Tag: archeology

Ancient artefacts resurface as mountain snow melts. Archaeologists urge hikers to stay alert

Due to unusually low snow levels in the mountains this year, archaeologists predict that ancient artefacts will surface in the mountains of Western Norway. They are urging people to stay alert for these findings.

Top 10 of 2023: Scrotums, Vikings, and man flu

We now know who the Vikings had children with, and we have gained insight into a very delicate problem in the Middle Ages. Here is the list of our most read articles in 2023.

Were people shorter before?

If you travel a few hundred years back in time, you will see that the beds look shorter, and the doors are very low. Why is that?

Several thousand people have been found in bogs in Europe. What kind of stories are found in 12,000 years of remains?

Many of them ended their lives in horrible ways, but there are many reasons why someone might have ended up in a bog.

Three guys with torches have found almost 600 new rock carvings in their spare time

A group of friends has revolutionized the hunt for rock art in Norway.

If you were rich in medieval Norway, you were also tall and had strong bones

Researchers have studied remains in burial grounds found around Norway.

A lost Viking town discovered in the 1950s is stored away in this basement

Not until recently have researchers really started studying a thousand-year-old Norwegian town we know surprisingly little about.

Why do metal detector enthusiasts find so many cheap coins, and so few valuable ones?

If the finds by metal detector hobbyists are truly representative, then Norwegian history may need to be re-written.

Heritage conservation and Climate Change: Introducing the Future of our past in the Norwegian context.

Transitions are changes in the way of do things, and to stimulate them it is necessary to expand our understanding of the world and its realities, so we can create new ways to relate to them. Although such proposals seem rather theoretical and abstract, this article will discuss how such transition is happening in the cultural heritage field.

World Heritage in Danger… What Danger?

Bringing heritage back to the people: The cultural politics of the Scandinavian far-right

Early World Heritage politicking at home and abroad

The Lake District – a case of World Heritage perseverance

Archival back-stories of international heritage conservation

Mysterious object found in a Stone Age settlement in Norway

Was this a tool? Was it used for decoration? The experts do not understand the purpose of the 6,000 year old object from the Neolithic period.

Items lost in the Stone Age are found in melting glaciers

Mittens, shoes, weapons, walking sticks – lost in the high mountains of Norway thousands of years ago - are now emerging from melting ice.

A viking blacksmith buried with his tools

More than a thousand years ago a blacksmith died. His tools were buried with him. Now they give us insight into the work and status of a blacksmith in the viking society

Norway’s top archaeological finding in 2014

A rare Stone Age grave dazzled Norwegian archaeologists last year.