Faculty of Textile Engineering, Technical University of Liberec, in cooperation with the Institute of Archaeology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, published proceedings from the international conference NESAT XIII (North European Symposium for Archaeological Textiles) that they jointly organized in May 2017. The publication consists of 33 contributions covering a wide range of topics such as research methods related to archaeological textiles, textile production in the past, new textile discoveries, as well as new analyses of previous finds.

Burials and Society in Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Ireland describes and analyses the increasing complexity of later Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age burial in Ireland, using burial complexity as a proxy for increasing social complexity, and as a tool for examining social structure. The book commences with a discussion of theoretical approaches to the study of burials in both anthropology and archaeology and continues with a summary of the archaeological and environmental background to the Irish Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age. Then a set of criteria for identifying different types of social organisation is proposed, before an in-depth examination of the radiocarbon chronology of Irish Single Burials, which leads to a multifaceted statistical analysis of the Single Burial Tradition burial utilising descriptive and multivariate statistical approaches. A chronological model of the Irish Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age is then presented which provides the basis for a discussion of increasing burial and social complexity in Ireland over this period, proposing an evolution from an egalitarian society in the later Chalcolithic Period through to a prestige goods chiefdom emerging around 1900 BC.

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Dogs in the North offers an interdisciplinary in-depth consideration of the multiple roles that dogs have played in the North. Spanning the deep history of humans and dogs in the North, the volume examines a variety of contexts in North America and Eurasia. The case studies build on archaeological, ethnohistorical, ethnographic, and anthropological research to illuminate the diversity and similarities in canine-human relationships across this vast region. The book sheds additional light on how dogs figure in the story of domestication, and how they have participated in partnerships with people across time. With contributions from a wide selection of authors, Dogs in the North is aimed at students and scholars of anthropology, archaeology, and history, as well as all those with interests in human-animal studies and northern societies. 

The papers in this volume were presented at the 33rd and 34th meetings of the Dyes in History and Archaeology conferences and cover studies on a variety of dyed textiles and pigments. Topics include: historical dyeing practices in parts of Europe, Asia and Latin America; the analysis of the dye plant species for use as an indicator of the region where dying occurred; the application of multispectral imaging techniques and the chemical variability of aniline dyes and how the adoption of synthetic dyes affected 19th century fashion.

A cookbook and culinary factbook based on what we know today about the Viking Age food culture. Both the recipes and the factbook part are based on finds, literary sources, other contemporary sources and experimental archaeology. In the first part of the book the authors present the food of the Viking Age. They describe what one may have eaten during the Viking Age, how the food was prepared and the practices that surrounded eating the food. This chapter is based on the yet to be finished doctoral thesis by Daniel Serra, archaeological finds from the period across Scandinavia and a range of various other sources. The second part is a cookbook presented as a journey through Viking Age Scandinavia with 42 different recipes divided into seven geographical areas. The recipes are based upon archaeological finds and experimental archaeology bound together by the combined archaeological and culinary expertise of Daniel Serra and Hanna Tunberg. Almost all dishes can be cooked just as easily in the kitchen as out in a re-enactors camp.

I 1921 fandt man i Egtved en egekiste fra Bronzealderen begravet i resterne af en gravhøj. Indeni var resterne af en ung kvinde, Egtvedpigen, og hendes overraskende velbevarede tøj. Lige siden har Egtvedpigen været et af de allervigtigste fund i dansk museumshistorie og er derfor anset for at være indbegrebet af danskhed. Ny forskning udført af Nationalmuseet påviser dog, at den unge kvinde ikke stammer fra Egtved og omegn, men faktisk har rejst en del og krydset lange afstande i sit korte liv. I "Egtvedpigens rejse" inviterer forskeren Karin Margarita Frei læseren med ind i laboratoriet, hvor hun gjorde sine overraskende opdagelser og fortæller om, hvordan nyheder om fortiden bliver afsløret gennem arkæometri. "Egtvedpigens rejse" er et spændende dyk ned i historieforskningens tekniske verden fortalt af Karin Margarita Frei, der er professor i arkæometri ved Nationalmuseet. Bogens forord er skrevet af direktør for Nationalmuseet, antropologen Rane Willerslev.

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The Encyclopedia of Archaeological Sciences provides an authoritative and comprehensive overview of the scientific concepts and techniques that have shaped the contemporary discipline of archaeology. Sponsored by the Society for Archaeological Sciences, this is an essential resource on core topics in the integration of scientific methods into archaeological practice with extensive coverage on subjects of interdisciplinary interest, describing both the latest in technological and scientific developments as well as the foundational theoretical approaches that connect archaeology to broader topics in the social sciences and humanities. In a four-volume set comprised of over 480 entries as selected by leading researchers in the field, this encyclopedic reference work represents the contributions of scholars working all over the world, making this a truly international resource, suitable to support the work of archaeologists engaged with global questions on both the past and future of the discipline. www.archaeologicalsciencesencyclopedia.com

Fjellflora ble første gang utgitt i 1952. I boka finner du navn, beskrivelser og akvarelltegninger av de 164 vanligste plantene i den norske fjellheimen. Denne fjortende utgaven av Fjellflora er oppdatert med hensyn til de forskjellige data, spesielt når det gjelder latinske navn, utbredelse og oppdeling i underarter. Fjellflora er skrevet av en av Nordens fremste eksperter på fjellets planteliv, professor Olav Gjærevoll og botaniker Reidar Jørgensen. Kunstneren Dagny Tande Lid står bak de praktfulle akvarelltegningene av plantene. Det hendige formatet gjør boka til et fast følge på fjelltur – nyt plantene der de vokser!

Avhandling UiO. Gjennom en utforskende studie av folkevandringstidens (ca. 400–550 e.Kr.) gull, undersøker Marie Dave Amundsen kompleksiteten ved materialbruk og teknologi knyttet opp mot menneskers bruk av gullet og sosial organisasjon. Hun vektlegger en relasjonell tilnærming til gullet, hvor Manuel DeLandas konsepter egenskaper og kapasiteter er forløsende for forståelsen. Et utgangspunkt for Amundsens studie er en relativt lite utforsket gjenstandskategori: såkalt «betalingsgull». Ved å gå vekk fra betegnelsen «betalingsgull» som legger moderne økonomiske føringer, og introdusere betegnelsen «nyttegull», åpner Amundsen opp for nye tolkninger. Et dypdykk inn i en spesifikk nyttegullkategori bestående av spirallagte gullstenger og deres produksjon, illustrerer en større bredde i nyttegullmaterialet enn det tidligere er tatt høyde for. Dette legger grunnlag for en diskusjon rundt andre gjenstandstyper, og bruk av gullet.

In prehistoric societies children comprised 40-65% of the population, yet by default, our ancestral landscapes are peopled by adults who hunt, gather, fish, knap tools and make art. But these adults were also parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles who had to make space physically, emotionally, intellectually and cognitively for the infants, children and adolescents around them. Growing Up in the Ice Age is a timely and evidence-based look at the lived lives of Paleolithic children and the communities of which they were a part. By rendering these 'invisible' children visible, readers will gain a new understanding of the Paleolithic period as a whole, and in doing so will learn how children have contributed to the biological and cultural entities we are today.

The aim of this book is to explore the interdisciplinary relationships between archaeology and other branches of knowledge in Europe and elsewhere. Interdisciplinary cooperation has been essential in the development of archaeology as we know it today, although until now its role and influence have been largely ignored in the histories of the discipline. This book brings to light the processes that led to interdisciplinary relations in archaeology from the 19th to the 20th centuries, with scholarly contributions that offer a critical overview of this complex, dynamic and long-lasting transformative process. This is a pioneering project in the field of the history of archaeology, as it is the first to examine the inclusion into archaeological practice of various disciplines categorised under the umbrella of hard, natural and social sciences, as well as the humanities. This insertion led to ground-breaking interdisciplinary collaborations and, ultimately, to the birth of new branches within archaeology, including, for example, archaeozoology, archaeobotany, geoarchaeology and archaeometallurgy.

Jelsa er rik på kulturminner, og i denne boka finner du omtaler av faste kulturminner og andre spor eter menneskelig aktivitet.

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In the 5th–7th centuries AD, members of the female population in Scandinavia frequently wore a costume adorned with conspicuous items of jewellery. Many of the items, such as brooches and clasps, were dress-accessories used to fasten these garments. Some of them, moreover, were popular over an extended area of Europe, and have been found in Scandinavia, Anglo-Saxon England and on the Continent alike. This book provides an analysis of more than 1,800 such items of jewellery from Scandinavia. It explores the contextual and geographical distribution through time of four major types of dress-accessory: cruciform brooches, relief brooches, wrist-clasps and conical brooches.

Årgang 2021 av museets årbok inneholder som vanlig både fagfellevurderte vitenskapelige artikler, andre forskningsarbeider, populærvitenskapelige artikler og «småstoff» fra Norsk Maritimt Museums samlinger og virksomheten i foregående år. Innholdet gjenspeiler den store bredden i museets interesse- og virkefelt, overalt «hvor fartøy flyte kan», i ferskvann så vel som i saltvann. Seksjonen med fagfellevurderte vitenskapelige artikler inneholder denne gangen tre artikler om norsk fartøyvern som et nokså nytt forskningsfelt, om gravmonumentenes betydning som seilingsmerker i Sunndalsfjorden i gammel tid, og om det omfattende og dramatiske redningsarbeidet under Alexander Kielland-ulykken i 1980

This book brings together, for the first time, all of the burials and funerary practices from the Middle Neolithic to the end of the Middle Bronze Age (3600-1200 BC) in Wales into one coherent volume. The work is the first to provide an up-to-date synthesis of monument form and mortuary practice in Neolithic and Bronze Age Wales. It provides a comprehensive overview of all human bone deposits (both cremation and inhumation) throughout this time span. This comprises the osteological analysis of over 250 human bone deposits, with new observations and interpretations. The book engages with current debates on the changing character and significance of burial rites in later prehistory.

Oseberg 34D er ett av 52 brikkevevde bånd fra Oseberggraven. Denne boken er første bok av tre. To bøker til er underveis med tilsammen ti rekonstruerte bånd fra funnet.

Objects of adornment have been a subject of archaeological, historical, and ethnographic study for well over a century. Within archaeology, personal ornaments have traditionally been viewed as decorative embellishments associated with status and wealth, materializations of power relations and social strategies, or markers of underlying social categories such as those related to gender, class, and ethnic affiliation. Personal Adornment and the Construction of Identity seeks to understand these artefacts not as signals of steady, pre-existing cultural units and relations, but as important components in the active and contingent constitution of identities. Drawing on contemporary scholarship on materiality and relationality in archaeological and social theory, this book uses one genre of material culture - items of bodily adornment - to illustrate how humans and objects construct one another. Providing case studies spanning 10 countries, three continents, and more than 9,000 years of human history, the authors demonstrate the myriad and dynamic ways personal ornaments were intertwined with embodied practice and identity performativity, the creation and remaking of social memories, and relational collections of persons, materials, and practices in the past.

This book is about sustainable agriculture and architecture in the past, and the engineering works that supported them, but it also looks to the future. Ancient technologies are what engineers define as 'intermediate', which means that they are often simple, low in cost and they depend on local materials. Significantly, they don't require fossil fuels. There is a lot that we in the West can learn from the past and from developing countries where people still practice traditional agriculture, and there is now broad agreement among many governments, non-government organisations, engineers and agronomists, as well as the United Nations, that intermediate technologies are often the most appropriate way forward in developing countries. The New Green Revolution is looking to traditional knowledge to solve problems of decreasing yields and environmental impoverishment, rather than to technology that is dependent on the diminishing resource of fossil fuels. This subject is controversial and I have been accused of suggesting 'pie in the sky' ideas, but the re-introductions I'm suggesting are already being carried out in countries all over the world.

These books are designed to lead the blacksmith along a set course of technique and understanding.
Volume I. Mastering the Fundamentals of Blacksmithing -- Vol II. Mastering the Fundamentals of Leaf-work -- Vol III. Mastering the Fundamentals of Traditional Joinery

The Great Houses of the prehistoric and early medieval periods were enormous structures whose forms were modelled on those of domestic dwellings. Most were built of wood rather than stone; they were used over comparatively short periods; they were frequently replaced in the same positions; and some were associated with exceptional groups of artefacts. Their construction made considerable demands on human labour and approached the limits of what was possible at the time. They seem to have played specialised roles in ancient society, but they have been difficult to interpret. Were they public buildings or the dwellings of important people? Were they temples or military bases, and why were they erected during times of crisis or change? How were their sites selected, and how were they related to the remains of a more ancient past? Although their currency extended from the time of the first farmers to the Viking Age, the similarities between the Great Houses are as striking as the differences. This study focuses on the monumental buildings of northern and northwestern Europe, but draws on structures over a wide area, extending from Anatolia as far as Brittany and Norway.

Ny forskning og nye funn avdekker spennende historier om vikingtiden. Vikingene og deres æra er både nær og fjern for oss på samme tid. Fortsatt avdekker arkeologer og historikere nye sider av historien. I denne nye og rikt illustrerte boken presenterer arkeolog og phil. dr. Terje Gansum flere av de nyeste oppdagelsene og teoriene om vikingenes verden. Gamle og nye gravfunn, ikke minst fra de store skandinaviske kongesetene viser hvordan makt og mennesker beveget seg og skiftet over store områder, mens berømte og mindre kjente funnsteder avslører uventede forbindelser og fascinerende hemmeligheter.

This volume explores the changes that occurred during the Viking Age, as Scandinavian societies fell in line with the larger forces that dominated the Insular world and Continental Europe, absorbing the powerful symbiosis of Christianity and monarchy, adapting to the idea of royal lineage and supremacy, and developing a buzzing urbanism coupled with large-scale trade networks. Presenting research on the grand context of the Viking Age alongside localised studies, it contributes to the furthering of collaborations between local and 'outsider' research on the Viking Age. Through a diversity of approaches on the Viking homelands and the wider world of the Vikings, it offers studies of a range of phenomena, including urban and rural settlements; continuity in the use of places as well as new types of places specific to the Viking Age; the social significance of change; the construction and maintenance of social identity both within the 'homelands' and across large territories; ethnicity; and ideas of identity and the creation and recreation of identity both at home and abroad. As such, it will appeal to historians and archaeologists with interests in Viking-Age studies, as well as scholars of Scandinavian studies.

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Volcanoes in Old Norse Mythology details how Viking Age Icelanders, migrating from Scandinavia to a new and volcanically active environment, used Old Norse mythology to understand and negotiate the hazards of the island. These pre-Christian myths recorded in medieval Iceland expound an indigenous Icelandic theory on volcanism that revolves around the activities of supernatural beings, such as the fire-demon Surtr and the gods Odin and Thor. Before the Icelanders were introduced to Christianity and its teachings, they formulated an indigenous theory of volcanism on basis of their traditional mythology much like other indigenous peoples across the world.