• Dangerous Food. Climate change induced elevated heavy metal levels in Younger Stone Age seafood in northern Norway. 

      Blankholm, Hans Peter; Lidén, Kerstin; Kovaevic, Nikola; Angerbjörn, Karin (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-01-28)
      Stable isotope and elemental analyses of the Atlantic cod (<i>Gadus morhua</i>) and harp seal (<i>Phoca groenlandica</i>) bone component of the marine food that dominated the Younger Stone Age (c. 6.1–3.5 ka BP) diet in Varanger, Arctic northern Norway, indicate, at times, climate change induced highly elevated levels of the heavy metals cadmium (Cd) and lead (Pb), and elevated levels of mercury ...
    • In the wake of the wake. An investigation of the impact of the Storegga tsunami on the human settlement of inner Varangerfjord, northern Norway 

      Blankholm, Hans Peter (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-06-02)
      The Storegga tsunami (8175-8120 cal. BP, Bondevik et al., 2012) has often been described as a catastrophe spelling major disaster and demographic decline for the people in the danger zone. More nuance is needed if we are to understand the effects. Most studies have had a supra-regional or regional character; less effort seems to have put into studies at the sub-regional level. The Norwegian coast, ...
    • Paleoeconomy more than demography determined prehistoric human impact in Arctic Norway 

      Brown, Antony; Rijal, Dilli Prasad; Heintzman, Peter D.; Clarke, Charlotte, L.; Blankholm, Hans Peter; Høeg, Helge I.; Lammers, Youri; Bråthen, Kari Anne; Edwards, M E; Alsos, Inger Greve (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-10-07)
      Population size has increasingly been taken as the driver of past human environmental impact worldwide, and particularly in the Arctic. However, sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA), pollen and archaeological data show that over the last 12,000 years, paleoeconomy and culture determined human impacts on the terrestrial ecology of Arctic Norway. The large Mortensnes site complex (Ceavccagea ¯dgi, 70◦N) ...
    • På jakt etter forhistoriske boliger ved Lille Rostavatnet og Ostu 

      Blankholm, Hans Peter (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Man har lenge kjent til mange forhistoriske boplasser fra Yngre Steinalder (c. 5000 - 1800 f.Kr.) og Tidlig Metalltid (c. 1800 - 0 f.Kr.) med halvt-nedgravde hus langs kysten av Troms, mens det fra innlandet inntil nylig bare kjentes noen få.
    • Ørnfløya 1. En pionertidslokalitet fra tidlig eldre steinalder på yttersida av Kvaløya i Troms 

      Blankholm, Hans Peter (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-11-15)
      During the past couple of decades both research projects and rescue excavations have contributed considerably to our understanding of the early Older Stone Age pioneer settlement along the entire Norwegian coast. However, understanding of the pioneers along the coast between northern Nordland and Finnmark counties is still rather limited. Excavations have largely taken place on sites within the ...