Oppgaven ser på utviklingen av norsk mellomalderarkeologi med utgangspunkt i perioden etter 1950. Det er særlig arkeologisk feltarbeid, metodebruken og teoretiske betraktninger i forbindelse med utgravingene som diskuteres. Utgravingene ved Bryggen i Bergen (1955-1968), Folkebibliotekstomta i Trondheim (1973-1986) og Storvågan i Kabelvåg (1976-2001) trekkes fram som konkrete eksempler på ...

Substantial pyrotechnological structures and large quantities of charcoal are rarely found on Early Holocene sites in coastal Norway. Nevertheless, information on the use of fire and fuel types is available and presented in this article, a survey of sites dating from 10,000 to 8000 uncal BP. Possible fuel types and preferences are discussed and it is argued that most fires would have been small and ...

In this article the authors examine the activity of the Russian public figure, the goldmining entrepreneur and employer M.K. Sidorov and his relationship with Norwegian shipowners and marine mammal hunters, engaged in sealing and walrus hunting in the area around Novaya Zemlya and in the Kara Sea. In the 1860s and 1870s M.K. Sidorov tried to carry through a largescale project for the opening up of ...

This article traces the development and narrative staging in Russian media of the so-called Russian-Norwegian patriotic memory tours that took place from 2011 to 2019 to celebrate a heroic story of WWII Red Army soldiers and Norwegian partisans in Soviet intelligence service. The article concludes that the tours were initiated by Russian state and state-affiliated actors who exported military-patriotic ...

The article studies the Sámi experiences during the ‘German era’ in Norway and Finland, 1940–1944, before the Lapland War. The Germans ruled as occupiers in Norway, but had no jurisdiction over the civilians in Finland, their brothers-in-arms. In general, however, encounters between the local people and the Germans appear to have been cordial in both countries. Concerning the role of racial ideology, ...

Oppgåva føyer seg inn i rekka av hovudoppgåver om utvandringa frå dei nordnorske byane, der undersøkingar både frå Vadsø, Vardø og Tromsø er representerte frå før. Arbeidet medverkar såleis til ei komplettering av prosjektet med å utforske den transatlantiske emigrasjonen frå byar og tettstader i Nord-Noreg, som særleg professor Einar Niemi ved universitet i Tromsø har vore eksponent for.<p> <p>I ...

This article approaches the masses of discarded things washed ashore and roaming waterways as the new monsters of the Anthropocene. It explores the ways in which monstrosity and archaeology intersect, and how the genre of horror simultaneously emerges from and informs the current epoch. As they embark on their post-abandonment journey, things’ immense scale, spread, and refusal to serve as proxies ...

Muslim identities in Tromsø This thesis explores how seven Muslims in Tromsø understand different frames and conditions for their various Muslim identities. Seven interviews, analyzed and compared using Thomas A. Tweeds Crossing and Dwelling: A Theory of Religion (2006), illuminates how each orient themselves as Muslims in and according to different times and spaces. The interviews are done with ...