Charlotte Damm
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Research interests
Projects:
Stone Age Demographics. PI, funded by the Norwegian Research Council 2017-2022. The project investigates demographics patterns in northern Norway, particularly western Finnmark during the period 9000-0 BC. some of the issue we focus on are fluctuations in population size, spatial distribution and the contemporaneity of dwellings at sites.
Research group:
SARG Leader of the Sub-Arctic Stone Age Research Group (2015-2023), which is a forum for Stone Age archaeology in Tromsø, and which collaborates with scholars at other institutions nationally and internationally.
Themes:
- Stone Age in Northern Fennoscandia; I work predominantly with the period 6000-1500 BC, that is from the end of the Early Stone Age/Mesolithic through the Late Stone Age/Neolithic and into the Early Metal period/Bronze Age. I am particularly interested in the contacts and regional differentiation across northern Norway, northern Sweden, Finland and northwestern Russia.
- Hunter-gatherer societies past and present; Knowledge on historical and ethnographic hunter-fisher-gatherers may provide pertinent insight about the significant variation also amongst prehistoric groups.
- Interregional and multicultural interaction; we are increasingly aware that there were marked differences in livelihood and practices also amongst hunter-gatherers in the past. This provides the background for both social and economic interaction between groups.
- Past social and cultural variation with a particular interest in gender and identity; to what extent and how are we able to study social relations in past societies, such as gender roles, kinship, power structures and ethnic differentiation?
- Prehistoric rituals and religion; material culture is a key element also in world views, beliefs and rituals. Is is therefore a relevant and intersting research field also for archaeology.
Teaching
ARK-1012 Fra Istidsjegere til jordbrukere. From Ice Age hunters to farmers. Introductory course to Stone Age and Bronze Age in Scandinavia. (1st year BA )
ARK-1035 Arctic Rock Art. Comprehensive course in hunter-gatherer rock art in Norway, Sweden, Finland and northwestern Russia and its interpretations. Taught in English and organised with international students in mind. BA-level.
ARK-3002 Archaeological perspectives on Hunter-Gatherers. MA-level
ARK-3026 Sentrale perspektiver på arkeologisk teori og metode. Central perspectives in archaeological theory and method. Obligatory course for MA-students. The last few years I have focussed on critical reflections on isotope analyses and aDNA, but also contributed to the theme environmental humanisme.
ARK-3027 Førhistorisk religion og ritualer. Pre-Christian religion and rituals. MA-course concerned with theoretical and methodological approaches to Sami pre-Christian religion as well as Stone Age rock art and rituals.
ARK-3900 Seminars linked to the the MA-dissertation, focussing on structure, argumentation, presentation of data, academic language etc.
ARK-8003 Vitenskapelige tekster og argumentasjon / Academic texts and argumentation. PhD-course. Taught in either Norwegian or English.
Member of research group
CV
Commissions of trust:
Editorial boards:
- Norwegian Archaeological Review (2013-2025)
- Fennoscandia Archaeologica
Current administrative positions:
- 2021-2025 Board, Archaeological Museum, University of Stavanger.
- 2023- Member, Research Ethics Committee, HSL-Faculty
- 2024-2027 Member of steering commitee for ARCHLAB