The density of large burial mounds in Sør-Fron shows that interring bodies in earth and stone was an act of great importance to the populace at some point in prehistory. In this paper I analyse grave finds and stray finds to establish when this need was at its most urgent. My results imply that the majority of the mounds date to the Late Iron Age, and show that the mounds had the agency to structure ritual action in the area at this time. Natural disasters, especially in the form of landslides, constituted a constant threat to the farming communities of the area in the Late Iron Age. Drawing on the work of Tarlow (1995), Skre (1996), Gardela (2016) and Eriksen (2019), I argue that constructing mounds was a way of coping with these threats t...
In 2016, the University of Bergen conducted an archaeological field school at Hallingskeid in the hi...
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In the Horvnes cairns in Alstahaug on the coast of Helgeland, North-Norway, people have been buried ...
The point of departure for this article is the excavation of two burial mounds and a trackway system...
The interpretation of Late Iron Age burial mounds often focuses exclusively on the discovered conten...
Preconceptions about the construction and function of burial mounds can heavily influence the degree...
A growing body of climate data points towards a significant climate cooling in the northern hemisphe...
Abstract: This article focuses on one of the two big mounds at Haugar in Tønsberg, Norway, and the r...
Historically, Norwegian settlement archaeology and research has depended on secondary materials, suc...
This thesis focuses on power structures in the Mälaren basin during the Iron Age, and how these stru...
The Illerup Valley in Denmark contains several large‐scale Iron Age (first to fifth century A.D.) ri...
This thesis focuses on power structures in the Mälaren basin during the Iron Age, and how these stru...
Abstract This essay discusses different explanations and interpretations of what characterizes large...
Throughout Scandinavia the funeral practices of the Iron Age were, in general, inhumation or cremati...
The burial site at Borre is a common example of centralization that took place in Scandinavia during...
In 2016, the University of Bergen conducted an archaeological field school at Hallingskeid in the hi...
Reproduced with permission. Copyright belongs to Maney Publishing: www.maneypublishing.com/journals/...
In the Horvnes cairns in Alstahaug on the coast of Helgeland, North-Norway, people have been buried ...
The point of departure for this article is the excavation of two burial mounds and a trackway system...
The interpretation of Late Iron Age burial mounds often focuses exclusively on the discovered conten...
Preconceptions about the construction and function of burial mounds can heavily influence the degree...
A growing body of climate data points towards a significant climate cooling in the northern hemisphe...
Abstract: This article focuses on one of the two big mounds at Haugar in Tønsberg, Norway, and the r...
Historically, Norwegian settlement archaeology and research has depended on secondary materials, suc...
This thesis focuses on power structures in the Mälaren basin during the Iron Age, and how these stru...
The Illerup Valley in Denmark contains several large‐scale Iron Age (first to fifth century A.D.) ri...
This thesis focuses on power structures in the Mälaren basin during the Iron Age, and how these stru...
Abstract This essay discusses different explanations and interpretations of what characterizes large...
Throughout Scandinavia the funeral practices of the Iron Age were, in general, inhumation or cremati...
The burial site at Borre is a common example of centralization that took place in Scandinavia during...
In 2016, the University of Bergen conducted an archaeological field school at Hallingskeid in the hi...
Reproduced with permission. Copyright belongs to Maney Publishing: www.maneypublishing.com/journals/...
In the Horvnes cairns in Alstahaug on the coast of Helgeland, North-Norway, people have been buried ...