I dagene 19.-21. september afholdes symposiet "The Border of Farming - Shetland and Scandinavia"

Symposiet er et lukket arrangement og er et samarbejde mellem projekterne "Shetlandsøerne: Landbrug på grænsen, 4000-3000 f.v.t." (Ditlev L. Mahler), "Agrarsamfundenes ekspansion" (Flemming Kaul) og "Landbrug på grænsen - agrarsamfundenes ekspansion og kompleksitet i Neolitikum i Norden" (Lasse Sørensen).

 

Foreløbigt program

 

Wednesday 19th September

Morning session – chair: Flemming Kaul

9.15am

Introduction to the Conference by Per Kristian Madsen, director of the National Museum of Denmark

 

9.30am-11am

Alison Sheridan, National Museums Scotland. Shetland’s earliest farming communities, c.3700–1500 BC: an overview.

Val Turner, Shetland Amenity Trust. The answer lies in the soil.

Jenny Murray, Shetland Museum and Archives. Agriculture on Shetland stressing old tradition eventually with roots during prehistoric time

 

11am-11.30am Break

 

11.30am-1pm

Ditlev L. Mahler, The National Museum of Denmark. Stanydale, an assembly area or just a large Neolithic house on Shetland?

Lauren Doughton, Shetland Amenity Trust. Burnt mounds on Shetland and their significance for the Bronze Age.

Joakim Goldhahn, Linné University in Kalmar. Variation on a theme - heaps of fire-cracked stones and its history of interpretation.

Matti Leino, Nordiska Museum. DNA analyses on cereals in Scandinavia and the old age of Nordic variants of cereals (barley).

 

1pm-2pm Lunch

 

Afternoon session – chair: Ditlev L. Mahler

2pm-3.30pm

Inga Merkyte, University of Copenhagen. Agrarian evidences from the Neolithic and Bronze Age in the Baltic countries.

Torben Bjarke Ballin, Hon. Research Fellow, University of Bradford. The Mesolithic / Neolithic transition in southern Norway.

Lasse Sørensen, The National Museum of Denmark. The expansion of agrarian societies during the Neolithic and Bronze Age in Scandinavia.

 

3.30pm-4pm

Final discussion

 

6.30pm Dinner at some restaurant in Copenhagen. 

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Thursday 20th September

Excursion by bus to several archaeological sites in Northern Zealand. Departure from The National Museum at 09.30am.  The organizers of the symposium will take care of the lunch.  

We will return to The National Museum around 4 o’clock depending on the traffic etc.  

Dinner at your own

 

Program 
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Friday 21st September

Morning session – chair Lasse Sørensen

9.30am-11am

Søren Diinhoff, Bergen Museum. Late Neolithic and Bronze Age houses in Western Norway and their structure and development.

Gabriel Cooney, University College Dublin. The role of axes from island sources in the Neolithic of Ireland and Britain

Preben Rønne, Vitenskapsmuseet, NTNU, Trondheim. The northernmost signs of South Scandinavian

 

11am-11.30am Break

 

11.30am-1pm

Johan Arntzen, University of Tromsø. The northernmost Bronze Age agriculture in Norway.

Flemming Kaul, the National Museum of Denmark. The one-edged razor - northernmost and southernmost.

Martin Mikkelsen: Unfree families as an integrated part of the Nordic society from 2.500-500 BC. Resullts from excavations in the Viborg-area in Jutland, Denmark.

 

1pm-2pm Lunch.

 

Afternoon session– chair Flemming Kaul

2pm-3.30pm

Palle Østergaard Sørensen, Roskilde Museum. Recent excavations of Bronze Age houses around Roskilde Fjord

Karen Margrethe Hornstrup, Århus University. Danish and Norwegian Bronze Age connections.

 

Final discussion!

 

3.30pm-4pm  

A short tour of the prehistoric exhibition at The National Museum with Flemming Kaul.

 

4.30pm

Departure from The National Museum to the Frederiksberg Garden followed by THE CONFERENCE DINNER – after which we say goodbye J

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Saturday 22nd September

End of conference and leaving the Cabin Hotel

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