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Think big – om salami-metoden og implementeringen af en ny udgravningsstrategi på maglemoselokaliteten Ålyst i samarbejde med stenalder-aficionadoen Finn Ole Sonne Nielsen
No full textPennies for the King's Towns:Ribe and Haithebu-pennies from 9th Century
No full textThis paper presents 540 pennies from Brita Malmer's combination groups 3-6 (KG 3-KG 6). The analysis divides the coin types into pennies from Ribe and Haithabu, the most prominent towns in Viking Age Denmark. The coins are divided into 10 main types, and adetailed review of types and varieties is presented, which are dated based on numismatic considerations, input from treasure finds and archaeological excavations. The period of minting is extended from c. 825-60 to cover the remaining part of the 9th century and, forone of the coin types, extended further to cover a period well into the 10th century. The coins are divided according to their use: as payment or in a demonetized form as coin-pendants. Based on the use of the coins as either payment or converted into coin-pendants and in combination with the geographical distribution, it is argued that there were two economic zones, one around Ribe and one around Hedeby in the 9th century where money was used as a managed local currency, so that pennies from the two towns largely excluded each other. In connection with the earliest penny from Ribe (c. 820/30-c. 850), one of the main types presented is a halfpenny – a significant innovation in Danish monetary history. Finally, the coinage is linked to a strong royal presence that had both the necessary power and control, as well as the organizational skills to implement and maintain coinage over quite long periods of time, and to a certain extent to enforce managed local currencie
A hairy situation:The Danish Fur Industry between Farming and Hunting
No full textDanish fur farming – somewhat unexpected – developed into a successful world leading industry in the 1960’s. Traditionally market hunting and/or trapping has never played a large role in Denmark proper and experience with fur farming in Denmark before the early 1930’s was non-existent. Inspired by Norway, a few entrepreneurs initiated fur farming in the 1930s, leading to rapid growth in the following decades.Farming is viewed as integral to Danish national identity but the newcomers in the fur farming business were not per se included as part of the traditional farming segment. Neither were they seen as connected to hunting traditions. This paper seeks to explore the special position of fur farming between the traditional professional boundaries and the oppositional dynamics that came into play as it developed over time; at times revered as industrious and successful, and at times facing heavy criticism as an abusive form of animal production. The situation for the Danish fur industry was teetering and as complex as ever when the Danish government decided to cull 17 million mink in November 2020 as a direct response to the COVID-pandemic – and de facto shut down the industry in a complex political and financial situation
KNV01105 Egemosegård:Beretning for arkæologisk forundersøgelse og egentlig undersøgelse af bebyggelse fra neolitikum, bronzealder og førromersk jernalder og grave fra førromersk jernalder
No full textBeretning for arkæologisk undersøgelse af grave og bebyggelsesspor fordelt på søgegrøfter og fem udgravningsfelter med et samlet areal på 63.494 m2. Undersøgelsens hovedresultater angiver tre temporale tyngdepunkter: to- og treskibede hustomter og gruber fra neolitikum ca. 3900 f.Kr. til 1900 f.Kr..; treskibede hustomter, gruber, en brønd og kogegruber fra ældre bronzealder per. II til yngre bronzealder per. IV ca. 1500 f.Kr.. til 1000 f.Kr.; bebyggelse med treskibede hustomter, gruber, kogegruber og urnegrave fra mellemste førromersk jernalder per. 2 til yngre førromersk jernalder per. 3A ca. 350 f.Kr.. til 75 f.Kr.. Lokalitetens kronologi er baseret på en serie C14 dateringer. I udgravningsperioden deltog BA Anne Viuf, BA Isabella Uhlott, BA Jesper Bork og cand.mag. Francesco Denaro. Udgravningen blev gennemført for Museum Sydøstdanmark i august til november 2022
The Matter of Relations:a critical materialist approach to place attachment and regeneration through a Danish social housing estate
No full textRecently, ‘place attachment’ has become relevant in understanding social and socio-spatial disruptions in the wake of increased urban regeneration programs following the European transition to neoliberalist policies. Taking seriously the profound social disruptions that regeneration projects may cause, regenerative policies are problematic because they imply that spatial transformations will have only positive effects on social life. Applying a critical materialist perspective, we unfold how residents of a Danish social housing estate relate to one another through the material and spatial properties of specific architectural elements. We demonstrate how the physical environment is profoundly intertwined with the social, both relationally and ontologically, producing particular understandings of the world and enabling specific social relations and social orderings to form. Scrutinizing residents’ sentiments of place attachment in light of spatial regeneration, we show how changes to key elements in the built environment may have non-resolvable consequences for local social lives and render regeneration projects devastating to residents’ attachments to their neighborhood
KNV01525 Naurbjergvej 2
No full textBeretning for forundersøgelse af et 41.913 m2 stort markareal i den østlige udkant af Ll. Skensved. Undersøgelsen blev udført forud for anlægsarbejde på stedet. Der blev ikke påtruffet fortidsminder, der giver anledning til egentlig udgravning af arealet. Undersøgelsen blev udført af Kristina E. Nielsen og Francesco Denaro for Museum Sydøstdanmark i marts 2025
Ung Dansk Kunsts Tapeserie, 1969: Lydspor af Eks-skolens attituderelativisme
No full textTen audio works by artists associated with the Danish artist group Eks-skolen were released in 1969. Despite the fact that most of the artists have since been established as central characters in the Danish art scene, the sound pieces have disappeared out of earshot and remained uncollected by museums. In the course of a decade-long search, six of the ten soundworks have been located and digitized. This article discusses how the works have remained unheard – and largely unheard of – in Danish art history and seeks to counter this by describing the six found works by Erik Thygesen (1941-1992), Bjørn Nørgaard (1947- ), Stig Brøgger (1941-2021), Poul Gernes (1925-1996), Henning Christiansen (1932-2008), and Joseph Beuys (1921-1986) in relation to the individual artists’ practices and the collective thoughts on so-called attitude relativism [attituderelativisme] developing in Eks-skolen at the time, and described in the manifesto-like periodical ta’ (1967-1968). These artworks engage with the social conventions of formats, rather than narrowing in on medium-specific essentials
Art, Agriculture and Colonialism:Revisiting Nineteenth-Century Danish Landscape Painting in Museums
No full textIn recent times, thinkers from formerly colonized regions have increasingly argued that empires have employed agriculture as a tool of colonization. Amitav Ghosh, an Indian writer and social anthropologist, has argued that Europeans have been shaping the world through terraforming that included agriculture, and Indian farmer and writer Vandana Shiva has connected monocultures to colonialism. Concurrently, the United Nations has emphasized the correlation between our land cultivation practices and the climate and biodiversity crises. This chapter examines how nineteenth-century landscape paintings in the collection of the Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK, National Gallery of Denmark) have shaped and still shape perspectives on agriculture to explore the complex dynamics between colonial practices and environmental consequences