Der im Mittelpunkt des vorliegenden Bandes stehende, in der Wesermarsch am Zusammenfluss von Weser und Hunte befindliche Ufermarkt von Elsfleth-Hogenkamp ist vor allem auf grund des überaus umfangreichen und vielfältigen Spektrums von Metallfunden wie Fibeln, Münzen und Militaria in der überregionalen Forschung bekannt geworden. Dieses Material wurde zum überwiegenden Teil mithilfe von Metalldetektoren geborgen und ist in die Römische Kaiserzeit und Völkerwanderungszeit zu datieren; seine Zusammensetzung weist auf intensive Beziehungen der im Weser-Huntemündungsbereich ansässigen Bevölkerung zum römischen Militär hin. Konzentrationen von Metallresten, zum Teil in Form von angeschmolzenen Trachtbestandteilen, und Gefäßfragmenten sowie Schlacken und Gussresten ließen außerdem den Schluss zu, dass die Metallverarbeitung eine bedeutende Rolle in der Ökonomie des Platzes gespielt hat.

This volume brings together papers written by curators, conservators and scientists who have worked very closely with European and Oriental arms and armour from some of the world's finest collections. The pieces, which have been examined in detail, include not only those made for royalty, such as the helmet of the Black Prince, the armours of King Henry VIII and the jewel-encrusted dagger of Shah Jahan, but also the apparently more mundane and those created to deceive. Through careful study and hands-on experience, each of the authors provides an eye-opening insight into the history, science and interpretation of these important objects.The essays in this title were written in honour of David Edge. Published by Archetype Publications Ltd in association with the Arms and Armour Society

Conservators and other museum professionals face a large number of issues involving the mechanical behavior of materials, including questions on craquelure, restoring physically damaged objects, art in transport, or the selection of adhesives. However, science in conservation and museum studies curricula focusses mostly on chemistry. This book fills this important gap in conservation training. It is the first such book written specifically for the conservation community and professionals with little or no background in (mechanical) engineering. It introduces the basics of mechanical properties and behavior of materials and objects with examples and exercises based on conservation practice. More complex issues of mechanical loading and advanced solutions are also introduced.

Case Studies in Paleoethnobotany focuses on interpretation in paleoethnobotany. In it the reader is guided through the process of analyzing archaeobotanical data and of using that data to address research questions. Part I introduces archaeobotanical remains and how they are deposited, preserved, sampled, recovered, and analyzed. Five issue-oriented case studies make up Part II and illustrate paleoethnobotanical inference and applications. A recurrent theme is the strength of using multiple lines of evidence to address issues of significance. This book is unique in its explicit focus on interpretation for "consumers" of paleoethnobotanical knowledge. Paleoethnobotanical inference is increasingly sophisticated and contributes to our understanding of the past in ways that may not be apparent outside the field or to all practitioners. The case study format allows in-depth exploration of the process of interpretation in the context of significant issues that will engage readers. No other work introduces paleoethnobotany and illustrates its application in this way.

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Climate change over the past thousands of years is undeniable, but debate has arisen about its impact on past human societies. This book explores the link between climate and society in ancient worlds, focusing on the ancient economies of western Eurasia and northern Africa from the fourth millennium BCE up to the end of the first millennium CE. This book contributes to the multi-disciplinary debate between scholars working on climate and society from various backgrounds. The chronological boundaries of the book are set by the emergence of complex societies in the Neolithic on the one end and the rise of early-modern states in global political and economic exchange on the other. In order to stimulate comparison across the boundaries of modern periodization, this book ends with demography and climate change in early-modern and modern Italy, a society whose empirical data allows the kind of statistical analysis that is impossible for ancient societies.

New research into the techniques of tablet weaving, sprang, braiding, knotting and lace is presented in this lavishly illustrated volume written by leading specialists from Austria, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and USA. Drawing inspiration from the pioneering work of Peter Collingwood, this publication explores aspects of these craft skills in the prehistoric, Roman and medieval world through scientific, object-based analysis and 'research through making'. Chapters include the growth of patterned tablet weaving for trimming garments in prehistoric Central Europe; recently identified styles of headdress worn in the Roman Rhineland and pre-Islamic Egypt; Viking-age Dublin as a production centre for tablet-woven bands; a new interpretation of the weaving technique used to make luxurious gold bands in the twelfth to late thirteenth centuries; and the development out of plaiting of bobbin lace borders in gold and silver threads from the fifteenth to early seventeenth centuries. Practical experiments test methods of hand spinning and the production of figure-hugging hose in ancient Greece and Renaissance Italy. A typology of braid and knotting structures in late medieval Europe is also set out for the first time.

This book explores the economic evidence for the settlement at Bornais on South Uist. It reports in detail on the large assemblages of material found during the excavations at mounds 2 and 2A. There is important evidence for craft activity, such as bone and antler working and this includes the only comb making workshop from a rural settlement in Britain. A large proportion of the copper alloy, bone and antler assemblages comprise pieces of personal adornment and provide important information on the dress and thereby social relations within the settlement occupation. There is a large assemblage of iron tools and fittings, which provides important information on the activities taking place at the settlement. The information derived from the artefact assemblages is complemented by that provided by the ecofactual material. Large amounts of animal, fish and bird bones plus carbonised plant remains provide detailed information on agricultural practices, and the processing, preparation and consumption of foodstuffs. It is clear that the Norse inhabitants of the settlement had access to a much richer variety of resources than had been exploited before the Viking colonisation of the region. The settlement also had a significantly wider range of connections; material culture indicates contacts to the south with the Irish Sea ports and Bristol, and to the north with Shetland and the Viking homelands of Norway.

Environment, Archaeology and Landscape is a collection of papers dedicated to Martin Bell on his retirement as Professor of Archaeological Science at the University of Reading. Three themes outline how wetland and inland environments can be related and investigated using multi-method approaches. 'People and the Sea: Coastal and Intertidal Archaeology' explores the challenges faced by humans in these zones - particularly relevant to the current global sea level rise. 'Patterns in the Landscape: Mobility and Human-environment Relationships' includes some more inland examples and examines how past environments, both in Britain and Europe, can be investigated and brought to public attention. The papers in 'Archaeology in our Changing World: Heritage Resource Management, Nature Conservation and Rewilding' look at current challenges and debates in landscape management, experimental and community archaeology. A key theme is how archaeology can contribute time depth to an understanding of biodiversity and environmental sustainability.

There has been an increasing archaeological interest in human-animal-nature relations, where archaeology has shifted from a focus on deciphering meaning, or understanding symbols and the social construction of the landscape to an acknowledgement of how things, places and the environment contribute with their own agencies to the shaping of relations. This means that the environment cannot be regarded as a blank space that landscape meaning is projected onto. Parallel to this, the field of environmental humanities poses the question of how to work with the intermeshing of humans and their surroundings. To allow the environment back in as an active agent of change, means that landscape archaeology can deal better with issues such as global warming, an escalating loss of biodiversity as well as increasingly toxic environment. However, this does not leave human agency out of the equation. It is humans who reinforce the environmental challenges of today.

Håndboka er laget for alle som interesserer seg for gamle veier og historiske veifar, alt fra forvaltningen, privatpersoner, lag, organisasjoner til andre. Alle som jobber med prosjekt som berører eldre ferdselsårer vil kunne ha nytte av kompetansen fra boken. Boken er utgitt av Statens vegvesen og Riksantikvaren, i samarbeid med Miljødirektoratet, DNT og Vestland fylkeskommune. Målet er at den skal fungere som en veiledning til hvordan man kan ivareta og tilrettelegge gamle veger.

Norge har over 19 000 insektarter, og i denne vakre boka blir du bedre kjent med dem. Boka gir en oversikt over alle de 23 ordenene av insekter her til lands, samt de viktigste familiene. For hver gruppe kan du lese om antall arter og insektenes utseende, levested, status og økologiske betydning. Mange insekter i Norge er utrydningstruet. Å bli bedre kjent med dem gjør oss kanskje i stand til å ta bedre vare på miljøet de trenger for å leve. Som i sine tidligere bøker, viser Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson sin fascinasjon for insektene og gir leseren spennende og overraskende fakta. Boka er rikt illustrert med foto og tegninger.

Årbok 2021 / Nordmøre museum. Dette er den første boka som presenterer ­Kulisteinen; Norges dåpsattest og verdens nordligste runestein. Kulisteinen er en del av Norges dokumentarv og er mer enn tusen år gammel. I denne boka analyseres den mystiske steinen av Norges ledende fagfolk fra ulike felt. De skriver for den historieinteresserte leser. Steinen presenteres som skriftkultur og monument.

Årbogen indeholder syv artikler om væsentlige undersøgelser og nye forskningsresultater indenfor dansk arkæologi med bidrag af Casper Sørensen, Mathias Bjørnevad-Ahlqvist, Lasse Sørensen, Morten Larsen, Thomas Guntzelnick Poulsen, Turi Thomsen, Ole Kristiansen, Sune Villumsen, Kirstine Haase, Tobias Torfing, Mathias Søndergaard, Helene Agerskov Rose og Jes Wienberg. Alle artikler i Kuml 2021 er fagfællebedømt efter gældende regler.

The study of the movement of 'things' - the exchange of objects as gifts or through trade, the itineraries that they followed when on the move, and their changing importance from location to location - can offer unique insights into our understanding of past societies; and archaeology plays a vital role in allowing such movements to be traced. Nonetheless, the circulation of objects across time, and between peoples and places, has long been neglected as a field of research in its own right. This volume aims to address this gap in scholarship by drawing on recent archaeological research to provide a detailed study of the moment of objects across Europe in the late medieval and early modern period. The contributions gathered here trace the interactions between peoples, ideas, and objects in order to explore the impact of movement both on the material things themselves, and on the people who manufactured, exchanged, or used such goods. The volume draws on a wide range of archaeological evidence to explore subjects as varied as production and transport, modes of trade, the connections between trade and religion, and the emotional connections between things and people.

"The Mesolithic in Britain proposes a new division of the Mesolithic period into four parts, each with its distinct character. The Mesolithic has previously been seen as timeless, where little changed over thousands of years. This new synthesis draws on advances in scientific dating to understand the Mesolithic inhabitation of Britain as a historical process. The period was, in fact, a time of profound change: houses, monuments, middens, long term use of sites and regions, manipulation of the environment and the symbolic deposition of human and animal remains all emerged as significant practices in Britain for the first time. The book describes the lives of the first pioneers in the early Mesolithic; the emergence of new modes of inhabitation in the Middle Mesolithic; the regionally diverse settlement of the late Mesolithic; and the radical changes of the final millennium of the period. The first synthesis of Mesolithic Britain since 1932, it takes both a chronological and a regional approach".

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"The Viking berserkr is an iconic warrior normally associated with violent fits of temper and the notorious berserksgangr or berserker frenzy. This book challenges the orthodox view that these men went berserk in the modern English sense of the word. It examines all the evidence for medieval perceptions of berserkir and builds a model of how the medieval audience would have viewed them. Then it extrapolates a Viking Age model of berserkir from this model and supports the analysis with anthropological and archaeological evidence to create a new and more accurate paradigm of the Viking Age berserkr and his place in society. This shows that berserkir were the champions of lords and kings, members of the social elite, and that much of what is believed about them is based on seventeenth-century and later scholarship and mythologizing: the medieval audience would have had a very different understanding of the Old Norse berserkr from that people have now. The book sets out a challenge to rethink and reframe our perceptions of the past in a way that is less influenced by our own modern ideas.

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Sjøfartshistorisk årbok 2019 er en innholdsrik bok på over 250 sider med fire ulike artikler. Harald Espeli skriver om redernes motstand mot aksjeloven av 1910, og hvorfor de fikk politisk gjennomslagskraft. Håvard Onsrud analyserer i sin artikkel hvordan allierte angrep på tre skip i hjemmeflåten under krigen ble omtalt i norsk presse. Skipsklinking er tema for Ida Pettersen og Bjørn Anders Nesdal sin tekst om hvorvidt endringer i skipsbygging hang sammen med innføring av regelverk på slutten av 1800-tallet. Til slutt gir Per Kristian Sebak et historisk tilbakeblikk på cruisebyen Bergen fra 1884 til i dag.

This book provides a general self-reflexive review and critical analysis of Scandinavian rock art from the standpoint of Chris Tilley's research in this area over the last thirty years. It offers a novel alternative theoretical perspective stressing the significance of visual narrative structure and rhythm, using musical analogies, putting particular emphasis on the embodied perception of images in a landscape context. Part I reviews the major theories and interpretative perspectives put forward to understand the images, in historical perspective, and provides a critique discussing each of the main types of motifs occurring on the rocks. Part II outlines an innovative theoretical and methodological perspective for their study stressing sequence and relationality in bodily movement from rock to rock. Part III is a detailed case study and analysis of a series of rocks from northern Bohuslän in western Sweden. The conclusions reflect on the theoretical and methodological approach being taken in relation to the disciplinary practices involved in rock art research, and its future.

Krydderet har en sentral plass i verdenshistorien. Disse vekstene, som i seg selv er ganske stedegne, har som handelsvare reist på tvers av kontinenter, og er grunnlaget for store imperier, og de er en kilde til samkvem og konflikter mellom ulike kulturer. I denne boken følger Thomas Berg Reinertsen krydderets historie fra urtid og frem til dagens situasjon. Han viser hvordan behovet for disse plantene var en driver i vestens kolonialisering rundt om på kloden, men også hvordan de har bidratt til samfunnsbygging og økonomi langs de store handelsrutene.

Forfatteren Arngeir Berg fører oss inn i folketroens fascinerende forestillingsunivers, og tar for seg de viktigste trærne og buskene som er blitt brukt som medisin og hjelperåd i en verden som var så godt som fri for autorisert legehjelp. Fra de eldste tider har trær hatt stor betydning for liv, helse og fruktbarhet hos mennesker og dyr. Trærne symboliserte førkristne oppfatninger om maktene som styrte, kosmos og solgud, og som ofte fikk nye navn og betegnelser ved innføringen av kristendommen. I norrøn mytologi hadde vi asken Yggdrasil, livstreet eller verdenstreet, med greiner som strakte seg over jorda og himmelen. Trær har vernet mot sykdom, vonde makter og trolldom. I samfunn med epidemier og sykdommer, men uten helsevesen og leger, skal man ikke kimse av de ‘kloke’ kvinner og menn, gamle tradisjoner og ikke minst placeboeffekten.

DNA ancestry companies generate revenues in the region of $1bn a year, and the company 23andMe is said to have sold 10 million DNA ancestry kits to date. Although evidently popular, the science behind how DNA ancestry tests work is mystifying and difficult for the general public to interpret and understand. In this accessible and engaging book, Sheldon Krimsky, a leading researcher, investigates the methods that different companies use for DNA ancestry testing. He also discusses what the tests are used for, from their application in criminal investigations to discovering missing relatives. With a lack of transparency from companies in sharing their data, absent validation of methods by independent scientists, and currently no agreed-upon standards of accuracy, this book also examines the ethical issues behind genetic genealogy testing, including concerns surrounding data privacy and security. It demystifies the art and science of DNA ancestry testing for the general reader.

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This book is the result of a collaboration between archaeologist Irmelin Martens and chemist Eva Elisabeth Astrup. 220 swords have been found in Telemark, and they are a mix of domestic Norwegian and imported European types. The difficulties in determining which ones were made in Norway are complicated by and closely connected to the specific skills Norwegian blacksmiths had mastered with respect to both blade construction and inlay decoration. The metallographic investigations revealed five construction types for sword blades, of which four, requiring different technical levels of smithing, may well have been mastered by Norwegian blacksmiths at that time. Combined with x-ray radiographic studies, the metallographic investigations indicate that new techniques were indeed introduced and disseminated among weaponsmiths during the Viking Age.

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Viking-Age trade, network theory, silver economies, kingdom formation, and the Scandinavian raiding and settlement of Ireland and Britain are all popular subjects. However, few have looked for possible connections between these phenomena, something this book suggests were closely related. By allying Blomkvist's network-kingdoms with Sindbæk's nodal market-networks, it is argued that the political and economic character of Viking-Age Britain and Ireland - my 'Insular Scandinavia' - is best understood if Dublin and Jórvík are seen as being established as nodes of a market-based network-kingdom. Based on a dataset relating to the then developing bullion economies of the central and eastern Scandinavian worlds and southern Scandinavia in particular, it is argued that war-band leaders from, or familiar with, 'Danish' markets like Hedeby and Kaupang transposed to Insular Scandinavia the concept of polities based on establishment of markets and the protection of routeways between them.

Universitetsmuseet i Bergen er kåra til Årets museum 2021 av Norges Museumsforbund. Her kan du lesa om samlingar og samlarar, om ukjende objekt og innsatsen til mindre kjende personar. Her er òg artiklar om spanande funn og det funna kan fortelja om livet i tidlegare tider. Som vanleg har årboka artiklar av forfattarar utanfrå museet, noko vi set stor pris på. Her er dessutan omtalar av enkelte av dei mange pågåande prosjekta ved museet. Redaksjonen sitt mål er å løfta fram spanande historier som du ikkje kjende til, og som gjer deg nysgjerrig på å følgje spor av kunnskap frå fortid og nåtid.