Anne M H Eriksen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3420490 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anne M H Eriksen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anne M H |
| FAMILY NAME | Eriksen |
| SIGNATURE | ERIKSEN A M H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oslo |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5243-5207 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Author response of: Evaluating commercial DNA extraction kits for bacterial community profiling in waterlogged archaeological wood. Round#2
A recommendation of: Anne Marie H. Eriksen, Oliver Müller, Helen H. Lading, David Gregory Evaluating commercial DNA extraction kits for bacterial community profiling in waterlogged archaeological wood https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20395663
Author response of: Evaluating commercial DNA extraction kits for bacterial community profiling in waterlogged archaeological wood. Round#1
A recommendation of: Anne Marie H. Eriksen, Oliver Müller, Helen H. Lading, David Gregory Evaluating commercial DNA extraction kits for bacterial community profiling in waterlogged archaeological wood https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20395663
Quantifying Degradation of Archaeological Bone In Situ and in Museum Storage: A Comparison Between Environment and Degradation over Forty-Three Years for Bones from the Aasivissuit Site, Western Green…
Degradation of archaeological bone is a complex process that is influenced by both intrinsic and extrinsic parameters. Here we study the decay of bones recovered from a large midden at the Inuit summer hunting camp, Aasivissuit, in West Greenland, dating from 1200 CE to 1950 CE. The site was partly excavated in 1978 and revisited for further excavation in 2021 to study changes in the materials’ state of preservation, both in situ and in museum st…
The Intrusiveness of Heritage: The Vikingification of a Small Community in Vestfold, Norway
While heritage is almost by definition understood as fragile, vulnerable and in need of protection, this article argues that it is also a powerful cultural force in contemporary society. The small community of Borre, south of Oslo in Norway, is used as a case to investigate how heritage has the power to invade and colonise, and how it has the capacity to create new meanings and redefine social relations. A triad of concepts - expansion, intensifi…
Smallpox inoculation: Translation, transference and transformation
In the early decades of the eighteenth century, small pox inoculation was introduced into northern Europe from the Middle East. The method consisted of grafting infected matter from a person who suffered from smallpox into the arm of one who had not yet been attacked by the disease. The operation usually caused a mild case of illness and protected against further attacks. A series of translations and transformations was involved in the introducti…
Releasing the microbes from old bones: The effect of different DNA extraction protocols on microbial community profiling
DNA-based characterisation of microbial communities can enable those interested in bone diagenesis to address questions relating to the complexity and diversity of said microbial communities. We explored whether biases could be introduced due to differences in the DNA extraction methods used. We investigated the effect of four alternative approaches on the extraction of DNA from bone, in order to examine the resulting effect on the bacterial and …
Bone degradation at five Arctic archaeological sites: Quantifying the importance of burial environment and bone characteristics
The degradation of archaeological bones is influenced by many variables. The bone material itself is a composite of both organic and inorganic components, and their degradation depends on processes occurring both before and after burial, and on both intrinsic bone characteristics as well as extrinsic environmental parameters. In this study we attempt to quantify the effect of some of the variables using a novel approach that includes detailed mon…
Rapid loss of endogenous DNA in pig bone buried in five different environments
The rate at which endogenous DNA from differently prepared (butchered, boiled and baked) compact pig bones degrades in five different Danish terrestrial and marine environments over 12 months was investigated. Although > 70% of the estimated endogenous mtDNA is lost after just four weeks of exposure, no cytosine deamination of DNA was recognised. A correlation between the presence of oxygen and the amount of preserved DNA was observed. The result…
History, Exemplarity and Improvements: 18Th Century Ideas about Man-Made Climate Change
Can grain crops be increased? The issue was heatedly debated in 18th century Denmark-Norway, both for patriotic and economic reasons. The historian Gerhard Schøning (1722-80) answered affirmatively. Chopping down much of the forests that covered Norway would change the climate radically for the better. As a consequence of the warmer weather, the fertility of the soil would improve. Crops would increase, and new and even more delicate types of pla…
Diagenesis of archaeological bone and tooth
The importance of cellulose content and wood density for attack of waterlogged archaeological wood by the shipworm, Teredo navalis
Copies, Concepts and Time
Copies are defined by their relation to an original. The understanding and evaluation of this relationship has been changing over time. A main argument of this article is that originals and copies are phenomena with no 'natural' or essential meaning outside of their specific historical settings. The idea to be explored is how changing historicity regimes have transformed notions of originals and copies over time and how these differences also are…
Degradation of Archaeological Remains by Shipworm
The marine borer, known as shipworm, has long been known for their degradation of wooden constructions in the marine environment. This review presents the results from a variety of experiments conducted at the National Museum of Denmark throughout the past five years dealing with the in situ preservation of maritime archaeological artefacts in light of the threat from shipworm. The aim of the research has been to improve methods and analyses for …
The Medical Periodicals of J.C. Tode and the Idea of Public Health
In 1770 ‘Den medicinske Tilskuer’ (The Medical Spectator) was published in Copenhagen. The man behind it was the surgeon, physician and poet Johann Clemens Tode. This was the first of 16 journals in total on health and medicine that Tode was to write, edit and publish until his death in 1806. With his journals, Tode contributed significantly to making health a public issue. This implies conceptualizing health and medicine as reaching beyond the p…
Advocating Inoculation in the Eighteenth Century: Exemplarity and Quantification
ArgumentSmallpox inoculation was introduced in Europe in the early eighteenth century and has been considered the first mass treatment of disease based on practical use of probability calculations and mathematical tools of computation. The article argues that these new approaches were deeply entangled with other rationalities, most emphatically that of exemplarity. Changes in inoculation methods around mid-century gradually changed the conceptual…
Entangled Genealogies History and the Notion of Tradition
Growing reflexivity within folklore studies has established an understanding of tradition as a keyword of Western modernity, and of folklore studies as part of the modernisation processes. The article explores this field by examining how processes that produced a modern idea of history also gave birth to the notion of tradition. The contention is that as twin products of a uniquely modern temporality, history and tradition are mutually constituti…
Selective attack of waterlogged archaeological wood by the shipworm, Teredo navalis and its implications for in-situ preservation
The Order of Folklore: Rachel Busk and The Folk-Lore of Rome
The Folk-Lore of Rome (1874) by Rachel Harriette Busk was based on her own fieldwork. As an amateur, Busk did not aim to present work that examined the fundamental principles of the discipline. Her work provides a case study to explore how classical folklore theory worked; how taxonomies, the genre system, and ideas of how folklore developed served as practical tools. This article examines how the categories and concepts developed in folklore sch…
A Case of Exemplarity: C. F. Rottböll's history of smallpox inoculation in Denmark–Norway, 1766
Smallpox inoculation was one of the great discoveries of the 18th century and has been written into the grand narrative of medical progress, describing the taming of epidemic disease. Setting the perspective of progress aside, the article explores how this medical innovation was situated in 18th-century society and culture. The aim is to investigate how medical practice was intertwined with social structure and cultural patterns. The article take…
The Murmur of Ruins A Cultural History
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Our Lady of Perpetual Help: Invented Tradition and Devotional Success
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Our Lady of Perpetual Help was among the most widely spread images in the Catholic world. At the center of its notoriety stands a complex of religious practices and narratives that arose after the image arrived at the Redemptorist Church of St. Alphonsus in Rome in 1866. The events demonstrate the crucial importance of material objects in the process of inventing traditions. Two main legendary…
Den nasjonale kulturarven — en del av det moderne
In recent years, there has been a growing interest in discussing the meaning and effect of cultural analysis. A recognition has emerged that our work not only accumulates knowledge about culture but also, to some extent, contributes to the creation of culture. One well known example of this is found in the history of our subject: the early folklorists very consciously aimed at constructing to raise a national culture. But also more generally cult…
Selective attack of waterlogged archaeological wood by the shipworm, Teredo navalis and its implications for in-situ preservation
Bone degradation at five Arctic archaeological sites: Quantifying the importance of burial environment and bone characteristics
The degradation of archaeological bones is influenced by many variables. The bone material itself is a composite of both organic and inorganic components, and their degradation depends on processes occurring both before and after burial, and on both intrinsic bone characteristics as well as extrinsic environmental parameters. In this study we attempt to quantify the effect of some of the variables using a novel approach that includes detailed mon…
History, Exemplarity and Improvements: 18Th Century Ideas about Man-Made Climate Change
Can grain crops be increased? The issue was heatedly debated in 18th century Denmark-Norway, both for patriotic and economic reasons. The historian Gerhard Schøning (1722-80) answered affirmatively. Chopping down much of the forests that covered Norway would change the climate radically for the better. As a consequence of the warmer weather, the fertility of the soil would improve. Crops would increase, and new and even more delicate types of pla…
A Case of Exemplarity: C. F. Rottböll's history of smallpox inoculation in Denmark–Norway, 1766
Smallpox inoculation was one of the great discoveries of the 18th century and has been written into the grand narrative of medical progress, describing the taming of epidemic disease. Setting the perspective of progress aside, the article explores how this medical innovation was situated in 18th-century society and culture. The aim is to investigate how medical practice was intertwined with social structure and cultural patterns. The article take…
The Murmur of Ruins A Cultural History
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Rapid loss of endogenous DNA in pig bone buried in five different environments
The rate at which endogenous DNA from differently prepared (butchered, boiled and baked) compact pig bones degrades in five different Danish terrestrial and marine environments over 12 months was investigated. Although > 70% of the estimated endogenous mtDNA is lost after just four weeks of exposure, no cytosine deamination of DNA was recognised. A correlation between the presence of oxygen and the amount of preserved DNA was observed. The result…
The importance of cellulose content and wood density for attack of waterlogged archaeological wood by the shipworm, Teredo navalis
Advocating Inoculation in the Eighteenth Century: Exemplarity and Quantification
ArgumentSmallpox inoculation was introduced in Europe in the early eighteenth century and has been considered the first mass treatment of disease based on practical use of probability calculations and mathematical tools of computation. The article argues that these new approaches were deeply entangled with other rationalities, most emphatically that of exemplarity. Changes in inoculation methods around mid-century gradually changed the conceptual…
The Order of Folklore: Rachel Busk and The Folk-Lore of Rome
The Folk-Lore of Rome (1874) by Rachel Harriette Busk was based on her own fieldwork. As an amateur, Busk did not aim to present work that examined the fundamental principles of the discipline. Her work provides a case study to explore how classical folklore theory worked; how taxonomies, the genre system, and ideas of how folklore developed served as practical tools. This article examines how the categories and concepts developed in folklore sch…
Den nasjonale kulturarven — en del av det moderne
In recent years, there has been a growing interest in discussing the meaning and effect of cultural analysis. A recognition has emerged that our work not only accumulates knowledge about culture but also, to some extent, contributes to the creation of culture. One well known example of this is found in the history of our subject: the early folklorists very consciously aimed at constructing to raise a national culture. But also more generally cult…
Our Lady of Perpetual Help: Invented Tradition and Devotional Success
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Our Lady of Perpetual Help was among the most widely spread images in the Catholic world. At the center of its notoriety stands a complex of religious practices and narratives that arose after the image arrived at the Redemptorist Church of St. Alphonsus in Rome in 1866. The events demonstrate the crucial importance of material objects in the process of inventing traditions. Two main legendary…
The Murmur of Ruins A Cultural History
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A Case of Exemplarity: C. F. Rottböll's history of smallpox inoculation in Denmark–Norway, 1766
Smallpox inoculation was one of the great discoveries of the 18th century and has been written into the grand narrative of medical progress, describing the taming of epidemic disease. Setting the perspective of progress aside, the article explores how this medical innovation was situated in 18th-century society and culture. The aim is to investigate how medical practice was intertwined with social structure and cultural patterns. The article take…
Selective attack of waterlogged archaeological wood by the shipworm, Teredo navalis and its implications for in-situ preservation
The Order of Folklore: Rachel Busk and The Folk-Lore of Rome
The Folk-Lore of Rome (1874) by Rachel Harriette Busk was based on her own fieldwork. As an amateur, Busk did not aim to present work that examined the fundamental principles of the discipline. Her work provides a case study to explore how classical folklore theory worked; how taxonomies, the genre system, and ideas of how folklore developed served as practical tools. This article examines how the categories and concepts developed in folklore sch…
Degradation of Archaeological Remains by Shipworm
The marine borer, known as shipworm, has long been known for their degradation of wooden constructions in the marine environment. This review presents the results from a variety of experiments conducted at the National Museum of Denmark throughout the past five years dealing with the in situ preservation of maritime archaeological artefacts in light of the threat from shipworm. The aim of the research has been to improve methods and analyses for …
The Medical Periodicals of J.C. Tode and the Idea of Public Health
In 1770 ‘Den medicinske Tilskuer’ (The Medical Spectator) was published in Copenhagen. The man behind it was the surgeon, physician and poet Johann Clemens Tode. This was the first of 16 journals in total on health and medicine that Tode was to write, edit and publish until his death in 1806. With his journals, Tode contributed significantly to making health a public issue. This implies conceptualizing health and medicine as reaching beyond the p…
Advocating Inoculation in the Eighteenth Century: Exemplarity and Quantification
ArgumentSmallpox inoculation was introduced in Europe in the early eighteenth century and has been considered the first mass treatment of disease based on practical use of probability calculations and mathematical tools of computation. The article argues that these new approaches were deeply entangled with other rationalities, most emphatically that of exemplarity. Changes in inoculation methods around mid-century gradually changed the conceptual…
Entangled Genealogies History and the Notion of Tradition
Growing reflexivity within folklore studies has established an understanding of tradition as a keyword of Western modernity, and of folklore studies as part of the modernisation processes. The article explores this field by examining how processes that produced a modern idea of history also gave birth to the notion of tradition. The contention is that as twin products of a uniquely modern temporality, history and tradition are mutually constituti…
The importance of cellulose content and wood density for attack of waterlogged archaeological wood by the shipworm, Teredo navalis
Copies, Concepts and Time
Copies are defined by their relation to an original. The understanding and evaluation of this relationship has been changing over time. A main argument of this article is that originals and copies are phenomena with no 'natural' or essential meaning outside of their specific historical settings. The idea to be explored is how changing historicity regimes have transformed notions of originals and copies over time and how these differences also are…
Diagenesis of archaeological bone and tooth
History, Exemplarity and Improvements: 18Th Century Ideas about Man-Made Climate Change
Can grain crops be increased? The issue was heatedly debated in 18th century Denmark-Norway, both for patriotic and economic reasons. The historian Gerhard Schøning (1722-80) answered affirmatively. Chopping down much of the forests that covered Norway would change the climate radically for the better. As a consequence of the warmer weather, the fertility of the soil would improve. Crops would increase, and new and even more delicate types of pla…
Smallpox inoculation: Translation, transference and transformation
In the early decades of the eighteenth century, small pox inoculation was introduced into northern Europe from the Middle East. The method consisted of grafting infected matter from a person who suffered from smallpox into the arm of one who had not yet been attacked by the disease. The operation usually caused a mild case of illness and protected against further attacks. A series of translations and transformations was involved in the introducti…
Releasing the microbes from old bones: The effect of different DNA extraction protocols on microbial community profiling
DNA-based characterisation of microbial communities can enable those interested in bone diagenesis to address questions relating to the complexity and diversity of said microbial communities. We explored whether biases could be introduced due to differences in the DNA extraction methods used. We investigated the effect of four alternative approaches on the extraction of DNA from bone, in order to examine the resulting effect on the bacterial and …
Bone degradation at five Arctic archaeological sites: Quantifying the importance of burial environment and bone characteristics
The degradation of archaeological bones is influenced by many variables. The bone material itself is a composite of both organic and inorganic components, and their degradation depends on processes occurring both before and after burial, and on both intrinsic bone characteristics as well as extrinsic environmental parameters. In this study we attempt to quantify the effect of some of the variables using a novel approach that includes detailed mon…
Rapid loss of endogenous DNA in pig bone buried in five different environments
The rate at which endogenous DNA from differently prepared (butchered, boiled and baked) compact pig bones degrades in five different Danish terrestrial and marine environments over 12 months was investigated. Although > 70% of the estimated endogenous mtDNA is lost after just four weeks of exposure, no cytosine deamination of DNA was recognised. A correlation between the presence of oxygen and the amount of preserved DNA was observed. The result…
The Intrusiveness of Heritage: The Vikingification of a Small Community in Vestfold, Norway
While heritage is almost by definition understood as fragile, vulnerable and in need of protection, this article argues that it is also a powerful cultural force in contemporary society. The small community of Borre, south of Oslo in Norway, is used as a case to investigate how heritage has the power to invade and colonise, and how it has the capacity to create new meanings and redefine social relations. A triad of concepts - expansion, intensifi…
Quantifying Degradation of Archaeological Bone In Situ and in Museum Storage: A Comparison Between Environment and Degradation over Forty-Three Years for Bones from the Aasivissuit Site, Western Green…
Degradation of archaeological bone is a complex process that is influenced by both intrinsic and extrinsic parameters. Here we study the decay of bones recovered from a large midden at the Inuit summer hunting camp, Aasivissuit, in West Greenland, dating from 1200 CE to 1950 CE. The site was partly excavated in 1978 and revisited for further excavation in 2021 to study changes in the materials’ state of preservation, both in situ and in museum st…
Author response of: Evaluating commercial DNA extraction kits for bacterial community profiling in waterlogged archaeological wood. Round#2
A recommendation of: Anne Marie H. Eriksen, Oliver Müller, Helen H. Lading, David Gregory Evaluating commercial DNA extraction kits for bacterial community profiling in waterlogged archaeological wood https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20395663
Author response of: Evaluating commercial DNA extraction kits for bacterial community profiling in waterlogged archaeological wood. Round#1
A recommendation of: Anne Marie H. Eriksen, Oliver Müller, Helen H. Lading, David Gregory Evaluating commercial DNA extraction kits for bacterial community profiling in waterlogged archaeological wood https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20395663
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