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Arkeologiske undersøkingar i 2017 i samband med forskingsprosjektet Stone Age Demographics multi-scale exploration of population variations and dynamics: Synfaring på Årøya, Alta kommune, Finnmark fylke
No full textAs part of the Research Council of Norway research project no. 261760 Stone Age Demographics: multi-scale exploration of population variations and dynamics, filed surveys were undertaken at Årøya, Alta municipality, Finnmark county, in week 32, 2017.
The aim of the survey was to collect data on Stone Age settlement for the research project.
Årøya is the only larger island in the Altafjord. It was considered favourably situated for Stone Age settlement, and relatively few Stone Age remains were known before the survey. The potential and value of a survey of the island for the larger project was considered high. I samband med forskingsprosjektet Stone Age Demographics: multi-scale exploration of population variations and dynamics, Forskningsrådets prosjektnummer 261760, gjennomførte prosjektet registrering på Årøya, Alta Kommune, Finnmark Fylkeskommune. Undersøkinga fant stad i uke 32, 2017.
Formålet med undersøkingane var datainnsamling til forskingsprosjektet. Hovudfokus er å kartlegge busetnadsspor og andre arkeologiske spor frå steinalder.
Årøya er den einaste større øya i Altafjorden. Den ligg gunstig til for busetnad frå steinalderen og det var registrert relativt få funn på Årøya før prosjektet starta. Potensialet for funn og nytteverdien for prosjektet gjorde at denne øya var valt ut for synfaring etter kulturminne i høve til prosjektet
FREQUENCY, PHASES AND CHRONOLOGY OF ROCK ART: SPATIOTEMPORAL STUDIES OF THE ALTA ROCK CARVINGS, NORTHERNMOST EUROPE
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Rock art and landscapes : studies of Stone Age rock art from northern Fennoscandia
Full text linkThe thesis focuses on rock art and landscapes of the Stone Age of northern Fennoscandia, between about 10000BC until 2000BC. Five areas with rock art are selected for in-depth case studies where rock art is studied in relation to time and landscape. The five areas are Ofoten and Alta in northern Norway, Kanozero on Kola Peninsula and Vyg by the White Sea in northwestern Russia and Nämforsen in northern Sweden. Important has been studying rock art both from the west and from the east, crossing administrative borders. The rock art has been studied through new documentation during extensive fieldwork in northwestern Russia, northern Norway, northern Sweden and northern Finland.
The thesis investigates how rock art interacts with the landscape at different levels, showing how natural features are intertwined with the rock art, telling the stories in the rocks. The studies suggest that the cracking landscapes of rock art included natural elements from the tiniest crack to the wider landscape. Several places, the rock art are deliberately placed in relation to the miniature landscape of the rock surface and an argument is put forward that the rock art act as geographical references to the hunter-fisher-gatherer landscape from the deliberate choice of the rock art site to the placing of the rock art on the actual rock surface.
Moving back in time to the Stone Age, reconstructing lost relations of landscape, an interdisciplinary approach is advocated, where rock art are discussed in relation to circumpolar ethnographic sources to shed light to Stone Age hunter-fisher-gatherer landscapes, and geology is applied to visualize the lost relations of Stone Age hunter-fisher-gatherer landscapes in time and place
Rock art
No full textThis chapter presents a review of the main bodies of Mesolithic rock art in Europe, from the earliest signs of post-Palaeolithic art to the lively scenes of Spanish Levantine art and the Late Mesolithic ‘rock art explosion’ in northern Europe. Outside the two main concentrations of Mesolithic rock art in the Iberian Peninsula and Fennoscandia, individual occurrences of rock art possibly dating to the Mesolithic can be found in the Alpine Region, central France, Italy, and the Urals. The precise dating of much of this art still presents challenges, but recent advances in dating methods have helped to anchor rock art more securely in general archaeological sequences. This is particularly true in northern Europe, where post-glacial isostatic land uplift has enabled the accurate geological dating of shore-bound rock art sites. The datings offer some credence to the old notion of gradual stylistic shift from depictions of large, naturalistic prey animals in the Early Mesolithic towards smaller, dynamic scenes of schematic human and animal figures in the Mesolithic/Neolithic transition. This shift may conceivably reflect changes in how the relationship between humans and animals was conceived. Later Mesolithic rock art in both southern and northern Europe also features images of communal hunting, large rituals, armed conflict, and other scenes that suggest increased sedentism and social complexity.Peer reviewe
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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