Volume 59, Issue 1 of Norwegian Archaeological Review

Published in Norwegian Archaeological Review (Ahead of Print, 2026)

Research on sedaDNA has developed quickly over the last decade. This five strata visual essay looks at sedaDNA interpretation from a more-than-human and ‘being with’ perspective on humans and nonhu...

Research on sedaDNA has developed quickly over the last decade. This five strata visual essay looks at sedaDNA interpretation from a more-than-human and ‘being with’ perspective on humans and nonhu...

Published in Norwegian Archaeological Review (Ahead of Print, 2026)

This essay collects four places from a journey in Kirkenes, eastern Finnmark, Norway, in September 2024. As part of a PhD project on Mesolithic wetland place-making, the visit focused on exploring ...

Published in Norwegian Archaeological Review (Ahead of Print, 2026)

This paper examines the possible intellectual relationship between Johann Gottfried Herder’s historical philosophy and the development of culture-historical archaeology in the late 19th and early 2...

Inland areas of southern Norway produced an estimated 190 000 tonnes of bloomery iron between AD 800–1350. An efficient way for iron to reach markets in coastal Norway and overseas was through a sy...

This study applies New Materialist theory to examine early medieval urban emergence at Ipswich (Gipeswic), challenging traditional models that privilege elite agency and linear development. Through...

The last decade has seen a significant change in the way the humanities have approached the study of botanical life. Termed ‘the plant turn’, this questions traditional views of plants as a largely...

This article presents key results of the excavations of the unique Hølland site in Ogna, Jæren in southwest Norway (cal. date range 203 BC–AD 553). Strategically located in a core region for cerami...