Stein FarstadvollUiT The Arctic University of Norway · Department of Archaeology, History and Religious Studies
Stein Farstadvoll
Doctor of Philosophy
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Heritage is almost univocally conceived of as valuable and good, something we care for and preserve for ourselves and future generations. Although traditionally associated with the unique and monumental, heritage has over the last decades been broadened in response to claims to incorporate more diverse and globally representative legacies. While su...
Heritage is almost univocally conceived of as valuable and good, something we care for and preserve for ourselves and future generations.Although traditionally associated with the unique and monumental, heritage has over the last decades been broadened in response to claims to incorporate more diverse and globally representative legacies. While suc...
Heritage is almost univocally conceived of as valuable and good, something we care for and preserve for ourselves and future generations.Although traditionally associated with the unique and monumental, heritage has over the last decades been broadened in response to claims to incorporate more diverse and globally representative legacies. While suc...
Kairos is a central concept in the art of rhetoric; it is about timing, “the right moment”, “the opportune time”, “critical juncture”, etc. It is one of the ancient Greek words that denote “time” together with the perhaps more familiar Chronos. Superficially said, Chronos deals with continuity, linear, and quantitative aspects of time, while Kairos...
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 harmfu...
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...
Global crises drastically alter human behavior, rapidly impacting patterns of movement and consumption. A rapid-response analysis of material culture brings new perspective to disasters as they unfold. We present a case study of the coronavirus pandemic in Tromsø, Norway, based on fieldwork from March 2020 to April 2021. Using a methodology rooted...
This article shows how to record current events from an archaeological perspective. With a case study from the COVID-19 pandemic in Norway, we provide accessible tools to document broad spatial and behavioral patterns through material culture as they emerge. Stressing the importance of ethical engagement with contemporary subjects, we adapt archaeo...
This text will explore three different facets of Retiro that constitute and continue to shape the place today, namely fungi, invasive organisms, and “feral” artefacts. These examples were chosen because they are rather unconventional in the traditional frame of cultural heritage, but no less importantly because they quite literally brought attentio...
The main and general point in this presentation is that archaeological heritage and artifacts are in their ecological effects and physicality inherently environmental. Thus, the connection between archaeology and the Environment is not really a choice, but something inherent in dealing with a material world. This connects to the theme given to my p...
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 storag...
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 b...
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 relatio...
This dissertation explores the contemporary archaeological record of Retiro, a derelict 19th-century landscape garden and summer estate located in the town of Molde on the north-western coast of Norway. The main topic that this thesis investigates is the consequences of acknowledging Retiro with its excess of unruly and apparently ruinous character...
This article addresses things that can be described as rudimentary and vestigial; for example, an arguably out-of-place snow stake encountered in a derelict 19thcentury landscape garden during an archaeological surface survey. How can one approach this stake without removing or overlooking its vestigial character? The
term hyperart is introduced to...
Plant remains have long been a source of information about the distant past in archaeology, but are undertheorized or even overlooked in the field of contemporary archaeology. This article uses the example of a derelict nineteenth-century landscape garden in a town on the northwestern coast of Norway to show how novel insights about plants can be d...
Retiro is a derelict landscape garden and country estate located in the town of Molde on the northwestern coast of Norway. It should not be confused with the more famous namesake Parque del Retiro in Madrid. The estate with its garden and villa was built in the 1870s in a rural landscape dotted with fields, humble farmsteads, stone fences, copses,...
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 o...
Denne avhandlingen utforsket gjennom fenomenologisk teori hvordan ting og opplevelser spiller sammen i formidlingen og iscenesettingen av fortid ved Lofotr Viking Museum på Borg. Hovedårsaken til at Lofotr har blitt valgt ut som avhandlingens case study, er museets fokus på levendegjøring og fullskala rekonstruksjoner. Premisset som blir drøftet er...