The impact of volcanism on Scandinavian climate and human societies during the Holocene: Insights into the Fimbulwinter eruptions (536/540 AD)

F Arthur, K Hatlestad, KJ Lindholm… - The …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Recent paleoclimatic research has revealed that volcanic events around 536–540 AD
caused severe, short-term global cooling. For this same period, archeological research from …

[HTML][HTML] Bronze Age and Early Iron Age house and settlement development at Forsandmoen, south-western Norway

T Løken - AmS-Skrifter, 2020 - journals.uis.no
The ambition of this monograph is to analyse a limited number of topics regarding house
types and thus social and economic change from the extensive material that came out of the …

The mid-6th century crises and their impacts on human activity and settlements in southeastern Norway

S Solheim, F Iversen - Ruralia, 2019 - duo.uio.no
AD 536 is a poignant date in European history and marks the advent of a series of
documented environmental changes that affected societies across Europe in various ways …

Human-vegetation dynamics in Holocene south-eastern Norway based on radiocarbon dated charcoal from archaeological excavations

A Mjærum, K Loftsgarden, S Solheim - The Holocene, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Charcoal from archaeological contexts differs from off-site pollen samples as it is mainly a
product of intentional human action. As such, analysis of charcoal from excavations is a …

Agricultural Resilience during the 6th Century Crisis: Exploring Strategies and Adaptations Using Plant-Macrofossil Data from Hove-Sørbø and Forsandmoen in …

S Westling, ED Fredh, P Lagerås… - Norwegian …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Major changes in the archaeological material in Rogaland, southwestern Norway, from the
mid-6th century AD have been interpreted as a population decline and an economic …

Iron Age Vulnerability. The Fimbulwinter hypothesis and the archaeology of the inlands of eastern Norway.

IM Gundersen - 2022 - duo.uio.no
A growing body of climate data points towards a significant climate cooling in the northern
hemisphere during the 6th century AD. Linked to multiple explosive volcanic eruptions …

Familiarity breeds remembrance: on the reiterative power of cemeteries

M Moen - World Archaeology, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Based on mortuary evidence from the Norwegian Viking Age (AD 750–1050), this article
seeks to present an argument for cemeteries as key components of social memory and …

Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age settlements and agro-pastoral developments in the Oslo Fjord area, Southeastern Norway

A Sand-Eriksen, AJ Mjærum - Danish Journal of Archaeology, 2023 - duo.uio.no
The transition to the Late Neolithic (c. 2350 BCE) is characterised by large-scale cultural and
economic changes across southern Norway, connected to the spread of a cultural package …

Agricultural Development in the Context of the 6th Century Crisis–A Synthesis of Plant-Macrofossil Data from Southwestern Norway

S Westling - Environmental Archaeology, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The transition between the Early and Late Iron Age in Southwestern Norway, around AD
550, is a transformative time when the archaeological material displays major changes and …

[PDF][PDF] Spatial organization of farmsteads at Iron Age and early medieval Vik (c. 400 BC–AD 1250)

I Ystgaard - Environment and Settlement: Ørland 600 BC–AD …, 2019 - library.oapen.org
Studies of social organization based on the spatial organization of Iron Age buildings and
farmsteads have become increasingly important in south Scandinavian archaeology during …