Book
The Iron age settlement of Arctic Norway: a study in the expansion of European Iron Age culture within the Arctic Circle -- vol. I, Early Iron Age (Roman and migration periods)
Norwegian Universities Press • 10 (1) • Published In 1962 • Pages: xvi, 253 , plates, 274
By: Sjøvold, Thorleif.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The purpose of this study is to present data on the history of human settlements in North Norway during the Iron Age -- the Roman to Viking Periods -- from approximately 1999 B.P. - 1400 B.P. (1 A.D.-600 A.D.). The basis of this study is the analysis of the Iron Age artifacts in the Trondheim and Tromsö museums which were obtained from graves and stray finds in northern Norway by Nicolaissen, Gjessing, Lund, Simonsen and others, during the late nineteenth to mid twentieth centuries. The analyzed data are systematically arranged in the text according to the district from which they came -- Helgeland, Salten, Lofoten-Vesteralen, North and South Troms, and Finnmark. Much of the information in the document involves discussions of the ceramics, ornaments, tools, weapons, decorative styles, and materials used in the construction of these artifacts. There is little data on physical anthropology since most of the skeletal remains found in the graves had badly deteriorated in time.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Ornament
- Ceramic technology
- Weapons
- General tools
- Visual arts
- Burial practices and funerals
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- Typologies and classifications
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Scandinavian Iron Age
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2002
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Europe
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Scandinavia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 2001
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1946-1960
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1999 BP-1400 BP (1 A.D-600 A.D)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- North Norway
- NotesAdditional notes
- By Thorleif Sjövold
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-253) and index
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Iron Age--Scandinavia