N-TAG TEN: Proceedings of the 10th Nordic TAG conference at Stiklestad, Norway 2009

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This book includes papers from N-TAG TEN, the Proceedings of the 10th Nordic TAG conference at Stiklestad, Norway 2009. Front Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Nordic TAG 1985-2009: Past and Future Introduction Quartzite at a sieidi: a new life of an offering site? Without a trace? Rituals and remembrance at rune stones Reused rock art: traces of Iron Age activities at Bronze Age rock art sites Material memories among pre-Christian graves in Iceland What can a little bird tell if all good things come in threes? Triple cups and bird-shaped pottery as representations of ritualized feasting goods Images of the non conceivable: on pictorial mimesis within rock art research Accompanying the stone ships: Circular stone settings in relation to the Gotlandic ship settings Hard rock studies - cup marks in Eastern Svealand Material culture and the construction of religious niches Theory for the a-theoretical: niche construction theory and its implications for environmental archaeology Cultural evolution and archaeology. Historical and current trends Close encounters of the copper kind Import vs. imitation? Towards an understanding of Early Bronze Age weapons in Southern Scandinavia Enter the Gripping Beast. Innovations and actor-networks in Viking Age towns Cultural heritage tourism in the North: Making information about vulnerable Sámi heritage sites accessible to the public or not? The values archaeologists ascribe to archaeological artefacts: the impact of workplace Clay pipes and the habitus of tobacco consumption. An archaeological study of tobacco consumption, with special reference to seventeenth century Trondheim The introduction of sails to Scandinavia: Raw materials, labour and land A technological momentum? Changes in lithic technology during the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Scandinava Iron production in Østerdalen in medieval times ― A consequence of regional technological change? Mobility, points and people. Technological and social changes towards the Neolithic of Southern Norway The (sluggish and modest) introduction of iron in southern Sweden –insufficient technology or unprepared receivers? A case study from iron usage in Halland Dealing with consequences: The importance of placement On war and memory and the memory of war – the Middle Bronze Age burial from Hvidegården on Z ealand in Denmark revisited Merovingian men – fulltime warriors? ‘ Painful Heritage’. Cultural landscapes of the Second World War in Norway: a new approach Tools of lethal play. Weapon burials reflecting power structures and group cohesion during the Iron Age in Ostrobothnia, Finland