@sanderiksen
Postdoc @SCAPES, Museum of Cultural History/University of Oslo. Working with settlement, subsistence, landscape, rock art, GIS, environmental archaeology and archaeological biases. Special interest in plants, woodworking and Sámi/Sápmi.
🚨 Fully funded PhD position in Geoarchaeology!
Join the exiting ERC-funded EcoArch project to study how humans shaped African landscapes over the last 6000 years.
3 year + 1 year work at the University with 50% research time if submitting on time!
#PhD #Geoarchaeology #ERC #Archaeoscience
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
That’s the great work of @bandoli66.bsky.social!
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’ 🌱
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...
A researcher in lab coat and gloves extracting samples for DNA and isotope analysis. The sampling is overseen by a second researcher.
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
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
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/...
Ikke for å skryte, eller.. jo, for å skryte: Boka mi er visst "mesterlig formidingskunst"
Gøy! Gleder meg til å lese
Big congrats on EcoArch @davidkwright.bsky.social!
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!
“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 picture shows a fishhook made of wild boar tusk. Only the curved, pointed end and the upper part are visible. The rest is wrapped in fishing line. The fishing line is made of twisted bast.
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
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Photo of an empty, muddy, old plastic bottle with a single handle. The bottle is lying on soil surrounded by stones of varying shapes and sizes. The side of the bottle with handle is uppermost. The mouth end of the container points towards bottom left of the picture. There is text above the image of the plastic bottle which reads “Ancient skull found on archaeological dig is proof of our alien origins”. Having read the text, at first glance the plastic bottle looks similar to an alien skull. The body of the bottle looks like a long skull,the handle looks like a nose, and the indents with shadow either side of the handle look like eyes. An example of pareidolia!
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Rock art #boats coming alive! A captivating glimpse of its storytelling power. Enjoyed exploring the Ramberg #bronzeage #rockart site in eastern Norway with members of the CAS funded Climate, Crops and Crisis project (cas-nor.no/project/clim...). Video by @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social
Could very well have been decisive 😬
History in motion! The iconic Oseberg Viking ship is carefully moving to its new position in the soon-to-open #VikingAge Museum in Oslo. This deserves the full #SlowTV treatment - a nationally broadcast, minute-by-minute epic! #Archaeology @kult-hist-museum.bsky.social
Every year the Secrets of the Ice programme recover amazingly well preserved artefacts emerging from melting mountain ice in #Norway. This project raises awareness about glacial archaeology and human-induced climate change. They are the recipients of 2025 Europa Nostra Award in the Research category
Arkeologi leverer stadig banebrytende ny forskning, men gjør det den eldre irrelevante i dag?
Vi utforske dette i vår nye serie "Klassikeren". Først ut er Håkon Glørstads anmeldelse av Håkon Sheteligs "Primitive tider i Norge" doi.org/10.5617/pt.1...
Årets nummer er på trappene! Hva blir neste?
Exiting! Best of luck these last days 💪
An incredible tour of Trøndelag’s amazing rock art sites in central Norway - where motifs of northern and southern traditions blend in stunning landscapes. A successful workshop with @scapes-bronzeage.bsky.social, @kiaustvoll.bsky.social, @kristinaoma.bsky.social & more! #RockArt #Archaeology
Thanks, Sarah! Hope everything is good down in Kiel 😎
Occasionally, I get to write prehistoric columns for the newspaper Klassekampen. This time, I explore a newfound interest - #tattoos.
While we know relatively a lot about them, future studies should explore their interplay with clothing. Contributing in enhancing our understanding of embodiment.
Couldn’t agree more 🙌
Thanks to all making this possible, @uio.no, @historiskmuseum.bsky.social and beyond, especially my incredible team of supervisors: @steinarsol.bsky.social, @kiaustvoll.bsky.social and @lovschal.bsky.social!
Just defended my PhD! An incredible experience, with thought-provoking discussions from two brilliant opponents: Prof. Joanna Brück @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social and Prof. @kristinaoma.bsky.social. Including a trial lecture debating the presence of warriors and hierarchy in Scandinavian rock art 👇🏽
Recognising the impact other species have had on our art, architecture and agriculture doesn’t require new archaeological discoveries – in fact, much of the archaeological evidence is decades old. Rather, it requires new ways of thinking.» Yess, what a great text in @aeon.co - check it out 👇🏽
Early #FindsFriday news! Until now, the female #Bronzeage burial from #Rege in #Norway, has been compared to the famous Egtved #burial.
On closer look, the Rege #beltplate is technically more advanced, more skillfull - we need to look for better comparisons! Presumably on the #Danish islands!
🧪OMG please do not start putting 'helpful' (presumably AI) summaries of articles into the individual REFERENCES of a scientific publication ffs
(this is @nature.com )
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
