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• Bengtsson, Boel; Montenegro, Álvaro; Green, Ashely; Tomasini, Matteo; Prince, Martyn & Skärström, Victor Wåhlstrand [Vis alle 9 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2025). Seafaring and navigation in the Nordic Bronze Age. The application of an ocean voyage tool and boat performance data for comparing direct open water crossings with sheltered coastal routes. PLOS ONE. 30(4). doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0320791. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This study presents an “ocean voyaging tool” that combines predicted vessel performance data with agent-based simulations. This tool offers a new way to assess navigation and seafaring abilities in prehistory while also enabling the direct comparison between different type vessels and vessel configuration, navigational skills and propulsion. Results are filtered using certain limitations on safety (wind strength, wave height, light etc.) and navigational error. The method is here used to compare direct open water (c. 110 km) and coast hugging (c. 700 km) voyages between Jutland and south-west Norway in the Early Nordic Bronze Age, two areas that were closely connected from the Late Neolithic throughout the Bronze Age (c. 2350-1500 BC). Simulated results suggest that although the longer coastal route is usable all year round, direct open sea voyages, which included navigation out-of-sight-of-land for up to 50 km, were most likely undertaken. Such voyages would have necessitated boats capable of withstanding and maintaining directional control in ≤  1 m waves and winds of up to 10 knots (5 m/s) at a minimum. Furthermore, these simulations highlight the comparable advantage of sail over paddling for transporting cargo over long distances (journeys of more than one days length).

• Austvoll, Knut Ivar; Fauvelle, Mikael & Ling, Johan (2025). Contrasting strategies: Social organization and interaction in the Early Bronze Age of northwestern Scandinavia. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. ISSN 0278-4165. 79. doi: 10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101708. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The transition to the Nordic Bronze Age included new technological innovations, social institutions and sociopolitical structures pushed by extensive long-distance exchange of metals and other exotica. However, traditional views often oversimplify this as a simple two-way trade system, failing to adequately explain the complex interactions in and between the regions like Scandinavia in which the societies organised themselves based on varied strategies tied to local resource potentials. Recent research, involving methods such as isotopic analysis and genomic sequencing, has provided solid evidence of movement and interaction. Despite this progress, the evidence at hand often lacks well-founded interpretations grounded in thorough theoretical frameworks. This study addresses interpretive challenges by employing an innovative framework grounded in collective action theory, integrating other aspects of social complexity and supported by regional datasets to achieve a more nuanced understanding of social dynamics. This approach informs us about the complex and contrasting organizational strategies and trade networks across northwestern Scandinavia (i.e. modern-day Norway up to the borders of Troms), illustrating further how local societies contributed to broader European networks. The study aims to offer a nuanced understanding of the region’s social dynamics, highlighting the interplay between coercive and cooperative strategies within the overarching Nordic Bronze Age system.

• Ling, Johan; Fauvelle, Mikael; Austvoll, Knut Ivar; Bengtsson, Boel; Nordvall, Linn & Horn, Christian (2024). Where are the missing boatyards? Steaming pits as boat building sites in the Nordic Bronze Age. Praehistorische Zeitschrift. ISSN 0079-4848. doi: 10.1515/pz-2024-2005. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The boat stands out as a prominent symbol of the Nordic Bronze Age, depicted at thousands of rock art sites and on several metal objects throughout Scandinavia. Paradoxically, direct evidence of these boats is scarce, and the locations where boats were constructed remain largely elusive. In this paper, we put forth the proposition that many ostensibly mislabelled cooking pits along the coast might actually be remnants of steaming pits employed in boat building. By drawing on analogous parallels from ethnography and examining three Bronze Age cases from the western coast of Sweden and Eastern Norway, we hypothesize that sizable pits near the sea, characterized by fire cracked stones and charcoal, are indicative of prehistoric boat building sites. Additionally, these results align with a broader objective of our paper, aiming to challenge the prevailing terrestrial narrative in archaeology, which has impeded the interpretive potential for comprehending maritime societies throughout prehistory.

• Nielsen, Svein Vatsvåg; Mansrud, Anja; Austvoll, Knut Ivar; Denham, Sean Dexter; Berg-Hansen, Inger Marie & Persson, Per [Vis alle 8 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2023). Hunting, fishing, gardening: Re-evaluating Middle Neolithic mobility and cultural diversity on the Norwegian Skagerrak coast. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. ISSN 2352-409X. 51. doi: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.104139. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bunbury, Magdalena Maria Elisabeth; Austvoll, Knut Ivar; Jørgensen, Erlend Kirkeng; Nielsen, Svein Vatsvåg; Kneisel, Jutta & Weinelt, Mara (2023). Understanding climate resilience in Scandinavia during the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age. Quaternary Science Reviews. ISSN 0277-3791. 322. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108391. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Mid and late-Holocene climate shifts are considered to have profoundly shaped demographic developments and adaptive responses of communities globally. Yet their onset, duration, and impact on Neolithic and Early Nordic Bronze Age communities in the high-latitude ranges of southern and north-western Scandinavia remain a major research gap. Here, we built on an emerging body of archaeological and paleoclimate data, encompassing 20,908 anthropogenic 14C dates and 49 climate records from the Holocene. Additionally, we gathered and correlated a new archaeological dataset of 3649 houses from southern Scandinavia and southern Norway. In this study, we utilised 6268 reliable 14C dates and 2519 dwellings to generate time series and socio-economic trends from ∼4100 to 1100 BCE. Our study revealed three key findings: (1) A distinct lateral zonation, with variations in the duration and timing of the Holocene Thermal Maximum (∼7050–2050 BCE). In Southern Scandinavia, a warmer climate may have facilitated the spread of crop cultivation (3820–3790 BCE), coinciding with significant population growth. Neolithic communities settled in permanent two-aisled houses 90–160 years later (3700–3660 BCE). (2) The 2250 BCE (4.2 ka BP) cooling trend marked the beginning of a climate regime shift with varying duration and timing (∼3450–1450 BCE). This period coincided with demographic growth, migration, crop cultivation diversity, and the development of houses with crop storage facilities (2290–2215 BCE). (3) Severe abrupt cooling periods (∼1850–1450 BCE) corresponded to short-term demographic decline including disruptions in trade networks with continental Europe. However, repopulation and redistribution of wealth (∼1450 BCE), along with the development of stable three-aisled houses (1475–1450 BCE), underscore the resilience of food-producing economies in mitigating environmental disturbances.

• Lund, Julie; Furholt, Martin & Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2022). Reassessing power in the archaeological discourse. How collective, cooperative and affective perspectives may impact our understanding of social relations and organization in prehistory. Archaeological Dialogues. ISSN 1380-2038. 29(1), s. 33–50. doi: 10.1017/S1380203822000162. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This paper critically examines how power is understood and used in archaeological interpretation of prehistoric societies. We argue that studies on power within archaeology have been haltered in their interpretive potential, frequently limited to individualizing coercive power with androcentric connotations. We explore new avenues of power through a retrospective view. Drawing on ideas first conceptualized by Hannah Arendt, while also incorporating theoretical ideas from collective action, anarchistic theory and the affective turn, we argue that power as a phenomenon and explanation within archaeology can be refined and nuanced when approached through a lens of collective agency and the affective potential of material culture. This connects, furthermore, to how we today see and act on changing power dynamics.

• Eriksen, Marianne Hem & Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2020). Bridging Perspectives: Social Dynamics of Houses and Households in Bronze Age Scandinavia. I Austvoll, Knut Ivar; Eriksen, Marianne Hem; Fredriksen, Per Ditlef; Melheim, Anne Lene; Prøsch-Danielsen, Lisbeth & Skogstrand, Lisbeth (Red.), Contrasts of the Nordic Bronze Age : Essays in honour of Christopher Prescott. Brepols. ISSN 9782503588773. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This innovative volume draws on a range of materials and places to explore the disparate facets of Bronze Age society across the Nordic region through the key themes of time and trajectory, rituals and everyday life, and encounters and identities. The Bronze Age in Northern Europe was a place of diversity and contrast, an era that saw movements and changes not just of peoples, but of cultures, beliefs, and socio-political systems, and that led to the forging of ontological ideas materialized in landscapes, bodies, and technologies. Drawing on a range of materials and places, the innovative contributions gathered here in this volume explore the disparate facets of Bronze Age society across the Nordic region through the key themes of time and trajectory, rituals and everyday life, and encounters and identities. The contributions explore how and why society evolved over time, from the changing nature of sea travel to new technologies in house building, and from advances in lithic production to evolving burial practices and beliefs in the afterlife. This edited collection honours the ground-breaking research of Professor Christopher Prescott, an outstanding figure in the study of the Bronze Age north, and it takes as its inspiration the diversity, interdisciplinarity, and vitality of his own research in order to make a major new contribution to the field, and to shed new light on a Bronze Age full of contrasts and connections.

• Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2020). The Emergence of Coercive Societies in Northwestern Scandinavia During the Late Neolithic–Early Bronze Age. Open Archaeology. 6(1), s. 19–37. doi: 10.1515/opar-2020-0100. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This paper discusses how coastal societies in northwestern Scandinavia were able to rise in power by strategically utilizing the natural ecology and landscape in which they were situated. From two case studies (the Norwegian regions of Lista and Tananger), it is shown that it was possible to control the flow of goods up and down the coast at certain bottlenecks but that this also created an unstable society in which conflict between neighboring groups occurred often. More specifically the paper outlines an organizational strategy that may be applicable cross-culturally.

• Austvoll, Knut Ivar; Eriksen, Marianne Hem; Fredriksen, Per Ditlef; Melheim, Anne Lene; Prøsch-Danielsen, Lisbeth & Skogstrand, Lisbeth (2020). Contrasts of the Bronze Age : Time ritual and encounters in the Nordic world : An Introduction. I Austvoll, Knut Ivar; Eriksen, Marianne Hem; Fredriksen, Per Ditlef; Melheim, Anne Lene; Prøsch-Danielsen, Lisbeth & Skogstrand, Lisbeth (Red.), Contrasts of the Nordic Bronze Age : Essays in honour of Christopher Prescott. Brepols. ISSN 9782503588773. s. 15–25. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This innovative volume draws on a range of materials and places to explore the disparate facets of Bronze Age society across the Nordic region through the key themes of time and trajectory, rituals and everyday life, and encounters and identities. The Bronze Age in Northern Europe was a place of diversity and contrast, an era that saw movements and changes not just of peoples, but of cultures, beliefs, and socio-political systems, and that led to the forging of ontological ideas materialized in landscapes, bodies, and technologies. Drawing on a range of materials and places, the innovative contributions gathered here in this volume explore the disparate facets of Bronze Age society across the Nordic region through the key themes of time and trajectory, rituals and everyday life, and encounters and identities. The contributions explore how and why society evolved over time, from the changing nature of sea travel to new technologies in house building, and from advances in lithic production to evolving burial practices and beliefs in the afterlife. This edited collection honours the ground-breaking research of Professor Christopher Prescott, an outstanding figure in the study of the Bronze Age north, and it takes as its inspiration the diversity, interdisciplinarity, and vitality of his own research in order to make a major new contribution to the field, and to shed new light on a Bronze Age full of contrasts and connections.

• Prescott, Christopher; Sand-Eriksen, Anette & Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2018). The Sea and Bronze Age Transformations. I Holt, Emily (Red.), Water and Power in Past Societies. SUNY Press. ISSN 9781438468754. s. 177–198. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Along the western Norwegian coast, in the northwestern region of the Nordic Late Neolithic and Bronze Age (2350–500 BCE) there is cultural homogeneity but variable expressions of political hierarchy. Although new ideological institutions, technology (e.g., metallurgy and boat building), intensified agro‑pastoral farming, and maritime travel were introduced throughout the region as of 2350 BCE, concentrations of expressions of Bronze Age elites are intermittently found along the coast. Four regions—Lista, Jæren, Karmøy, and Sunnmøre—are examined in an exploration of the establishment and early role of maritime practices in this Nordic region. It is argued that the expressions of power and material wealth concentrated in these four regions is based on the control of bottlenecks, channels, portages, and harbors along important maritime routes of travel. As such, this article is a study of prehistoric travel, sources of power, and maritime landscapes in the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age of Norway.

• Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2017). Tracing boundaries of local group identities in the Early Bronze Age — south-west Norway. I Bergerbrant, Sophie & Wessman, Anna (Red.), New Pespectives on the Bronze Age. Proceedings of the 13th Nordic Bronze Age Symposium held in Gothenburg 9th to 13th June 2015. Archaeopress. ISSN 9781784915988. s. 421–434. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2015). Tesse rundt på to sesonger. Nicolay: Arkeologisk tidsskrift. ISSN 0332-8937. s. 45–50. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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• Horn, Christian; Austvoll, Knut Ivar; Artursson, Magnus & Ling, Johan (2024). Nordic Bronze Age Economies. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781009421416. doi: 10.1017/9781009421416. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This Element provides a multi-scalar synthesis of Nordic Bronze Age economies (1800/1700–500 BCE) that is organized around six sections: an introduction to the Nordic Bronze Age, macro-economic perspectives, defining local communities, economic interaction, conflict and alliances, political formations, and encountering Europe. Despite a unifying material culture, the Bronze Age of Scandinavia was complex and multi- layered with constantly shifting and changing networks of competitors and partners. The social structure in this highly mobile and dynamic macroregional setting was affected by subsistence economies based on agropastoralism, maritime sectors, the production of elaborate metal wealth, trade in a wide range of goods, as well as raiding and warfare. For this reason, the focus of this book is on the integration and interaction of subsistence and political economies in a comparative analyses between different local constellations within the macro-economic setting of prehistoric Europe.

• Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2021). Seaways to Complexity. A Study of Sociopolitical Organisation Along the Coast of Northwestern Scandinavia in the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age. Equinox Publishing. ISBN 9781781798782. 256 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This book focuses on the sociopolitical development and the organisational differences between societies in northwestern Scandinavia in the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age (2350–1100 BCE). Grounded in a political economy approach, the book presents a theoretical model that emphases a dialectic negotiation between societies exercising coercive or cooperative strategies through processes of categorisation. Within this theoretical model the archaeological mate-rial is studied using a two-tiered approach. First, an extensive archaeological corpus, consisting of settlement and burial patterns, lithics, metal, and rock art is investigated comparatively for patterns of diachronic, regional and societal differences. Second, patterns from the first-tier are scrutinised and three case studies are selected, each ex-pressing different organisational patterns based on local ecological advantages and/or restrictions. These aspects are then discussed on an interregional level, suggesting that utilisation of the seaway was one of the primary movers of increased complexity along the coast. The book presents the first big synthesis of the sociopolitical develop-ment in northwestern Scandinavia and outlines a theoretical model for concurrent but contrasting sociopolitical strategies that can be applied cross-culturally.

• Austvoll, Knut Ivar; Eriksen, Marianne Hem; Fredriksen, Per Ditlef; Melheim, Anne Lene; Prøsch-Danielsen, Lisbeth & Skogstrand, Lisbeth (2020). Contrasts of the Nordic Bronze Age : Essays in honour of Christopher Prescott. Brepols. ISBN 9782503588773. 282 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This innovative volume draws on a range of materials and places to explore the disparate facets of Bronze Age society across the Nordic region through the key themes of time and trajectory, rituals and everyday life, and encounters and identities. The Bronze Age in Northern Europe was a place of diversity and contrast, an era that saw movements and changes not just of peoples, but of cultures, beliefs, and socio-political systems, and that led to the forging of ontological ideas materialized in landscapes, bodies, and technologies. Drawing on a range of materials and places, the innovative contributions gathered here in this volume explore the disparate facets of Bronze Age society across the Nordic region through the key themes of time and trajectory, rituals and everyday life, and encounters and identities. The contributions explore how and why society evolved over time, from the changing nature of sea travel to new technologies in house building, and from advances in lithic production to evolving burial practices and beliefs in the afterlife. This edited collection honours the ground-breaking research of Professor Christopher Prescott, an outstanding figure in the study of the Bronze Age north, and it takes as its inspiration the diversity, interdisciplinarity, and vitality of his own research in order to make a major new contribution to the field, and to shed new light on a Bronze Age full of contrasts and connections.

• Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2019). Constructing identities. Structure and practice in the Early Bronze Age – Southwest Norway. Arkeologisk Museum i Stavanger. ISBN 9788277601847. 80 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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• Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2026). Maritime meetings through new ocean modelling data. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar & Sand-Eriksen, Anette (2026). Networks of Consensus. House-size variation, cooperation and power in the Nordic Bronze Age. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2025). Im Kriegskanu über die Ostsee: Archäologen sammeln Hinweise für einen bronzezeitlichen Überfall auf eine Insel – und die Herkunft der Angreifer. [Journal]. Neue Zürcher Zeitung. doi: https:/www.nzz.ch/wissenschaft/hjortspring-neue-analyse-des-2000-jahre-alten-boots-aus-daenemark-ld.1915083. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2025). Mellom hav og samfunn: maritime møter i den nordiske bronsealderen. doi: https:/www.hf.uio.no/iakh/forskning/aktuelt/arrangementer/gjesteforelesninger-seminarer/fredagsseminar/2025/knut_ivar_austvoll.html. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Melheim, Anne Lene; Skar, Birgitte; Armstrong-Oma, Kristin; Austvoll, Knut Ivar; Henriksen, Merete Moe & Philippsen, Bente [Vis alle 7 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2025). Gendered bodies and the adoption of new knowledge systems in the Early Bronze Age. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar; Ling, Johan & Bengtsson, Boel (2025). Navigating Complexity: Maritime Interactions and Sociopolitical Dynamics in the Nordic Bronze Age. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2025). Neolitisk tid – Et innblikk i yngre steinalder i Nord-Europa. [Radio]. Historier som endret verden. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Hvordan så Nord-Europa ut for mellom 6000 og 4000 år siden? Hvordan var livet til de som levde da? Dette er en periode hvor det skjer store omveltninger av forskjellige samfunnsgrupper og viktige teknologiske fremskritt som jordbruket dukker opp. I denne episoden snakker vi om de ulike kulturene, tidsaldere, og hvordan vi vet det vi vet om denne tiden. Dagens gjest er Knut Ivar Austvoll, førsteamanuensis i arkeologi ved Universitetet i Oslo.

• Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2025). På terskelen til bronsealderen - Klokkebegerkulturen. [Radio]. Historier som endret verden. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2025). Folk kunne dra over åpent hav fra Norge til Danmark for 4.000 år siden. En forskergruppe ser nå for første gang hvordan det var mulig. [Internet]. Forskning.no. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar & Bunbury, Magdalena Maria Elisabeth (2025). Interconnected Houses: Rethinking Nordic Bronze Age Settlement Patterns and Community Cooperation. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2025). Lifeways and social organisation in northwestern Scandinavia in the Bronze Age. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2024). Practical ‘outdoor education’ in a new digital age. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2024). Schismogenesis on the Scandinavian Peninsula During the Late Neolithic Transition. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2024). Late Neolithic burial traditions and some contextual reflections. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2024). Forskerne ble overrasket da de oppdaget dobbelt så mange kvinner som menn i disse gravene. [Internet]. Forskning.no. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2024). Norske utskjæringer. Gåtefullt mysterium: Ukjent opphav. [Journal]. Dagbladet. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2024). Bronsealderen, de arkeologiske kildene. Arkeologi på rappen. Primitive Tider Podcast. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Naderer, Max; Orning, Hans Jacob & Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2023). Vi var friere før. Bokanmeldelse av David Graeber og David Wengrow Begynnelsen til alt. En ny fortelling om mennesket. Agora Journal for metafysisk spekulasjon. ISSN 0800-7136. doi: 10.18261/agora.41.4.17. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar; Burlot, Aurélien; Bengtsson, Boel; Outlaw, Carolyn Howle & Ling, Johan (2023). Maritime Encounters along the Atlantic Façade in Prehistory. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Polanska, Weronika Patrycja; Ferri, Lavinia de; Steindal, Calin Constantin & Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2023). Preliminary investigation of the production technology of Norwegian Bronze Age ceramics. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Archaeological ceramics are among the most studied artifact categories since they can refer to both social and economic traditions of past communities. Investigations usually point at determining the production technology and special attention has been given to the firing conditions. This poster presents the intricate knowledge system of pottery production occurring in Norway in the Bronze Age (1300–900 BCE). To this aim, aliquots of clays sampled in Norway, Germany and Poland were fired in an electric furnace at 500, 550, 600, 700, 800 and 900℃ and successively analyzed by colorimetry, XRD and FTIR-ATR to determine modifications in term of structure and mineralogical composition. Temperatures were chosen based on pre-existing knowledge of ceramic technology in the geographical region of interest in that period [1]. Results were compared with those obtained on a set of ten ceramic fragments dated to the Bronze Age at the site of Hunn in Eastern Norway. The aim was to estimate the temperature used in the production of these prehistoric ceramics exhibiting typological similarities with contemporary finds from Southern and Central Sweden as well as Northern Poland [2]. Due to the abundance of the thermally stable grain minerals such as quartz and feldspar, the study of the clayish fraction through XRD resulted particularly hostile, while FTIR-ATR confirmed its usefulness in investigating ceramics and ceramic-related materials. A progressive modification of the color of the fired material, turning towards a reddish hue, was due to the gradual formation of iron oxide (Fe2O3), starting from 700 ℃. In parallel, carbonates decompose and weak features due to CaO appeared. In addition, small amounts of chlorite, a phase decomposing at 600–650 ℃, were found through the petrographic analysis of some archaeological sherds highlighted, . However, its structural similarity with other clay minerals and the abundence of silicate phases, made the identification of chlorite by XRD and FTIR not possible in the fired clays. Despite this, the experiment helped to strengthen the hypothesis about the technological correspondence of similar ceramics in Eastern Norway and Western Pomerania in the Bronze Age, as the results seem to indicate that the Bronze Age ceramics were fired at a temperature not higher than 700 ℃, more probably ranging between 600 and 650 ℃. [1] H.M. Hop Wendelbo, Keramikk fra norske bronsealdergraver: En studie av morfologi, kronologi, forbindelser og deponeringspraksiser i tidsrommet 1700-500 f. Kr., 2020 [2] T. Eriksson, Kärl och social gestik: keramik i Mälardalen 1500 BC-400 AD, Uppsala universitet/ Riksantikvarieämbetet, 2000

• Polanska, Weronika Patrycja; Ferri, Lavinia de; Austvoll, Knut Ivar & Steindal, Calin Constantin (2023). A multi-method approach to Bronze Age ceramics from Hunn, Eastern Norway. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Located in Eastern Norway, Hunn is a site with a rich archaeological landscape that includes Bronze Age burial mounds and metal workshops. One of the workshops contained a large number of ceramics dating back to the Nordic Bronze Age Period III–IV (1300-900 BCE). Ten ceramic fragments were chosen for a multi-technique analytical study aiming to investigate their production technology and possible provenance. In addition to optical and scanning electron microscope, observations carried out on thin section, handheld X-ray fluorescence (pXRF), Fourier Transferred Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) in ATR mode and X ray diffraction were applied. The analyses were intended to determine whether the ceramic sherds from Eastern Norway were imported from the continent as previously hypothesized. The comparison with data obtained on three clay samples from locations in Norway, Germany and Poland indicate that the analyzed pottery samples were of local origin, as the chemical and mineral analyses confirmed the use of a local clay. At the same time, the tempering material consists primarily of locally available granitic rock. However, thin-section petrography revealed the occurrence of chamotte previously found in contemporary ceramics from Swedish sites [1]. The ceramic traditions in Eastern Norway share similarities with Southern and Central Swedish finds, especially when it comes to rusticated ceramics and tableware [2]. There has been as well previous associations between the Nordic Bronze Age pottery types and the Lusatian Culture in Poland (1300-400 BCE) [3]. However, a link between ceramics in Norway and Northern Central Europe has never been explored before [4]. [1] T. Eriksson, Grog tempering during Scandinavian Bronze Age, Naturwissenschaftliche Analysen vor-und fr Grog tempering during Scandinavian Bronze Age. Naturwissenschaftliche Analysen vor-und frügeschichtlicher Keramik III.: Anwendungsbereiche, Auswertungsmöglichkeiten, 2013, 331-351. [2] H.M, Hop Wendelbo, Keramikk fra norske bronsealdergraver: En studie av morfologi, kronologi, forbindelser og deponeringspraksiser i tidsrommet 1700-500 f. Kr., 2020 [3] T. Eriksson, Kärl och social gestik: keramik i Mälardalen 1500 BC-400 AD, Uppsala universitet/Riksantikvarieämbetet, 2009 [4] W. P. Polańska et al. in prep - A multi-method approach to Bronze Age ceramics from Hunn, Eastern Norway

• Bengtsson, Boel; Austvoll, Knut Ivar; Montenegro, Álvaro; Ling, Johan; Tomasini, Matteo & Green, Ashely [Vis alle 8 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2023). Thy to Lista in 1500 BC: Comparing Direct Open Water Crossings and Coastal Routes Using an Ocean Voyage Simulation Tool. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2023). Skjeletter i 5.000 år gammel massegrav kan være de eldste sporene etter krig i Europa. [Internet]. www.forskning.no. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar; Horn, Christian & Anfinset, Nils (2022). Scaling Bronze Age Societies. Between the Micro and Macro. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar; Artursson, Magnus; Horn, Christian; Green, Ashely & Ling, Johan (2022). Modelling Local Bronze Age Societies in Scandinavia. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2022). The Emergence of Coercive Societies in Northwestern Scandinavia. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2022). TidsforDRIV. [Radio]. TidsforDRIV. Vestfoldmuseenes podkast. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Petursdottir, Thora; Axelsen, Irmelin; Østmo, Mari Arentz; Nielsen, Svein Vatsvåg & Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2022). What’s the use of theory, anyway? Arkæologisk Forum. ISSN 1399-5545. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2022). Late Neolithic Developments and Bell Beaker Influence in Northwestern Scandinavia. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2022). Praktisk læring – feltkurs. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Axelsen, Irmelin; Austvoll, Knut Ivar; Nielsen, Svein Vatsvåg; Petursdottir, Thora & Østmo, Mari Arentz (2021). What's the use of theory, anyway? 45, s. 26–29. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The need for a joint Nordic platform for archaeological theory has recently been reflected upon on the pages of this journal. Is there a need for a Nordic TAG? Are there issues that pertain to a particularly Nordic theoretical debate? And if so, why is it that this seemingly ideal venue tends towards hibernation every now and then? These questions will be discussed here, though not fully answered. Most importantly, however, with this short comment we are happy to inform you that the Nordic TAG will be returning this coming spring. Hosted jointly by the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History and the Museum of Cultural History, both part of the University of Oslo, the aim is set for lively conversations and constructive arguments in late April 2022. We hope to see you there!

• Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2021). Distriktsnyheter Sørlandet. [TV]. NRK. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2021). Sørlandssendinga. [Radio]. NRK. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2021). Re-assessing Gender and Social Organisation in the Nordic Bronze Age. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2021). Resultater fra IAKHs & KHMs utgraving på Brukjerr. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2021). Re-assessing the Social Organisation in the Nordic Bronze Age. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Mansrud, Anja; Nielsen, Svein Vatsvåg; Austvoll, Knut Ivar; Denham, Sean Dexter; Berg-Hansen, Inger Marie & Persson, Per [Vis alle 8 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2021). Rethinking the sub-Neolithic in Norway: Submissive and vulgar or creative and affluent? Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar; Wright, David K. & Reitan, Gaute (2021). Possibilities and challenges with practical ‘outdoor education’ in a new digital age. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar & Polanska, Weronika (2021). Resultater fra IAKHs & KHMs utgraving på Brukjerr. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Horn, Christian; Austvoll, Knut Ivar; Artursson, Magnus & Ling, Johan (2021). Neighbours make better enemies – Local societies in war and peace during the Nordic Bronze Age. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2020). Forskningspodden: Har du bronse, eier du verden. [Radio]. Forskning.no. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2020). Gravminner i bronsealderen. Fra monumentalitet til historisitet. I Kristoffersen, Siv & Pedersen, Einar Solheim (Red.), Solkult myter mystikk. Bronsealderkvinna si verd. Arkeologisk museum, Universitetet i Stavanger. ISSN 9788277601861. s. 51–55. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2019). Connecting Bronze Age societies along the coast of northwestern Scandinavia. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2019). Book review of Appropriating Innovations. Entangled Knowledge in Eurasia, 5000-1500 BCE, edited by P. Stockhammer and J. Maran. Norwegian Archaeological Review. ISSN 0029-3652. doi: 10.1080/00293652.2019.1571100. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2019). Lista i senneolitikum og bronsealder - nye forskningsresultater. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2019). Sosial og politisk organisering langs kysten av Norge i senneolitikum og eldre bronsealder. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2019). Bronsealderen langs kysten: makt og mobilitet. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2019). Forskerstemmen: Bronsealderen i et europeisk perspektiv. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2019). Feltkurset for masterstudenter 2019. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2019). Makt og mobilitet langs kysten av Sørvest-Norge i bronsealderen. Frá haug ok heiðni. ISSN 0015-9255. s. 3–8. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2018). Regional and Sociopolitical Changes in Northwestern Scandinavia in the Early Bronze Age. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2018). Seaways to Complexity. Sociopolitical Strategies in Northwestern Scandinavia in the Early Bronze Age. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Furholt, Martin & Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2018). Mobilitet og migrasjon i steinalderen. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2017). Måltider og politiske allianser i bronsealderen. Norgeshistorie.no. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2017). Sociopolitical systems in northwest Scandinavia in the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar; Melheim, Anne Lene & Ling, Johan (2017). Beyond Mapping Movement: Travel and Exchange. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2017). Socio-political strategies along the coast of north-western Scandinavia, 2350–1100 BCE. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Prescott, Christopher; Austvoll, Knut Ivar & Sand-Eriksen, Anette (2016). The Sea and Late Neolithic/Bronze Age transformations. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Den tidligste metalltiden i Norge innledes langs norskekysten. Gjennom sen-neolitikum og bronsealderen (2350-500 f.Kr.) er den materielle kulturen langs kysten bemerkelsesverdig homogen mens uttrykkene for politisk hierarki varierer. Selv om nye politiske institusjoner, teknologier (metallurgi og båtbygging), gårdsbasert jordbruk (korn og tamdyr) og maritim reise er introdusert gjennom hele regionen, så er uttrykkene etter bronsealdereliten kun funnet stedvis langs kysten. Fire regioner – Lista, Jæren, Karmøy og Sunnmøre – er brukt for å utforske etableringen og den tidlige rollen til maritime praksis i de kystnære strøkene. Vi argumenterer for at maktuttrykket og den materielle rikdommen, som konsentreres til disse fire regioner, er basert på kontroll over flaskehalser, seilingsled, båttrekk og havner langs viktige maritime ferdselsårer.

• Austvoll, Knut Ivar & Moen, Marianne (2016). Erfaring med å skrive PhD-prosjekt. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2015). Intergroup connectedness in the Early Bronze Age. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2015). Tracing Past Identities – A Longue Durée Study of Sociopolitical Structures in the Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age, western Norway. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2015). Constructing Identities. Structure and practice along the coast of southwest Norway. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar; Reitan, Gaute & Persson, Per (2022). Undersøkelser av lokalitet fra steinalder i forbindelse med feltkurs 2021. Brukjerr 3. Molland 82/1, Grimstad, Aust-Agder. Kulturhistorisk museum, Universitetet i Oslo, Arkeologisk seksjon . Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  I forbindelse med arkeologisk feltkurs for masterstudenter ved institutt for arkeologi, konservering, og historie, i samarbeid med Kulturhistorisk Museum, UiO, har man utgravd deler av en neolittisk boplass (ID 135321) ved gården Molland (82/1) i Grimstad kommune, Agder. Lokaliteten har fått navnet Brukjerr 3. Undersøkelsen 2021 er en videreføring av utgravningene fra 2017-2018 (Mansrud 2018) og 2019 (Austvoll m.fl. 2020). Det ble undersøkt 3,25 m2 i 2021. Totalt ble det gjort 4358 funn av flint, bergart, kvarts, pimpstein, metarhyolitt og skifer på lokaliteten. Det ble også funnet 362 keramikkskår og 380 brent bein. Funn av flintredskaper, keramikk og brent bein i tykke kulturlag gir innblikk i en boplass med en intensiv bruk i tidlig- og mellomneolitisk tid. Prosjektet fokuserer på den kulturhistorisk utvikling i steinalderen, med særlig fokus på ervervsstrategien i mellomneolitikum. Utfra lokalitetens topografi og fra osteologiske undersøkelser av beinene fra de tidligere utgravningene på plassen er det fangst av fisk og annet vilt har vart hovedfokus. Prosjektleder: Per Persson.

• Austvoll, Knut Ivar & Koxvold, Lucia Uchermann (2020). Undersøkelse av lokalitet fra steinalder i forbindelse med feltkurs 2019. Brukjerr 3, Molland 82/1, Grimstad, Aust-Agder. Kulturhistorisk museum, Universitetet i Oslo, Arkeologisk seksjon . Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Som del av utdanningen for masterstudenter i arkeologi har Kulturhistorisk Museum i samarbeid med Institutt for arkeologi, konservering og historie, UiO, foretatt undersøkelser av en neolittisk boplass (ID 135321) ved gården Molland (82/1), Grimstad Kommune, Vest-Agder. Undersøkelsen er en videreføring av utgravningene fra 2017 og 2018 (se Mansrud 2018). Fokus for prosjektet har vært den kulturhistoriske utviklingen av steinalderen i Aust-Agder med særlig vekt på ervervstrategi. Denne rapporten redegjør for utgravningssesongen 2019. Rapporten er sammensatt og ført i pennen av Knut Ivar Austevoll med utgangspunkt i eksamensoppgavene til studentene, bidrag fra Steinar Kristensen, Per Persson, Lisbeth Prøsch-Danielsen og Lucia Uchermann Koxvold.

• Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2018). Seaways to Complexity. A Study of Sociopolitical Organisation Along the Coast of Northwestern Scandinavia in the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age. Universitetet i Oslo. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2014). Constructing Identities. Structure and Practice in the Early Bronze Age – Southwest Norway. Universitetet i Oslo. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This study discusses the construction of regional identities in the Early Bronze Age. The preliminary focus is on burial practice in southwest Norway, and how this is visible in the archaeological material. Earthen barrows from Etne, Karmøy, Jæren and Lista, Norway, have been selected as the archaeological source for this study. How historically constituted structures together with external practice are part of an open-ended process of identity construction, will be investigated. Previous research has often used a set, rigid definition of identity, and earthen barrows along the coast of southwest Norway have therefore frequently been portrayed as part of a southern Scandinavian culture. These perceptions are not necessarily wrong, but have neglected the complicated concept that identity is. In this thesis I argue that patterns, both unintentional and intentional, in the material remains, which express regional variations, can be traced. The construction of identity is a multifaceted process, and the present study will reflect this. A quantitative methodology based on a selection of focus points has been used for the analysis of every earthen barrow from the regions chosen for study. As a result, the southwest of Norway during the Early Bronze Age can now be seen as a more complex and dynamic region. Although many similarities between regions are shared, these are also divided and competitive. The results are discussed in relation to a theoretical framework on identity, but also in a practical context.

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