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Tales of the unexpected: in paintings conservation by Mary Kempski; Jo Kirby; Victoria Leanse; Kristina Mandy (Editors)

Conservators' prolonged proximity to paintings makes them ideally placed to notice anything unusual or surprising which might arise during examination or treatment. Ensuing investigations, often aided by technical analysis, include the recent increasingly widespread use of macro X-ray fluorescence (MA-XRF) scanning which has led to a raft of new discoveries. The papers in this volume, presented at the British Association of Paintings Conservator-Restorers' conference 'Tales of the Unexpected' in Conservation', look at the unexpected from a variety of periods and places of origin, and from a range of perspectives: practical, technical, historical and ethical.

Danmarks oldtid i landskabet av Marianne Rasmussen Lindegaard; foto Morten Rasmussen

Landskabet kan byde på store oplevelser og rummer spændende historier fra vores fortid. Bogen levendegør i tekst, fotografier og tegninger oldtidens Danmark og de mennesker, der boede i landet. Det er historiefortælling for hele familien. De 72 fortællinger danner en samlet historie om perioden fra rensdyrjægerne kom til landet lige efter istidens slutning omkring år 11.000 f.v.t. og frem til vikingekongernes statsdannelse omkring år 1000.

Den gode historia : skriveråd for engasjerande forskingsformidling av Åsmund H. Eikenes

Ei god historie er nøkkelen til å kommunisere faget ditt slik at alle kan forstå deg. I denne boka deler den erfarne forskingsformidlaren Åsmund H. Eikenes sine mest sentrale virkemiddel for å fortelle gode historier om forsking, saman med ti effektive skriveråd for å mestre skriveprosessen frå start til slutt.

Evolutionens menneske - menneskets evolution : om aben, der blev verdens herre av Ole Høiris og Peter K.A. Jensen

Evolutionens menneske – menneskets evolution præsenterer videnskabens bud på oprindelsen og udviklingen af mennesket. De seneste 150 år har forskere søgt efter sandheden om det første menneske. Men med syv millioner års forløb og op mod en million medlemmer af homolinjen, kan man kun opstille sandsynlige forløb. Bogen er delt op i to hovedsektioner: Evolutionens menneske behandler bl.a. menneskets evolution, udvandringen fra Afrika, befolkning af verden, tobenet gang, hjernen og fødekanalens udvikling, tabet af pelsen, bevidsthedens oprindelse og kannibalisme. Menneskets evolution behandler temaer som socialiteten, sproget, agerbruget og tøjet, beherskelse af ilden og tæmning af hunden.

The Evolution of Paleolithic Technologies av Steven L. Kuhn

The Evolution of Paleolithic Technologies provides a novel perspective on long-term trajectories of evolutionary change in Paleolithic tools and tool-makers. Members of the human lineage have been producing stone tools for more than 3 million years. These artefacts provide key evidence for important evolutionary developments in hominin behaviour and cognition. Avoiding conventional approaches based on progressive stages of development, this book instead examines global trends in six separate dimensions of technological behaviour between 2.6 million and 10,000 years ago. Combining these independent trends results in both a broader and a more finely punctuated perspective on key intervals of change in hominin behaviour. To draw this picture together, the concluding section explores behavioural, cognitive, and demographic implications of developments in material culture and technological procedures at seven key intervals during the Pleistocene.

Gender stereotypes in archaeology : a short reflection in image and text av Laura Coltofean-Arizancu, Bisserka Gaydarska & Uroš Matić ; illustrations by Nikola Radosavljević

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Were men the only hunters and producers of tools, art and innovation in prehistory? Were women the only gatherers, home-bound breeders and caregivers? Are all prehistoric female depictions mother goddesses? And do women and men have equal career chances in archaeology? To put it short, no. However, these are some of the gender stereotypes that we still encounter on a daily basis in archaeology from the way archaeologists interpret the past and present it to the general public to how they practice it as a profession. This booklet is a short but informative and critical response by archaeologists to various gender stereotypes that exist in the archaeological explanation of the past, as well as in the contemporary disciplinary practice.

The great Indo-European horse sacrifice : 4000 years of cosmological continuity from Sintashta and the Steppe to Scandinavian Skeid av Anders Kaliff & Terje Oestigaard

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The great Indo-European horse sacrifice is one of the most enduring and widespread traditions in world history. This study presents a historic overview of Indo-European studies and shows the cosmological continuity of the horse-sacrificial tradition based on specific cultural innovations and ecological adaptations over time. It also sheds new light on cultural history through in-depth analysis of horse sacrifice in culture and cosmology. From Sintashta in Russia and the steppes to the legendary ashwamedha ritual in India and horse sacrifices in Roman, Greek and Irish traditions, the analysis finds that horse sacrifice appears to have been most successful in Scandinavia, with classic sites and funerals such as Sagaholm, Kivik and Håga in the Bronze Age and Old Uppsala, Rakne and Oseberg in the Iron Age.

Gulatinget og gulatingslova av Knut Helle

Ny utgåve. I boka skriv forfattaren om Gulatinget frå Harald Hårfagres dagar og fram til omkring 1300 då tinget vart flytt frå Gulen til Bergen. Han ser på tinget som ein møtestad mellom det vestnorske bondesamfunnet og dei to offentlege maktene, kongedømet og kyrkja, som søkte å organisere samfunnet under seg i mellomalderen. Forfattaren ser den eldre Gulatingslova som eit vitnemål om tilhøva i bondesamfunnet og dei rollene konge og kyrkje spela der, før eit sterkare rikskongedøme og ei meir uavhengig kyrkje tok over og det vart trong for nye lovbøker.