Innledning Finnmarkskommisjonen har bedt om en gjennomgang av befolkningsutviklingen, fortrinnsvis på krets/bygdenivå, i Karasjok. Utredningen gjennomgår befolkningsutviklingen i Karasjok fra 1559 til 2001. I løpet av disse nær 450 årene skjedde det en formidabel befolkningsvekst, fra 102 individer i 1559 til 2859 talte i 2001. Veksten kan forklares med fødselsoverskudd og innflytting. Sistnevnte ...

Ground slate technology is a trademark of circumpolar hunter-gatherers occupying coastal ecotones. However, a causal framework for explaining what drives the apparent adaptive success of slate technology is lacking. Attempting to remedy this, the current paper provides the first palaeodemographic and environmentally informed review of a maritime slate complex. Employing what is arguably the best ...

One of the major renewals in the history of drama is Henrik Ibsen’s “modern tragedy” of the 1880s and 1890s. Since Ibsen’s own time, this renewal has been seen as an achievement accomplished in spite, rather than because, of Ibsen’s Norwegian and Scandinavian contexts of origin. His origins have consistently been associated with provinciality, backwardness and restrictions to be overcome, and his ...

Utbygginga av militære baser og stasjoner har pågått parallelt 13 ulike steder i det russiske Arktis – fra øst til vest – og har vakt internasjonal oppsikt.

Boka <i>Det internasjonale gjennombruddet</i> (2017) av Terje Tvedt har vekt stor debatt, særleg etter at boka <i>Norsk hamskifte</i> av Jostein Gripsrud kom ut hausten 2018. Ein siste utløpar av den debatten er Helge Pharo sin skarpe kritikk i <i>Historisk tidsskrift</i> 2/2019 og Tvedt sitt tilsvar i nummeret etter. Denne debatten er viktig, ikkje bare fordi den dreiar seg om sterke omformingskrefter ...

The issue to be discussed here is how society’s views of the Laestadian revival has changed over the course of the revival movement’s first 100 years. The article claims that society’s emerging view of the revival is characterized by two different positions. The first period is typical of the last part of the nineteenth century and is characterized by the fact that the evaluation of the revival took ...

The current article is a critical review of the neuropsychological study of religious experience. First, we analyse the philosophical and theological roots of the term and its characterization as a sui generis and unique phenomenon. We subsequently describe the adoption of the concept in psychology, as well as the emergence of alternative approaches that emphasize the role of categorization of ...

Synchronized demographic and behavioral patterns among distinct populations is a well-known, natural phenomenon. Intriguingly, similar patterns of synchrony occur among prehistoric human populations. However, the drivers of synchronous human ecodynamics are not well understood. Addressing this issue, we review the role of environmental variability in causing human demographic and adaptive responses. ...

What might heritage in and of the Anthropocene look like? This article ponders this question by drawing on archaeological encounters with assemblages of drift matter (seaborne debris) in Norway and Iceland. Here, drift matter manifests evidence of both the relentlessly amassing material heritage of the Anthropocene and deep legacies of local engagement with this fluctuating resource. The tensions ...

Using multiple archeological and paleoenvironmental proxies, this paper makes the case for a climate-induced convergent catastrophe among the human population of terminal Stone Age Arctic Norway. We show that climatic changes correlate with the termination of the so-called Gressbakken phase (4200–3500 cal BP), and unpack the middle-range mechanisms linking the Gressbakken termination to contemporaneous ...