Mads Ravn
Biographic Data
| ID | 1418817 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mads Ravn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mads |
| FAMILY NAME | Ravn |
| SIGNATURE | RAVN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oslo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5657-771X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Vindelevskatten
The Vindelev hoard A dynastic offering from the Migration period The discovery of an amazing gold hoard in Vindelev, a small and to date largely archaeologically unknown village near the later royal seat of Jelling, has shed light on a powerful dynasty in southeastern Jutland, four centuries before the Viking Age and the Jelling Dynasty. The hoard was discovered in 2020 by two amateur archaeologists. It comprises 23 gold objects, including the wo…
Farming during turbulent times
L’archéologie en question
Institut national d'histoire de l'art Y a-t-il une spcificit de l'archologie des pays du Nord de l'Europe ? C'est un archologue danois, conservateur de l'Oldnordisk Museum de Copenhague, Christian Jrgensen Thomsen, que nous devons depuis 1836 le systme des trois ges , c'est-dire la distinction, fondatrice de la prhistoire europenne et au-del, entre un ge de la pierre, un ge du bronze et un ge du fer. Ds le xvii e sicle, le royaume de Sude avait i…
Roads to complexity
The purpose of this paper is to analyse roads to complexity and societal development. By comparing the processes leading to complexity in Late Iron Age and early Viking society in South Scandinavia with the pre-contact Hawaiian state, I set the framework for a comparative archaeology and suggest that society in the Viking Age was not a state. I reach this conclusion within a comparative framework, by looking at comparable but also different proce…
Obsidian distribution from aLapita cemetery sheds light on its value to past societies
The Teouma site onEfateIsland inVanuatu is unique in thePacific, as it enables us to analyse an archaeological assemblage in relation to discrete activity areas of burial and settlement at the time of initial settlement of the archipelago. Geochemical sourcing of obsidian in combination with a basic technological analysis help us to understand whether differences exist between burial zones and settlement middens.The results show that the distribu…
In Defence of Small Things Forgotten
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSThanks to Dr Sean Denham for useful comments on language and content
It’s about knowledge not systems
Generating new knowledge in rescue archaeology is the prime goal regardless of which system is dominant. The market-oriented ‘capitalist’ model does not generate new knowledge in an adequate way, because it is volatile and prone to crises, and often detached from a wider up-to-date scientific environment. The ‘Dutch’ model presented by Van de Dries as a compromise between the state-financed ‘socialist’ and ‘capitalist’ models is here criticized. …
Ethnographic analogy from the Pacific
This paper is a comment on previous papers in World Archaeology by Spriggs (2008 Spriggs, M. 2008. Ethnographic parallels and the denial of history. World Archaeology, 40(4): 538-52. [Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science (R)] , [Google Scholar]) and Roscoe (2009 Roscoe, P. 2009. On the 'pacification' of the European Neolithic: ethnographic analogy and the neglect of history. World Archaeology, 41(4): 578-88. [Taylor & Francis Online], [Web o…
Death Ritual and Germanic Social Structure (c. AD 200-600)
The aim of this book is to understand the development of the social structure of Germanic society in selected parts of "Germania Libera" in Europe from around c. 200 AD to 600 AD. Social structure here is primarily defined as the way the Germanic tribes perceived and expressed themselves and their worldview through their texts, their person, gender, family, lineage, tribe, and internal social and religious relations in the material culture. This …
Reply to comments on analogy in Danish prehistoric studies
Analogy in Danish prehistoric studies
Ethnographic analogy has invariably been used in archaeology at a subconscious level for understanding artefacts. Alison Wylie's analysis, transferring the logical discussion of analogy from philosophy to archaeology, has, though not uncritically, been accepted by the present author as a method of assessing the strength of analogical reasoning. First, Wylie's analysis is presented and discussed. Secondly, her framework serves as a standard of ref…
Ethnographic analogy from the Pacific
This paper is a comment on previous papers in World Archaeology by Spriggs (2008 Spriggs, M. 2008. Ethnographic parallels and the denial of history. World Archaeology, 40(4): 538-52. [Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science (R)] , [Google Scholar]) and Roscoe (2009 Roscoe, P. 2009. On the 'pacification' of the European Neolithic: ethnographic analogy and the neglect of history. World Archaeology, 41(4): 578-88. [Taylor & Francis Online], [Web o…
Obsidian distribution from aLapita cemetery sheds light on its value to past societies
The Teouma site onEfateIsland inVanuatu is unique in thePacific, as it enables us to analyse an archaeological assemblage in relation to discrete activity areas of burial and settlement at the time of initial settlement of the archipelago. Geochemical sourcing of obsidian in combination with a basic technological analysis help us to understand whether differences exist between burial zones and settlement middens.The results show that the distribu…
Analogy in Danish prehistoric studies
Ethnographic analogy has invariably been used in archaeology at a subconscious level for understanding artefacts. Alison Wylie's analysis, transferring the logical discussion of analogy from philosophy to archaeology, has, though not uncritically, been accepted by the present author as a method of assessing the strength of analogical reasoning. First, Wylie's analysis is presented and discussed. Secondly, her framework serves as a standard of ref…
It’s about knowledge not systems
Generating new knowledge in rescue archaeology is the prime goal regardless of which system is dominant. The market-oriented ‘capitalist’ model does not generate new knowledge in an adequate way, because it is volatile and prone to crises, and often detached from a wider up-to-date scientific environment. The ‘Dutch’ model presented by Van de Dries as a compromise between the state-financed ‘socialist’ and ‘capitalist’ models is here criticized. …
Farming during turbulent times
In Defence of Small Things Forgotten
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSThanks to Dr Sean Denham for useful comments on language and content
Reply to comments on analogy in Danish prehistoric studies
Reply to comments on analogy in Danish prehistoric studies
Analogy in Danish prehistoric studies
Ethnographic analogy has invariably been used in archaeology at a subconscious level for understanding artefacts. Alison Wylie's analysis, transferring the logical discussion of analogy from philosophy to archaeology, has, though not uncritically, been accepted by the present author as a method of assessing the strength of analogical reasoning. First, Wylie's analysis is presented and discussed. Secondly, her framework serves as a standard of ref…
Death Ritual and Germanic Social Structure (c. AD 200-600)
The aim of this book is to understand the development of the social structure of Germanic society in selected parts of "Germania Libera" in Europe from around c. 200 AD to 600 AD. Social structure here is primarily defined as the way the Germanic tribes perceived and expressed themselves and their worldview through their texts, their person, gender, family, lineage, tribe, and internal social and religious relations in the material culture. This …
Ethnographic analogy from the Pacific
This paper is a comment on previous papers in World Archaeology by Spriggs (2008 Spriggs, M. 2008. Ethnographic parallels and the denial of history. World Archaeology, 40(4): 538-52. [Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science (R)] , [Google Scholar]) and Roscoe (2009 Roscoe, P. 2009. On the 'pacification' of the European Neolithic: ethnographic analogy and the neglect of history. World Archaeology, 41(4): 578-88. [Taylor & Francis Online], [Web o…
It’s about knowledge not systems
Generating new knowledge in rescue archaeology is the prime goal regardless of which system is dominant. The market-oriented ‘capitalist’ model does not generate new knowledge in an adequate way, because it is volatile and prone to crises, and often detached from a wider up-to-date scientific environment. The ‘Dutch’ model presented by Van de Dries as a compromise between the state-financed ‘socialist’ and ‘capitalist’ models is here criticized. …
In Defence of Small Things Forgotten
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSThanks to Dr Sean Denham for useful comments on language and content
Obsidian distribution from aLapita cemetery sheds light on its value to past societies
The Teouma site onEfateIsland inVanuatu is unique in thePacific, as it enables us to analyse an archaeological assemblage in relation to discrete activity areas of burial and settlement at the time of initial settlement of the archipelago. Geochemical sourcing of obsidian in combination with a basic technological analysis help us to understand whether differences exist between burial zones and settlement middens.The results show that the distribu…
Roads to complexity
The purpose of this paper is to analyse roads to complexity and societal development. By comparing the processes leading to complexity in Late Iron Age and early Viking society in South Scandinavia with the pre-contact Hawaiian state, I set the framework for a comparative archaeology and suggest that society in the Viking Age was not a state. I reach this conclusion within a comparative framework, by looking at comparable but also different proce…
L’archéologie en question
Institut national d'histoire de l'art Y a-t-il une spcificit de l'archologie des pays du Nord de l'Europe ? C'est un archologue danois, conservateur de l'Oldnordisk Museum de Copenhague, Christian Jrgensen Thomsen, que nous devons depuis 1836 le systme des trois ges , c'est-dire la distinction, fondatrice de la prhistoire europenne et au-del, entre un ge de la pierre, un ge du bronze et un ge du fer. Ds le xvii e sicle, le royaume de Sude avait i…
Farming during turbulent times
Vindelevskatten
The Vindelev hoard A dynastic offering from the Migration period The discovery of an amazing gold hoard in Vindelev, a small and to date largely archaeologically unknown village near the later royal seat of Jelling, has shed light on a powerful dynasty in southeastern Jutland, four centuries before the Viking Age and the Jelling Dynasty. The hoard was discovered in 2020 by two amateur archaeologists. It comprises 23 gold objects, including the wo…
Archaeology (7 works) · Historical and Archaeological Studies (6 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · History (5 works) · Danish (3 works) · Excavation (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)