81 projects

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FOFORMIDLING-FOFORMIDLING

Forsker-standup på KÅKÅ

Forsker-standup er et konsept vi har hatt i flere år. Vi trekker både nye og gamle publikummere. Noen kommer for selve arrangementet, andre kommer ut fra tema og hvem som presenterer. Arrangementet er et samarbeid mellom ulike forskningsinstitusjoner i Stavanger-regionen. Universitetet i Stavange...

Awarded: NOK 30,000

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Rogaland

MARINTFORSK-MARINTFORSK

Havets elfenbein

Museumsutstillinga ‘Havets Elfenbein’ er planlagt vist ved NTNU Vitenskapsmuseet i perioden 2.mai 2025-31.januar 2026. Utstillinga vil konsentreres om hvalrossjakt og middelalderens handel med hvalrosstenner, fra Grønland via Norge til bl.a. England og Ukraina, og der både nordmenn og urbefolknin...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FORSKNINGSINFRA-FORSKNINGSINFRA

Pre-Project for a National Rock Art Research Infrastructure (ImAge)

The pre-project will explore the potential for, and how, a National Norwegian Research Infrastructure for rock art (ImAge) that embraces both prehistoric petroglyphs and painted motives, can be developed and implemented as a tool and resource for the research environment. The Rock art Research In...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Vestland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Sticking stones: rediscovering medieval wood tar adhesives for stone conservation

What can we learn from medieval craftspeople to help preserve our cultural heritage in an uncertain future? Medieval northern European stone churches are at increased risk of damage due to climate change, and forgotten historical materials and techniques may provide the key to saving our architec...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Rogaland

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Sustainability for cultural heritage – cultural heritage for sustainability. Interdisciplinary field research at Kvitøya

The project is an interdisciplinary collaboration involving NIKU, Luleå University of Technology, Karolinska Institute, Svalbard Museum, and the Swedish National Heritage Boardaims. It aims to explore and document archaeological source material, as well as register and document the cultural envir...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Oslo

SVALBARDSF-SVALBARDSF

Svalbard Archaeology Symposium 2023

The Arctic environment is changing in a rapid and dramatic manner, and cultural heritage in Svalbard and other places is under pressure due to climate change and increased tourism in addition to the ongoing natural processes and mere age-related degradation. The current cultural heritage policy f...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2025

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

ARCREATE. An Archaeology of Creative Knowledge in Turbulent Times

What happens to technological knowledge and daily practice in times of turbulence, social stress and extraordinary mobility? Are craftspeople and their network connections challenged, or is their creativity rather nourished by turbulence? ARCREATE is driven by a deep discomfort with archaeology...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2028

Location: Oslo

RETUREU-RETUREU

RETUR-EU NIKU

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Awarded: NOK 9.2 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2030

Location: Oslo

GRUNNBEVILGNING-GRUNNBEVILGNING

Grunnbevilgning - NIKU

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Awarded: NOK 66.7 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Oslo

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Basisutstillinger – i skvis mellom myndighetenes museumspolitiske føringer, ulike brukergrupper og tilvekst av forskning

In archaeologically based museums, a contradiction often arises between the original objects and the environment in which they were found. The artefacts are removed from their original contexts and placed in a new context in the museum. In this way, the original surroundings lose their original o...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2026

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

FORSTERK-Forsterkningsmidler

CAPARDUS Extension in Norway

The CAPARDUS project had focus on documentation and building knowledge on standardization development within topics of importance in Arctic regions. The topics were related to resource exploitation and other economic activities, environmental protection and research activities. People living or w...

Awarded: NOK 0.80 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2023

Location: Vestland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Viking beacons - Militarism in northern Europe

Vikings are often associated with attacks, aggression and the spread of fear in Europe. So far, little attention has been paid to the material remains of the Vikings' own fears and preparedness, expressed through an extensive warning system; beacons at high positions in the landscape. These were ...

Awarded: NOK 8.1 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Rogaland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Dressed in Stone. Interpreting hunter-gatherer rock art of South Africa through the bodily practice of dress.

The San hunter-gatherers of South Africa, are well known as makers of the beautiful rock art still found in various regions of the country. Although sophisticated artists, the historical San have often been portrayed as poor and, for some reason, naked people. 'Dressed in stone' aims to reunite ...

Awarded: NOK 3.9 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Oslo

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Relics of Nature: An Archaeology of Natural Heritage in the High North

What is natural heritage? And what is a sustainably curated nature? The answers to these questions appear both obvious and farfetched. Nature, and by extension natural heritage, is mostly defined as something essentially ?natural? and beyond human impact. Yet, the way natural heritage features i...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Future preservation of past life: A multidisciplinary investigation into preservation of ancient biological remains from medieval cemeteries

Skeletons tell stories. How talkative the dead are depends upon their level of preservation. But what factors determine the conservation of archaeological biological remains? To investigate this question, the Future Past research team has excavated in a medieval cemetery in Stavanger, Norway, as...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2026

Location: Rogaland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

The Storegga tsunami c. 6150 BC - a wave of destruction or transformative disruption for a prehistoric society?

In the Mesolithic, the sea was both friend and foe. People often lived close to the beaches, they lived off the resources of the sea and used the sea and sea for transport and communication. 8200 years ago, a brutal tsunami hit the west coast of Norway. It also affected Scotland and reached as fa...

Awarded: NOK 10.7 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Rogaland

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

The 13th Nordic Conference on the Application of Scientific Methods in Archaeology (SMIA)

The last two decades have seen broad technological advancements in archaeo-science. The availability of methods and technologies has expanded our ability to address hitherto unanswerable questions in the archaeological record. This generates levels of data and knowledge previously unattainable. C...

Awarded: NOK 93,128

Project Period: 2019-2019

Location: Rogaland

FORSKNINGSINFRA-FORSKNINGSINFRA

Archaeological Digital Excavation Documentation

The ADED project (Archaeological Digital Excavation Documentation) gives access to documentation from archaeological excavations in Norway. The UniMus:Kultur cooperation gives free access to images and a joint collection of archaeological artefacts from the university museums in Oslo, (Museums of...

Awarded: NOK 16.4 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2026

Location: Oslo

BANEBRYTENDE-BANEBRYTENDE

Centre for Early Sapiens Behaviour, Senter for tidlig sapiensadferd

For the period under review, we select some of the principal achievements of SapienCE scientists: Publications in top-tier journals: “Unveiling the Multifunctional Use of Ochre in the Middle Stone Age: Specialized ochre Retouchers from Blombos Cave” in Science: Advances, “The dual role of cul...

Awarded: NOK 140.0 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2027

Location: Vestland

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Stone Age Demographics: multi-scale exploration of population variations and dynamics

"Stone Age Demographics" studies change and variation in early northern hunter-gatherer population size, distribution, organization and mobility at several temporal and spatial scales. The core data is the archaeological material from Western Finnmark, Norway, in the period 9500-0 BC, although wi...

Awarded: NOK 9.6 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2022

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Archaeology of Dwelling. Architecture, household, and social structure in Scandinavia through deep time, 1800BCE-1000CE

Research narratives of Scandinavia's later prehistory (the Bronze and Iron ages) have largely been period-specific, and have traditionally focused on top-down topics such as the development of chiefdoms and kingdoms, long-distance trade, monumental expression in the form of halls or burial mounds...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2020

Location: Oslo

PUBL-Publisering/prosjektinform

Naxos and the Byzantine Aegean: Insular Responses and Regional Transformation

From 2010 the Museum of Cultural History, KHM, and The Institute of Archaeology, Conservation and History, IAKH (both UiO) have carried out fieldwork and research at the Dark Age urban site of Kastro Apalirou, Naxos. The permit for fieldwork has been granted by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture to...

Awarded: NOK 0.22 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2018

Location: Ukjent Fylke

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Unruly Heritage: An Archaeology of the Anthropocene

Heritage is a concept that for most people has a positive meaning, commonly associated with old and valued things to be cared for. But what about all those legacies that are not desired? Such as the vestiges of war, industrial wastelands, devastated nature, or beaches filled with sea-borne debris...

Awarded: NOK 10.1 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2023

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Gjennomføring av konferansen Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology 2016 i Oslo

Kulturhistorisk museum, Universitetet i Oslo vil 29. mars - 1. april 2016 arrangere den 44. årlige CAA-konferansen. CAA(Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology) er en internasjonal organisasjon. En norsk avdeling, CAA-N, ble opprettet i 2008. Hovedhensikten med CAA er å saml...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2016

Location: Oslo

SAMKUL-Samfunnsutviklingens kulturelle forutsetninger

Joint research on human and natural adaptation to changing climates and environments in the High North by proxy data (Joint Proxies).

By analyzing joint proxies from archaeological sites, where our respective sources and data converge in time-capsules, the research network aims to deliver an important and substantial interdisciplinary and international contribution to regional and global knowledge on how both human and natural ...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2017

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Social-Ecological Transformations: HUMan-ANimal Relations Under Climate Change in NORthern Eurasia

Climate warming will instigate societal transformations in the 21st century. The Arctic has undergone profound climatic fluctuations in past centuries, when indigenous Saami, Nenets and Evenki shifted from hunters to herders. People and wild or semi-domestic reindeer have maintained a constant pr...

Awarded: NOK 5.7 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2019

Location: Oslo

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Pioneers of North-Western Europe Determining the hidden sources of human colonisation of Norway

When the Ice Age glacier covered Scandinavia animals, humans and plants overwintered in south and east European refuge areas. After the end of the Ice Age, c. 12,000 years ago, peoples come to Norway along the coast from the south. This project study the human colonization of Scandinavia at th...

Awarded: NOK 7.2 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2020

Location: Oslo

IS-AUR-Samarb.progr. mellom Norge og Frankrike

The African Archive. It's content, context and connections

This research collaboration between the Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies/Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural and Religious Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway and the Centre d Etudes des Mondes Africains (CEMAf) in Paris. Bot h centres have strong competence in the r...

Awarded: NOK 34,850

Project Period: 2014-2015

Location: Vestland

PUBL-Publisering/prosjektinform

Death and Changing Rituals

The anthology addresses the function and meaning of ritual changes and changing rituals in past funerary practices. The concept of change is the central topic, together with the question why changes occurred. Did changes emerge from eschatological or cosm ological circumstances, or were they rath...

Awarded: NOK 25,000

Project Period: 2013-2014

Location: Ukjent Fylke

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

RELIGION AND MONEY: Economy of salvation in the Middle Ages

The project?s objectives has been to investigate the relation between religion and money in a study of the period that created the cultural preconditions for the rise of money economy, the birth of capitalism and the economy of salvation between c.1000 and c.1300. How money found form in a societ...

Awarded: NOK 6.9 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2018

Location: Oslo

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