektert over i Noreg.
I denne boka formidlar forfattarane innsikt frå den nye museologien som har vakse fram internasjonalt, og vise gjennom konkrete døme frå norske museum korleis utstillingane er konstruerte som forteljingar. Gjennom lesingar av ei rekkje kjente museumsutstillingar gir forfattarane ei innføring i teoretiske og metodiske grunnlagsproblem knytt til kulturhistoriske museumsutstillingar. Korleis snakkar norske kulturhistoriske museum om identitet og skilnader – om vi og dei andre? Kva fortel dei? Korleis gjer dei dette? Og korleis kan vi gå fram for å analysere museumsutstillingar?

The archaeological sites of Orkney give us an unparalleled glimpse into prehistory. Inscribed as the 'Heart of Neolithic Orkney' World Heritage Site in 1999, four great monuments - the village of Skara Brae, the Ring of Brodgar, the Stones of Stenness and the burial mound of Maeshowe - are also at the center of the archipelago's story. This book looks at what makes these monuments so special. Caroline Wickham-Jones explores the Neolithic world in which they were built, how they came to be a focus through the ages, and what they mean today. Picts, saints, Vikings, antiquarians and tourists populate Orkney's past: a history which is channeled through these 'dances of stones'.

At the heart of this anthology lies the world of fashion: a concept that pervades the realm of clothes and dress; appearances and fashionable manners; interior design; ideas and attitudes. Here sixteen papers focus on the Nordic world (Denmark, Norway, Sweden Finland, Iceland, the Faroe Isles and Greenland) within the time frame AD 1500–1850. This was a period of rapid and far-reaching social, political and economic change, from feudal Europe through political revolution, industrialisation, development of international trade, religious upheaval and technological innovation; changes impacting on every aspect of life and reflected in equally rapid and widespread changes in fashion at all levels of society. These papers present a broad image of the theme of fashion as a concept and as an empirical manifestation in the Nordic countries in early modernity, exploring a variety of ways in which that world encountered fashionable impressions in clothing and related aspects of material culture from Europe, the Russian Empire, and far beyond. The chapters range from object-based studies to theory-driven analysis. Elite and sophisticated fashions, the importation of luxuries and fashion garments, christening and bridal wear, silk knitted waistcoats, woollen sweaters and the influence of the whaling trade on women’s clothing are some of the diverse topics considered, as well as religious influences on perceptions of luxury and aspects of the garment trade and merchant inventories.

The Bell Beaker phenomenon is one of the most fascinating horizons in European Later Prehistory, due to its vast geographical distribution, the intrinsic value of some of the artefacts comprising the Beaker package, or its supposed links to certain kinds of ritual ceremonies as shown by the frequent deposition of Beaker items in burial contexts. At present, the idea that the Beaker package is best interpreted as a symbol of power common to socially-prominent individuals by the mid-to-late third millennium BC is widely acknowledged by scholars in this field. From this point of view, the Beaker phenomenon is seen as the archaeological evidence representing an ideology which was shared by a number of prehistoric societies geographically scattered throughout much of Western and Central Europe, or, more specifically, was only shared by elite individuals within these territories. The strategies employed by these individuals to attain such privileged statuses, however, are poorly known. Therefore, in the framework of the XVII World UISPP Congress, held in September 2014 in Burgos (Spain), a session entitled Analysis of the economic foundations supporting the social supremacy of the Beaker groups (B36) was organised by this volume s two editors. The session focused mostly on examining this issue at a European level, and less on the study of the Beaker package itself, as a way of looking at the economic foundations that helped these individuals attain their higher social statuses. The proximity of Beaker sites to natural routes of communication highlights the importance of exchange networks through which people, objects and ideas may have circulated through Europe during this time. The Amesbury Archer in southern England is one of the best examples of interaction within Beaker territories. Having said this, considering that Beaker pots themselves were not exchanged over long distances, attention must be paid to other mechanisms of diffusion. The present volume comprises the papers presented at this session suggesting that Beaker groups may have controlled certain products and technologies."

The term “Anthropocene”, the era of mankind, is increasingly being used as a scientific designation for the current geological epoch. This is because the human species now dominates ecosystems worldwide, and affects nature in a way that rivals natural forces in magnitude and scale. Thinking about Animals in the Age of the Anthropocene presents a dozen chapters that address the role and place of animals in this epoch characterized by anthropogenic (human-made) environmental change. While some chapters describe our impact on the living conditions of animals, others question conventional ideas about human exceptionalism, and stress the complex cognitive and other abilities of animals. The Anthropocene idea forces us to rethink our relation to nature and to animals, and to critically reflect on our own role and place in the world, as a species. Nature is not what it was. Nor are the lives of animals as they used to be before mankind´s rise to global ecological prominence. Can we eventually learn to live with animals, rather than causing extinction and ecological mayhem?

This publication honours Birgitta Hårdh on her 70th birthday. Birgitta Hårdh is one of the leading experts on European Viking Age, engaged in diverse research projects, and also a vital collaborator in various networks specializing in the period. Through time, Birgitta has extended her research to comprise other periods of the Iron Age. A feature common to all Birgitta Hårdh’s research is that she has been able, through analysis of a body of finds, to broaden the perspective, not least geographically through her profound knowledge of phenomena in Northern Europe and indeed all of Europe. Therefore, this book has been given the title Small Things – Wide Horizons. A total of fourty titles have been submitted to the volume. The presentations include a number of perspectives mainly of Iron Age. Themes as silver economy, coins, trinkets, burials, crafts, farms and fields, centrality and transformations give a view of the variation of contributions nationally and internationally.

This book presents, in twenty international papers, the origins and development, and some of the main characteristics and diversities, of the academic discipline of medieval (and later) archaeology in a number of countries in northern Europe--and beyond. Denmark is the main focus, together with the four other Scandinavian countries, the Faroes and Greenland. The book also provides an insight into some of the discipline's major achievements and fascinating discoveries in these parts of the world, as well as into some of the current research agendas, with their new perspectives, including developments towards the inclusion of the archaeology of more recent periods. The book is based on the proceedings of a conference held to celebrate 40 years of medieval archaeology as a university discipline in Denmark--one of the first countries to have a chair of medieval archaeology, established at Aarhus University, in 1971.

Adrian Praetzellis provides a brief, readable introduction to contemporary theoretical models used in archaeology for the undergraduate or beginning graduate student. He demystifies a dozen flavors of contemporary theory for the theory-phobic reader, providing a short history of each, its application in archaeology, and an example of its use in recent work. The book: teaches about different contemporary archaeological theories including postcolonialism, neoevolutionism, materiality, and queer theoy is written in accessible language with key examples for each theory includes illustrations and cartoons by the author provides questions at the end of each chapter to facilitate discussion.

‘Early Ships and Seafaring: Water Transport Within Europe’ builds on Professor Seán McGrail’s 2006 volume ‘Ancient Boats and Ships’ by delving deeper into the construction and use of boats and ships between the stone age and AD 1500 in order to provide up to date information. Regions covered will include the Mediterranean and Atlantic Europe.
This interesting volume is easily accessible to those with little or no knowledge of the building and uses of boats, whether ancient or modern. Seán McGrail introduces the reader to this relatively new discipline through the theory and techniques used in the study of early boats as well as the many different types of evidence available to us, including archaeological, documentary, iconographic, experimental and ethnographic, and the natural, physical laws.

For 100 000 år siden var det minst seks arter mennesker på jorden. I dag er det bare én. Vår: Homo sapiens. Har alle fremskrittene gjort oss lykkeligere som rase? Kan vår atferd noensinne frigjøres helt fra våre forfedre? Og hva, om noe, kan vi gjøre for å påvirke historiens gang i de kommende århundrer? Sapiens spenner over hele menneskehetens historie, fra de aller første menneskene på jorden for 70 000 år siden til de radikale – og noen ganger ødeleggende – revolusjonene i menneskehetens historie.

Bergverksdrift har en lang historie i Norge. Det er registrert steinalderbrudd fra Søgne i sør til Gamvik i nord. I dansketiden ble bergverksdrift på jern, kobber og sølv en viktig næring. Senere ble gruvedrift en del av industrialiseringen og moderniseringen av Norge. Mineralindustrien er fortsatt en levende næring som sysselsetter folk og skaper verdier mange steder i landet.
Bergverksdriften har etterlatt mange kulturminner av vidt forskjellig type: Gruver og skjerp, kulturlandskap med dammer, vannrenner og tufter av bygninger og maskinanlegg, rester av smelteovner, heistårn og andre tekniske installasjoner over og under jord, brakker, verksteder, kontorer og direktørboliger, små og store samfunn med bygningsmiljøer som spenner fra arbeiderboliger til kirker. Bergstaden Røros og bergstaden Kongsberg er sterkt preget av sin fortid som gruvebyer, likeså verks-samfunn som Løkken, Folldal og Sulitjelma.

En introduktion til kulturformidling forstået som de bestræbelser, de offentligt støttede kulturinstitutioner sætter i værk for, at brugerne kan få viden, oplevelser og muligheder for udfoldelse i relation til kunst og kultur. Med afsæt i kommunikationsteorier skelner forfatteren mellem tre forskellige strategier for kulturformidling.
Den første form er den afsenderbaserede. Denne formidlingsstrategi er kendetegnet ved at være en ensrettet kommunikation fra kulturinstitutionerne til brugerne i oplysningens tjeneste. Udgangspunktet er det indhold, som den enkelte institution gerne vil formidle f.eks. bibliotekets samling, museets udstilling eller teatrets repertoire.
Den anden form er den modtagerorienterede. Denne formidlingsstrategi er også ensrettet, men her er fokus flyttet fra institutionernes interne forståelser af god kunst og kultur til brugerne. Dette kan udmønte sig i, at kulturinstitutionerne forsøger at tiltrække så mange besøgende som muligt ved at komme brugernes præferencer i møde. Men det kan også handle om, at kulturinstitutionerne forsøger at få en bedre forståelse for, hvorfor brugerne kommer og hvad deres udbytte er.
Den tredje form er den dialogorienterede. I denne formidlingsstrategi er kulturinstitutionernes envejskommunikation erstattet med dialog med brugerne. Dette kan ske på mange måder: Kulturhuset kan have kreative værksteder, museet kan udvikle en særudstilling med en særlig brugergruppe, teateret kan invitere brugerne med i den skabende proces og bibliotekerne kan afholde læsekredse, hvor deltagerne får mulighed for at dele deres læseoplevelser.

Taking the European Neolithic as its focal point, this wide-ranging set of chapters illustrates how the different disciplinary paths within scientific and interpretative archaeology can be woven together to forward our understanding of early farmers, including their origins, varied subsistence practices and social networks. Contributions to the volume present a broad range of innovative approaches, including isotopic studies of mobility and diet, lipid analysis of pottery, recent advances in osteological studies and ancient DNA analysis. These are combined with chapters considering the wider theoretical implications of these analytical advances and new directions of research. The case studies discussed range across the European continent, covering from the Near East to the UK. Together this research has forced the reconsideration of long-held assumptions about the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition, the social organisation of the earliest farmers and individual biographies of past persons. In surveying the impact of recent developments in scientific archaeology on the research questions being asked of the Neolithic, an agenda is set for future collaborative research.

The Later Prehistory of North-West Europe provides a unique, up-to-date, and easily accessible synthesis of the later prehistoric archaeology of north-west Europe, transcending political and language barriers that can hinder understanding. By surveying changes in social forms, landscape organization, monument types, and ritual practices over six millennia, the volume reassesses the prehistory of north-west Europe from the late Mesolithic to the end of the pre-Roman Iron Age. It explores how far common patterns of social development are apparent across north-west Europe, and whether there were periods when local differences were emphasized instead. In relation to this, it also examines changes through time in the main axes of contact between the various regions of continental Europe, Britain, and Ireland. Key to the volume's broad scope is its focus on the vast mass of new evidence provided by recent development-led excavations. The authors collate data that has been gathered on thousands of sites across Britain, Ireland, northern France, the Low Countries, western Germany, and Denmark, using sources including unpublished 'grey literature' reports.The results challenge many aspects of previous narratives of later prehistory, allowing the volume to present a distinctively fresh perspective.

Approximately 12,000 years ago, early humans in western Asia and Europe who had been itinerant foragers, subsisting on what food they could find, slowly began settling in one place. They farmed and domesticated animals, created new tools, built monuments, and began preserving and storing food. What brought about this shift? What difference did it make to the overall population? And what effects did this Neolithic Revolution have on generations to come?
The Tale of the Axe explores the New Stone Age―named for the new types of stone tools that appeared at that time, specifically the ground stone axe―taking Britain as its focus. David Miles takes the reader on a journey through Neolithic Britain by way of its ancestors, geographical neighbors, and the species from which humans emerged before turning an eye to the future and those aspects of the Neolithic Revolution that live on today: farming, built communities, modern man, and much more. 70 illustrations, 20 in color

«Den som blev satt hundre år tilbake i tiden, vilde sikkert ikke kjenne julen igjen, men snarere tro at han var hensatt til oldtiden.» Kristofer Visted På 1930- og 40-tallet skrev kulturhistoriker Kristofer Visted en rekke artikler om norske juletradisjoner til ulike tidsskrifter og magasiner. I denne boken har Gudmund Harildstad samlet mange av juletekstene til Visted samt skrevet en bibliografi over Visteds verker. Kulturhistoriker Bjørn Sverre Hol Haugen har bidratt med et fyldig biografisk etterord. Visted forteller om tradisjonell julefeiring og kjente skikker som å gå julebukk, men også om de mørkere sidene ved norsk jul. På julenatten kunne man påkalle djevelen for å få vite hvem man skulle gifte seg med. Og hvis det ikke var tilstrekkelig overflod av mat på julebordet, kunne uhyggelige ting skje. Jul i gamle dager tar oss med på en reise tilbake til en tid da julen var gjennomsyret av folketro og farlige krefter.

Considering that Orkney is a group of relatively small islands lying off the northeast coast of the Scottish mainland, its wealth of Neolithic archaeology is truly extraordinary. An assortment of houses, chambered cairns, stone circles, standing stones and passage graves provides an unusually comprehensive range of archaeological and architectural contexts. Yet, in the early 1990s, there was a noticeable imbalance between 4th and 3rd millennium cal BC evidence, with house structures, and ‘villages’ being well represented in the latter but minimally in the former. As elsewhere in the British Isles, the archaeological visibility of the 4th millennium cal BC in Orkney tends to be dominated by the monumental presence of chambered cairns or tombs.
In the 1970s Claude Lévi-Strauss conceived of a form of social organisation based upon the ‘house’ – sociétés à maisons – in order to provide a classification for social groups that appeared not to conform to established anthropological kinship structures. In this approach, the anchor point is the ‘house’, understood as a conceptual resource that is a consequence of a strategy of constructing and legitimising identities under ever shifting social conditions.
Drawing on the results of an extensive programme of fieldwork in the Bay of Firth, Mainland Orkney, the text explores the idea that the physical appearance of the house is a potent resource for materialising the dichotomous alliance and descent principles apparent in the archaeological evidence for the early and later Neolithic of Orkney. It argues that some of the insights made by Lévi-Strauss in his basic formulation of sociétés à maisons are extremely relevant to interpreting the archaeological evidence and providing the parameters for a ‘social’ narrative of the material changes occurring in Orkney between the 4th and 2nd millennia cal BC.
The major excavations undertaken during the Cuween-Wideford Landscape Project provided an unprecedented depth and variety of evidence for Neolithic occupation, bridging the gap between domestic and ceremonial architecture and form, exploring the transition from wood to stone and relationships between the living and the dead and the role of material culture. The results are described and discussed in detail here, enabling tracing of the development and fragmentation of sociétés à maisons over a 1500 year period of Northern Isles prehistory.

Verden er kompleks og endres raskt. Hendelser som skjer ett sted får ringvirkninger andre steder. Denne boken viser at hendelser og fenomener som forekommer nær hverandre geografisk, ofte henger mer sammen enn de som skjer langt unna hverandre.
For å forstå steder, hva som finnes og skjer på et sted, og hvordan dette henger sammen med hva som finnes og skjer andre steder, trenger vi verktøy. GIS (geografiske informasjonssystemer) er et sett av verktøy som omdanner geografiske data til geografisk informasjon, og som derved bidrar til økt kunnskap der lokalisering er viktig. Lokaliteten til en hendelse (som en væpnet konflikt) eller til et fenomen (som en tregrense) er sjelden tilfeldig.
Denne boken er skrevet for studenter, fagpersoner og andre som trenger verktøy for å forstå sammenhengen mellom hendelser/fenomener og de geografiske stedene der de forekommer.

Jærens rike fugleliv er legendarisk. Allerede på 1800-tallet ble Jæren besøkt av tilreisende fugleforskere, som lovpriste de interessante fugleforekomstene de fant i denne del av landet. I våre dager er fuglekikking en utbredt hobby med kikkert, teleskop og avansert fotoutstyr.
Jærstrendene har en helt særpreget fuglefauna. Her kan man se flokker av vadefugler av mange forskjellige arter, de fleste av dem fra hekkeplasser på den arktiske tundraen i en sektor fra Sibir til Grønland. På Jærstrendene er de nedom under trekket for å ”tanke opp” til neste trekketappe. Mange sjøfuglarter holder til langs Jærkysten og kan ofte ses like utenfor brenningene. Jærkysten fungerer som overvintringsområde for mange arter dykkender, som kommer fra hekkeplasser i utpregete villmarksområder.
Boken ”Fugler langs Jærstrendene” vil være myntet på naturinteresserte turgåere fra distriktet, og intensjonene er at den skal være et enkelt hjelpemiddel til bestemmelse av de fugleartene en med rimelighet kan se langs Jærstrendene (rundt 115 arter), fortelle litt om deres levevis, og forhåpentligvis bidra til å øke turgåernes naturopplevelse.
Andre stikkord om innholdet: Jæstrendene som fugleområde. Hvilke fugler finner en langs strendene? Hvordan kikke etter fugler? Artspresentasjoner.

The Adhesive Compendium for Conservation offers information, guidelines and research results on the proper use of adhesives in conservation. The book is broken down into three sections: the first provides information on liquid and solid adhesive properties, bonding and consolidation; the second is dedicated to technical and aging information on each adhesive class, including adhesive facts, characteristics and handling properties, and reviews of relevant aging studies; and the third is devoted to discussing how adhesives are chosen for each conservation subdiscipline. The Adhesive Compendium for Conservation provides an easy reference on an exhaustive range of adhesives, making it an invaluable asset for conservation professionals and students alike.

Jeffrey D. Sachs is one of the world's most perceptive and original analysts of global development. In this major new work he presents a compelling and practical framework for how global citizens can use a holistic way forward to address the seemingly intractable worldwide problems of persistent extreme poverty, environmental degradation, and political-economic injustice: sustainable development. Sachs offers readers, students, activists, environmentalists, and policy makers the tools, metrics, and practical pathways they need to achieve Sustainable Development Goals. Far more than a rhetorical exercise, this book is designed to inform, inspire, and spur action. Based on Sachs's twelve years as director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, his thirteen years advising the United Nations secretary-general on the Millennium Development Goals, and his recent presentation of these ideas in a popular online course, The Age of Sustainable Development is a landmark publication and clarion call for all who care about our planet and global justice. Visit http://cup.columbia.edu/extras/supplement/sachs-9780231173148 for additional teaching materials for students and instructors, including chapter summaries, key concepts, problem sets, and slides.

The Vikings maintain their grip on our imagination, but their image is too often distorted by myth. It is true that they pillaged, looted, and enslaved. But they also settled peacefully and traveled far from their homelands in swift and sturdy ships to explore. The Age of the Vikings tells the full story of this exciting period in history. Drawing on a wealth of written, visual, and archaeological evidence, Anders Winroth captures the innovation and pure daring of the Vikings without glossing over their destructive heritage. He not only explains the Viking attacks, but also looks at Viking endeavors in commerce, politics, discovery, and colonization, and reveals how Viking arts, literature, and religious thought evolved in ways unequaled in the rest of Europe. The Age of the Vikings sheds new light on the complex society, culture, and legacy of these legendary seafarers.

For første gang på over 50 år her i Norge kommer en bred bok om antikken. I denne perioden har vi fått all verdens kulturer og religioner tett innpå oss, til fortrengsel for vår egen verdensdels historie. Knut Ødegård har med stor formidlingsglede og basert på de nyeste forskningsresultatene skrevet en bok om antikken for vår tid. I dag ser vi helt annerledes på denne historien enn for bare 50 år siden, og dette nye, friske blikket gjennomsyrer boka og gjør den til en moderne dannelsesreise.
Den gresk-romerske antikken var Europas første storhetstid og har vært til inspirasjon for all ettertid. Vi kan knapt snakke ett ord om politikk uten å bruke mer enn 2000 år gamle ord. Det samme gjelder en rekke andre temaer: vi tyr fortsatt til gresk og latin. Hva betyr alt dette for oss i dag?
Arkeolog og historiker Knut Ødegård forteller om de antikke samfunnene i Hellas og Roma, om hvordan de fungerte politisk, om hva det ville si å være borger i krig og fred og hvordan samfunnet utviklet seg gjennom tusen års historie i Middelhavsområdet.

This volume addresses the relationship between archaeologists and the dead, through the many dimensions of their relationships: in the field (through practical and legal issues); in the lab (through their analysis and interpretation); and in their written, visual and exhibitionary practice -disseminated to a variety of academic and public audiences. Written from a variety of perspectives, its authors address the experience, effect, ethical considerations, and cultural politics of working with mortuary archaeology. Whilst some papers reflect institutional or organisational approaches, others are more personal in their view: creating exciting andfrank insights into contemporary issues which have hitherto often remained "unspoken" amongst the discipline. Reframing funerary archaeologists as "death-workers" of a kind, the contributors reflect on their own experience to provide both guidance and inspiration to future practitioners, arguingstrongly that we have a central role to play in engaging the public with themes of mortality and commemoration, through the lens of the past. Spurred by the recent debates in the UK, papers from Scandinavia, Austria, Italy, the US, and the mid-Atlantic, frame these issues within a much widerinternational context which highlights the importance of cultural and historical context in which this work takes place.

What do the London Science Museum, California Shakespeare Theater, and ShaNaNa have in common? They are all fighting for relevance in an often indifferent world. The Art of Relevance is your guide to mattering more to more people. You'll find inspiring examples, rags-to-relevance case studies, research-based frameworks, and practical advice on how your work can be more vital to your community. Whether you work in museums or libraries, parks or theaters, churches or afterschool programs, relevance can work for you. Break through shallow connection. Unlock meaning for yourself and others. Find true relevance and shine.

The Staffordshire Hoard is an extraordinary collection of Anglo- Saxon artefacts, of gold, silver and precious garnets, probably stripped from the weaponry, armour and religious talismans of defeated armies in 7th century England. Matching its unprecedented wealth is the richness of its decoration, expressed above all in animal art. Beasts, Birds and Gods is an introduction to this art by experts working on the hoard, through a selection of key objects, exploring its zoo of creatures and their meaning. They represent the symbols of a pagan warrior aristocracy, at a time of great change with the coming of the new religion, Christianity.

Could the circulation of objects or ideas and the mobility of artisans explain the unprecedented uniformity of the material culture observed throughout the whole of Europe? The 17 papers presented here offer a range of new and different perspectives on the Beaker phenomenon across Europe. The focus is not on Bell Beaker pottery but on social groups (craft specialists, warriors, chiefs, extended or nuclear families), using technological studies and physical anthropology to understand mobility patterns during the 3rd millennium BC. Chronological evolution is used to reconstruct the rhythm of Bell Beaker diffusion and the environmental background that could explain this mobility and the socioeconomic changes observed during this period of transition toward Bronze Age societies. The chapters are mainly organized geographically, covering Eastern Europe, the Mediterranean shores and the Atlantic coast of the Iberian Peninsula, includes some areas that are traditionally studied and well known, such as France, the British Isles or Central Europe, but also others that have so far been considered peripheral, such as Norway, Denmark or Galicia. This journey not only offers a complex and diverse image of Bell Beaker societies but also of a supra-regional structure that articulated a new type of society on an unprecedented scale.

With the point of departure in three main objectives the purpose of the thesis is to examine the potential of the reasoning and concepts of the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002) in an analysis of an archaeological material. Earlier attempts to use his reasoning in archaeology have not in a sufficient way considered the complexity of these reasoning. The thesis presents an attempt to adapt and convey these reasoning to enable an archaeological analysis and interpretations about social structure and practice of the Middle-Neolithic Pitted Ware Culture (PWC) as these matters comes to expression within the burial site at Västerbjers, Gothem parish, Gotland. By examining the potential and the sustainability of Bourdieu’s epistemology and theoretical concepts on an archaeological material, the aim of the thesis is on a specific level to achieve a developed knowledge and understanding of the structure and practices such as these may have been constituted at the PWC site of Västerbjers, Gotland. . On a general level, the aim of this study is to contribute to a development of the methodological resources of the archaeological discipline. The results are presented in a summarizing compilation of the compositions of symbolic capital of how individuals group together in different sectors of practice, and how these individuals relate to the general group structure among people of Västerbjers. It is concluded that: Bourdieu’s reasoning, when they are adapted to fit the archaeological context, enables an achievement of qualified understanding concerning society, groups and individual identity and thereby a possibility to visualize intangible, immaterial relationships. This kind of implementation of an adjustment of Bourdieu’s concepts on an archaeological material constitutes a pilot study. The argumentation in this thesis therefore has a more discursive and reflexive character, as no earlier methodological model have been available that could be applied.

The Celtic languages and groups called Keltoi (i.e. 'Celts') emerge into our written records at the pre-Roman Iron Age. The impetus for this book is to explore from the perspectives of three disciplines-archaeology, genetics, and linguistics-the background in later European prehistory to these developments. There is a traditional scenario, according to which, Celtic speech and the associated group identity came in to being during the Early Iron Age in the north Alpine zone and then rapidly spread across central and western Europe. This idea of 'Celtogenesis' remains deeply entrenched in scholarly and popular thought. But it has become increasingly difficult to reconcile with recent discoveries pointing towards origins in the deeper past. It should no longer be taken for granted that Atlantic Europe during the 2nd and 3rd millennia BC were pre-Celtic or even pre-Indo-European. The explorations in Celtic from the West 3 are drawn together in this spirit, continuing two earlier volumes in the influential series.

Archaeologists have long acknowledged the absence of a regular and recurrent burial rite in the British Iron Age, and have looked to rites such as cremation and scattering of remains to explain the minimal impact of funerary practices on the archaeological record. Pit-burials or the deposit ofdisarticulated bones in settlements have been dismissed as casual disposal or the remains of social outcasts. In Death and Burial in Iron Age Britain, Harding examines the deposition of human and animal remains from the period - from whole skeletons to disarticulated fragments - and challenges the assumption that there should have been any regular form of cemetery in prehistory, arguing that the dead weremore commonly integrated into settlements of the living than segregated into dedicated cemeteries. Even where cemeteries are known, they may yet represent no more than a minority of the total population, so that other forms of disposal must still have been practised. A further example of this can befound in hillforts which, in addition to domestic and agricultural settlements, evidently played an important role in funerary ritual, as secure community centres where excarnation and display of the dead may have made them a potent symbol of identity. The volume evaluates the evidence for violent death, sacrifice, and cannibalism, as well as age and gender distinctions, and associations with animal burials, and reveals that "formal" cemetery burial or cremation was for most regions a minority practice in Britain until the eve of the Romanconquest.

Doktorgradsutdanningen har gjennomgått en god del endringer de siste årene både nasjonalt og internasjonalt. Denne boka tar for seg noen av disse endringene i lys av den norske utdanningskonteksten på doktorgradsnivå. Temaer som blir diskutert i boka:
-Hvorfor fullfører ikke 1/3 av norske doktorgradsstipendiater sine doktorgradsstudier?
-Hva vet man om betydningen av forskningsveiledningen i dette bildet?
-Hva vet vi om retningslinjene og vurderingskriteriene for den artikkelbaserte ph.d.-avhandlingen?
-Hvordan skal kandidatene posisjonere studien sin inn mot kunnskapsfronten på feltet?
-Hvilke metodiske håndverk skal til for å mestre dette?
Gjennom de fem kapitlene i boka skisseres ulike sider ved arbeidet med den artikkelbaserte ph.d.-avhandlingen i lys av forskning, styringsdokumenter og erfaringer.
Boka er relevant for doktorgradskandidater, forskningsveiledere, forskningsgruppeledere og forskerskoler.

Marking the Landinvestigates how hunter-gatherers use physical landscape markers and environmental management to impose meaning on the spaces they occupy. The land is full of meaning for hunter-gatherers. Much of that meaning is inherent in natural phenomena, but some of it comes from modifications to the landscape that hunter-gatherers themselves make. Such alterations may be intentional or unintentional, temporary or permanent, and they can carry multiple layers of meaning, ranging from practical signs that provide guidance and information through to less direct indications of identity or abstract, highly symbolic signs of sacred or ceremonial significance. This volume investigates the conditions which determine the investment of time and effort in physical landscape marking by hunter-gatherers, and the factors which determine the extent to which these modifications are symbolically charged. Considering hunter-gatherer groups of varying sociocultural complexity and scale, Marking the Landprovides a systematic consideration of this neglected aspect of hunter-gatherer adaptation and the varied environments within which they live.

Sällan har nattens timmar fått något utrymme i historieskrivningen - trots att de utgör hälften av vår tillvaro och är nog så innehållsrika som dagens timmar. Gunnar Broberg har med detta pionjärverk skapat en väldig kör av röster ur och om den svenska natten. Källorna - memoarer, dikter, traktater, tidningsartiklar m.m. - spänner över de senaste tusen åren och bekantar läsaren med vakande helgon, romantiska drömmare och sorgfria festprissar, mord och älskog, stad och land, katastrofer och kuriosa. Nattens historia är en lärd och labyrintisk bok som inspirerar och underhåller.
Gunnar Broberg är professor emeritus i idé- och lärdomshistoria vid Lunds universitet. Bland hans många populära och vetenskapliga verk märks Gyllene äpplen, som 1993 belönades med Augustpriset

What was life like in Scotland between 4000 and 2000 BC? Where were people living? How did they treat their dead? Why did they spend so much time building extravagant ritual monuments? What was special about the relationship people had with trees and why was so much time and effort spent digging holes and filling them back up again? This collection examines what we can say about how people lived in the Neolithic and early Bronze Age of mainland Scotland where much of the evidence we have lies in the plough-zone, or survives as slumped banks and filled ditches, or simply appears as ruinous megaliths. It draws together leading experts and young researchers to present fresh research and outlines radical new interpretations of the pits, postholes, ditches, rubbish dumps, human remains and broken potsherds left behind by our Neolithic forebears. Much of this evidence has come to light as a result of rescue or developer-led fieldwork in the past few decades, putting the emphasis very much on lowland, mainland Scotland as opposed to high-profile Orcadian Neolithic sites. Inspired by the work of Gordon Barclay, one of the leading scholars of Scotland's Neolithic over the last forty years, this new compilation offers a wide-ranging analysis of the evidence we have for the first farmers in Scotland.

This volume of conference papers examines the medieval altarpieces, shrines, sculptures and crucifixes of Norway, gaining intellectual access and addressing issues of visibility.

Excavation of a Scheduled burial mound on Whitehorse Hill, Dartmoor revealed an unexpected, intact burial deposit of Early Bronze Age date associated with an unparalleled range of artefacts. The cremated remains of a young person had been placed within a bearskin pelt and provided with a basketry container, from which a braided band with tin studs had spilled out. Within the container were beads of shale, amber, clay and tin; wo pairs of turned wooden studs and a worked flint flake. A unique item, possibly a sash or band, made from textile and animal skin was found beneath the container. Beneath this, the basal stone of the cist had been covered by a layer purple moor grass which had been collected in summer. Analysis of environmental material from the site has revealed important insights into the pyre material used to burn the body, as well as providing important information about the environment in which the cist was constructed. The unparalleled assemblage of organic objects has yielded insights into a range of materials which have not survived from the earlier Bronze Age elsewhere in southern Britain.

Raknehaugen ligger i Ullensaker på Romerike. Den er Nord-Europas største gravhaug, nærmere 20 meter høy. Den er bygget opp av 75.000 tømmerstokker – sier og skriver syttifemtusen stokker. Hvor kommer en slik byggemåte og gravskikk fra? Spennene nok kommer den østfra, fra Svartehavsområdet, der det var vanlig å bygge slike gravhauger. Hensikten med boka er å gi allmennheten en oppdatering om Raknehaugen gjennom en omfattende innsamling av fakta og myter, sier redaksjonskomiteen i forordet. Gjennom generasjoner har myter og sagn gått på folkemunne og bidratt til at historien fortsatt er aktuell.

Kven var eigentleg denne Geirmund Heljarskinn, kongesonen frå Avaldsnes i Rogaland som vart den mektigaste landnåmsmannen på Island på slutten av 800-talet? Dette var eitt av mange spørsmål Bergsveinn Birgisson for nokre år sidan stilte seg i boka Den svarte vikingen. For Geirmund var definitivt ein mann ei soge verdig, men det finst inga soge! Denne svært påfallande mangelen nærmar seg her ei oppklaring. For no er soga om Geirmund Heljarskinn endeleg funnen!
Birgisson fortel her i eit forord om då han i 2014 vart kontakta av ein islandsk venn og kollega som hadde gjort eit sensasjonelt funn blant nokre avlagde dokument i det islandske nasjonalbiblioteket. Ein kopi av eit skinninnbunde handskrift frå eit no forsvunne kloster på Vest-Island, som gjev seg ut for å vere nettopp denne manglande soga - og med det ei av dei tidlegaste innan soge-sjangeren og om mannen som vert sagd å vere den mektigaste av alle i Islands eldste historie.
Viss det heile då ikkje er eit plagiat og eit falsum....

Bokas tittel «Te´Jærs» er tatt fra Torvald Tu sitt dikt med samme tittel:
Te´Jærs, te´jærs, eg må heim te´jærs,
Eg kjenne´ så vel eg må!
(Torvald Tu, 1921)
Med disse ordene leder turistforeningen leserne inn i årets praktbok om Jæren. En 224 sider gjennomillustrert bok med historier, bilder, kart og turforslag.

Motstandsretten er nedfelt i Frostatingsloven som siste forsvarsinstans mot korrupte og diktatoriske styresmakter. I dag fokuseres det ofte ensidig på vikingtidens råskap, men studerer vi sagaene ser vi at det var kampen for selvråderett og frihet som var ryggraden i den norrøne verden. Denne boken fremhever det norrøne tingssystemet og individets rettsforståelse som en kime til vårt moderne folkerettslige demokrati.
Drikkelagets sosiale og politiske betydning omtales. Man var forventet å være veltalende og oppføre seg. Men det er også friske eksempler på at det motsatte skjedde! Boken er samtidig et opprop mot politikere som misligholder sine folkegitte mandater. Boken er rikt illustrert og supplert med utdrag fra sagaene.

Plants are fundamental to life; they are used by all human groups and most animals. They provide raw materials, vitamins and essential nutrients and we could not survive without them. Yet access to plant use before the Neolithic can be challenging. In some places, plant remains rarely survive and reconstructing plant use in pre-agrarian contexts needs to be conducted using a range of different techniques. This lack of visible evidence has led to plants being undervalued, both in terms of their contribution to diet and as raw materials. This book outlines why the role of plants is required for a better understanding of hominin and pre-agrarian human life, and it offers a variety of ways in which this can be achieved. Wild Harvest is divided into three sections. In section 1 each chapter focuses on a specific feature of plant use by humans; this covers the role of carbohydrates, the need for and effects of processing methods, the role of plants in self-medication among apes, plants as raw materials, and the extent of evidence for plant use prior to the development of agriculture in the Near East. Section 2 comprises seven chapters which cover different methods available to obtain information on plants, and the third section has five chapters, each covering a topic related to ethnography, ethnohistory, or ethnoarchaeology, and how these can be used to improve our understanding of the role of plants in the pre-agrarian past.

Den enestående ruinby Palmyra i Syrien har opnået en ny, sørgelig berømmelse inden for det sidste års tid. Efter at byen blev indtaget af IS i maj 2015, blev mange af de forbløffende velbevarede ruiner fra romerrigets tid ødelagt. Trods internationale protester og byens placering på UNESCO's liste over verdens kulturarv blev flere af de berømte monumenter sprængt til ukendelighed, bl.a. det imponerende tempel for guden Bel (Det Gamle Testamentes Ba'al). Byen er blevet plyndret for store mængder antikviteter, som er videresolgt på det sorte marked. Det er anden gang i historien, denne unikke oaseby midt i den syriske ørken er blevet ødelagt. Første gang var det romerne, der hærgede byen efter at have nedkæmpet den berømte dronning Zenobia, som i sin ganske korte regeringstid (ca. 267-272) gjorde oprør mod det romerske overherredømme og erobrede Ægypten og store dele af Lilleasien. Hun er blevet en legende, som skildres i en af artiklerne i den nyudkomne antologi. Den indeholder i alt 16 artikler af verdens førende Palmyra-forskere, som her øser af deres viden om byen, dens arkæologi og dens historie. Set i lyset af den sidste tids udvikling er det en uvurderlig bog, der bidrager til forståelsen af Palmyras antikke kultur.