Osteologisk fagseminar

Seminaret blir arrangert i Tårnsalen på Universitetsmuseet - naturhistorie, Muséplassen 3, fredag 3. november.

Inngang: Hovedinngangen til museet. Etter kl. 10, ta kontakt med museumsbutikken for å få gratis billett og tilgang til museet.

Symposium on osteology

On the occasion of the retirement of Anne Karin Hufthammer, the University Museum arrange a symposium on the development of osteological research and collections at the museum. The symposium will take place in the “Tårnsalen” of the University Museum - Natural History, at Muséplassen 3, Friday the 3^rd of November. Entrance: Main entrance to the museum. Visitors coming after 10 a.m., please report to the museum shop for a free ticket and admission to the museum.

Program:

9:00      Coffee

9:30      Opening by Kari Loe Hjelle, Museum director.

10:00    Kenneth Ritchie (Moesgaard Museum) - Fish from the rocks: faunal remains from Sævarhelleren and Olsteinhelleren and how they relate to developments in the Mesolithic of Southern Scandinavia.

10:40    James Barrett (NTNU) - The zooarchaeology of Iron Age and medieval sea fisheries.

11:20    Knut Andreas Bergsvik (UiB) - The use of caves and rockshelters in western Norway in prehistory and early history.

12:00    Veronica Aniceti (UiB) - Time for a change? Investigating shifts in food and agricultural economies in southern-central Norway (11th-16th c. AD).

12:30–13:20 Lunch.

13:20    Thijs van Kolfschoten (Leiden University) - The story of the reindeer.

14:00    John Inge Svendsen (UiB) - In search of the ice age in Northern Russia- an interdisciplinay challenge.

14:40    Leif Jonsson (University of Gothenburg) – Kitchen middens revisited.

15:30 – 15:45 Pause

15:45   Knut Røed (Norwegian School of Veterinary Science) - Ancient DNA to test hypotheses of early reindeer colonization and domestication.

16:25    Anne Karin Hufthammer: The Osteological collection. A unique source of demographic knowledge.