• Downscaling Cosmological Landscapes: from Early to Mid-Holocene Rock Art in Northern Norway 

      Damm, Charlotte Brysting; Gjerde, Jan Magne (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2021)
      The rock art of northern Norway is well-known, not least due to the UNESCO World Heritage sites at Alta dating back to c. 5200 cal BC. It is perhaps less well-known that northern Norway also has earlier rock art dating back to c. 9000 cal BC. While the early phase of rock art is dominated by large, natural sized animals such as elk, reindeer, bear and whale in a naturalistic style, the later period ...
    • Rock art and landscapes : studies of Stone Age rock art from northern Fennoscandia 

      Gjerde, Jan Magne (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2010-10-15)
      The thesis focuses on rock art and landscapes of the Stone Age of northern Fennoscandia, between about 10000BC until 2000BC. Five areas with rock art are selected for in-depth case studies where rock art is studied in relation to time and landscape. The five areas are Ofoten and Alta in northern Norway, Kanozero on Kola Peninsula and Vyg by the White Sea in northwestern Russia and Nämforsen in ...
    • Stone Age dwellings, sites and environment in coastal northern Norway: surveys and documentation of house-pit sites 

      Skandfer, Marianne; Damm, Charlotte Brysting; Gjerde, Jan Magne (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      The northernmost parts of Europe has a large number of sites with Stone Age house-pits, the majority of which date from c. 5000 BC onwards. Remarkably, the remains of these dwellings are many places still visible on the surface. In northern Norway, such dwellings concentrate in the coastal areas, with a more limited number found on inland sites. In order to use these in analyses of settlement duration, ...