Per Ditlef Fredriksen
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 120847 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Per Ditlef Fredriksen |
| PRENOMES | Per Ditlef |
| SOBRENOME | Fredriksen |
| ASSINATURA | FREDRIKSEN P D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Oslo |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8667-6375 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 91 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2006 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Mineralogy of ceramic wares from the Augland workshop (c. 200–450 CE) in southernmost Norway
This pilot study of ten samples from the Early Iron Age ceramic workshop at Augland (c. 200–450 CE) in southernmost Norway identifies the microstructural and geochemical signatures of the main types of wares and relates these to the overall chronology of the site. Having the advantage of an already established chronology and related range of pastes, this study improves our understanding of key factors of the workshop’s technological development. …
Mapping movement in turbulent times
In the last two decades, the mobilities turn in anthropology and archaeology has resulted in a widened scope for mobility studies. This includes a renewed interest in ontological questioning of the human condition, new methods for mapping humans and nonhumans (things, materials and ancestral beings) alike, and a wider range of scalar levels of analysis. Somewhat paradoxically, however, given this widened scope, during the same period African arch…
Memory Work in Mud, Stone and Wood
What happens to material knowledges and practices in the aftermath of involuntary uproot and relocation? How do displaced newcomers weave their lifeworlds, knowledges and practices into a novel context in the early stages after arrival? Anchored in a contemporary prism case in Zimbabwe, this archaeological study employs a temporally layered approach to displaced communities in southern Africa experiencing intense mobility in a dense political lan…
Hinterland Origins
While sought for over a century, the birth of the distinctive bucket‐shaped ceramic technology on the Scandinavian Peninsula has been overshadowed by its enigmatic senescence or ‘death’ in the sixth century AD. This omnipresent Migration Period container was in use for two centuries, from the mid‐fourth to the mid‐sixth centuries AD, spreading quickly and widely from the western region to the east and the far north. Its second century is better u…
Pyrotechnology in Turbulent Times
Inequality or insecurity? The case of pre-colonial farming communities in southern Africa
Comparative studies of inequality based on archaeological data rely on universal notions of status or prestige that are not always meaningful across diverse cultural contexts. Here, the authors evaluate three broadly contemporaneous urban communities (Marothodi, Molokwane and Kaditshwene) in the southern African interior in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries AD. The study combines a statistical measure of inequality, the Gini coefficient, wi…
Ceramic Ethnoarchaeology in Africa
Studies of social practices that include the making and use of ceramics constitute a significant part of the subfield of ethnoarchaeology. Pottery is still the archaeological artifact par excellence in many parts of the world, not least in Africa. Because of its omnipresence, pottery not only persists as a convenient way of dating but is also a frequently used point of entry to meaning in the archaeological record. Ethnoarchaeology gained momentu…
What happened in the hinterland
What happened in the hinterland? A batch study of early bucket-shaped pots from the 4th and 5th centuries AD in Southwest Norway
Contrasts of the Nordic Bronze Age
A History in Prehistory
What Happened at Augland? A Social Chronology for the Demise of a Roman Iron Age Ceramic Workshop in South Norway
The unique ceramic production site at Augland in southernmost Norway thrived for more than 250 years until its demise in the troubled Migration Period. Contrary to previous opinions, we argue that production ended around AD 450–460 and not in the sixth century. Our approach, based on the craft practices, reveals that the introduction of a novel technology accelerated the process, fuelled by a regional power shift that severed once‐resilient ties …
Osteological and stable isotope (δ13C and δ15N) analysis of faunal remains from Khami, Zimbabwe
This paper presents distribution patterns and stable carbon and nitrogen isotope measurements of recently excavated faunal remains from two middens at Khami, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Zimbabwe. The middens are dated to c. AD 1475–1650. The results of the analysis indicate that food practices may have differed between high- and low-lying areas of the site, as reflected in the two excavated contexts studied here. δ13C values of serial samples…
Adaptation, craftscapes and knowledge networks
The human condition in various parts of the globe has dictated that since time immemorial our species has interacted with the physical environment in different ecological contexts. Such interaction
When The Past is slipping. Value tensions and responses by heritage management to demographic changes
Despite vibrant paradigmatic shifts in archaeological thought, Norwegian heritage legislation remains unchanged since the 1970s and is anchored in a traditional identity ideology assuming continuous links between contemporary populations and ancient societies. In the context of current and expected major demographic changes as a result of global migration, policy-makers and developers of alternative frameworks face the challenge of epistemic stan…
Mobility and African archaeology
The mobility of memory
The relocation of ceramic craft activities to workshops creates new arenas for knowledge transmission and the acquisition of skills. But it may also cause tensions, due to the breakage or severance of ties to the spaces previously associated with craft learning. Exploring the interplay between the practice and knowledge of ceramic technology on the one hand and the spaces in which technology unfolds on the other, this article focuses on craft kno…
Public archaeology, knowledge meetings and heritage ethics in southern Africa
What do researchers and heritage practitioners do when their concepts of place do not coincide with those held by local communities? Discussing a case study from Mozambique against its wider southern African backdrop, this article argues that professionals cannot overlook the fact that many rural communities in this part of Africa do their version of 'archaeology' by reconstructing the past via their ancestors. The primary focus is to establish a…
Beyond Static Models
To what extent do we need structuralist cognitive settlement models such as the Central Cattle Pattern and the Zimbabwe Pattern for future research and understanding of Iron Age social life in southern Africa? How will alternative approaches enable us to progress beyond the present status of knowledge? While the three last decades of debate have underpinned key aspects of archaeological inquiry, notably questions of social change, gender dynamics…
Innovation and Collapse
In this article we focus on the third and final production phase for the distinct and atypical bucket-shaped pottery in south-west Norway, during the last decades of the Migration Period in the 6th century ad. The culmination of a unique progression that probably extended nearly two centuries, this phase is characterized by high-quality ceramics and metal handcraft. The two craft types had broadly similar trajectories, but eventually it seems onl…
When knowledges meet
In what ways do meetings between differing knowledges of the material world involve change to people's engagements with their immediate, everyday surroundings? And may our insights from studies of such dynamics inform archaeological thinking and practice in fruitful ways without unwillingly projecting ideas and concepts specific to western post-Enlightenment thinking? By combining archaeological and anthropological insights with African philosoph…
PhD ABSTRACTS
Moving Closer to the Fire
Archaeological discourse reveals an appreciation of the potentially deeply intertwined relationship between the life histories of human beings and material culture. I argue that the intimacy between lived experience and things is a vital source for understanding symbolic meaning – that the bodily experienced everyday interaction enables close associations between humans and material culture, in this case bucket‐shaped pots in graves. The consiste…
Assembling Archaeology. Teaching, Practice, and Research
Public archaeology, knowledge meetings and heritage ethics in southern Africa
What do researchers and heritage practitioners do when their concepts of place do not coincide with those held by local communities? Discussing a case study from Mozambique against its wider southern African backdrop, this article argues that professionals cannot overlook the fact that many rural communities in this part of Africa do their version of 'archaeology' by reconstructing the past via their ancestors. The primary focus is to establish a…
Mobility and African archaeology
When knowledges meet
In what ways do meetings between differing knowledges of the material world involve change to people's engagements with their immediate, everyday surroundings? And may our insights from studies of such dynamics inform archaeological thinking and practice in fruitful ways without unwillingly projecting ideas and concepts specific to western post-Enlightenment thinking? By combining archaeological and anthropological insights with African philosoph…
The mobility of memory
The relocation of ceramic craft activities to workshops creates new arenas for knowledge transmission and the acquisition of skills. But it may also cause tensions, due to the breakage or severance of ties to the spaces previously associated with craft learning. Exploring the interplay between the practice and knowledge of ceramic technology on the one hand and the spaces in which technology unfolds on the other, this article focuses on craft kno…
Beyond Static Models
To what extent do we need structuralist cognitive settlement models such as the Central Cattle Pattern and the Zimbabwe Pattern for future research and understanding of Iron Age social life in southern Africa? How will alternative approaches enable us to progress beyond the present status of knowledge? While the three last decades of debate have underpinned key aspects of archaeological inquiry, notably questions of social change, gender dynamics…
Innovation and Collapse
In this article we focus on the third and final production phase for the distinct and atypical bucket-shaped pottery in south-west Norway, during the last decades of the Migration Period in the 6th century ad. The culmination of a unique progression that probably extended nearly two centuries, this phase is characterized by high-quality ceramics and metal handcraft. The two craft types had broadly similar trajectories, but eventually it seems onl…
What Happened at Augland? A Social Chronology for the Demise of a Roman Iron Age Ceramic Workshop in South Norway
The unique ceramic production site at Augland in southernmost Norway thrived for more than 250 years until its demise in the troubled Migration Period. Contrary to previous opinions, we argue that production ended around AD 450–460 and not in the sixth century. Our approach, based on the craft practices, reveals that the introduction of a novel technology accelerated the process, fuelled by a regional power shift that severed once‐resilient ties …
When The Past is slipping. Value tensions and responses by heritage management to demographic changes
Despite vibrant paradigmatic shifts in archaeological thought, Norwegian heritage legislation remains unchanged since the 1970s and is anchored in a traditional identity ideology assuming continuous links between contemporary populations and ancient societies. In the context of current and expected major demographic changes as a result of global migration, policy-makers and developers of alternative frameworks face the challenge of epistemic stan…
Moving Closer to the Fire
Archaeological discourse reveals an appreciation of the potentially deeply intertwined relationship between the life histories of human beings and material culture. I argue that the intimacy between lived experience and things is a vital source for understanding symbolic meaning – that the bodily experienced everyday interaction enables close associations between humans and material culture, in this case bucket‐shaped pots in graves. The consiste…
Adaptation, craftscapes and knowledge networks
The human condition in various parts of the globe has dictated that since time immemorial our species has interacted with the physical environment in different ecological contexts. Such interaction
Pyrotechnology in Turbulent Times
Inequality or insecurity? The case of pre-colonial farming communities in southern Africa
Comparative studies of inequality based on archaeological data rely on universal notions of status or prestige that are not always meaningful across diverse cultural contexts. Here, the authors evaluate three broadly contemporaneous urban communities (Marothodi, Molokwane and Kaditshwene) in the southern African interior in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries AD. The study combines a statistical measure of inequality, the Gini coefficient, wi…
Moving Closer to the Fire
Archaeological discourse reveals an appreciation of the potentially deeply intertwined relationship between the life histories of human beings and material culture. I argue that the intimacy between lived experience and things is a vital source for understanding symbolic meaning – that the bodily experienced everyday interaction enables close associations between humans and material culture, in this case bucket‐shaped pots in graves. The consiste…
PhD ABSTRACTS
When knowledges meet
In what ways do meetings between differing knowledges of the material world involve change to people's engagements with their immediate, everyday surroundings? And may our insights from studies of such dynamics inform archaeological thinking and practice in fruitful ways without unwillingly projecting ideas and concepts specific to western post-Enlightenment thinking? By combining archaeological and anthropological insights with African philosoph…
Innovation and Collapse
In this article we focus on the third and final production phase for the distinct and atypical bucket-shaped pottery in south-west Norway, during the last decades of the Migration Period in the 6th century ad. The culmination of a unique progression that probably extended nearly two centuries, this phase is characterized by high-quality ceramics and metal handcraft. The two craft types had broadly similar trajectories, but eventually it seems onl…
Public archaeology, knowledge meetings and heritage ethics in southern Africa
What do researchers and heritage practitioners do when their concepts of place do not coincide with those held by local communities? Discussing a case study from Mozambique against its wider southern African backdrop, this article argues that professionals cannot overlook the fact that many rural communities in this part of Africa do their version of 'archaeology' by reconstructing the past via their ancestors. The primary focus is to establish a…
Beyond Static Models
To what extent do we need structuralist cognitive settlement models such as the Central Cattle Pattern and the Zimbabwe Pattern for future research and understanding of Iron Age social life in southern Africa? How will alternative approaches enable us to progress beyond the present status of knowledge? While the three last decades of debate have underpinned key aspects of archaeological inquiry, notably questions of social change, gender dynamics…
Mobility and African archaeology
The mobility of memory
The relocation of ceramic craft activities to workshops creates new arenas for knowledge transmission and the acquisition of skills. But it may also cause tensions, due to the breakage or severance of ties to the spaces previously associated with craft learning. Exploring the interplay between the practice and knowledge of ceramic technology on the one hand and the spaces in which technology unfolds on the other, this article focuses on craft kno…
When The Past is slipping. Value tensions and responses by heritage management to demographic changes
Despite vibrant paradigmatic shifts in archaeological thought, Norwegian heritage legislation remains unchanged since the 1970s and is anchored in a traditional identity ideology assuming continuous links between contemporary populations and ancient societies. In the context of current and expected major demographic changes as a result of global migration, policy-makers and developers of alternative frameworks face the challenge of epistemic stan…
Osteological and stable isotope (δ13C and δ15N) analysis of faunal remains from Khami, Zimbabwe
This paper presents distribution patterns and stable carbon and nitrogen isotope measurements of recently excavated faunal remains from two middens at Khami, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Zimbabwe. The middens are dated to c. AD 1475–1650. The results of the analysis indicate that food practices may have differed between high- and low-lying areas of the site, as reflected in the two excavated contexts studied here. δ13C values of serial samples…
Adaptation, craftscapes and knowledge networks
The human condition in various parts of the globe has dictated that since time immemorial our species has interacted with the physical environment in different ecological contexts. Such interaction
A History in Prehistory
What Happened at Augland? A Social Chronology for the Demise of a Roman Iron Age Ceramic Workshop in South Norway
The unique ceramic production site at Augland in southernmost Norway thrived for more than 250 years until its demise in the troubled Migration Period. Contrary to previous opinions, we argue that production ended around AD 450–460 and not in the sixth century. Our approach, based on the craft practices, reveals that the introduction of a novel technology accelerated the process, fuelled by a regional power shift that severed once‐resilient ties …
Contrasts of the Nordic Bronze Age
Ceramic Ethnoarchaeology in Africa
Studies of social practices that include the making and use of ceramics constitute a significant part of the subfield of ethnoarchaeology. Pottery is still the archaeological artifact par excellence in many parts of the world, not least in Africa. Because of its omnipresence, pottery not only persists as a convenient way of dating but is also a frequently used point of entry to meaning in the archaeological record. Ethnoarchaeology gained momentu…
What happened in the hinterland
What happened in the hinterland? A batch study of early bucket-shaped pots from the 4th and 5th centuries AD in Southwest Norway
Assembling Archaeology. Teaching, Practice, and Research
Inequality or insecurity? The case of pre-colonial farming communities in southern Africa
Comparative studies of inequality based on archaeological data rely on universal notions of status or prestige that are not always meaningful across diverse cultural contexts. Here, the authors evaluate three broadly contemporaneous urban communities (Marothodi, Molokwane and Kaditshwene) in the southern African interior in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries AD. The study combines a statistical measure of inequality, the Gini coefficient, wi…
Memory Work in Mud, Stone and Wood
What happens to material knowledges and practices in the aftermath of involuntary uproot and relocation? How do displaced newcomers weave their lifeworlds, knowledges and practices into a novel context in the early stages after arrival? Anchored in a contemporary prism case in Zimbabwe, this archaeological study employs a temporally layered approach to displaced communities in southern Africa experiencing intense mobility in a dense political lan…
Hinterland Origins
While sought for over a century, the birth of the distinctive bucket‐shaped ceramic technology on the Scandinavian Peninsula has been overshadowed by its enigmatic senescence or ‘death’ in the sixth century AD. This omnipresent Migration Period container was in use for two centuries, from the mid‐fourth to the mid‐sixth centuries AD, spreading quickly and widely from the western region to the east and the far north. Its second century is better u…
Pyrotechnology in Turbulent Times
Mineralogy of ceramic wares from the Augland workshop (c. 200–450 CE) in southernmost Norway
This pilot study of ten samples from the Early Iron Age ceramic workshop at Augland (c. 200–450 CE) in southernmost Norway identifies the microstructural and geochemical signatures of the main types of wares and relates these to the overall chronology of the site. Having the advantage of an already established chronology and related range of pastes, this study improves our understanding of key factors of the workshop’s technological development. …
Mapping movement in turbulent times
In the last two decades, the mobilities turn in anthropology and archaeology has resulted in a widened scope for mobility studies. This includes a renewed interest in ontological questioning of the human condition, new methods for mapping humans and nonhumans (things, materials and ancestral beings) alike, and a wider range of scalar levels of analysis. Somewhat paradoxically, however, given this widened scope, during the same period African arch…
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