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Academic article
  • Show author(s) (2017). Kirwan Memorial Lecture: Nile Valley archaeology and Darfur ethnography: the impact of women on cultural evolution. A personal reflection. . Sudan & Nubia : the Sudan Archaeological Research Society bulletin. 3-15.
  • Show author(s) (2014). The Meroitic empire: trade and cultural influences in an Indian ocean context. African Archaeological Review. 649-673.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Crops and Culture. Dispersal of African Millets to the Indian Subcontinent and its Cultural Consequences. Dhaulagiri Journal of Sociology and Anthropology. 1-30.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Changing food ways as indicators of emerging complexity in Sudanese Nubia: from Neolithic agropastoralists to the Meroitic civilisation. Azania. 327-342.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Crops and Culture: Dispersal of African Millets to the Indian Subcontinent and its Cultural Consequences. Dhaulagiri Journal of Sociology and Anthropology. 1-30.
  • Show author(s) (2008). Say it in iron: Symbols of transformation and reproduction in the European Iron Age. Current Swedish Archaeology. 19 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2007). New perspectives on the Agordat material, Eritrea: A re-examination of the Archaeological material in the National Museum, Khartoum. Nyame Akuma. 4-11.
  • Show author(s) (2007). God of war, worldly ruler, and craft specialists in the Meroitic Kingdom of Sudan: Inferring social identity from material remains. Journal of Social Archaeology. 372-392.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Ancestral Landscape of Manyikaland Archaeology Research Project; An Overview. Zimbabwea. 1-9.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Technology, transformation, and symbolism ethnographic perspectives on European iron working. Norwegian Archaeological Review. 1-19.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Iron Smelting - a vanishing tradition: Ethnographic study of this craft in South-west Ethiopia. Journal of African Archaeology. 65-80.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Furnace and Pot: why the iron smelter is a big pot maker. A case study from South.Western Ethiopia. Azania. 146-165.
  • Show author(s) (2002). Social Life of Iron. Anthropos: Internationale Zeitschrift für Völker- und Sprachenkunde. 35-54.
  • Show author(s) (2002). Late Paleolithic Technology among HunterGatherers in the Dang Valley 10-12 000 years ago. Vegetation and Society.
  • Show author(s) (2001). Pottery Production, Iron Working, and Trade in the Early Iron Age: The case of Dakawa,east-central Tanzania. MANGLER.
  • Show author(s) (2000). Pottery Productionn, Iron Working and Trade in the Early Iron Age: The case of Dakawa, east-central Tanzania. Azania. 75-106.
  • Show author(s) (2000). Ethno-archaeological Research on Iron smelting in South-west Ethiopia. Nyame Akuma.
  • Show author(s) (1997). Emergence of sedentism: New ways of living, new ways of symbolizing. Antiquity. 371-385.
  • Show author(s) (1996). Levels of Meaning in Symbolic Objects. Cambridge Archaeological Journal.
  • Show author(s) (1996). Levels Meaning in Symbolic Objects. Cambridge Archaeological Journal.
  • Show author(s) (1995). Who speaks the Goddess' Language. Imagination and Method in Archeological Research. Norwegian Archaeological Review. 17.
  • Show author(s) (1993). Dakawa, an Early Iron-Age site from East-Central Tanzania. (Tilknyttet prosjektet: Tan-064 Archaeology, Competence building and Research, Tanzania). NIAME AKUMA Bulletin of the Society of Africanist Archaeology.
  • Show author(s) (1992). Radiocarbon Dates from Mesolithic sites in the Atbara Region, Sudan. Nyame Akuma. 17-28.
  • Show author(s) (1992). Mesolithic sites in the Atbara Region. Nubian Letters. 1-5.
  • Show author(s) (1992). Fish, pots and grain in Early and Mid-Holocene adaptions in the Central Sudan. African Archaeological Review. 43-64.
Popular scientific lecture
  • Show author(s) (1993). Husholdet som faktor i utviklingen av sedentisme: mesolitiske tilpasninger i Sudan.
  • Show author(s) (1992). The domestic field, as a factor in the emergence of sedentism. The Late prehistory in the Central Nile valley of the Sudan.
  • Show author(s) (1992). Holocene Adaptions in the Central Nile Valley. From Sedentism to Agriculture.
  • Show author(s) (1992). Central Sudan 5000-6000 BP. From Food Production to Specialized Pastoralism.
Academic lecture
  • Show author(s) (2014). The Meroitic Empire: trade and cultural influences in an Indian Ocean context.
  • Show author(s) (2014). Origin of domestication and aquatic adaptations – the Nile in comparative perspectives.
  • Show author(s) (2014). Meroitic Empire: trade and cultural influence in an Indian Ocean context.
  • Show author(s) (2014). Innovation of pottery; womens role as the innovator and nurturer. The use of ethnographic material to understand the symbolism of pots and boiled Food.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Meroitic kingdom, trade and cultural influence in an Indian Ocean context?
  • Show author(s) (2013). Indian impacts on Meroitic civilization; the movement of craft people and symbolic styles?
  • Show author(s) (2013). Competence building and project cooperation?
  • Show author(s) (2012). Southampton 3-4 novemberAfrican Archaeology Research Days Foredrag med titteen. Crops and Culture. dispersal of African millets to India and Himalayan foothills in Nepal and its Cultural Consequences.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Foredrag med tittel: Meroitic kingly ideals. Temples, and Gods in an Afro-Indian context.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Emergence and spread of agriculture from the Near East and Africa to the Indian subcontinent and Nepal.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Changing in gender roles from early to late Neolithic. A process towards the great male take over bid.
  • Show author(s) (2008). Food ways of Middle Asia and Africa: Fringes and cross roads.
  • Show author(s) (2008). Fish, Pots and Grain: from aquatic resource utlilization to agriculture along the Nile, 10 000-5000 years ago.
  • Show author(s) (2008). Changing food ways as indicators of emerging social complextity.
  • Show author(s) (2008). Changing Foodways as indicators of emering social complexity. From the Neolithic agro-pastoralists to the Meritic civilization.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Transition from the Mesolithic to Neolithic in Central Sudan.
  • Show author(s) (2007). India, on the cross road between the Near East and African food ways.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Fra akvatiske tilpassninger langs Nilen og Atbara til jordbruksøkonomi (9-6000 år tilbake.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Dispersal of African food crops to India along the Indian Ocean Rim.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Dispersal of African food crops to India along the Indian Ocean.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Africa and the Near East; Pot and Porridge, Bread and Oven-two food systems maintained over 10 000 years.
  • Show author(s) (2006). The Ethiopian Iron Smelter and his World.
  • Show author(s) (2006). The Ethiopian Iron Smelter and his World.
  • Show author(s) (2006). The Ethiopian Iron Smelter and his World.
  • Show author(s) (2006). Ritual and Political aspects of Meropitic Iron Working: Iron in War and Conflict.
  • Show author(s) (2006). Porridge andPot, Bread and Oven. Foodways and symbolism in Africa and the Near East.
  • Show author(s) (2006). Meroitic Iron Working Politics and Ritual.
  • Show author(s) (2006). Foodsystems, food symbolism and Sociability.
  • Show author(s) (2005). The Ethiopian iron Smelter and his World.
  • Show author(s) (2005). The Ethiopian Iron Smelter and his World.
  • Show author(s) (2005). Food Systems in the Levant. From the Neolithic to the Present.
  • Show author(s) (2005). Caste: Sociological Conceptualisation and Archaeolgical Documentation.
  • Show author(s) (2005). Africa and the Near East: Pot and Porridge, Bread and Oven. two food systems maintained over 10000 years.
  • Show author(s) (2004). The early Days - Ideas and Objectives for Academic Collaboration.
  • Show author(s) (2004). The Pot and the Porridge, the Bread and the Owen. Africa and the Near East. The practice of two Food Ways from the Neolithic to the Present.
  • Show author(s) (2004). The Nile and the Levant: Porridge and Bread. 10 Thousand years' Practice of two Food Systems.
  • Show author(s) (2004). The Ethiopian iron smelter and his world.
  • Show author(s) (2004). TYechnology, Transformation and Symbolism: Ethnographic Perspectives on European Iron Working.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Later Pre-History of North Africa.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Iron Smelting, Technology and Symbolism: A case study from Ethiopia.
  • Show author(s) (2003). The Levant and The Nile. Bread and Porridge; a 100 000 years practice of two food-systems.
  • Show author(s) (2003). Iron in the making: European Iron Working seen in a Cross-Cultural Perspective.
  • Show author(s) (2003). Global Archaeology.
  • Show author(s) (2003). Cultural Heritage management; the Case of Sudan.
  • Show author(s) (2002). The Past in the Present; Cultural Heritage and Nation Building.
  • Show author(s) (2002). The Coast and the Interior of Tanzania during the 9th century AD. The Case of Dakawa.
  • Show author(s) (2002). Material Culture and Identity. Caste and Craft.
  • Show author(s) (2002). Late Paleolithic technology among hunter/gatheres in the Dang Valle, Nepal 10-12,000 years ago.
  • Show author(s) (2002). Iron Working and Trade. Indian Ocean and the African Hinterland late first millennium AD.
  • Show author(s) (2002). Iron Age i East Africa.
  • Show author(s) (2002). Furnace and Pot; Why the iron smelter is a big pot maker.
  • Show author(s) (2002). Fra blesterovn til smia; en kryss-kultural studie av jern produksjon.
  • Show author(s) (2002). Culture Contact across the Indian Ocean: Africa and Asia.
  • Show author(s) (2002). Cultural Heritage Management.
  • Show author(s) (2002). Caste and Craft spesialization among Ironworkers in SW Ethiopia.
  • Show author(s) (2001). New Perspectives on the Technology and the Socio-Cultural Context of Iron Working at the Dakawa site.
  • Show author(s) (2000). Iron Age in East Africa, Cross Cultural perspective.
  • Show author(s) (2000). "The role of archeology in understanding the longterm landscape changes".
  • Show author(s) (2000). "Introduction to the interdisclpinary approach in Archaeology in Palestine".
  • Show author(s) (2000). " Furnace and Pot: why is the Wollaita iron smelter a big pot maker?".
  • Show author(s) (1999). The Ways of Women: From Sedentism to Food production in the Middle Nile Region. Sudan.
  • Show author(s) (1999). The Role of Women in the transition to Acriculture.
  • Show author(s) (1999). Aims and Results of the archaeological work 1998 for the Project: Lower Jordan River Basin Project.
  • Show author(s) (1995). Who speaks the Goddess' language - Introductory lecture.
  • Show author(s) (1993). Husholdet som faktor i utviklingen av sedentisme: mesolitiske tilpasninger i Sudan.
Editorial
  • Show author(s) (2014). Africa and the Indian Ocean. African Archaeological Review. 543-545.
Reader opinion piece
  • Show author(s) (2012). Petition to Stop the Dams in Sudan European Committee for Preserving the Middle Nile. African Archaeological Review. 1-5.
Short communication
  • Show author(s) (2016). Bjørn Myhre 1938–2015. Norwegian Archaeological Review. 1-4.
  • Show author(s) (2008). knut odner 1924 - 2008. Viking. 2007-2010.
Book review
  • Show author(s) (2012). Preserving the Middle Nile (Sudan). Antiquity. 2 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Tereba Togola, Archaeological Investigations of Iron Age Sites in the Mema Region, Mali (West Africa). African Archaeological Review. 155-157.
Non-fiction book
  • Show author(s) (2000). I begynnelsen. Aschehoug & Co.
Masters thesis
  • Show author(s) (2007). Rituell praksis. Nytta menneska i Sør/Sentral-Levanten rituell praksis i deira daglege liv i MPPNB?
  • Show author(s) (2007). Neandertals Evolution or Catastrophe? A study on Neandertal extinction.
  • Show author(s) (2007). An investigation of iron working in Toronto.
Feature article
  • Show author(s) (1998). Bokanmeldelse av Felix Chami: The Tanzanian Coast in the first Millenium AD. An Archaeology of the Iron- working, Farming communities. African Archaeological Review. 3.
  • Show author(s) (1996). Jean Brown: "Traditional Metalworking in Kenya". Bokanmeldelse. Azania.
  • Show author(s) (1994). Roger Cribb: Nomads in Archaeology. New Studies in Archaeology. Cambridge University Press, 1991; Øystein Sacal LaBianca: Hesban 1 Sedentarization and Nomadization, Andrews University Press, 1990 (Bokmelding). Norwegian Archaeological Review.
Doctoral dissertation
  • Show author(s) (2015). War on the southern frontier of the emerging state of ancient Egypt. A warfare perspective on the history of the A-Group people in Lower Nubia during the 4th millennium BCE.
  • Show author(s) (2015). The Meroitic Cemetery at Berber: Discussion on Funerary Practices and Implications for Understanding the Role of Sorghum and Trade in the Meroitic Society in the Middle Nile Region.
  • Show author(s) (1982). Migratory herdsmen and migratory women : the structure of neolithic seasonal adaptation in the Khartoum Nile environment.
Interview
  • Show author(s) (2012). Maten som former oss.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Perler og identitetsmarkering. 70.000 år gamle funn fra Sør AFRIKA.
  • Show author(s) (2004). 70.000 år gamle funn av perler fra Blombos hulen i Sør Afrika.
Documentary
  • Show author(s) (2005). Utenfor Eden- Fruktbar balanse.
  • Show author(s) (2005). Utenfor Eden (drømmen om Edens hage.
Programme participation
  • Show author(s) (2003). Tidlig handel og komplekse samfunn i Øst-Afrika.
  • Show author(s) (2003). Iraks kulturminner.
  • Show author(s) (2003). Homo Sapiens i Afrika.
  • Show author(s) (2003). Feltarbeid i Etiopia.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Show author(s) (2017). Prehistoric Figurines in Sudan. 21 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2016). Origin of Domestication and Aquatic Adaptation: The Nile Valley in Comparative Perspective . 19 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Early Farming Societies Along the Nile.
  • Show author(s) (2013). "Ironworking in an Indian Ocean context". 11 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Landscape. 10 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Middle Asian and African culture areas defined by their cuisines: Core areas and interactions. 7 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Aquatic resource utilization and the emergence of pottery during the Late Palaeolithic and Mesolithic. A Global perspective From the Nile to China. 10 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Ancient Nubia. A culinary cross road between Africa and Near East. 18 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2008). Craft specialization, cast identites and political centralisation. 15 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2006). Ritual and political aspects of iron working; iron in war and conflict.
  • Show author(s) (2006). Iron in the making: Technology and Symbolism. Ethnographic perspectives on European iron-working. 10 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2006). Food, Pots and Gender. -233 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2006). Africa and the Near East: Pot and Porridge, Bread and Oven – Two food systems maintained over 10,000 years. 13 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2005). New perspectives on the Technology and Socio- Cultural Context of Iron Working at Dakawa. 8 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2005). Cultural heritage: Objects of the past as symbols of identity in the present. 12 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Smelting iron. Caste and its symbolism in South-Western Ethiopia. 12 pages.
  • Show author(s) (1999). The ways of women: Sedentism and the importance of hearth centered activities. 18 pages.
  • Show author(s) (1999). The puzzle of the late emergence of domesticated sorghum in the Nile Valley. 23 pages.
  • Show author(s) (1998). The Puzzle of the Late Emergence of Domesticated Sorghum in the Nile Valley. -20 pages.
  • Show author(s) (1996). Cultivation and domestication: Separate but independent processes in the emergence of agriculture.
Digital learning tools
  • Show author(s) (2004). The Ethiopian Iron Smelter and his World.
Academic literature review
  • Show author(s) (2009). Archaelogical Investigations of Iron Age Sites in the Mema Region, Mali (West Africa). By Tereba Togola. African Archaeological Review. 55-57.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Porridge and pot, bread and oven: Food ways and symbolism in Africa and the Near East from the Neolithic to the present. Cambridge Archaeological Journal. 165-182.
Internet exhibition
  • Show author(s) (2013). Darfur before: Technologies, Symbolisms and Multiple Identities.

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