Knut Ivar Austvoll

• 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. doi: 10.1017/S1380203822000162. 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.

• 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. 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.

• 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. 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. ISSN 2300-6560. 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.

• 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
• 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.
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2015). Tesse rundt på to sesonger. Nicolay: Arkeologisk tidsskrift. ISSN 0332-8937. s. 45–50.

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• 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. 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. 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 978-82-7760-184-7. 80 s.

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• Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2022). TidsforDRIV. [Radio]. TidsforDRIV. Vestfoldmuseenes podkast.
• Axelsen, Irmelin; Austvoll, Knut Ivar; Nielsen, Svein Vatsvåg; Petursdottir, Thora & Østmo, Mari Arentz (2021). What's the use of theory, anyway? Arkæologisk Forum. ISSN 1399-5545. 45, s. 26–29. 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; Wright, David K. & Reitan, Gaute (2021). Possibilities and challenges with practical ‘outdoor education’ in a new digital age.
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2021). Re-assessing Gender and Social Organisation in the Nordic Bronze Age.
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar & Polanska, Weronika (2021). Resultater fra IAKHs & KHMs utgraving på Brukjerr.
• 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?
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2021). Distriktsnyheter Sørlandet. [TV]. NRK.
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2021). Sørlandssendinga. [Radio]. NRK.
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2021). Re-assessing the Social Organisation in the Nordic Bronze Age.
• 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 978-82-7760-186-1. s. 51–55.
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2020). Forskningspodden: Har du bronse, eier du verden. [Radio]. Forskning.no.
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2019). Feltkurset for masterstudenter 2019.
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2019). Makt og mobilitet langs kysten av Sørvest-Norge i bronsealderen. Frá haug ok heiðni. ISSN 0015-9255. s. 3–8.
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2019). Forskerstemmen: Bronsealderen i et europeisk perspektiv.
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2019). Connecting Bronze Age societies along the coast of northwestern Scandinavia.
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2019). Bronsealderen langs kysten: makt og mobilitet.
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2019). Sosial og politisk organisering langs kysten av Norge i senneolitikum og eldre bronsealder.
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2019). Lista i senneolitikum og bronsealder - nye forskningsresultater.
• 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.
• Furholt, Martin & Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2018). Mobilitet og migrasjon i steinalderen.
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2018). Regional and Sociopolitical Changes in Northwestern Scandinavia in the Early Bronze Age.
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2018). Seaways to Complexity. Sociopolitical Strategies in Northwestern Scandinavia in the Early Bronze Age.
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar; Melheim, Anne Lene & Ling, Johan (2017). Beyond Mapping Movement: Travel and Exchange.
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2017). Sociopolitical systems in northwest Scandinavia in the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age.
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2017). Måltider og politiske allianser i bronsealderen. Norgeshistorie.no.
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2017). Socio-political strategies along the coast of north-western Scandinavia, 2350–1100 BCE.
• Prescott, Christopher; Austvoll, Knut Ivar & Sand-Eriksen, Anette (2016). The Sea and Late Neolithic/Bronze Age transformations. 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.

• Prescott, Christopher; Melheim, Lene; Austvoll, Knut Ivar; Amundsen, Marie; Sture, Maria & Kilhavn, Håvard (2016). Arkeologi I Skrivarhelleren Facebookside.
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar & Moen, Marianne (2016). Erfaring med å skrive PhD-prosjekt.
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2015). Tracing Past Identities – A Longue Durée Study of Sociopolitical Structures in the Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age, western Norway.
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2015). Intergroup connectedness in the Early Bronze Age.
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2015). Constructing Identities. Structure and practice along the coast of southwest Norway.
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar & Koxvold, Lucia Uchermann (2020). Rapport. Arkeologisk utgravning. Undersøkelse av lokalitet fra steinalder i forbindelse med feltkurs 2019, Brukjerr 3, Molland, 82/1, Grimstad, Aust-Agder. Kulturhistorisk musem, Universitetet i Oslo.
• 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.
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar (2014). Constructing Identities. Structure and Practice in the Early Bronze Age – Southwest Norway. Universitetet i Oslo.

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