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Content:

Marita Træet Heimsæter: Symbolsk tankegang som indikator på menneskets evolusjon

Mats Skare: «S» for symbol – Noen refleksjoner rundt S-formete spenner fra 400-, 500- og 600-tallet e.Kr.

JuliaMaria Olsen: The Equilateral Cross. An ancient, religious symbol ruined by hate

Aleksander Kapuran: Bird Images and Their Symbolism in Bronze Age Central Balkans (Serbia)

Melanie Wrigglesworth: Symboler i stein – bergkunst i bronsealderen

Mathias Seljebotn Erdal: Øyet som ser

Elin Hulda Gussiås: Bokanmeldelse: En kort introduksjon til bronsealderen i Norge av Nils Anfinset

Editorial staff:

Elected Offices:

• Editor in chief: Idunn Abelsnes
• Deputy editor: Elin Hulda Gussiås
• Secretary: Kristin Tobiassen
• Deputy secretary: Anika Stoll
• Financial manager: Anika Stoll
• Sales and distribution manager: Elin Hulda Gussiås
• Social media manager: Marita Træet Heimsæter
• Head of design: Malin Røgenes
• Graphic designer: Marie Hansteen Hagness
• IT-manager: Anika Stoll
• Head of proofreading: Idunn Abelsnes

Setting:

• Marie Hansteen Hagness
• Mathias Seljebotn Erdal

Proofreaders:

• Head of proofreading: Idunn Abelsnes
• Anika Stoll
• Irja Elisabeth Smith Sandvik
• Mathias Seljebotn Erdal
• Mina Hermansen
• Tobias Mathisen Grøtte

Design department:

• Head of Design Malin Røgenes
• Camilla Høiland
• Emilie Skår Lone
• Julie Augustin
• Kristin Tobiassen
• Lena Marie Eriksen Mæland
• Marie Hansteen Hagness
• Oliver Malo Torheim
• Rosa Vaksdal

Correspondence and planning:

Idunn M. J. Abelsnes, Julie Belardo Augustin, Steinar Dahl, Mathias Seljebotn Erdal, Tobias Mathisen Grøtte, Elin Hulda Gussiås, Marie Hansteen Hagness, Mina Hageselle Hermansen, Marita Træet Heimsæter, Camilla Høiland, Emilie Skår Lone, Henrik Madsen, Siv Madsen, Kristoffer Melanen, Lena Marie Eriksen Mæland, JuliaMaria Olsen, Malin Røgenes, Isak Røshol, Bård Sandemose, Irja Elisabeth Smith Sandvik, Anika Stoll, Kristin E. Tobiassen, Sebastian Torgeirsen, Oliver Malo Torheim, Rosa Vaksdal

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This time, the editorial team at RISS has chosen the theme of “home.” Throughout history, we humans have constructed homes based on the materials available to us, the conditions in the areas we settle, and the knowledge we’ve inherited from those who came before us. We have built homes from wood, stone, wattle and daub, leather, earth, mammoth bones, and much more. The homes humanity has created are characterized by the diversity of building materials, styles, and forms we’ve come up with. People have lived in everything from brick houses to turf huts to longhouses to mobile tents. We have created buildings and settlements adapted to all the world’s climates, but it’s not just these structures that can be categorized as “home.” Over the years, we’ve also built bonds with landscapes, familiar objects, and, most importantly, with other people. Throughout all times and places in the world, we have built homes in each other—both on a small scale, in the form of relationships between individuals, and on a large scale by gathering into ethnic groups and other communities of belonging.

 

Content:

Idunn M. J. Abelsnes: Reportasje fra NASK 2024

Bendik N. Bergendal: Minneord etter Randi Barndon

Ingrid Nærland: Gropkeramisk kultur i Norge

Mats Skare: Følelsen av et hjem

Søren Diinhoff: Langhusbebyggelsen fra vikingetid og tidlig jernalder på Vestlandet

Anika Stoll: Bergens Museum – Et hjem for vestnorsk arkeologi

Håkan Rydving: Heim- og helsetrygding i det gamle Mesopotamia

Lars Erik Gjerpe: Arkeologisk Gårdsforskning i Norge

Finn Jürgens: Kampen om et hjem

Daniela Hofmann and Penny Bickle: They’re the modern stonge-age family

Masterbeskrivelser

 

Editing staff:

Idunn Margrete Jørgensen Abelsnes
Bendik Nilsen Bergendal
Birte Elise Viddal Dybvik
Elin Hulda Gussiås
Marie Hansteen Hagness
Marita Træet Heimsæter
Edvind Arnold Kjærstad
Lena Marie Eriksen Mæland
Malin Røgenes
Anika Carlotta Stoll
Julie Fjesme Sundby
Kristin Tobiassen
Rosa Vaksdal

 

Title page: Illustration by Malin Røgenes, graphic design by Marie Hansteen Hagness. The illustration is inspired by a Neolithic grave from Salzmünde.

Graphic designer: Edvind Arnold Kjærstad.

Illustrators: Malin Røgenes, Lena Marie Eriksen Mæland, Rosa Vaksdal, Emilie Skår Lone.

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In this issue, we take a deep dive into the theme of “water.” Water as a resource, as a foundation for life, and as a destructive force is something all people, across all time periods, have had to relate to. Throughout history, water has influenced how we live, where we settle, where we travel, and which resources we exploit. Rivers, seas, and lakes have provided opportunities for both past and present individuals—from utilizing marine food resources to forming vast trade networks through seafaring. Water also creates both opportunities and challenges in archaeology today due to its preservative and erosive effects on archaeological material. The versatile relationship all humans, cultures, and groups have had with water is reflected in the thematic diversity of the texts we’ve received. Geographically, the contributions span from Sudan in the south to Norway in the north. Chronologically, they range from the Stone Age all the way to the present day.

 

Content:

Helene Robinson: Interview: Water and the Desert

Simon Malmberg: Hvordan fungerte Roma som havneby i antikken?

Elin Hulda Gussiås: Development of Irrigation Throughout the Predynastic and Dynastic Periods of Ancient Egypt

Anika Stoll: Does Bergen Need More Rain? A thought experiment on the impact of climate change on the archaeological deposits below Bryggen and other sites in Bergen

Sandra Knutsen: Fiskehandel i norske middelalderbyer

Dawn Elise Mooney: Human-Ocean Interactions Past, Present and Future

Astrid J. Nyland: Tsunami, klimaendringer og samfunnssikkerhet i mesolitikum

Quiz

 

Editorial staff:

Idunn M. J. Abelsnes
Elin Hulda Gussiås
Marie Hansteen Hagness
Malin Røgenes,
Bendik Nilsen Bergendal
Julie Fjesme Sundby
Birte Elise Viddal Dybvik
Helene Robinson
Edvind Kjærstad
Ada Harboe
Rosa Vaksdal
Tonje Jokiel
Lena Marie
Eriksen Mæland
Julieta Suarez
Marita Træet Heimsæter
Kristin Tobiassen
Yrja Skjærum
Anika Stoll
Sandra Knutsen

 

Title page: Malin Røgenes. The illustration is inspired by a mosaic panel (from house VIII.2.16) found in Pompeii, ca. 100-1 BC.

Graphic design: Marie Hansteen Hagness

Illustrators: Malin Røgenes, Julieta Suareaz og Lena Marie Eriksen Mæland.

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Content:

Idunn M.J Abelsnes: Repotasje fra Norsk Arkeologisk Studentkonferanse 2023

Robert Schumann: Archaeology and politics: a retrospective from Germany

Benedicte Louise P. Risløw: Den feministiske bevegelsen i arkeologien og problematikken bak tolkingen av kjønn

Jesper Munck: Som man spørger får man svar: Nyt syn på urbaniseringsprocessen i Sydskandinavien

Lillian Time: Maskulinitet i det norrøne samfunnet: Ein studie av trolldom og seid

Jens Øvrestrand Rysjedal: Du går under det kvite regnet

Idunn M.J. Abelsnes: Gunnhild Kongemor: Syndebukken i sagaene

Yrja Skjærum: Hva ser vi etter når vi ser etter kjønn? En studie av kjønnsmarkører i veideristningstradisjonen i Fennoskandia

Saga Tømmerdal: Kvinnegraver i vikingtiden

Visa Immonen: Genes as Cultural Heritage: A Case Study on Finnish Amateur Discussions

Laura Lisboa de Freitas: Blue Necklace Beads on the Atlantic Ocean: About the archaeological site Cemitério dos Aflitos in São Paulo, Brazil

Editorial staff:

Yrja Skjærum
Marie Hansteen Hagness
Julie Fjesme Sundby
Idunn M. J. Abelsnes
Malin Røgenes
Elin Hulda Gussiås
Edvind Kjærstad
Håkon Kristoffer Stokke
Bendik Nilsen Bergendal
Helene Robinson
Birte Elise Viddal Dybvik
Ada Harboe
Synne Lin Seldal
Rosa Vaksdal
Tonje Jokiel
Lena Marie Eriksen Mæland
Marita Træet Heimsæter
Kristin Tobiassen

Title page: Malin Røgenes. The illustration is inspired by the illustrations of a grave from Birka by Hjalmar Stolpe (1889) og Harald Olsson (1943).

Graphic design: Marie Hansteen Hagness.

Illustrators: Malin Røgenes og Rosa Vaksdal.

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Content:

Håkon Kristoffer Stokke: Brearkeologiens fremtid og fortid

Katrina Rorhus: The Paleo-Agulhas Plain: Changes in Landscape, Changes in Lifestyle

Lauritz Isaksen: Å nytte eller utnytte: Forståelse av verdiene i naturen

Aisa Darbo: Dikt

Erlend Bakken Eide: The Past, the Present and the Ice that Connects them

Randi Barndon og Howell Magnus Roberts: Samtid og fortid i fortiden, kollektivt minne og imitasjoner

Idunn M. J. Abelsnes: Dikt

Utlysningstekst, RISS Nr. 4, Identitet

Editorial staff:

Editor in chief: Helene Rennesvik Robinson
Deputy editor: Yrja Skjærum
Secretary: Birte Elise Viddal Dybvik
Financial manager: Håkon Kristoffer Stokke
Sales and distribution manager: Elin Hulda Gussiås
Head of design: Malin Røgenes
IT-manager: Matias Larsen Dehli
Graphic designer: Marie Hansteen Hagness
Head of proofreading: Julie Fjesmes Sundby
Photographer: Ada Harboe

Proofreaders:

Head of proofreading: Julie Fjesmes Sundby
Bendik Nilsen Bergendal
Idunn M. J. Abelsnes
Lena Marie Eriksen Mæland
Synne Lin Seldal

Social Committee:

Head of social committee: Yrja Skjærum
Ada Harboe
Idunn M. J. Abelsnes
Katrina Rorhus
Lena Marie Eriksen Mæland
Marita Træet Heimsæter
Aisa Herset Darbo

Design department:

Head of design: Malin Røgenes og Marie Hansteen Hagness
Martin Svanes
Rosa Vaksdal

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Content:

Solveig Chaudesaigues-Clausen: A point of contention – Bone points and violent deaths in the south Scandinavian Neolithic

Elena Cantero Ros: Ut av mørket: På sporet av El Argar-kulturen

Helene Robinson: Å forstå fortiden bedre: Intervju med Vinterviking

Yrja Skjærum: I arkeologiens skygge: Analoge fotografier

Christopher Siwicki: Ancient Rome: What we would like to know, what we likely never will, and why we probably shouldn’t

Siri Sande: Giacomo Boni og utgravingene på Forum Romanum

Ingrid Johanne Berger: SS-Strafgefangenenlager Falstad – En krigsfangeleir i Norge

Innleverte masteroppgaver i arkeologi ved Universitet i Bergen 2022

Editorial staff:

Aksel Teigen Breistrand (ed.)
Gøril Lambrechts Thue
Karen Kvamme Aase
Magnus Innvær
Erlend Bakken Eide
Janne Lande
Lillian Time
Helene Robinson

Title page: Yrja Skjærum

Graphic design: Helene Robinson