📣 The Nordic TAG Steering Committee is happy to announce that the next Nordic TAG conference will be held in Turku, Finland in April 2024. The overarching theme of the conference will be “Heritage/Archaeology”. Watch this space for more info soon! 📣

Grant application submitted, now we just have to cross our fingers 🤞#FRIPRO

Visited the Urnes Stave Church today. Built c. 1130 with wood carvings in the Urnes style.

Playing some Zelda this summer and a surprising amount of archaeology serve as a backdrop for the games story #archaeogaming #TearsOfTheKingdom

Our article on Middle Neolithic development in Eastern Norway is now out: Hunting, fishing, gardening: Re-evaluating Middle Neolithic mobility and cultural diversity on the Norwegian Skagerrak coast sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

These don't come around too often. A permanent position as Associate Professor in Bronze Age archaeology is available at the University of Bergen jobbnorge.no/en/available-j…

The BBC joined us in the field this year, and their report is just out. Great stuff🙂 "Melting glaciers reveal Viking pass hidden for centuries" bbc.com/reel/video/p0g… via BBC Reel

New joint article out in Quaternary Science Reviews. We discuss climate shifts and potential connections to mobility patterns and changes in the economy during the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age in Scandinavia. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

How early farmers in Scandinavia overcame climate change phys.org/news/2023-12-e… via Phys.org

Fully funded PhD-fellowship in archaeology is available IAKH jobbnorge.no/en/available-j…

Call for papers at this year's EAA! I am co-organising a session about the transformative effects of watercraft technologies in the Neolithic. We welcome papers from all world region that discuss watercraft of early complex societies.

Seeking: steering committee member from a Swedish institution! Nordic TAG strives to uphold a diverse steering committee with representatives from each of the Nordic countries. Se are seeking a new member from a Swedish institution to join the steering committee after N-TAG 2024

A news article about our book on the Nordic Bronze Age. It will be available as Open Access very soon, but there will also be a printed hardcover for your bookshelf. "Significant differences among nordic regions during the Bronze Age" phys.org/news/2024-04-s… via Phys.org

New paper out! This was a fun paper to co-write together with Johan Ling, Mikael Fauvelle, Boel Bengtsson, Linn Nordby and @BronzeRock degruyter.com/document/doi/1… De Gruyter Brill ➡️ @degruyterbrill.bsky.social

Visited the Ħal-Saflieni Hypogeum in Malta today, no photos allowed unfortunately, but I did get a souvenir.

A news article about our recently published paper. Archaeologists argue that ancient Scandinavian boat-building infrastructure has been hiding in plain sight. hakaimagazine.com/news/scandinav… via Hakai Magazine

Long before their Viking successors wielded naval prowess to conquer distant lands, boats were at the heart of life in Scandinavia. bit.ly/3X76tgw

Our book on the Nordic Bronze Age is finally out! It is open access here: doi.org/10.1017/978100…

New Cambridge Element Nordic Bronze Age Economies by Christian Horn, Knut Ivar Austvoll, Magnus Artursson and Johan Ling out now! Read Open Access at cup.org/3ZCJETc #cambridgeelements #openaccess #archaeology

Some great news today, we have received 12 million NOK from NFR for our project "Social Complexity and Population Entanglements in Norway 2500-1000 BCE" forskningsradet.no/nyheter/2024/1…