9 research outputs found
Kulturminner registrert og utgravd i forbindelse med utbygging av Lomen kraftverk, Vestre Slidre, Oppland. Del 3.
Tilsammen er det foretatt 51 registreringer (d.v.s. omlag 85 objekt) i forbindelse med utbyggingen av Lomen Kraftverk. Undersøkelsene fant sted i tidsrommet 18/5 -11/6,1982. Det ble tilsammen lagt ned 22 ukeverk i felten. Tre områder vil i hovedsak bli berørt av utbyggingen: Øyangen (inntaksområde) , Hyggjande (tverrslagsområde) og Lomen (uttaksområde - i Slidrefjorden). Utgravningene ved Hyggjande ble avsluttet i 1981. Da de endelige utbyggingsplanene viste at kulturminnene registrert ved Øyangen ikke ville bli berørt, ble det ikke foretatt undersøkelser i dette området. Årets utgravninger var derfor. begrenset til Stee, Lomen. Heller ikke i dette område vil hele det opprinnelig planlagte utbyggingsarealet bli forstyrret av anleggsvirksomheten. Av denne grunn er tre objekter ikke undersøkt, åtte er delvis utgravd, mens bare tre ble totalgravd
Impulses of agro-pastoralism in the 4th and 3rd millennia BC on the south-western coastal rim of Norway
Made available with permission from Maney Publishing / Environmental Archaeology. www.maneypublishing.com/journals/env and www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/env.A review of the available archaeological and palaeoecological evidence from the coastal
heathlands of south-western Norway was compiled to reveal the processes of neolithisation
proceeding from the Early Neolithic towards the generally accepted breakthrough in the Late
Neolithic, 2500/2350 cal. BC. South-western Norway then became part of the Scandinavian, and
thus the European, agricultural complex. Three phases of forest clearance are recorded — from
4000–3600 cal. BC, 2500–2200 cal. BC and 1900–1400 cal. BC. Deforestation was intentional and
followed a regional pattern linked to the geology and topography of the land. In the first period
(4000–2500 cal. BC), forage from broad-leaved trees was important, while cereal cultivation was
scarcely recorded. Agro-Neolithic (here referring to agriculturally-related Neolithic) artefacts and
eco-facts belonging to the Funnel Beaker and Battle Axe culture are rare, but pervasive. They
must primarily be considered to be status indicators with a ritual function; the hunter-gatherer
economy still dominated. The breakthrough in agro-pastoral production in the Late Neolithic was
complex and the result of interactions between several variables, i.e. a) deforestation resulting
from agriculture being practised for nearly 1500 years b) experience with small-scale agriculture
through generations and c) intensified exchange systems with other South Scandinavian regions.
From 2500/2350 cal. BC onwards, two distinct environmental courses are noticeable in all pollen
diagrams from the study area, indicating expansion in pastoralism, either towards heath or
towards grassland and permanent fields
Skjeletta frå Stavanger domkyrkje – ei lang og innfløkt soge 
In 1967‒68 an area under Stavanger Cathedral was excavated, which revealed more than 30 inhumations without any grave goods. Remains of 22 skeletons were boxed individually and sent to the Anatomic Institute at the University of Oslo for analysis. For some unknown reason they kept some of them and returned two boxes containing many bones in a commingled and fragmentary state to Stavanger. Since 2004, The Museum of Archaeology has aimed to revitalize these skeletons for research. Results of 14C-dates state that they all died before the erection of the church which took place in the beginning of the 12th century. Osteometric sorting managed to combine some bones into individuals while analyses of stable isotopes gave insight into their diet. So far efforts to revitalize a miserable bone collection have added new understanding of past life conditions in SW Norway. 
Kulturminner i Heiss-vassdraget, Bygland kommune, Aust-Agder.
I brev av 21.05.1979 til NVE har Otteraaens Brugseierforening søkt om konsesjon til å overføre deler av Heiss-vassdraget til Hovatn kraftanlegg. I henhold til Lov om kulturminner av 9. juni 1978 har Universitetets Oldsaksamling foretatt registrering av området i tiden 13.07.-27.07.1981. Arbeidet ble utført av cand. mag. Mari Høgestøl og cand. mag. Eva Schaller. Det registrerte området ligger i Bygland kommune, i et heiområde, omkring 700 m o.h
Randaberg - et kirkested fra middelalder. Kirketuft og kirkegård
Utført på oppdrag fra Riksantikvare
Den mystiske og anvendelige skålgropa – skålgroper som grense- og eiendomsmarkører i Rogalands jernalder
This article focuses on the various uses of cupmarks in Iron Age Rogaland. While in the Bronze Age cupmarks are associated with communal activity and were used in connection with rituals, Iron Age usage shifts towards the family and clan. They are cut into exposed bedrock, boulders and loose stones. Within the farm's infield, they can appear in the house itself, at the edge of fields, in fence systems and in cairns. In these contexts, the cupmarks can be interpreted as The Evil Eye, protecting the farm and acting as a deterrent to intruders. In some cases, their strength is reinforced with several parallel rows of marks. There are also simple rows that may indicate property boundaries between different farms and common areas. These are often found on the border between infield and outfield. Cupmarks at coastal sites may have warned outsiders against trespassing on private land.
Den mystiske og anvendelige skålgropa – skålgroper i Rogaland knyttet til ferdsel, knutepunkter og kultsteder i landskapet
Approximately 110 rock art sites and more than 100 decorated slabs/stones are known from Rogaland County, southwestern Norway. This article looks at cupmarks and their relationship to travelling routes and nodal points along the coast, waterways, and inland pathways, with a focus on dating, context and placement within the wider landscape. The primary group is located in the maritime zone and along fjord systems. These sites are related to known Bronze Age and Iron Age sailing routes, probably related to interregional exchange networks. The second group, along inland pathways, dates to the Iron Age and comprises two distributions. The northernmost group is related to summer farms and constitutes the southern fringe of a larger body of cupmark sites related to sub-alpine regions in Sogn and Hardanger. The southernmost group is found within the Dalane anorthosite and heathland and is associated with nodal points and along pathways leading to ritual places of worship.