Aina Margrethe Heen Pettersen
Aina Margrethe Heen Pettersen
PhD Candidate (archaeology)
Department of Historical and Classical StudiesBackground and activities
My Ph.D. project in archaeology concerns the appropriation and use of Insular artefacts after they arrived in Viking-Age Norway. Drawing on perspectives concerning materiality, the project examines how the significance of certain Insular items might be seen in relation to their biographical references, as objects connected with stories, events or people, which were used and exposed in a range of social, political and also religious situations.
Scientific, academic and artistic work
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Journal publications
- (2019) The earliest wave of viking activity? The Norwegian evidence revisited. European Journal of Archaeology. vol. 22 (4).
- (2018) Objects from a distant place: transformation and use of Insular mounts from Viking-Age burials in Trøndelag, Central Norway. Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History. vol. 21.
- (2018) An Insular Reliquary from Melhus: The Significance of Insular Ecclesiastical Material in Early Viking- Age Norway. Medieval Archaeology. vol. 62 (1).
- (2015) Gården i yngre jernalder - et spørsmål om erkjennelse? Belyst ved utgravningen av et yngre jernalders gårdstun på Ranheim. Viking.
- (2015) Insulære beslag fra vikingtidsgraver i Trøndelag: En undersøkelse av gjenstandenes bruk og betydning. Primitive tider. vol. 17.
- (2014) En vikingtids husfruegrav fra Nygården, Frosta. Frosta - før og no. Frosta Historielags Årbok 2014.
- (2014) Insular artefacts from Viking-Age burials from mid-Norway. A review of contact between Trøndelag and Britain and Ireland. Internet Archaeology. vol. 38.
Part of book/report
- (2019) Roman Iron Age and Migration period building traditions and settlement organization at Vik, Ørland. Environment and settlement: Ørland 600 BC - AD 1250. Archaeological excavations at Vik, Ørland main air base..
Others
- (2019) Mysterious Viking boat graves unearthed in central Norway. Norwegian SciTech News [Internett]. 2019-11-18.
- (2016) How did a fitting from an Irish horse’s harness end up as a brooch for a Norwegian Viking woman?. Heritagedaily.com [Internett]. 2016-12-19.
- (2015) Fant Levangers eldste bosetning. Levangeravisa [Avis]. 2015-03-31.
- (2015) Historiske utgravninger på Ørlandet. NRK Trøndelag: God ettermiddag Trøndelag [Radio]. 2015-08-05.
- (2014) Mid-Norway Vikings among the first to sail to British Isles. Sciencenordic.com [Internett]. 2014-12-30.
- (2014) Historien må omskrives. Ferdselsåre trolig i bruk alt for 4000 år siden. Romsdals Budstikke [Avis]. 2014-07-24.