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The origin of sewing technology. Palaeolithic eyed needles from France (left and centre) and China (right)

UiB-forsker setter syhistorien i nytt lys (20.11.2018)

Gode klær og mote har vært viktig for oss helt siden tidlig steinalder. En ny internasjonal studie viser hvordan syteknikken har utviklet seg fra de første nålene ble oppfunnet for 73 000 år siden. Funnene viser tidlige spor av avansert klesproduksjon, og at klær allerede den gang handlet om mer enn å bare holde seg varm.

UiB archaeologists find the world’s oldest drawing (07.09.2018)

Archeologist from UiB discovered the earliest known drawing in a cave in South Africa. The abstract drawing displays a red cross-hatched line pattern, created with an ochre crayon 73 000 years ago.

Lessons from the past (20.04.2018)

For many years, the University of Bergen has focused on historical and archaeological research in the Middle East and in Syria in particular. How is the research going forward despite the difficult situation in the region?

Shines new light on human evolution (20.03.2018)

Groundbreaking research puts human evolution in a new perspective as significant archaeological findings reveals sign of modern human behavior 300 000 years ago.

Humanities scholars attract foreign researchers to Bergen (01.02.2018)

Thanks to EU funding, the Digital Culture, Archaeology, Philosophy and Theory of Science researchs groups will welcome new international researchers to their team. These groups at the Faculty of Humanities received five out of seven Marie Curie grants awarded to UiB.

– A proud day (30.10.2017)

UiB's new Centre of Excellence is officially open.

BSRS 2018: Global Challenges (18.09.2017)

PhD candidate wins best student paper award (14.09.2017)

Archaeologist Magnus M. Haaland received the award at peer-reviewed conference in Newcastle.

Goldsmith turned archaeologist (08.06.2017)

UiB researcher Karen van Niekerk's road to (a Centre of) excellence.

A love affair with Iceland (22.12.2016)

Ramona Harrison was born in Austria, educated in the US and is employed in Norway. But her academic heart belongs to Iceland.

Heated artefacts in silcrete made by Homo sapiens in the Middle Stone Age at Klipdrift Shelter, South Africa

Humans used fire earlier than previously known (19.10.2016)

Humans living in South Africa in the Middle Stone Age used advanced heating techniques that vastly improved living conditions during the era.

Combining psychology and anthropology (17.10.2016)

Andrea Bender combines psychology and anthropology to observe how our language and culture shape the way we perceive the world.

Four scholarships for the development of new projects (11.02.2015)

UiB Global offers four prospective post-doctoral researchers to develop research applications. APPLY BY MARCH 20, 2015.

Photo of a teacher walking amongst students in a school in Xuyi County, used as part of an article on Chinese-Norwegian relations in the UiB Magazine.

China’s history shapes the future (08.08.2014)

Norwegian emigrants have long traditions of making it in China. But what is needed to succeed in modern China?

Photography of the Norwegian Constitution of 1814 at Eidsvoll

1814: from autocracy to democracy (28.11.2013)

When the Norwegian Constitution was adopted in 1814 it represented a dramatic break from the absolute monarchy and aristocratic privilege of the past.

Saving Sudan’s history (21.10.2013)

The University of Bergen is making an untapped source of historical material available by digitising the vast TV archives of Sudan National Broadcasting Corporation.

Digitizing Sudan’s television archive (29.03.2012)

Letter of intent signed

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