• Arkeologisk registrering av Luftwaffe-leiren ved Gjøkåsen 

      Farstadvoll, Stein; Figenschau, Ingar; Olsen, Bjørnar Julius (Research report; Forskningsrapport, 2020-01)
      Denne rapporten tar for seg en arkeologisk registering av kulturminner i og rundt Luftwaffe-leiren fra andre verdenskrig ved Gjøkåsen like sør-vest for Noatun. Leiren ligger sør i Pasvikdalen i Sør-Varanger kommune. Området som ble undersøkt ligger også innenfor den nordlige enden av Øvre Pasvik landskapsvernområde. Den arkeologiske undersøkelsen ble utført av arkeologer fra Universitetet i Tromsø ...
    • Blant restene av Retiro: Forfall og kulturminner 

      Farstadvoll, Stein (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2016)
      This article discusses how dilapidated material heritage could be understood as something more than just an abject phenomenon. Archaeology of the recent past offers an opportunity to consider such things from a more nuanced perspective that don’t dismiss them out of hand. These nuances shed new light on how dilapidated things shape our experience of the recent past. The discussion is based on Retiro, ...
    • EXCAVATING WAR AND IDLENESS: THE CASE OF SVÆRHOLT 

      Farstadvoll, Stein; Figenschau, Ingar Olsborg; Olsen, Bjørnar Julius; Witmore, Christopher L. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-08-12)
      For the last decade, the World War II prisoner-of-war camp and battery at Sværholt in northernmost Norway have been objects of archaeological investigation. This article presents the results from excavations and associated studies, including new descriptions of extant structures and found artefacts, comparative osteological analyses of middens, and their implications. Our purpose in presenting these ...
    • Flâneries in a Northern Urban Landscape. Affective atmospheres, diffuse museum and the creation of Heritage in the 21st century. 

      Naguib, Saphinaz Amal; Farstadvoll, Stein (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2019)
      The present paper by Saphinaz Naguib and its integrated photographic essay by Stein Farstadvoll address the cultural dimension of sustainability and questions pertaining to heritage in the twenty-first century, with Vardø, a small fishing town in the north-eastern coast of Norway, as our object of study. The two essays are set in a dialogic relationship with each other, and explore the notions of ...
    • Naturmangfoldloven - vern av løse og "faste" kulturminner fra andre verdenskrig som del av særpreget og karakteren til landskapsvern-områder 

      Farstadvoll, Stein; Nilsen, Gørill (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-12-15)
      One of the main purposes of The Act of 19 June 2009 No.100 Relating to the Management of Biological, Geological and Landscape Diversity is to protect landscape diversity. Consequently, protection of cultural heritage is also an integrated part of the management of Landscape Protection Areas. Via a case study of the Second World War Luftwaffe storage site at Gjøkåsen, which is part of Øvre Pasvik ...
    • Review: Art in the Archaeological Imagination Dragoş Gheorghiu: Oxbow Books, Oxford, 2020. 144 pp. ISBN 978-1-78925-352-89 

      Farstadvoll, Stein (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021)
    • A Thorny Past: The After-War Life, and Beyond, of Nazi World War II Barbed Wire in Norway 

      Farstadvoll, Stein (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-09-20)
      Conflicts have legacies beyond peace treaties and armistices. This article focuses on one example of such an enduring heritage, namely barbed wire left after the Nazi occupation of Norway during World War II. This barbed wire has persisted up to the present day and thus presents a case that can illuminate nuances of a material legacy that is harmful but also an important source of insight and ...