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Solheim, Steinar
(2024).
Farming, population growth and cultural change in the Late Neolithic of south-eastern Norway.
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Solheim, Steinar & Zilmer, Kristel
(2024).
Runesteinen fra gravfeltet ved Svingerud – verdens eldste daterte runestein.
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Spangen, Marte & Solheim, Steinar
(2024).
Ingen nye argumenter.
Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.).
ISSN 0804-3116.
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Spangen, Marte & Solheim, Steinar
(2024).
Boken «12000 år med norsk historie» bidrar mer til forvirring enn forklaring.
Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.).
ISSN 0804-3116.
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https://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/debatt/i/9z99jW/boken-12000-aar-med-norsk-historie-bidrar-mer-til-forvirring-enn-forklaring
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Solheim, Steinar
(2023).
The start of farming in Eastern Norway. .
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Gulliksen, Øivind; Solheim, Steinar & Zilmer, Kristel
(2023).
Om formidling av runesteinen fra Svingerud, Hole.
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Solheim, Steinar & Zilmer, Kristel
(2023).
Foredrag om verdens eldste runestein.
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Zilmer, Kristel; Solheim, Steinar & Orie, Amarachi
(2023).
World’s oldest dated runestone discovered in Norway – with a mysterious inscription.
[Internett].
CNN.
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Solheim, Steinar; Zilmer, Kristel; Påsche, Eirik Sørenmo & Brock, Tina
(2023).
Skal finne ut mer om mystisk kvinne fra år 0.
[Internett].
NRK Buskerud.
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Solheim, Steinar & Zilmer, Kristel
(2023).
God morgen Norge.
[TV].
TV 2 God morgen Norge.
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Zilmer, Kristel & Solheim, Steinar
(2023).
TV2 Nyheter - direkte intervju om runesteinen fra Hole.
[TV].
TV2.
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Solheim, Steinar; Zilmer, Kristel & Rustad Carlsen, Marianne
(2023).
Eldste runestein.
[TV].
NRK Dagsrevyen.
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Solheim, Steinar; Zilmer, Kristel & Ramsrud, Knut Andreas
(2023).
På den aller siste dagen gjorde de et sensasjonelt funn.
[Avis].
Ringerikes blad.
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Zilmer, Kristel; Solheim, Steinar & Estep, Mette
(2023).
Verdens eldste runestein funnet ved Tyrifjorden.
[Internett].
NTB.
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Zilmer, Kristel; Solheim, Steinar & Toft, Martin
(2023).
Verdas eldste runestein funnen av UiO-arkeologar i Hole på Ringerike.
[Internett].
Uniforum.
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Zilmer, Kristel; Solheim, Steinar & Mauren, Arnfinn
(2023).
Unikt funn av runestein: – Alle runeforskeres drøm.
[Avis].
Aftenposten.
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Zilmer, Kristel; Solheim, Steinar & Zawalska, Judyta
(2023).
Verdens eldste runestein - infofilm til utstilling på Historisk museum.
[Internett].
Utstilling.
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Zilmer, Kristel & Solheim, Steinar
(2023).
Verdens eldste runestein.
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Solheim, Steinar
(2023).
Migration is in your bones! .
I Hofmann, Daniela; Frieman, Catherine J & Nyland, Astrid Johanne (Red.),
Migration narratives in Archaeology.
Sidestone Press.
ISSN 9789464262025.
s. 46–48.
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Spangen, Marte & Solheim, Steinar
(2023).
Utdaterte spekulasjoner om DNA og kultur blir presentert som fakta. Det er et problem.
Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.).
ISSN 0804-3116.
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Solheim, Steinar
(2023).
Introduksjon - stordata i norske arkeologi.
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Solheim, Steinar
(2023).
Exploring temporal trends in human activity, lithic technology and tool assemblages in South-Eastern Norway.
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Solheim, Steinar
(2023).
Utviklingen i arkeologiske metoder og arkeologiens forhold til andre fag.
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Solheim, Steinar & Zilmer, Kristel
(2023).
Scene HumSam: Verdens eldste runestein .
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Solheim, Steinar
(2023).
Svingerudsteinen - verdens eldste runestein. Omvisning for Riksantikvaren.
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Solheim, Steinar & Zilmer, Kristel
(2023).
Svingerudsteinen – verdens eldste runestein. Utstillingsåpning Veien kulturminnepark.
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Solheim, Steinar & Zilmer, Kristel
(2023).
Svingerudsteinen - verdens eldste runestein.
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Solheim, Steinar
(2023).
Fellesprosjektet Ringeriksbanen og E16. Arkeologiske undersøkelser og verdens eldste runestein.
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Schülke, Almut & Solheim, Steinar
(2022).
Participation in CAS-project "Exploring the Archaeological Migration Narrative: The introduction of farming and animal husbandry in Southern Norway"
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Solheim, Steinar
(2022).
Studio 2 - Steingammel stekt fisk.
[Radio].
NRK P2.
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I Israel er restene av verdens eldste «middag» blitt funnet: 780 000 år gamle rester av stekt fisk ved jordanelven tyder på at menneskers forgjengere begynte å tilberede mat med ild mye tidligere enn antatt.
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Solheim, Steinar & Zilmer, Kristel
(2022).
Svingerudsteinen - verdens eldste runestein.
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Solheim, Steinar & Schülke, Almut
(2022).
Exploring the Archaeological Migration Narrative: The Introduction of Farming and Animal Husbandry in Southern Norway.
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Solheim, Steinar & Kay, Andrea
(2022).
Introduction to session 404 “Socio-environmental systems and resilience to disturbance regimes".
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Schülke, Almut; Berg-Hansen, Inger Marie; Mjærum, Axel Johan; Solheim, Steinar; Roalkvam, Isak & Damlien, Hege
(2021).
Forskergruppe PrehCOAST - Status og veien videre.
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Solheim, Steinar
(2021).
The emergence and development of arable farming in Southeastern Norway.
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Solheim, Steinar
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Population studies in the Nordic Past: Where does gender fit in.
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Solheim, Steinar
(2021).
P3K: Presentation of research groups and current research .
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Schülke, Almut; Solheim, Steinar; Roalkvam, Isak; Mjærum, Axel & Berg-Hansen, Inger Marie
(2020).
New Perspectives on Old Shores: Current approaches on the Stone Age in Eastern Norway.
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The coastal and inland areas landscapes of southeastern Norway offered resource rich environments for Mesolithic hunter-gatherers to settle in. This human activity has left an extensive dataset for archaeologist to study settlement and activity from the seashores to the high mountain areas.
In recent years, there has been a development in archaeological analysis of human activity in the region applying the large amount of data generated by recent archaeological excavations and surveys in novel ways, especially in the regions former coastal areas.
The use of archaeological big-data, such as radiocarbon dates and surveyed sites, has given new insights to past population dynamics, and coupled with environmental data this has offered us possible explanations to variation in settlement patterns. Further, detailed analysis of lithic technology have provided insight into raw material procurement, movement of people and shifting social networks. Moreover, the identification of some hinterland sites opens up for a better understanding of the importance and use of the coastal hinterland.
In this paper, we will look closer at the recent development in archaeological research on coastal societies in southeastern Norway. We will present cur-rent perspectives as well as which future avenues we will explore in order to increase our knowledge on hunter-gatherers settlement, mobility and economy in coastal areas.
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Berg-Hansen, Inger Marie; Mjærum, Axel; Roalkvam, Isak; Solheim, Steinar & Schülke, Almut
(2020).
Coast-concepts in Norwegian Stone Age Archaeology.
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The coast plays a major role in Norwegian Stone Age archaeology. Hundreds of sites from the Mesolithic and Neolithic periods were situated close to or directly at the shorelines. They witness of the economic, social and ritual importance of the coastal zone. However, the “normality” of coastal sites seems to have prevented further reflections about the concepts that have been applied to study coastal sites and the relevance of the coast in the Stone Age.
Our talk will identify concepts and epistemological perspectives of how archaeologists have dealt with coastal issues in Stone Age archaeology in a research historic perspective – from early geoarchaeological studies focus-sing on land uplift and coastal sites (“the beach model”), via more processually oriented division of landscape spaces and their environmental characteristics. We will also discuss the sites’ economic functions, based on more recent, ethnoarchaeologically influenced, perspectives on taskscapes, movement in and experience of the coastal zone.
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Damlien, Hege; Koxvold, Lucia Uchermann & Solheim, Steinar
(2020).
Colonization and the enculturation of landscapes. A case from Mesolithic Southeast-Norway.
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Mjærum, Axel Johan & Solheim, Steinar
(2019).
Feltkurs som læringsform. 50 år med arkeologisk feltutdanning ved Universitetet i Oslo.
Primitive tider.
ISSN 1501-0430.
21,
s. 121–141.
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The archaeological field course is the forum where many archaeology students meet and take part in an archaeological excavation for the first time. To excavate and generate scientific data through excavations is at the core of the archaeological discipline. For that reason, introducing students for theoretical and practical knowledge about field archaeology have been a central part of the discipline for the last 150 years at Norwegian universities. In this paper, we look closer at how the field course has developed at the University of Oslo during the last half century. Based on a compiled overview of field courses, we discuss how the field course has developed and changed over time in relation to the development in the discipline and higher education at large. A central question is whether the field course succeed in giving the students skills to perform an excavation and document the process. A main find is that collegial knowledge transfer run as a thread through the disciplines’ history as the most important way of training new archaeologists.
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Solheim, Steinar
(2019).
PEOPLE 3000 Vernal workshop
The case of South-eastern Norway.
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Schülke, Almut; Berg-Hansen, Inger Marie; Mjærum, Axel & Solheim, Steinar
(2019).
The Coast and Coastal Societies - Concepts and Terminology. Southeastern Norway.
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Solheim, Steinar
(2019).
Early and mid-Holocene coastal settlement and population. The case of Eastern Norway
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Solheim, Steinar
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Fra Bamble til ”big-data” Hvorfor bygge en C14-database ved KHM?
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Solheim, Steinar
(2019).
Demografi og dateringer.
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Solheim, Steinar
(2019).
Radiocarbon dates as proxies for prehistoric population size:
Methods and data, problems and potential.
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Solheim, Steinar; Damlien, Hege & Koxvold, Lucia Uchermann
(2019).
Exploring long-term variation in spatial organization in Mesolithic southeastern Norway, c. 11 400-9500 cal.BP
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Solheim, Steinar
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Holocene coastal landscapes and marine adaptation.The case of Eastern Norway, c.9000-2000 cal.BC.
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Nielsen, Svein Vatsvåg; Solheim, Steinar & Persson, Per
(2018).
Accumulating cultures: exploring prehistoric demography combining radiocarbon. Dates and material culture (Southern Norway)
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Modelling combinations of radiocarbon dates using Bayesian statistical principles is becoming an increasingly common method for research into prehistoric population dynamics. It has recently been suggested that results from such analyses should be linked with multiple proxies in order to secure a more robust validation. This paper explores population dynamics in southern Norway throughout the Neolithic period (3900-1800 BCE) by comparing two different proxies: (1) radiocarbon dates and (2) trends in material culture from occupation sites. For this study, 643 14C-dates derived from 204 Neolithic sites were analysed using SPD’s (UCL-method), while trends in material culture from 180 occupation and mortuary sites were analysed using kernel density modelling. The analysis of radiocarbon dates identified three phases of intensified relative population size in the Neolithic, which correlated well with regional changes in material culture, indicating a ‘rise and fall’ of cultural complexes. However, the three phases in the SPD’s did not follow a predictable pattern with regard to the character of the documented settlement activity, e.g. hunting, fishing and gathering compared to local food production. These findings are discussed in terms of how expected grand mediators in prehistoric societies such as migration and food production techniques are to be deciphered from results of demographic research.
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Solheim, Steinar & Hinz, Martin
(2018).
At the interface. Investigating coupled human and natural system from natural scientific and archaeological perspectives. Introduction to session #684.
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During the Holocene period, the trajectories of both environmental and human history were influenced by marked changes. These changes emerged on different spatial and temporal dimensions. It can be assumed that the developments were mutually influencing each other, even if this happened in asynchronous intensity. It is precisely this asynchronousness that has often caused research to see the human in this equation as a passive element, especially in contrast to the present situation of the Anthropocene. On the other hand, we can also observe concomitant changes in environmental and human history at different spatial and temporal scales. The reasons for this cannot always be identified directly from the data. In recent years it has become clear that in order to write a meaningful history of the development of human societies in their environment, it is necessary to combine both humanities and natural sciences in increasingly close cooperation. It is not enough merge the results of individual disciplines at the end of the research process. The nature of coupled human-environment systems also necessitates a closely interlinked investigation of these systems. In this paper, we will give a short introduction to the session and a brief overview of a few cases where the causal interdependencies in human-environment relationships are in focus.
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Solheim, Steinar; Hinz, Martin & Castillo, Agustin Diez
(2018).
Cross the streams. Multiproxy approaches to demography and population dynamics. Introduction to session #627.
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In the last decades, approaches dealing with demographic assessments based on archaeological data have experienced enormous popularity. One reason for this is certainly that almost all aspects of past societies, which are archaeologically interesting, are related to the question of the size of these societies. A variety of different methods have developed in this course. These include the number of sites per time period and relative site density, size of sites, density of artefacts, 14C data, paleoanthropological or paleobotanical methods as well as oral and written history. While most investigations rely on only one of the methods, linking of different proxies is the only way to check their validity and to calibrate the proxies because of the lack of ground truth.
What knowledge can be gained from combining different methods? Which approaches have proven their worth, and which ones confirm each other? Have we developed methods of correlating the individual proxies with each other that go beyond observing correlation or forming mean values? How can we correlate proxies with different temporal resolution? In this introductory paper we will give a short introduction to the session and present a brief overview of recent developments in approaches to demography and population dynamics.
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Solheim, Steinar
(2018).
Bosetning og populasjonsendringer i Øst-Norge gjennom 7500 år.
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Solheim, Steinar
(2018).
Coupling human and natural systems and the matter of scale.
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Solheim, Steinar & Persson, Per
(2018).
Populating Coastal Landscapes: The case of shorebound Mesolithic settlement in southeastern Norway .
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The early and mid-Holocene landscape of southeastern Norway was under a constant process of change due to shifting sea level and constant land rise. This dynamic landscape offered Stone Age hunter-gatherers concentrations of aquatic and terrestrial resources. Unlike most parts of Europe, no Holocene transgressions are documented in this region but the degree of land uplift and sea level changes has varied between the different parts of southeastern Norway.
A recent study by the authors has demonstrated temporal stability in the coastal population in southeastern Norway during the early and mid-Holocene by using C14-dates as proxy. In this paper we will explore this further at a more detailed level by using the same data set to investigate the connection between settlement sites and the shifting shorelines and sea level. While earlier studies of settlement patterns have focused on limited regions we will expand on these studies and explore the coastal settlement pattern further by investigating Mesolithic sites from the entire Oslo fjord region.
In order to so we will compare the temporal distribution of dates with the changing sea levels. In our approach we will adjust all C14-dated sites to the same “nill-curve” in order to directly compare different parts of the region and to investigate the connection between settlement and changing shorelines. Can we expect a clear pattern of continuity in shorebound settlement as indicated by previous studies? If and consequently when we observe variation or breaks in shorebound settlement, what are the reasons for this? Here we offer a new approach to investigate the temporal development in coastal settlement pattern in southeastern Norway. This study will also give a more detailed picture of the general temporal development in human activity in the coastal areas of southeastern Norway.
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