Charlotte Damm- Professor at UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Charlotte Damm
- Professor at UiT The Arctic University of Norway
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Mesolithic research has undergone a series of important transformations over the past several decades, making it one of the most dynamic and prolific fields of archaeology today. The handbook captures our ambition to demonstrate the plurality of perspectives and developments in Mesolithic research, combining theoretically new and innovative questio...
Slate was a prominent tool material in the Scandinavian Stone Age. However, details of tool function have relied on morphology and have added little to our understanding of their role in hunting and processing. Here, we demonstrate that it is possible to identify both the use‐wear traces and residues from slate knives from northern Norway. By apply...
Scale matters. When conducting research and writing, scholars upscale and downscale. So do the subjects of their work – we scale, they scale. Although scaling is an integrant part of research, we rarely reflect on scaling as a practice and what happens when we engage with it in scholarly work. The contributors aim to change this: they explore the p...
Scale matters. When conducting research and writing, scholars upscale and downscale. So do the subjects of their work - we scale, they scale. Although scaling is an integrant part of research, we rarely reflect on scaling as a practice and what happens when we engage with it in scholarly work. The contributors aim to change this: they explore the p...
"Decolonising the Mesolitic?" was a virtual workshop held on May 21st 2021. It was attended by 38 researchers from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, mainly, but not exclusively, active Mesolithic researchers from Europe. This short paper reports on the organisation of this workshop, and the response it elicited from its participants.
In circumpolar regions, coastlines offer rich constellations of diverse resources and have long been a focus of human habitation. Despite the rich archaeological records that are located along many northern coastlines, there is a relatively limited understanding of the range of factors that informed local settlement strategies. Northern Norway has...
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...
The northernmost parts of Europe has a large number of sites with Stone Age house-pits, the majority of which date from c. 5000 BC onwards. Remarkably, the remains of these dwellings are many places still visible on the surface. In northern Norway, such dwellings concentrate in the coastal areas, with a more limited number found on inland sites. In...
I forbindelse med forskningsprosjektet Stone Age Demographics ble det i 2019 foretatt befaring og registrering på tre steder i Sørøysund i Vestfinnmark: Fella, Vatnan og Gåshopen. To av områdene var fra tidligere kjent som rike på kulturminner, mens det bare var få registrert på det siste området. Det viste seg at alle 3 områder markerer seg med sæ...
During the past two decades Scandinavian archaeologists have increasingly participated in projects abroad. Only a few ofthe projects are based on past cultural-historical links, while the majority are based on comparative and collaborative perspectives, often on other continents. The reason for this development is partly the theoretical development...
The increasing number of Stone Age rock art sites across northern Fennoscandia invites studies of variation in topography and motivations between locations, both between and within regions. Even a preliminary overview suggests significant differences between regions, which in turn must indicate differences in perceptions and practices at the major...
Forskningsprosjektet «Stone Age Demographics» gjennomførte sommeren 2018 to befarings- og dokumentasjonsreiser til Seiland, Slettnes og Vargsundet i Vestfinnmark. Dels ble en rekke tidligere kjente lokaliteter besøkt med henblikk på ny georeferert dokumentasjon og lokalitetsbeskrivelse, dels ble det sett etter nye boplasser. Rapporten gjennomgår de...
Call for papers.
Please submit your contributions until the 11th of Feb 2021 via the Login of the EAA homepage:
https://eaa.klinkhamergroup.com/eaa2021/
Rapport fra registrering og dokumentasjon av kulturminneområdet på Taborshamn beliggende øst for Hasvik på Sørøya. Området beskrives og det gis detaljert informasjon om alle 51 kulturminner. Rapporten inneholder kart over og fotografier av kulturminnene.
I forbindelse med forskningsprosjektet «Stone Age Demographics» (StoneD), initiert innenfor forskningsgruppen SARG (Sub-Arctic Stone Age Research Group), ble det i perioden 26. juni – 2. juli 2017 foretatt arkeologisk feltarbeid i Hasvik kommune, Finnmark. Arbeidet fulgte opp feltarbeidet i 2016 (se Skandfer og Damm 2019), og bestod i ny dokumentas...
Arkeologisk registreringsrapport fra feltarbeid i Hasvik 2016. Kartfesting og oppmåling av boplasser med nedgravde tufter fra steinalder.
Most parts of the Circumpolar Arctic have only discontinuous evidence for long-term human settlement. In contrast, Northern Norway has an unbroken archaeological record that extends back to the early Holocene. Numerous high-resolution archaeological and palaeoenvironmental records have been generated by commercial excavations and surveys, offering...
While single pollen records are widely used in reconstructing the environment for nearby prehistoric settlements, they are less helpful when addressing large‐scale issues of variation in human settlement patterns. In order to assess the impact of vegetation change on regional prehistoric settlement and subsistence patterns in an ecotone sensitive a...
Introduction In contemporary archaeology there is a general understanding that societies are not bounded homogeneous entities. In our theoretical arguments we emphasize heterogeneity, hybridity and creolization. It is, however, altogether less clear how we are to transfer this to actual interpretations of archaeological and perhaps especially prehi...
Indigenous groups across the world are actively looking to maintain or rediscover their past. Many historians and archaeologists are sympathetic to their quest. As a result different ways of narrating the past are in action: oral tradition, ethno‐history and archaeology. In the following the potential of each approach is discussed. In particular th...
In an article from 1978, which anticipates discussions more than a decade later, Mark Leone suggests that archaeologists ought to discover how we think, and more specifically, how we think about time (Leone 1978, p. 36). Just as archaeologists are becoming aware that gender is a social construct, so they are beginning to realize that time is a soci...
