Anette Sand-Eriksen
@sanderiksen.bsky.social
Postdoc @SCAPES, Museum of Cultural History/University of Oslo.
Everything Late Neolithic and Bronze Age, currently looking into biases/representativity in our archaeological practices, from excavations to theoretical models and interpretations.
Everything Late Neolithic and Bronze Age, currently looking into biases/representativity in our archaeological practices, from excavations to theoretical models and interpretations.
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Today we're out visting #Neolithic or #BronzeAge sites across Østfold!
Here from the ongoing archaeological excavation at Hunn and rock art site Medgårdskogen, with painted figures rather unique to this region. Can you see them without the decorrelation?
📷: @yrjaskj.bsky.social
Here from the ongoing archaeological excavation at Hunn and rock art site Medgårdskogen, with painted figures rather unique to this region. Can you see them without the decorrelation?
📷: @yrjaskj.bsky.social
October 8, 2026 at 1:03 PM
Today we're out visting #Neolithic or #BronzeAge sites across Østfold!
Here from the ongoing archaeological excavation at Hunn and rock art site Medgårdskogen, with painted figures rather unique to this region. Can you see them without the decorrelation?
📷: @yrjaskj.bsky.social
Here from the ongoing archaeological excavation at Hunn and rock art site Medgårdskogen, with painted figures rather unique to this region. Can you see them without the decorrelation?
📷: @yrjaskj.bsky.social
Reposted by Anette Sand-Eriksen
New special issue out – a festschrift for Espen Uleberg 💻💾
For decades, he's been the hub of Norwegian #DigitalArchaeology – a pioneer for #FAIR data long before the term existed. This volume is a fitting tribute to that legacy.
Gratulerer, Espen! 👏
OA here👇🏽
journals.uio.no/index.php/PT
For decades, he's been the hub of Norwegian #DigitalArchaeology – a pioneer for #FAIR data long before the term existed. This volume is a fitting tribute to that legacy.
Gratulerer, Espen! 👏
OA here👇🏽
journals.uio.no/index.php/PT
Primitive tider
arkeologisk tidsskrift
journals.uio.no
August 24, 2026 at 5:24 AM
New special issue out – a festschrift for Espen Uleberg 💻💾
For decades, he's been the hub of Norwegian #DigitalArchaeology – a pioneer for #FAIR data long before the term existed. This volume is a fitting tribute to that legacy.
Gratulerer, Espen! 👏
OA here👇🏽
journals.uio.no/index.php/PT
For decades, he's been the hub of Norwegian #DigitalArchaeology – a pioneer for #FAIR data long before the term existed. This volume is a fitting tribute to that legacy.
Gratulerer, Espen! 👏
OA here👇🏽
journals.uio.no/index.php/PT
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Vi letar ny doktorand i agrarhistoria till ett projekt om hur människor i det förindustriella Sverige fick tillgång till mat – Känner du någon som vill du forska om bröd, öl och gröt i fyra år!?
www.slu.se/om-slu/jobba...
www.slu.se/om-slu/jobba...
Doktorand i agrarhistoria | slu.se
Vetenskap och utbildning för hållbart liv.
www.slu.se
June 30, 2026 at 11:17 AM
Vi letar ny doktorand i agrarhistoria till ett projekt om hur människor i det förindustriella Sverige fick tillgång till mat – Känner du någon som vill du forska om bröd, öl och gröt i fyra år!?
www.slu.se/om-slu/jobba...
www.slu.se/om-slu/jobba...
Had to do an emergency U-turn with my bike in the middle of traffic just now!
Why? Oil stains on the asphalt had the perfect ground plan of a two-aisled house. Even a potential entrance! #LateNeolithic #BronzeAge
That's #ArchLife for you 🔍
#ArchaeologistProblems #Archaeology
Why? Oil stains on the asphalt had the perfect ground plan of a two-aisled house. Even a potential entrance! #LateNeolithic #BronzeAge
That's #ArchLife for you 🔍
#ArchaeologistProblems #Archaeology
August 7, 2026 at 12:46 PM
Had to do an emergency U-turn with my bike in the middle of traffic just now!
Why? Oil stains on the asphalt had the perfect ground plan of a two-aisled house. Even a potential entrance! #LateNeolithic #BronzeAge
That's #ArchLife for you 🔍
#ArchaeologistProblems #Archaeology
Why? Oil stains on the asphalt had the perfect ground plan of a two-aisled house. Even a potential entrance! #LateNeolithic #BronzeAge
That's #ArchLife for you 🔍
#ArchaeologistProblems #Archaeology
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📢 #KielConference2027 Call for Papers!
Join our session tracing lives & connecting scales to rethink socio-environmental change through individual life-courses. From isotopes to kinship – micro to macro.
🗓️ 8–12 March 2027 | Submit by 15 Oct
@clusterroots.bsky.social
Join our session tracing lives & connecting scales to rethink socio-environmental change through individual life-courses. From isotopes to kinship – micro to macro.
🗓️ 8–12 March 2027 | Submit by 15 Oct
@clusterroots.bsky.social
August 3, 2026 at 9:46 AM
📢 #KielConference2027 Call for Papers!
Join our session tracing lives & connecting scales to rethink socio-environmental change through individual life-courses. From isotopes to kinship – micro to macro.
🗓️ 8–12 March 2027 | Submit by 15 Oct
@clusterroots.bsky.social
Join our session tracing lives & connecting scales to rethink socio-environmental change through individual life-courses. From isotopes to kinship – micro to macro.
🗓️ 8–12 March 2027 | Submit by 15 Oct
@clusterroots.bsky.social
🐟🌱🔥 Before farming, Mesolithic people introduced fish to Norway's mountains ~5000 BC - actively shaping ecosystems. This wasn't just hunting; it was deliberate environmental management. Important paper by colleagues @historiskmuseum.bsky.social published in @antiquity.ac.uk
doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
The introduction of fish to the Scandinavian mountains by hunter-fisher-gatherers 5000 BC | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
The introduction of fish to the Scandinavian mountains by hunter-fisher-gatherers 5000 BC
doi.org
July 23, 2026 at 6:51 AM
🐟🌱🔥 Before farming, Mesolithic people introduced fish to Norway's mountains ~5000 BC - actively shaping ecosystems. This wasn't just hunting; it was deliberate environmental management. Important paper by colleagues @historiskmuseum.bsky.social published in @antiquity.ac.uk
doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
Got interviewed by @forskning.bsky.social about my favourite find from an excavation: this 6000-year-old piece of resin from Ime. A #StoneAge site with 🏹 and 🌰, situated in a sheltered spot. Possibly chewed and shaped in the mouth, it bore leaf imprints and smelled of pine during analysis. Link ⬇️
July 21, 2026 at 8:57 AM
Got interviewed by @forskning.bsky.social about my favourite find from an excavation: this 6000-year-old piece of resin from Ime. A #StoneAge site with 🏹 and 🌰, situated in a sheltered spot. Possibly chewed and shaped in the mouth, it bore leaf imprints and smelled of pine during analysis. Link ⬇️
This is a powerful reminder that preconceived notions often shape "science" more than evidence does. For 200 years, we assumed a rich burial with tools belonged to a man - but DNA just proved it was a female metalworker.
We need to challenge these biases!
#Archaeology #BronzeAge
We need to challenge these biases!
#Archaeology #BronzeAge
Gold (Gold)
Always believe in your soul
You've got the power to know
You're indestructible
edition.cnn.com/2026/07/17/s...
Always believe in your soul
You've got the power to know
You're indestructible
edition.cnn.com/2026/07/17/s...
Bronze Age ‘shaman,’ previously assumed to be a male metalworker, was actually a woman | CNN
Bronze Age remains once thought to belong to a revered male metalworker are in fact female, new DNA analysis has found, calling into question long-held beliefs about ancient British society.
edition.cnn.com
July 18, 2026 at 7:05 PM
This is a powerful reminder that preconceived notions often shape "science" more than evidence does. For 200 years, we assumed a rich burial with tools belonged to a man - but DNA just proved it was a female metalworker.
We need to challenge these biases!
#Archaeology #BronzeAge
We need to challenge these biases!
#Archaeology #BronzeAge
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This week our podcast (Arkeologi på rappen) joined ‘Helleristningsjegerne’ on a #rockart hunt, as part off series on upcoming series on citizen science.
These three friends have doubled Østfold's known sites from 500 to 1,000+. As published in our journal a few years back:
doi.org/10.5617/pt.9...
These three friends have doubled Østfold's known sites from 500 to 1,000+. As published in our journal a few years back:
doi.org/10.5617/pt.9...
June 18, 2026 at 7:10 AM
This week our podcast (Arkeologi på rappen) joined ‘Helleristningsjegerne’ on a #rockart hunt, as part off series on upcoming series on citizen science.
These three friends have doubled Østfold's known sites from 500 to 1,000+. As published in our journal a few years back:
doi.org/10.5617/pt.9...
These three friends have doubled Østfold's known sites from 500 to 1,000+. As published in our journal a few years back:
doi.org/10.5617/pt.9...
The Museum of Cultural History @uio.no is hiring a PhD candidate in Nordic #Archaeology, linked to the museum’s research on the #VikingAge. As icing on the cake, you’ll be working in the environment of the new Museum of the Viking Age, part of MCH, opening in 2027!
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
PhD research fellow in Nordic Archaeology (301195) | University of Oslo
Job title: PhD research fellow in Nordic Archaeology (301195), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Friday, July 31, 2026
www.jobbnorge.no
June 16, 2026 at 2:12 PM
The Museum of Cultural History @uio.no is hiring a PhD candidate in Nordic #Archaeology, linked to the museum’s research on the #VikingAge. As icing on the cake, you’ll be working in the environment of the new Museum of the Viking Age, part of MCH, opening in 2027!
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
In connection with #pride, @uio.no made a small video based on my article on the value of ‘queer gaze’ (skeive blikk) in archaeology. Queer archaeology must be more than just making same-sex relations visible, we also need to dwell on explicit expressions without always explaining them away. 🧵 1/
June 8, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Call for sessions is out! 🗣️
The 17th Nordic Bronze Age Symposium will be held in beautiful Visby, Gotland in June 2027.
For the 50‑year anniversary, all topics on the Nordic #bronzeage are welcome. Spread the word!
www.uu.se/institution/...
The 17th Nordic Bronze Age Symposium will be held in beautiful Visby, Gotland in June 2027.
For the 50‑year anniversary, all topics on the Nordic #bronzeage are welcome. Spread the word!
www.uu.se/institution/...
17th Nordic Bronze Age Symposium – Institutionen för arkeologi, antik historia och kulturvård – Uppsala universitet
www.uu.se
May 23, 2026 at 6:41 AM
Call for sessions is out! 🗣️
The 17th Nordic Bronze Age Symposium will be held in beautiful Visby, Gotland in June 2027.
For the 50‑year anniversary, all topics on the Nordic #bronzeage are welcome. Spread the word!
www.uu.se/institution/...
The 17th Nordic Bronze Age Symposium will be held in beautiful Visby, Gotland in June 2027.
For the 50‑year anniversary, all topics on the Nordic #bronzeage are welcome. Spread the word!
www.uu.se/institution/...
🌲 New paper with @lovschal.bsky.social, @michelle-farrell.bsky.social & Høeg, challenging the idea that #LateNeolitic + #BronzeAge was all about deforestation and farming. It #REVEALS a forested form of life in SE Norway, co-shaped, dynamic social ecologies and mixed 🐑🏹🌾🌰
🔗 doi.org/10.3389/fear...
🔗 doi.org/10.3389/fear...
Frontiers | A forested form of life: Southeast Norway in 2350–500 BCE
For much of prehistory, the landscapes of southeast Norway were deeply shaped by dense forests. Yet archaeological narratives of the period from around 2350 ...
doi.org
May 1, 2026 at 6:56 AM
🌲 New paper with @lovschal.bsky.social, @michelle-farrell.bsky.social & Høeg, challenging the idea that #LateNeolitic + #BronzeAge was all about deforestation and farming. It #REVEALS a forested form of life in SE Norway, co-shaped, dynamic social ecologies and mixed 🐑🏹🌾🌰
🔗 doi.org/10.3389/fear...
🔗 doi.org/10.3389/fear...
Meanwhile, across the globe, a hide-shoe was lost in the high Norwegian mountain, melting out of an ice patch 20 years ago. Devastating cause, yet a rear glimpse into the organic side of the region’s #bronzeage, c. 1400 BCE
📷: V. Vike, MCH / @kult-hist-museum.bsky.social
Info: secretsoftheice.com
📷: V. Vike, MCH / @kult-hist-museum.bsky.social
Info: secretsoftheice.com
April 21, 2026 at 6:47 AM
Meanwhile, across the globe, a hide-shoe was lost in the high Norwegian mountain, melting out of an ice patch 20 years ago. Devastating cause, yet a rear glimpse into the organic side of the region’s #bronzeage, c. 1400 BCE
📷: V. Vike, MCH / @kult-hist-museum.bsky.social
Info: secretsoftheice.com
📷: V. Vike, MCH / @kult-hist-museum.bsky.social
Info: secretsoftheice.com
Proud that our article on the Hole rune‑stone, currently the earliest archaeologically dated, was among the 20 most‑read articles of 2025! Many thanks to @steinarsol.bsky.social @kristelzilmer.bsky.social @kristervasshus.bsky.social, and other co-authors
Don't forget to explore our collection of 2025's most-read #archaeology, covering great research on diverse topics, from West African ancestry in medieval England to prehistoric Siberian tattoos 🏺
It's completely FREE for the rest of the month: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
It's completely FREE for the rest of the month: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
January 9, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Proud that our article on the Hole rune‑stone, currently the earliest archaeologically dated, was among the 20 most‑read articles of 2025! Many thanks to @steinarsol.bsky.social @kristelzilmer.bsky.social @kristervasshus.bsky.social, and other co-authors
Of the couple hundred dissertations defended at the University of Oslo last year, it’s cool to see mine get a mention in @uio.no’s research journal, Apollon. Arguing for a more pluralistic understanding of the #BronzeAge in southeast Norway's forested landscape to challenge ‘plant blindness’ 🌱
January 5, 2026 at 1:57 PM
Of the couple hundred dissertations defended at the University of Oslo last year, it’s cool to see mine get a mention in @uio.no’s research journal, Apollon. Arguing for a more pluralistic understanding of the #BronzeAge in southeast Norway's forested landscape to challenge ‘plant blindness’ 🌱
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3-year postdoc fellowship in #Archaeology @uio.no as part of an interdisciplinary project to investigate societal, economic, and climatic effects of major 6th-10th-century volcanic eruptions through a comparative interdisciplinary lens on regional #resilience.
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Postdoctoral Fellow (290375) | University of Oslo
Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow (290375), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Tuesday, January 20, 2026
www.jobbnorge.no
December 16, 2025 at 7:55 AM
3-year postdoc fellowship in #Archaeology @uio.no as part of an interdisciplinary project to investigate societal, economic, and climatic effects of major 6th-10th-century volcanic eruptions through a comparative interdisciplinary lens on regional #resilience.
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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SCAPES postdoctor @annapp90.bsky.social is currently sampling human remains to explore population development and Norway’s Neolithic transition. Did agriculture arrive with colonizers? Did groups cooperate or clash? Did they eat a primarily terrestrial or maritime diet? #Archaeology #aDNA #isotopes
December 15, 2025 at 5:27 PM
SCAPES postdoctor @annapp90.bsky.social is currently sampling human remains to explore population development and Norway’s Neolithic transition. Did agriculture arrive with colonizers? Did groups cooperate or clash? Did they eat a primarily terrestrial or maritime diet? #Archaeology #aDNA #isotopes
Reposted by Anette Sand-Eriksen
There's lots of ongoing work as we're preparing for the new Museum of the Viking Age to open in Oslo. Our museum, @kult-hist-museum.bsky.social is now hiring an Associate Professor in Nordic archaeology, with expertise in the Viking Age. www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-still... #Vikingtidsmuseet
Førsteamanuensis innen nordisk arkeologi (284576) | Universitetet i Oslo
Stillingstittel: Førsteamanuensis innen nordisk arkeologi (284576), Arbeidsgiver: Universitetet i Oslo, Søknadsfrist: lørdag 31. januar 2026
www.jobbnorge.no
December 12, 2025 at 3:43 PM
There's lots of ongoing work as we're preparing for the new Museum of the Viking Age to open in Oslo. Our museum, @kult-hist-museum.bsky.social is now hiring an Associate Professor in Nordic archaeology, with expertise in the Viking Age. www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-still... #Vikingtidsmuseet
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New open access publication: Moving to Stay in (a Woman’s) Place: Was Patrilocality the Dominant Mode of Postmarital Residence across Later European Prehistory? Current Anthropology.
Thanks to Wenner Gren for funding the workshop it emerged from!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Thanks to Wenner Gren for funding the workshop it emerged from!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Moving to Stay in (a Woman’s) Place : Was Patrilocality the Dominant Mode of Postmarital Residence across Later European Prehistory? | Current Anthropology
This paper questions whether forms of female mobility and their relation to kinship were uniform throughout later European prehistory. Patrilocality has become the primary way in which sex-based diffe...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
November 24, 2025 at 4:44 PM
New open access publication: Moving to Stay in (a Woman’s) Place: Was Patrilocality the Dominant Mode of Postmarital Residence across Later European Prehistory? Current Anthropology.
Thanks to Wenner Gren for funding the workshop it emerged from!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Thanks to Wenner Gren for funding the workshop it emerged from!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Reposted by Anette Sand-Eriksen
Ikke for å skryte, eller.. jo, for å skryte: Boka mi er visst "mesterlig formidingskunst"
6 A-er: Mesterlig formidlingskunst om klima - Altinget
Bård Lahn skriver enkelt og forståelig om det som er abstrakt og vanskelig. Få, om noen, sakprosaforfattere mestrer tilsvarende, skriver Altingets anmelder Ane Breivik.
www.altinget.no
November 13, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Ikke for å skryte, eller.. jo, for å skryte: Boka mi er visst "mesterlig formidingskunst"
These little things? Just some Stone Age #axes (and a dagger). Effective display of #neolithic time depth. Definitely not the worst day at the office!
October 15, 2025 at 3:14 PM
These little things? Just some Stone Age #axes (and a dagger). Effective display of #neolithic time depth. Definitely not the worst day at the office!
Reposted by Anette Sand-Eriksen
“Objects, war and memory in Ireland past and present”
The exhibition was co-created by Prof. Joanna Brück of UCD School of Archaeology & seven people who have come to Ireland as refugees. It will be on view in Kilmainham Gaol Museum until 31 st January 2026 and thereafter around Dublin
The exhibition was co-created by Prof. Joanna Brück of UCD School of Archaeology & seven people who have come to Ireland as refugees. It will be on view in Kilmainham Gaol Museum until 31 st January 2026 and thereafter around Dublin
October 13, 2025 at 10:21 PM
“Objects, war and memory in Ireland past and present”
The exhibition was co-created by Prof. Joanna Brück of UCD School of Archaeology & seven people who have come to Ireland as refugees. It will be on view in Kilmainham Gaol Museum until 31 st January 2026 and thereafter around Dublin
The exhibition was co-created by Prof. Joanna Brück of UCD School of Archaeology & seven people who have come to Ireland as refugees. It will be on view in Kilmainham Gaol Museum until 31 st January 2026 and thereafter around Dublin
Reposted by Anette Sand-Eriksen
Fishing some 5,300 years ago: a Neolithic fishhook made of wild boar tusk, wrapped with a fishing line.
The size of the fishhook is 6.5 cm. It was used to catch pikes.
Found in the lake-dwelling settlement of Arbon Bleiche 3, Switzerland.
On display at Archäologisches Museum Frauenfeld
📷me
🏺
The size of the fishhook is 6.5 cm. It was used to catch pikes.
Found in the lake-dwelling settlement of Arbon Bleiche 3, Switzerland.
On display at Archäologisches Museum Frauenfeld
📷me
🏺
October 9, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Fishing some 5,300 years ago: a Neolithic fishhook made of wild boar tusk, wrapped with a fishing line.
The size of the fishhook is 6.5 cm. It was used to catch pikes.
Found in the lake-dwelling settlement of Arbon Bleiche 3, Switzerland.
On display at Archäologisches Museum Frauenfeld
📷me
🏺
The size of the fishhook is 6.5 cm. It was used to catch pikes.
Found in the lake-dwelling settlement of Arbon Bleiche 3, Switzerland.
On display at Archäologisches Museum Frauenfeld
📷me
🏺
Reposted by Anette Sand-Eriksen
