Ingrid Fuglestvedt

Fuglestvedt, Ingrid 2018: Rock Art and the Wild Mind. Visual Imagery in Mesolithic Northern Europe. London / New York: Routledge.

Catalogue accompanying: Rock Art and the Wild Mind. Visual Imagery in Mesolithic Northern Europe. London / New York: Routledge.

• Fuglestvedt, Ingrid (2025). Settlement, Technology, and Transmission of Knowledge. Early Mesolithic Family Structure as a Key to Understanding Long-Term Social Stability and Non-change. In Pedersen, Unn; Moen, Marianne & Skogstrand, Lisbeth (Ed.), Gendering the Nordic Past : Dialogues between Perspectives. Brepols. ISSN 9782503608877. p. 25–37. doi: 10.1484/m.wop-eb.5.144352. Full text in Research Archive
• Fuglestvedt, Ingrid (2021). Scenes of Human Control of Reindeer in the Alta Rock Art: An Event of Early Domestication in the Far North? Current Swedish Archaeology. ISSN 1102-7355. 28, p. 121–146. doi: 10.37718/CSA.2020.06. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This article focuses on some evident differences between Phase 1 and Phase 2 rock art at Alta in western Finnmark in northern Norway. The earliest period (Phase 1, 5200–4200 cal BC) of rock art production shows numerous scenes in which humans seem to take control of wild game. The compositions of corrals with reindeer inside may be indications of forms of early domestication suggested to have occurred within a context marked by the authority of successful hunters and the influence of emerging inequality. This element of control correlates with an apparent totemic influence in the expressions of rock art. The rock art produced in the succeeding period (Phase 2, 4200-3000 cal BC), however, entirely lacks scenes communicating control of reindeer. This article suggests that this selective absence is an expression of a regained egalitarian social form and a reappraisal of an original animism.

• Fuglestvedt, Ingrid (2019). The mythical mind of the Older Stone Age?a Levi-Straussian reappraisal. Time & Mind. ISSN 1751-696X. 12(3), p. 187–195. doi: 10.1080/1751696X.2019.1645520. Full text in Research Archive
• Fuglestvedt, Ingrid (2014). Declaration on Behalf of an Archaeology of Sexe. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. ISSN 1072-5369. 21(1), p. 46–75. doi: 10.1007/s10816-012-9136-5. Full text in Research Archive
• Fuglestvedt, Ingrid (2013). On Missing Empirical Facts. Norwegian Archaeological Review. ISSN 0029-3652. 46(1), p. 94–96. doi: 10.1080/00293652.2013.777097. Full text in Research Archive
• Fuglestvedt, Ingrid & Goldhahn, J. (2012). Engendering North European Rock Art: Bodies and Cosmologies in Stone and Bronze Age Imagery, A Companion to Rock Art. Wiley-Blackwell. ISSN 9781444334241. doi: 10.1002/9781118253892.ch14. Full text in Research Archive
• Fuglestvedt, Ingrid (2012). The Pioneer Condition on the Scandinavian Peninsula: the Last Frontier of a 'Palaeolithic Way' in Europe. Norwegian Archaeological Review. ISSN 0029-3652. 45(1), p. 1–29. doi: 10.1080/00293652.2012.669998. Full text in Research Archive
• Fuglestvedt, Ingrid (2012). The Palaeolithic Condition on the Scandinavian Peninsula: the last Frontier of a ‘Palaeolithic Way’ in Europe. Norwegian Archaeological Review. ISSN 0029-3652. p. 1–29. doi: 10.1080/00293652.2012.669998. Full text in Research Archive
• Fuglestvedt, Ingrid (2010). A SINGLE UNIT OCCUPATION FROM NORWAY. Acta Archaeologica. ISSN 0065-101X. 81(1), p. 72–82. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0390.2010.00273.x. Full text in Research Archive
• Fuglestvedt, Ingrid (2010). Humans, Material Culture and Landscape: Outline to an Understanding of Developments in Worldview on the Scandinavian Peninsula, ca. 10,000-4500 BP. In Cannon, Aubrey (Eds.), Structured Worlds. The Archaeology of Hunter Gatherer Thought and Action. Equinox Publishing. ISSN 9781845530808. Full text in Research Archive
• Fuglestvedt, Ingrid (2010). Early Mesolithic Moldvika 1. A Single Unit Occupation from Norway. Acta Archaeologica. ISSN 0065-101X. 81(1), p. 72–82. Full text in Research Archive
• Goldhahn, Joakim; Fuglestvedt, Ingrid & Jones, Andrew (2010). Changing Pictures - An Introduction. In Goldhahn, Joakim; Jones, Andrew & Fuglestvedt, Ingrid (Ed.), Changing Pictures: Rock Art Traditions and Visions in the Northernmost Europe. Oxbow Books. ISSN 9781842174050. p. 1–22. Full text in Research Archive
• Fuglestvedt, Ingrid (2010). Animals, Churingas and Rock Art in Late Mesolithic Northern Scandinavia. In Goldhahn, Joakim; Jones, Andrew & Fuglestvedt, Ingrid (Ed.), Changing Pictures: Rock Art Traditions and Visions in the Northernmost Europe. Oxbow Books. ISSN 9781842174050. p. 23–34. Full text in Research Archive
• Fuglestvedt, Ingrid (2008). How many Totemic Clans existed in Eastern Norway during the Late Mesolithic? In Chilidis, Konstantinos; Lund, Julie & Prescott, Christopher (Ed.), Facets of Archeology. Essays in Honour of Lotte Hedeager on her 60th Birthday. Unipub forlag. ISSN 9788274773349. p. 351–366. Full text in Research Archive
• Fuglestvedt, Ingrid (2008). Arkeologi er også antropologi. En personlig tilnærming. Primitive tider. ISSN 1501-0430. p. 109–124. Full text in Research Archive
• Fuglestvedt, Ingrid (2007). The Ahrensburgian Galta 3 Site in SW Norway. Dating, Technology and Cultural Affinity. Acta Archaeologica. ISSN 0065-101X. 78:2, p. 87–109. Full text in Research Archive
• Fuglestvedt, Ingrid (2006). "Sandokomplekset" - nyoppdagede groplokaliteter fra mesolittisk tid på Sandholmen i Askim kommune. In Skre, Dagfinn; Glørstad, Håkon & Skar, Birgitte (Ed.), Historien i forhistorien. Festskrift til Einar Østmo på 60-årsdagen. Kulturhistorisk Museum, Universitetet i Oslo. ISSN 9788280840271. p. 49–63. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

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• Fuglestvedt, Ingrid (2006). Matriarkatet mellom det ureelle og det mulige. Noen tanker omkring forholdet mellom kvinnedyrkelse, feminisme og kjønnsarkeologi. In Fuglestvedt, Ingrid & Skogstrand, Lisbeth (Ed.), Det arkeologiske kjønn. Foredrag fra et seminar om kjønn og arkeologi, Vitlycke Museum 30. januar – 1. februar 2003. Unipub forlag. ISSN 9788274772519. p. 43–63. Full text in Research Archive
• Fuglestvedt, Ingrid (2005). Man – Reindeer – Landscape: Cosmology of the Early Pioneers in Coastal Norway, ca. 10 000 BP. K.A.N. : Kvinner i arkeologi i Norge. ISSN 0800-868X. p. 18–28. Full text in Research Archive
• Fuglestvedt, Ingrid (2005). Contact and communication in Northern Europe 10 200 – 9 000 / 8 500 BP – a phenomenological approach to the connection between technology, skill and landscape. In Knutsson, Helena (Eds.), Pioneer settlements and colonization processes in the Barents region. Vuollerim 6000. ISSN 9789197456210. p. 79–96. Full text in Research Archive
• Fuglestvedt, Ingrid (2003). Enculturating the Landscape beyond Doggerland. In Larsson, Lars (Eds.), Mesolithic on the Move. Oxbow Books. ISSN 9781842170892. p. 103–107. Full text in Research Archive
• Fuglestvedt, Ingrid (2002). Arkeologi og studiet av fremmede verdener. Et lite bidrag til forklaring av begrepet livsverden. Primitive tider. ISSN 1501-0430. 5, p. 138–143. Full text in Research Archive
• Fuglestvedt, Ingrid (1999). Adorants, voltigeurs and other mortals. An essay on the human body and rock art. In Goldhahn, Joakim (Eds.), Rock art as social representation : papers from a session held at the European Association of Archaeologists Fourth Annual Meeting in Göteborg 1998. Archaeopress. ISSN 9781841710105. p. 25–40. Full text in Research Archive
• Fuglestvedt, Ingrid (1999). Phenomenology of the pioneer-settlement of SW-Norway. In Selsing, Lotte & Lillehammer, Grete (Ed.), Museumslandskap : artikkelsamling til Kerstin Griffin på 60-årsdagen. Arkeologisk Museum i Stavanger. ISSN 9788277600604. p. 515–520. Full text in Research Archive
• Fuglestvedt, Ingrid (1999). The Early Mesolithic Site at Stunner, Southeast Norway: A Discussion of Late Upper Palaeolithic/Early Mesolithic Chronology and Cultural Relations in Scandinavia. In Boaz, Joel (Eds.), The Mesolithic of Central Scandinavia. Universitetets Oldsakssamling. ISSN 9788271811525. p. 189–202. Full text in Research Archive
• Fuglestvedt, Ingrid (1999). Inter-Regional Contact in the Late Mesolithic: The Productive Gift Extended. In Boaz, Joel (Eds.), The Mesolithic of Central Scandinavia. Universitetets Oldsakssamling. ISSN 9788271811525. p. 27–38. Full text in Research Archive
• Fuglestvedt, Ingrid (1999). Adoranten, voltigeuren og andre dødelige. In Fuglestvedt, Ingrid; Gansum, Terje & Opedal, Arnfrid (Ed.), Et hus med mange rom. Vennebok til Bjørn Myhre på 60-årsdagen. AmS: Stavanger. ISSN 9788277600581. p. 83–102. Full text in Research Archive
• Fuglestvedt, Ingrid (1999). The Late Mesolithic group at Svevollen, interior Eastern Norway: Normative action and consumptional control. In Théverin, A (Eds.), L’ Europe des derniers Chasseurs. Épipaleolithque et Mésolithique. Cths - Comité des Travaux. ISSN 9782735504077. p. 347–353. Full text in Research Archive
• Krag, Claus; Fuglestvedt, Ingrid; Gansum, Terje & Opedal, Arnfrid (1999). 18. juli 1872. AmS-rapport. ISSN 0802-4936. p. 505–509. Full text in Research Archive
• Fuglestvedt, Ingrid (1998). The Flint-using group at Svevollen in the Interior of Eastern Norway. How to Understand the Limited Use of Non-flint Material? In Holm, L & Knutsson, K (Ed.), Third Flint Alternatives Conference at Uppsala. University of Uppsala - Department of Archaeology and Ancient History. ISSN 9789150612677. p. 61–69. Full text in Research Archive
• Fuglestvedt, Ingrid (1997). Mellom Hedendom og kristendom – mellom ættesamfunn og kongerike. Bruken av monumentale anlegg i en brytningstid. In Fuglestvedt, Ingrid & Myhre, Bjørn (Ed.), Konflikt i forhistorien. Arkeologisk Museum i Stavanger. ISSN 9788277600291. p. 41–55. Full text in Research Archive
• Fuglestvedt, Ingrid (1995). Svevollen - spor av senmesolittisk bosetning i lavlandets indre skogssone. Universitetet i Bergen Arkeologiske Skrifter - Nordisk. ISSN 0809-6058. p. 95–110. Full text in Research Archive
• Fuglestvedt, Ingrid (1989). Norges landnåm? Nicolay: Arkeologisk tidsskrift. ISSN 0332-8937. p. 17–46. Full text in Research Archive

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• Fuglestvedt, Ingrid (2018). Rock Art and the Wild Mind. Visual Imagery in Mesolithic Northern Europe. Routledge. ISBN 9781138090538. 458 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Goldhahn, Joakim; Fuglestvedt, Ingrid & Jones, Andrew (2010). Changing pictures : rock art traditions and visions in northern Europe. Oxbow Books. ISBN 9781842174050. 210 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Goldhahn, Joakim; Jones, Andrew & Fuglestvedt, Ingrid (2010). Changing Pictures: Rock Art Traditions and Visions in the Northernmost Europe. Oxbow Books. ISBN 9781842174050. 272 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Fuglestvedt, Ingrid (2009). Phenomenology and the pioneer settlement on the western Scandinavian peninsula. Bricoleur Press. ISBN 9789185411078. 410 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Fuglestvedt, Ingrid & Skogstrand, Lisbeth (2006). Det arkeologiske kjønn. Foredrag fra et seminar om kjønn og arkeologi, Vitlycke Museum 30. januar – 1. februar 2003. Unipub forlag. ISBN 9788274772519. 164 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Fuglestvedt, Ingrid; Gansum, Terje & Opedal, Arnfrid (1999). Et hus med mange rom. Vennebok til Bjørn Myhre på 60-årsdagen. AmS: Stavanger. ISBN 9788277600581. -1 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Fuglestvedt, Ingrid & Myhre, Bjørn (1997). Konflikt i forhistorien. Arkeologisk Museum i Stavanger. ISBN 9788277600291. 100 p. Full text in Research Archive

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• Fuglestvedt, Ingrid; Gansum, Terje; Lillehammer, Grete Kirsten Grimsrud; Skre, Dagfinn; Øye, Ingvild & Iversen, Frode [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2016). Bjørn Myhre 1938–2015, minneord. Viking - Norsk arkeologisk årbok. ISSN 0332-608X. p. 7–12. doi: 10.5617/viking.3901. Full text in Research Archive
• Fuglestvedt, Ingrid (2014). Kommentar til Leif Inge Åstveit: "Noen synspunkter på den tidligmesolittiske bosetningen i Sør-Norge". Primitive tider. ISSN 1501-0430. 16, p. 115–119. Full text in Research Archive
• Fuglestvedt, Ingrid (2011). Europe's Lost World: The Rediscovery of Doggerland. European Journal of Archaeology. ISSN 1461-9571. 14(1-2), p. 283–284. Full text in Research Archive
• Fuglestvedt, Ingrid (2011). Intervju i NRK P2's "Ekko" 31. mai 2011: Om steinalder, bergkunst og totemisme. Full text in Research Archive
• Fuglestvedt, Ingrid (2011). Jakt med pil og bue øker respekten for storvilt. Full text in Research Archive
• Fuglestvedt, Ingrid (2010). Boklansering: Phenomenology and the Pioneer Settlement on the Western Scandinavian Peninsula. Full text in Research Archive
• Fuglestvedt, Ingrid (2010). En analog verden - NÅ! Full text in Research Archive
• Fuglestvedt, Ingrid (2010). Why did it take so long? The pioneer condition on peninsular Scandinavia and the Termination of the”Palaeolithic Way” in Europe. Full text in Research Archive
• Fuglestvedt, Ingrid (2009). The "substance" and "oppositions" of Late Mesolithic social groups in Norway. Full text in Research Archive
• Fuglestvedt, Ingrid & Coulson, Sheila Dawn (2009). Kvinnen var jeger. p. 4–4. Full text in Research Archive
• Janik, L; Fuglestvedt, Ingrid & Lahelma, A (2008). Comments on Antti Lahelma (2007): 'On the back of a blue elk': Recent ethnohistorical sources and 'ambiguous' stone age rock art at Pyhanpaa, Central Finland (Norwegian Archaeological Review 40(2), 113-137). Norwegian Archaeological Review. ISSN 0029-3652. 41, p. 101–110. doi: 10.1080/00293650802090389. Full text in Research Archive
• Fuglestvedt, Ingrid (2008). Comments on Antti Lahelma (2007): "On the back of a blue elk" : recent ethnohistorical sources and "ambiguous" Stone Age rock art at Pyhänpää, Central Finland analogies - yes please! Norwegian Archaeological Review. ISSN 0029-3652. 41(1), p. 104–106. Full text in Research Archive
• Fuglestvedt, Ingrid (2008). Animism, totemism and the Mesolithic on the Scandinavian Peninsula. Full text in Research Archive
• Fuglestvedt, Ingrid (2008). Animisme, totemisme og mesolitikum på den skandinaviske halvøy. Full text in Research Archive
• Fuglestvedt, Ingrid (2008). Pionertidens sosiologi: endring og egalitære strukturer. Full text in Research Archive
• Fuglestvedt, Ingrid (2007). Body, self and identity: Introduction to the work-shop. Full text in Research Archive
• Fuglestvedt, Ingrid (2007). The body in its totemic being. Full text in Research Archive
• Fuglestvedt, Ingrid (2007). Arkeologi er også antropologi. Full text in Research Archive
• Fuglestvedt, Ingrid (2006). 'Animism' and 'Totemism' as Ways of Understanding Rock Carving Designs. Full text in Research Archive
• Fuglestvedt, Ingrid (2006). Prehistoric Social Identities and the Trouble with Gender. Full text in Research Archive
• Fuglestvedt, Ingrid (2005). Sex, gender, kropp og kjønn – anvendelige begreper for forskning på kjønn i forhistorien? Full text in Research Archive
• Fuglestvedt, Ingrid (2005). Fra langdistansemobilitet til ”sosiale territorier”: Sosial endring, materiell kultur og landskap i mesolitikum. Full text in Research Archive
• Fuglestvedt, Ingrid (2005). The Pioneer Condition on the Scandinavian Peninsula. Full text in Research Archive
• Fuglestvedt, Ingrid (2004). People - Reindeer - Landscape: Cosmology of the Early Pioneers in Coastal Norway, ca. 10 000 BP. Full text in Research Archive
• Fuglestvedt, Ingrid (2004). Animism and Totemism as Ways of Understanding Stone Age Material Culture. Full text in Research Archive
• Fuglestvedt, Ingrid (2003). Innlegg til paneldebatt på Statens historiska museum: Er enhver tolkning mulig - i arbeid med arkeologisk materiale? Full text in Research Archive
• Fuglestvedt, Ingrid (2003). Kropp, kjønn og gender - anvendelige begreper i tolkningen av forhistorisk materiale? Full text in Research Archive
• Fuglestvedt, Ingrid (2003). Teknikken har sitt opphave i det sosiale. Kontakt og kommunikasjon i Nord-Europa 10 200/10 000 - 9 000/8 500 bp. Full text in Research Archive
• Fuglestvedt, Ingrid (2003). The Colonization of Northern Europe, 10 200/ 10 000 - 9 500BP. Full text in Research Archive
• Fuglestvedt, Ingrid (2000). Review: Michael Jochims ”A Hunter-Gatherer Landscape. Southwest Germany in the Late Paleolithic and Mesolithic. Norwegian Archaeological Review. ISSN 0029-3652. 33(1), p. 59–61. Full text in Research Archive
• Fuglestvedt, Ingrid (1997). Comments to Arne Johan Nærøy: Spatial patterns in intra-site analysis. An interpretative approach. Norwegian Archaeological Review. ISSN 0029-3652. 30(2), p. 11–14. Full text in Research Archive
• Fuglestvedt, Ingrid & Kutschera, J. (1997). Vi visste de var der… Nye funn fra Jærkysten utfyller bildet av Skandinavias eldste steinalder. Frá haug ok heiðni. ISSN 0015-9255. p. 14–15. Full text in Research Archive
• Fuglestvedt, Ingrid (1993). Museumsbyggeren - et intervju med Odmund Møllerop. [Journal]. Nicolay: Arkeologisk tidsskrift. Full text in Research Archive
• Amundsen, Hilde Rigmor; Uleberg, Espen & Fuglestvedt, Ingrid (1991). Steinzeitliche Rentierjagd. Nicolay: Arkeologisk tidsskrift. ISSN 0332-8937. p. 24–30. Full text in Research Archive
• Wright, David Keith; Romundset, Anders; Fuglestvedt, Ingrid & Roalkvam, Isak (2024). Computational modelling of the coastal Mesolithic in south-eastern Norway. Universitetet i Oslo. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Over the last few decades, Norwegian Stone Age archaeology has generated an enormous amount of data. To able to get a handle on this material at even the most basic level we are dependent on digital and quantitative methods. In his thesis, Isak Roalkvam has applied and developed novel computational tools for engaging with this data, with the aim of improving our understanding of the Mesolithic period which encompasses the first five thousand years of human settlement in Norway. A main focus in the thesis has been to combine geological reconstructions of past sea-level change with the location of prehistoric settlements, to assess how people have adjusted to the at times dramatic sea-level fall that has characterised south-eastern Norway throughout prehistory. By combining this with both an evaluation of the intensity of coastal settlement and the artefacts left behind at these sites, the thesis provides a window into the various ways that people have engaged with the coastal areas of south-eastern Norway through the Mesolithic.

• Bruvoll, Hallvard Nikolai; Fuglestvedt, Ingrid; Furholt, Martin & Hinz, Martin (2023). The Emergence of Social Hierarchy in Prehistory: Application of Fractal Analysis on Archaeological Settlement Plans. Universitetet i Oslo. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  In this thesis I explore the possibilities and limitations of applying fractal analysis as a methodological tool for studying levels and dynamics of social hierarchy in prehistory, using archaeological settlement plans as data source. I test the precision and reliability of the methods empirically using synthetic data, and include two case studies of well-documented settlement samples from Neolithic/Chalcolithic contexts in continental Europe: Linear Pottery settlements in the Žitava valley in south-west Slovakia, and Trypillia B-II and C-I settlements in the Syniukha basin in central Ukraine. The two case studies include settlements of widely varying sizes, from small hamlets of only a few houses, to the so-called Trypillia mega-sites of more than 2000 houses, public architecture and complex layouts, thus illustrating the wide spectrum of settlement organisations which existed in Europe in late prehistory. The social organisation and levels of hierarchy seen through their material culture have been lively debated by specialists for decades. The use of fractal analysis is argued to be well-suited for studying hierarchical structures, and brings with it the theoretical frameworks of dynamical systems and complexity, allowing to advance beyond the false binary debate of structure versus agency as explanations for change in human societies. I argue for analytical separation between the notions of hierarchy and social inequality, which often have been confused in recent archaeological research. Results from the case studies indicate that hierarchical structures emerge in large settlements irrespectively of cultural differences, as solutions to scalar stress and to optimise flows of information, while the ways in which these structures are played out in daily life vary widely and are historically contingent. In other words, while fractal analysis methods allow for evaluating the existence and scale of social hierarchies, the actual political systems at play, as well as levels of social inequality, are better investigated though other strands of evidence. Linear Pottery society is often considered to tend towards social inequality and lineage-based aristocracies, while Trypillia society shows more evidence of democratic institutions. Both show signs of increased hierarchy in larger settlements. The two analytical approaches proposed in this thesis show different degrees of matureness. The distribution fitting approach and search for power laws is well documented and theoretically sound, and should be more widely applied in archaeology. The image analysis approach has been less extensively tested, and previous findings are shown here to be unreliable. However, it does show clear potential for quantifying aspects of spatial regularity and textures. In the application presented here it allows for distinguishing settlement plans with different levels of clustering, again cross-cutting cultural attribution. Overall, fractal analysis is a methodological framework which merits much more exploration in archaeology. The applications that are presented in this thesis only represent a small portion of what is possible.

• Fuglestvedt, Ingrid (2005). Pionerbosetningens fenomenologi. Sørvest-Norge og Nord-Europa 10 200 / 10 000 – 9 500 BP. Arkeologisk Museum i Stavanger. ISSN 9788277601229. Full text in Research Archive
• Fuglestvedt, Ingrid (1992). Svevollen – et senmesolittisk boplassområde i det Østnorske innland. Universitetet i Oslo. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

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