Håkon Glørstad

• Glørstad, Håkon (2026). Ravende om et ruvende ravfunn. Primitive tider. ISSN 1501-0430. Spesialutgave (2026): Espens festskrift. doi: https:/journals.uio.no/PT/article/view/13540. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  In the 1940s, a large lump of amber was found in the sea outside the island Tjøme in Vestfold Coun ty. The find is exceptional. A curious incident when the lump was exhibited at the Museum of Natural History in Oslo in the early 2000s, could indicate that the lump came from a wreck from the end of the Stone Age. A closer examination of the circumstances around the discovery of the amber lump makes this scenario unlikely. It is, however, an open question whether the amber came to the Oslo fjord by natural processes or by human transport as amber has been a precious raw material throughout prehistory and medieval times

• Glørstad, Håkon (2026). Climate change as cultural history. Museums & Social Issues. ISSN 1559-6893. doi: 10.1080/15596893.2026.2620810. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Climate change and global heating are issues of great concern in contemporary society. This article discusses how four museums of cultural history in north-western Europe have exhibited climate change. The analysis reveals that these museums rely on a classical philosophical perspective in their presentation of climate change, going back to the Platonian cardinal virtues. By applying such a perspective, the museums also indirectly take stand in the debate about the museum’s role in contemporary society and the relations between a historical and a contemporary perspective in museum outreach.

• Glørstad, Håkon (2025). Recent trends in the management of the archaeological heritage in Norway: National legal changes and Scandinavian influences. In Taloni, Maria (Eds.), Archaeological Heritage Management Processes and Models for Comparison Across Europe and Beyond. Oxbow Books. ISSN 9798888572245. p. 118–130. doi: https:/www.oxbowbooks.com/9798888572245/archaeological-heritage-management/. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  In Norway, heritage legislation goes back to 1905. The law has been revised on several occasions, most significantly in 1951 and 1978. Parallel to the developments in heritage legislation, the management structure and heritage organisation at large have also been refined where cultivation of different public roles to avoid conflicting interests has been important. In general, archaeological heritage management follows the normal model of public management in Norway. There are however some peculiarities. Several additional institutions have roles. Among those are the university museums with a substantial role in development-led archaeology. The university museums ensure the integration of development-led archaeology in a larger framework of knowledge production at the universities. A law proposal from 2025 suggests strengthening this aspect of archaeological heritage management and gives the university museums an even more important role in the future management system.

• Collet, Dominik; White, Sam; Bremer, Scott; Brenna, Brita; Glørstad, Håkon & Gundersen, Ingar Mørkestøl [Show all 13 contributors for this article] (2025). The Little Ice Age: The History and Future of a Traveling Concept. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change (WIRESs). ISSN 1757-7780. 16(5). doi: 10.1002/wcc.70023. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  First coined in the 1930s, with reference to glaciation in North America, the concept of the “Little Ice Age” has undergone continuous revisions. It has traveled academically from glaciology to climatology, archeology, history, and, most recently, climate communication. Over time, it has grown into one of the most discussed topics in the field of climate history and attracts both considerable scholarly interest and public attention. The term “Little Ice Age” has been criticized for oversimplifying climatic change, focusing too much on temperature, and excluding possible effects on humans. Yet it remains a powerful “boundary object” in interdisciplinary cooperation, science communication, and the “environing” of history. In this sense, it serves similar functions as other concepts in the field of human–environment interactions, such as “global warming” or “climate resilience.” This article investigates the contested history and the potential uses of the “Little Ice Age” concept. It explores how the concept encourages interdisciplinary consilience, global perspectives, and public debate. In summary, these aspects are connected and contrasted to the use of similar concepts, such as “climate resilience” and “tipping points” in the sphere of climate–society interactions. This article is categorized under: Climate, History, Society, Culture > Major Historical Eras Perceptions, Behavior, and Communication of Climate Change > Communication Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change > Learning from Cases and Analogies

• Glørstad, Håkon (2025). Pagonauts and Argonauts of the Nordic Neolithic – on the Introduction of the Plank-Built Boat in the Baltic. Journal of Maritime Archaeology. ISSN 1557-2285. doi: 10.1007/s11457-025-09446-6. Full text in Research Archive
• Glørstad, Håkon (2024). Om dateringen av den store Jellingsteinen. Viking - Norsk arkeologisk årbok. ISSN 0332-608X. 89, p. 61–100. doi: 10.5617/viking.12014. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  On the dating of the Great Jelling Stone The great Jelling stone has played a central role in Viking Age archaeology. Usually, it is taken for granted that the stone was erected by Harald Bluetooth in the period 960–986 AD. A reinterpretation of the different dateable elements, casts doubt on king Harald as the commissioner of this monument. Instead, it is suggested that bishop Absalon can have erected the stone at the end of the 12th century. Absalon was the mightiest statesman in Denmark under king Valdemar the Great (1146–1182) and his succeeding son Knut’s reign (1182–1202). He acted as a counsellor and deputy for king Knut. He had good reasons to raise such a stone as part of the consolidation of the Danish state. He also had enough resources and education to order the making of such a stone – a piece of many arts that required a scholarly attitude both to commission and understand

• Neumann, Iver Brynild & Glørstad, Håkon (2023). How old are the first European inter-polity systems? The case for the Bronze Age. Journal of International Relations and Development. ISSN 1408-6980. doi: 10.1057/s41268-023-00316-z. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  While International Relations scholars have recently excavated a number of systems previously unstudied by the discipline, few have discussed the emergence of fully-fledged systems in prehistory. Fully-fledged system have continuous multilinear (between more than two units at the time) and multidimensional (more than one institution in evidence) interaction at its core. Drawing mainly on extant archaeological research, we examine the European Bronze Age. We find that Indo-European in-migrating herders during the third millennium BCE established patron-led polities based on the steppe practices of the clients’ oath to his patron and the patron’s feast. A third practice, the guest/host relationships between patrons, anchored Europe’s first regional inter-polity systems. We also find that, due to an increase in interaction capacity caused by better boat building, horse-transport and the emergence of new technologies that made possible warfare at a distance, there systems were harbingers of a European-wide system of what we call Central Site Polities. We conclude that European inter-polity systems hail from the Bronze Age and suggest that the practices on which these systems rested are still, mutatis mutanda, with us. Further work on possible genealogical ties between the Central Site System and subsequent European systems awaits.

• Glørstad, Håkon (2023). Choosing the Right Weapons and Arenas - Comments to Elliott and Warren. Norwegian Archaeological Review. ISSN 0029-3652. 56(1), p. 103–105. doi: 10.1080/00293652.2023.2203189. Full text in Research Archive
• Neumann, Iver Brynild & Glørstad, Håkon (2022). Prehistorical International Relations: How, Why, What. Global Studies Quarterly. 2(4). doi: 10.1093/isagsq/ksac055. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Archaeologically produced knowledge of pre-history has grown to a point where International Relations (IR) may begin to incorporate it in their own work. In this article, we try to facilitate this process by introducing IR scholars to archaeology’s material data and ways of thinking about it. New types of systems units such as households and kinship emerged in pre-history and had effects on temporality and territoriality as well as knock-on effects on institutions such as war and trade. If we understand the origins of these phenomena better, we are better equipped to understand how they work at the present time. Focussing on a key topic in IR, namely systems emergence, we splice archaeological and IR approaches to systems. Four key factors for systems emerge appear: competition for resources, interaction capacity, social imitation and stable food resources. We then show how these factors were at work in the two earliest proto-systems to be found in Europe, namely House Polity Proto-Systems (9.000-4.500 BCE) and Segmentary Polity Proto-Systems (4.500-2.500 BCE). They are still active. We conclude that when studies of pre-historic systems, institutions and practices point up deep structural factors like, we should not expect them to lose their relevance any time soon.

• Solheim, Steinar; Glørstad, Håkon & Persson, Per (2020). Culture and context of the Scandinavian Neolithic. In Gron, Kurt J.; Sørensen, Lasse & Rowley-Conwy, Peter (Ed.), Farmers at the Frontier: A Pan-European Perspective.. Oxbow Books. ISSN 9781789251401. p. 363–379. doi: 10.2307/j.ctv13gvh1g.21. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  In the 1990s, Christopher Prescott (1996) asked if there really was a Neolithic in Norway, by questioning the meaning of the term ‘Neolithic’. Prescott’s main point was to critically examine when farming practices were integrated in the region’s prehistory. He stated that in Norwegian research the Neolithic was treated as an economic stage in the evolutionary cultural development, but was defined by typological and chronological traits. As direct evidence for early farming was, and still is, scarce, focus was given to finds of artefacts that could be connected to farming cultures in southern Scandinavia. Pottery and polished flint axes were...

• Glørstad, Håkon (2020). Regionreformen og det akademiske perpetuum. Primitive tider. ISSN 1501-0430. p. 141–148. doi: 10.5617/pt.8398. Full text in Research Archive
• Glørstad, Håkon; Gundersen, Jostein; Kvalø, Frode; Nymoen, Pål; Simpson, David & Skar, Birgitte (2020). Norway: Submerged Stone Age from a Norwegian Perspective. In Bailey, Geoff. N; Galanidou, Nena; Peeters, Hans; Jöns, Hauke & Mennenga, Moritz (Ed.), The Archaeology of Europe`s Drowned Landscapes.. Springer Nature. ISSN 9783030373672. p. 125–143. Full text in Research Archive
• Arwill-Nordbladh, Elisabeth; Glørstad, Håkon; Kristiansen, Kristian; Stutz, Liv Nilsson; Ravn, Mads & Demoule, Jean-Paul (2019). L'archéologie en question: les pays nordiques. actualité en histoire de l'art. ISSN 1777-7852. p. 19–44. doi: 10.4000/perspective.12521. Full text in Research Archive
• Glørstad, Håkon (2017). Reformen av kulturminnevernet og det politiske landskapet Noen betraktninger om estetikk, endetidsfortellinger, kanon og ressursavsavn. Primitive tider. ISSN 1501-0430. 18, p. 7–13. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Reformene av kulturminnevernet har fulgt en forholdsvis konsekvent linje siden 1950-tallet. Dersom den forestående regionsreformen med tilhørende endringer i kulturminnevernet følger den sammen linjen, er det grunn til å tro at omorganiseringen kan bli vellykket, skape bedre forvaltning og ikke minst flere arbeidsplasser. Endringer i den myke politikken utenfor kulturminnevernet kan imidlertid bidra til at utviklingen får en annen og mindre ønskelig retning. Nøkkelen ligger i oppfatningen av ressursforvaltning. Kulturminnevernet forvalter i dag en kunnskapsressurs. I framtiden kan dette erstattes av kapitalforvaltning i randsonen av et estetisk marked. Hvordan vernemyndighetene posisjonerer seg i forhold til denne utviklingen vil også kunne påvirke retningen og resultatet av den forestående regionsreformen.

• Apel, Jan; Glørstad, Håkon; Knutsson, Helena & Knutsson, Kjel (2017). The Early Settlement of Northern Europe: Technology and Communication. In Glørstad, Håkon; Knutsson, Kjel; Knutsson, Helena & Apel, Jan (Ed.), The Technology of Early Settlement in Northern Europe: Transmission of Knowledge and Culture The Early Settlement of Northern Europe, Vol 2. Equinox Publishing. ISSN 9781781795163. p. 1–22. doi: 10.1558/equinox.32735.Dec2017. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The first part presents an introduction to the methodology of chaîne opératoire from an evolutionary point of view. The aim of this section is to give the reader a framework for understanding one of the main theoretical challenges behind this book: how do cultures persist and evolve? The key argument is that analysis of the technological developments in the societies in question gives direct access to the fundamental principles of cultural stability and development. The second part of this introduction presents a synthesis of the culture-historical results from the articles presented in this book. Here, original hypotheses, challenging previous theories about the early settlement of North West Europe, are advanced, and a refined understanding of the cultural and historical trajectory is presented. The main discovery is that the colonization process of Northern Europe after the last Ice Age was a multi-faceted process, where different groups originating from south-western and north-eastern refugia contributed to the social and cultural developments in Early Holocene Northern Europe. The third part of this introduction tries to relate the analysis of technology as a means of studying society in general to a wider theoretical framework of the epistemological tradition. The concept of techniques, as defined by Marcel Mauss, constitutes a framework for a full-scale social analysis of present and prehistoric societies.

• Glørstad, Håkon; Gundersen, Jostein & Kvalø, Frode (2017). The Northern Coasts of Doggerland and the Colonisation of Norway at the End of the Ice Age. In Geoffery, Bailey; Harff, Jan & Sakellariou, Dimitris (Ed.), Under the Sea: Archaeology and Palaeolandscapes of the Continental Shelf. Springer Publishing Company. ISSN 9783319531601. p. 285–304. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-53160-1_19. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Due to the need for a national strategy for offshore wind farms in Norway, a small and preliminary joint archaeological and geological research project was conducted. The aim of the investigation was to determine the possibilities for human occupation in the southernmost parts of the Norwegian sector of the North Sea during the Late Glacial and Preboreal periods. The research was in the shallowest area of the Norwegian sector of the continental shelf, south of the Norwegian Trench. By analysing 3D seismic reflection data, several layers with traces of drainage systems and other landforms could be identified in the sediments. These features were, however, mainly situated deep down below the surface of the seabed, and covered by more than 100 m of younger sediments. Their age is therefore uncertain, even if the depth alone indicates that they are much older than the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). A sediment core through the shallow sea-bed sediments (0–13 m below present sea floor) was analysed for environmental and chronological data. The youngest observed transition, from glacio-lacustrine to marine sediments, was dated to approximately 14,000 cal. BC or the Older Dryas. This indicates that this part of Doggerland was not dry land after the LGM, but was first covered by an ice-dammed lake and later inundated by saltwater from the Atlantic Ocean. The analysis also indicates that the distance from Doggerland to Norway, in the periods when people began to inhabit southern Scandinavia, was far too long to be crossed by boats or on ice. This makes the western coast of Sweden and Bohuslän the most likely bridgehead in the colonisation of Norway. Humans arrived at the Norwegian shores first when a safe and sheltered passage was created between Bohuslän and the Oslo Fjord area, at approximately 9300 cal. BC.

• Glørstad, Ann Zanette Tsigaridas; Glørstad, Håkon & Melheim, Anne Lene (2016). Comparative Perspectives on Past Colonisation, Maritime Interaction and Cultural Integration — An Introduction. In Melheim, Anne Lene; Glørstad, Håkon & Glørstad, Ann Zanette Tsigaridas (Ed.), Comparative Perspectives on Past Colonisation, Maritime Interaction and Cultural Integration. Equinox Publishing. ISSN 9781781790489. p. 1–15. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Overview of volume’s scope and contents. The volume springs from two events. One was the session ‘Moving on—colonization as a social process’, organised by Håkon Glørstad, Jarmo Kankaanpää and Ole Grøn at the European Association of Archaeologists conference in Helsinki in September 2012. The other was a conference in Oslo in December 2012, ‘Past mirrors: interaction and integration in the North Sea region in the Bronze and Viking ages’, which was held jointly by the Nordic Graduate School in Archaeology and the Museum of Cultural History in Oslo, organised by Zanette Glørstad and Lene Melheim. Both sessions encouraged theoretical and methodological discussion about the effects and conditions of human mobility, and the material aspects of cultural encounters in past contexts, prehistoric as well as historical. The authors of the current volume have been invited to share their viewpoints and observations on the viability of cross-period perspectives, as well as on the future of the use of anthropological and historical analogies in archae- ology. The outcome of using such a wide spectrum of perspectives is commented upon in an epilogue by a prudent advocate of comparative methodologies, Matthew Spriggs. The volume is divided into three parts: (1) Colonisation, examining how to approach and understand various processes of colonisation in prehistory and history; (2) Maritime Interaction, focusing on the maritime environment and the signi cance of the sea as both a physical obstacle and a highway, as well as a mental and ideological threshold; (3) Cultural Integration, explored as a topic in the wake of migrations or as an aspect of societies with a strong maritime focus.

• Prescott, Christopher & Glørstad, Håkon (2016). En gullalder I norsk arkeologi? Samtiden. ISSN 0036-3928. p. 18–26. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Arkeologifaget er midt i en spennende og dynamisk vekstepoke. Denne utviklingen (særlig i løpet av de siste 15 årene) bygger både på nye resultater og data, metodeutvikling, teori og fortolkning, men gjenspeiler også nye rammebetingelser, internasjonalisering, tverrfaglighet og økt offentlig interesse for faget. Skandinavisk arkeologi har i over 200 år vært en sentral premissleverandør til den internasjonale utviklingen i arkeologifaget, og er sentral i dagens kunnskapseksplosjon. Norsk arkeologi er en del av denne utviklingen. Et felt der dette sees tydelig er studier av det tredje årtusen f.Kr. i Norge, med innvandring, språkskifte, storstilte samfunnsendringer, innføring av ikke bare en jordbrukskultur, men en avansert gårdsinstitusjon, gryende bruk av metaller, integrasjon i europeiske nettverk og regelmessig sjøreiser over åpne havstrekninger. En rivende utvikling til tross, det er fremdeles mange uløste faglige utfordringer, for eksempel å sikre kulturminnevernets rolle i framtidig forskning, gjøre kulturarven til noe som tilhører alle på tvers av etniske og sosiale skillelinjer og utvikle avanserte, tverrfaglige laboratorier for ny kunnskapsvekst. Nettopp utforskingen av det tredje årtusen viser behovet for på ny å utforske de politiske konsekvenser av de arkeologiske kunnskapene og bidra tydeligere i debatten om samtidens presserende spørsmål: klimaendring, folkevandringer og kulturmøter og -konflikter.

• Glørstad, Håkon (2016). Deglaciation, sea-level change and the Holocene colonization of Norway. Geological Society Special Publication. ISSN 0305-8719. 411(1), p. 9–25. doi: 10.1144/SP411.7. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The Norwegian coast facing the Atlantic Ocean was ice free as early as the Allerød oscillation in the late Pleistocene. The landscape was probably habitable for humans. It has, therefore, been assumed by several scholars that this coastline was visited or inhabited from the Late Glacial period onwards. In part, this argumentation is based on the presumed proximity of the Norwegian mainland and Doggerland, which existed between present-day Denmark and Great Britain because of a much lower global sea level. The aim of this paper is to examine the 14C dates available from the oldest Norwegian settlement sites, and to compare them to the Quaternary processes of deglaciation and sea-level change. The hypothesis is advanced that humans did not settle in present-day Norway before a sheltering passage of islands and peninsulas had developed between the Swedish west coast (Bohusla¨n) and the Oslo area. This happened in the second half of the Preboreal period, at approximately 9.3 cal ka BC, or in the final centuries of the tenth millenniun BC.

• Glørstad, Håkon (2016). Trends in Scandinavian Cultural Heritage Management in the 2000s. In Novaković, Predrag (Eds.), Recent Developments in Preventive Archaeology in Europe: Proceedings of the 22nd EAA Meeting in Vilnius, 2016. Ljubljana University Press. ISSN 9789612378875. p. 81–91. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Abstract Since the 1990s Scandinavian countries have been adjusting the way they manage their cultural heritage and development-led archaeology. They align it based on the nations’ political beliefs, as well as pan-European legislation. Out of the Scandinavian countries Sweden has implemented the most radical and modernistic reforms. Although it is unclear whether these reforms have been entirely successful, many Scandinavian countries continue to introduce change. This paper addresses some of the new trends, and analyses their effect on Scandinavian archaeology as a scientific discipline. Theoretical trends that undermine the importance of humans usually enhance the role political directives play in shaping Scandinavian archaeology. Archaeological engagement with politics on a national level is of major importance for the future of European Archaeology. Keywords: Scandinavian archaeology, cultural heritage management, development-led archaeology, privatisation of archaeology

• Glørstad, Håkon & Solheim, Steinar (2015). The Hamremoen enclosure in southeastern Norway. An exotic glimpse into the process of Neolithization. Acta Archaeologica Lundensia Series in 8. ISSN 0065-0994. 65, p. 139–152. Full text in Research Archive
• Prescott, Christopher & Glørstad, Håkon (2015). Expanding 3rd millennium transformations: Norway. In Martínez, Maria Pilar Prieto & Salanova, Laure (Ed.), The Bell Beaker Transition in Europe: Mobility and local evolution during the 3rd millennium BC. Oxbow Books. ISSN 9781782979272. p. 77–87. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The transformation of coastal and southerly Norway to an agricultural society has long been a theme of interest for Nordic prehistorians, and has commonly been interpreted as the outcome of a long drawn process of gradual transformation of hunter-gatherer societies. In the course of the last 20 years there has been an interpretative shift that instead emphasises a rapid transformation in the mid-3rd millennium, around 2400 BC. Agricultural evolution as a prime driver in prehistory has been abandoned in favour of a suite of related factors that include the establishment of the farm institution, but also technologies, expanding maritime communication, ideology and hierarchical social institutions. The Bell Beaker phenomenon is increasingly regarded as the driving force behind the dramatic transformations of large tracts of Scandinavia. Slettabø in southwestern Norway, with its potsherds, bifacial points, osteological data and maritime orientation, is a referential site in this regard. Arne Skjølsvold excavated the site in the early 1960s, and interpreted it within 􀁄􀀃􀁉􀁕􀁄􀁐􀁈􀁚􀁒􀁕􀁎􀀃􀁒􀁉􀀃􀁓􀁕􀁒􀁗􀁕􀁄􀁆􀁗􀁈􀁇􀀃􀁏􀁒􀁆􀁄􀁏􀀃􀁄􀁊􀁕􀁒􀀐􀁓􀁄􀁖􀁗􀁒􀁕􀁄􀁏􀀃􀁇􀁈􀁙􀁈􀁏􀁒􀁓􀁐􀁈􀁑􀁗􀀃􀁌􀁑􀀃􀁋􀁘􀁑􀁗􀁈􀁕􀀐􀁊􀁄􀁗􀁋􀁈􀁕􀁈􀁕􀀃􀁊􀁕􀁒􀁘􀁓􀁖􀀃􀁘􀁑􀁇􀁈􀁕􀀃􀁗􀁋􀁈􀀃􀁌􀁑􀃀􀁘􀁈􀁑􀁆􀁈􀀃􀁒􀁉􀀃 various Neolithic cultures. The present article re-evaluates stratigraphy and chronology, and outlines the site’s maritime character. Slettabø layer II is seen in context with mid-3rd millennium sites in western Scandinavia, e.g. in Jutland, but also sites to the north like the Mjeltehaugen grave monument with decorated slabs and the Skrivarhelleren rock shelter in the uplands. Interpreting data is based on social anthropological perspectives and a fundamentally historical approach.

• Glørstad, Håkon & Sundström, Lars (2014). Hamremoen — an enclosure for the hunter-gatherers? In Hinz, Martin; Furholt, Martin; Mischka, Doris; Noble, Gordon & Olausson, Deborah (Ed.), Landscapes, Histories and Societies in the Northern European Neolithic. Frühe Monumentalität und soziale Differenzierung 4. Verlag Dr. Rudolf Habelt GMBH. ISSN 9783774938823. p. 29–48. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This article presents an Early Neolithic site from Hamremoen in Vest-Agder county in southern Norway, excavated in 2010 and 2011. he excavation revealed an enclosure which resembles some of the Neolithic enclosures of the Early and middle Neolithic Funnel Beaker Culture (FBC). It is dated to the Early Neolithic, 3900–3600 cal BC. Vest-Agder, or the southernmost parts of Norway, are areas not normally included in the discussions about the FBC. Consequently, the excavation results from Hamremoen indicate that the FBC-inluenced areas were much larger than most scholars seem to think, stretching towards the North Sea coast of Norway. he site can be interpreted as a monument created to materialize a new social order or new ideas. Such a construction is very diferent from the material culture of the Mesolithic in this area. So far, a proper understanding of the cultural environment of the Hamremoen site is lacking. he nature of the FBC complex in Norway is also disputed. Still, the site could be of general importance for understanding the FBC complex. It represents a possibility to study Early Neolithic monuments and the process of Neolithization independently of the substantial agrarian agenda that most oten deines our understanding of the FBC.

• Glørstad, Håkon (2014). Fritid og frihet - fra steinalderens ståsted. In Gullbekk, Svein Harald (Eds.), Ja, vi elsker frihet. Dreyer Forlag A/S. ISSN 9788282650939. p. 218–227. Full text in Research Archive
• Glørstad, Håkon (2013). Where are the Missing Boats? The Pioneer Settlement of Norway as Long-Term History. Norwegian Archaeological Review. ISSN 0029-3652. 46(1), p. 57–80. doi: 10.1080/00293652.2013.777095. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  During the last ten years there has been a growing interest in understanding the earliest settlement of northern Europe. In Norway, specialized marine adaptation and high mobility based on traffic with seafaring skin boats are key elements in a new synthesis of the colonization process. This article addresses the process of colonization from a perspective of long-term history, analysing the record in an archaeological retrospective perspective. Such an analysis is intended to challenge and discuss some of the presumptions giving an implicit framework to the current state of knowledge. The main argument is that the long-term structures of Mesolithic settlement and subsistence in Norway are key for understanding the colonization of this landscape. Key elements in such a discussion are the nature of the early Mesolithic transport and communication systems. It is reasonable to question the range of mobility and the seagoing quality of the vessels. The sites preserved show traces of boat production that resembles the rest of the Mesolithic. This touches upon a more fundamental question concerning the status of the archaeological record as source material for understanding human societies and history.

• Glørstad, Håkon (2013). To follow knowledge like a sinking star - Reply to Comments from Sveinung Bang- Andersen, Hein B. Bjerck, Clive Bonsall, Catriona Pickard, Peter Groom, Vicki Cummings, Berit Valentin Eriksen, Ingrid Fuglestvedt, Peter Rowley-Conwy, Roger Wikell and Mattias Pettersson. Norwegian Archaeological Review. ISSN 0029-3652. 46(1), p. 101–120. doi: 10.1080/00293652.2013.777104. Full text in Research Archive
• Sørensen, Mikkel; Rankama, Tuija; Kankaanpää, Jarmo; Knutsson, Kjel; Knutsson, Helena & Melvold, Stine Annette [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (2013). The First Eastern Migrations of People and Knowledge into Scandinavia: Evidence from Studies of Mesolithic Technology, 9th-8th Millennium BC. Norwegian Archaeological Review. ISSN 0029-3652. 46(1), p. 19–56. doi: 10.1080/00293652.2013.770416. Full text in Research Archive
• Glørstad, Håkon (2013). Innledende betraktninger om forholdet mellom forskning og forvaltning i norsk arkeologi. Primitive tider. ISSN 1501-0430. p. 95–100. Full text in Research Archive
• Glørstad, Håkon & Kallhovd, Karl (2013). The Allure of Bureaucracy: Cultural Heritage Management and the Universities in Norway. In Biehl, Peter F. & Prescott, Christopher (Ed.), Heritage in the context of Globalization. Europe and the Americas. Springer. ISSN 9781461460763. p. 27–27. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4614-6077-0_3. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  In Norway, cultural heritage management is still an integrated part of the universities. Five university museums are responsible for all development-led excavations. Thus, cultural heritage management is strongly inspired by the “humboldtian” idea that research, education, and management should constitute an integrated system of knowledge production. Such a system got its advantages but also its challenges concerning balancing the different tasks, secure sufficient academic growth, and internationalization. Today, the public agenda seem to disfavor cultural historical museums in general and university museums in particular. Their engagement in heritage management seem to be an outdated system. In this article we argue that even though the Norwegian system seems exotic, even archaic, it still got some important advantages. The holistic philosophy behind could be promoted as a viable solution for heritage management in general and a revitalizing of archaeological collections as source material for research and education.

• Glørstad, Håkon (2012). En time forut for sin tid : om kroppen, arkeologien og Anders Nummedal. Primitive tider. ISSN 1501-0430. 14, p. 59–75. Full text in Research Archive
• Glørstad, Håkon (2012). Traktbegerkulturen, kysten og det tidligste landbruket - Et problem for pereferien? In Solberg, Annette; Stålesen, Jon Atle & Prescott, Christopher (Ed.), Neolitikum. Nye resultater fra forskning og forvaltning. Nicolay Arkeologisk Tidsskrift. p. 7–18. Full text in Research Archive
• Glørstad, Håkon (2012). Traktbegerkulturen i Norge - Kysten, jakten og det tidligste jordbruket. In Kaul, Flemming & Sørensen, Lasse (Ed.), Agrarsamfundenes ekspansion i nord. Nationalmuseet. ISSN 9788776021962. p. 44–56. Full text in Research Archive
• Glørstad, Håkon (2012). Steinalderkjøkkenet, eller: Da mennesket spiste fisk, men drømte om elg. In Ugelvik, Thomas & Neumann, Iver Brynild (Ed.), Mat/Viten: Tekster fra kunnskapens kjøkken. Universitetsforlaget. ISSN 9788215018249. p. 19–40. Full text in Research Archive
• Glørstad, Håkon (2012). Universitetsmuseum – Forskningsmuseum Museene i den arkeologiske kulturminneforvaltningen i Norge. Arkæologisk Forum. ISSN 1399-5545. p. 7–12. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  I dag er det en utbredt oppfatning at de kulturhistoriske museenes omfattende samlingsoppbygging hører fortiden til. Fagfolk spør seg om museenes samlinger har noen betydning som forskningsmateriale i samfunns- og kulturvitenskapene. Kulturhistorisk museum ved Universitetet i Oslo har tatt denne utfordringen på alvor. Museet står for en stor del av de arkeologiske undersøkelsene i forbindelse med samfunnsutbygging i Norge. Dette arbeidet er gjort til del av en kontinuerlig kunnskapsprosess, der forskningskompetansen som universitetene representerer, er en vital del av kulturminneforvaltningen. De arkeologiske utgravningene må forstås som del av en større kunnskapsforvaltning, der nettopp tilgangen til de rike datasettene i de store museenes samlinger samt universitetenes forskningskompetanse, er nøkkelen til en fortsatt forsvarlig utvikling. Bare når samlingene og samlingsoppbyggingen er del av aktive forskningsmiljøer vil de også for framtiden være en verdifull del av samfunnets kulturarv og hukommelse.

• Prescott, Christopher & Glørstad, Håkon (2011). Introduction:becoming European. In Prescott, Christopher & Glørstad, Håkon (Ed.), Becoming European: The transformation of third millennium Northern and Western Europe. Oxbow Books. ISSN 9781842174500. p. 1–11. doi: 10.2307/j.ctvh1dq3m.5. Full text in Research Archive
• Glørstad, Håkon (2011). Historical ideal types and the transition to the Late Neolithic in South Norway. In Prescott, Christopher & Glørstad, Håkon (Ed.), Becoming European: The transformation of third millennium Northern and Western Europe. Oxbow Books. ISSN 9781842174500. p. 82–99. doi: 10.2307/j.ctvh1dq3m.12. Full text in Research Archive
• Glørstad, Håkon & Kallhovd, Karl (2011). Rescue archaeology initiated by research – a contradiction in terms? In Blancquaert, Geertrui; Malrain, François; Stäuble, Harald & Vanmoerkerke, Jan (Ed.), Understanding the Past: A Matter of Surface-Area. Archaeopress. ISSN 9781407307497. p. 113–127. Full text in Research Archive
• Glørstad, Håkon (2011). The Nøstvet Axe. In Davis, Vin & Edmonds, Mark (Ed.), Stone Axe Studies III. Oxbow Books. ISSN 9781842174210. p. 21–36. doi: 10.2307/j.ctvh1dv6v.5. Full text in Research Archive
• Glørstad, Håkon (2010). Housing and hunting: Technological reproduction in the Late Mesolithic Nøstvet region of eastern Norway and western Sweden. In Barndon, Randi; Engevik, Asbjørn & Øye, Ingvild (Ed.), The Archaeology of Regional Technologies. Case Studies from the Palaeolithic to the Age of Vikings. Edwin Mellen Press. ISSN 9780773436862. p. 89–108. Full text in Research Archive
• Glørstad, Håkon (2010). Comments on quality from the ivory tower. Current Swedish Archaeology. ISSN 1102-7355. 18, p. 31–36. Full text in Research Archive
• Glørstad, Håkon (2009). The Northern Province? The Neolithisation of Eastern Norway. In Glørstad, Håkon & Prescott, Christopher (Ed.), Neolithisation as if history mattered. Processes of neolithisation in North-Western Europe. Bricoleur Press. ISSN 9789185411092. p. 135–168. Full text in Research Archive
• Glørstad, Håkon & Prescott, Christopher (2009). Neolithisation as if history mattered. In Glørstad, Håkon & Prescott, Christopher (Ed.), Neolithisation as if history mattered. Processes of neolithisation in North-Western Europe. Bricoleur Press. ISSN 9789185411092. p. 9–22. Full text in Research Archive
• Glørstad, Håkon (2008). En nisses tale for akademiet. Primitive tider. ISSN 1501-0430. 2007/2008(10), p. 95–108. Full text in Research Archive
• Glørstad, Håkon & Prescott, Christopher (2008). Becoming European? The transformation of third-millennium Europe and the trajectory into the second millennium BC. (session report). The European Archaeologist. ISSN 1022-0135. Full text in Research Archive

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• Taloni, Maria & Glørstad, Håkon (2025). Archaeological Heritage Management Processes and Models for Comparison Across Europe and Beyond. Oxbow Books. ISBN 9798888572245. 256 p. doi: https:/www.oxbowbooks.com/9798888572245/archaeological-heritage-management/. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Examines diverse national and local approaches to archaeological heritage management, highlighting case studies, best practices, and future challenges. Archaeological Heritage Management renews the important global debate on the organization, management and legislation of archaeological heritage. No longer confined to centralized state control, contemporary approaches are collaborative – engaging communities, private individuals, museums, and local authorities, with the knowledge that there is no one simple solution, valid for everyone and forever. This volume, based on a major session at the 30th European Association of Archaeologists Annual Meeting (Rome, August 2024), contains contributions from experts across a range of backgrounds, generations and career stages, exploring archaeological policies, participatory best practices, and the increasing need to involve professionals in the decision-making process. It offers a narrated journey that begins in Europe, continues in the broader Euro-Asian continent, and concludes in Latin America, through multiple nations and continents and their historical-archaeological heritage and their peculiarities, addressing not only the structural and political aspect of functioning, but also local communities. More than a collection of case studies, this book is a call for a shared, interdisciplinary, and international dialogue on managing the past in a connected, collaborative future and is a key source of information for archaeological and heritage management practitioners and those who care about heritage across Europe and beyond.

• Glørstad, Håkon; Knutsson, Kjel; Knutsson, Helena & Apel, Jan (2017). The Technology of Early Settlement in Northern Europe: Transmission of Knowledge and Culture The Early Settlement of Northern Europe, Vol 2. Equinox Publishing. ISBN 9781781795163. 310 p. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This volume explores technology and communication among the early settlements of Northern Europe. The articles discuss case-studies and present overviews from the Early and Middle Mesolithic of Northern Europe. Special emphasis is placed on the spatial and temporal transmission of knowledge and culture. This subject addresses themes such as the transmission of specialised knowledge, the generative transmission of knowledge, the understanding of technology as somatic or incorporated culture in human society and the role of pedagogies and teaching in cultural sustainment and transformation. Other papers discuss the relation between demography and technological developments, as well as the natural and cultural context for the transmission of culture. The understanding of the transmission of technology is, again, closely interrelated to the nature and efficiency of social networks of contact and their social and physical framework.

• Glørstad, Håkon (2017). The Early Settlement of Northern Europe, Volumes 1-3. Equinox Publishing. ISBN 9781781796023. 980 p. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This three-volume project presents current knowledge and updated research on the first phases of human settlement in Northern Europe. The temporal focus is on the first millennia of the Holocene and the area of special interest is the Scandinavian countries, the Baltic, and the northern parts of Poland, Germany and Great Britain. The area was among the latest colonised by humans after the Ice Age, thus the archaeological record gives an extraordinary detailed insight into the colonisation and socialisation of post-glacial Europe. During the last decades, the archaeology of this region has made major progress in methodological developments, collecting new data sets and in interdisciplinary research. The three volumes of The early Settlement of Northern Europe will provide these new results, organised according to three major themes. The books are sold as a set at a discount and individual volumes are also available separately.

• Glørstad, Håkon; Knutsson, Kjel Sten Åke; Knutsson, Helena & Apel, Jan (2017). The Technology of Early Settlement in Northern Europe Transmission of Knowledge and Culture (Volume 2). Equinox Publishing. ISBN 9781781795163. 224 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Melheim, Anne Lene; Glørstad, Håkon & Glørstad, Ann Zanette Tsigaridas (2016). Comparative Perspectives on Past Colonisation, Maritime Interaction and Cultural Integration. Equinox Publishing. ISBN 9781781790489. 256 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Prescott, Christopher & Glørstad, Håkon (2011). Becoming European: The transformation of third millennium Northern and Western Europe. Oxbow Books. ISBN 9781842174500. 208 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Glørstad, Håkon & Prescott, Christopher (2010). Neolithisation as if history mattered : processes of Neolithisation in North-Western Europe. Bricoleur Press. ISBN 9789185411092. 331 p. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Oppgitt trykkeår 2009, utgitt 2010./tøf

• Glørstad, Håkon (2010). The Structure and History of the Late Mesolithic Societies in the Oslo Fjord Area 6300-3800 BC. Bricoleur Press. ISBN 9789185411191. 328 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Glørstad, Håkon & Prescott, Christopher (2009). Neolithisation as if history mattered. Processes of neolithisation in North-Western Europe. Bricoleur Press. ISBN 9789185411092. 330 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Glørstad, Håkon (2008). Nære ting fra en fjern fortid samfunnsliv i steinalderen for 7600 år siden. Universitetsforlaget. ISBN 9788215013824. 153 p. Full text in Research Archive

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• Glørstad, Håkon (2026). Eldgamle spor: Her skal arkeologene gå grundig til verks. doi: https:/www.geita.no/kultur/eldgamle-spor-her-skal-arkeologene-ga-grundig-til-verks/. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Artikkelen beskriver hvor prosjektet skal undersøke i år på Gjerstad.

• Glørstad, Håkon; Kairiss, Andris; Benetti, Francesca; Gransard-Desmond, Jean-Olivier & Carman, John (2025). Legal protection of archaeological heritage in times of crisis and social transformation. doi: https:/www.e-a-a.org/EAA2025/EAA2025/Programme_tabs/Sessions.aspx. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Climate change and warfare, as well as the development of citizen science have recently created a whole new awareness of challenges and shortcomings in heritage management and legislation in Europe, and the development of citizen science is one of the opportunities archaeologists can harness to face them. These macropolitical and geopolitical changes coincide with an explicit political interest in the archaeological heritage as means for creating a sense of belonging, a meaningful life for citizens, and an imperative of democratize knowledge through participation in knowledge production. A sense of belonging through engagement with the heritage can be understood as both a response to current crises and an unease with the traditional professionalization of heritage management to manage and distribute knowledge of the past. The aim of this round table discussion is to highlight the current challenges and answers to those concerning the juridical management of archaeological heritage. A pan-European overview of the situation and a common platform for establishing best practice and policies may benefit the archaeological communities and make a fruitful starting point for a coordinated response to today’s challenges. Furthermore, the intersection of cultural heritage with social justice issues cannot be overlooked. This inclusivity not only enriches our understanding of heritage but also strengthens community bonds and fosters resilience in the face of adversity. The discussion will be introduced by three short key notes on the ways current international and national laws approach: • Cultural heritage and climate change • Cultural heritage in conflicts and wars • Cultural heritage, citizen science and the democratization of knowledge By exploring these themes, we intend to cultivate a more holistic approach to heritage management that acknowledges its complexities and embraces collaboration across disciplines and communities and to develop appropriate regulation to be of benefit to archaeology and archaeologists, for promotion by the Association.

• Glørstad, Håkon; Guttormsen, Torgrim Sneve & Bertocci, Stefano (2025). Session 5: Heritage in Context: Landscapes, Integrated Management, and Socio-Economic Dimensions. doi: https:/www.heritageresearch-hub.eu/event/jpi-cultural-heritage-dissemination-event-to-take-place-in-november/. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This session examines how tangible and intangible heritage is embedded within, and interacts with, broader urban and rural landscapes. This roundtable will discuss strategies for integrating heritage into planning and development, holistic management approaches, and the socio-economic dimensions of heritage, including its role in tourism, local economies, and cultural policy.

• Spangen, Marte; Neumann, Iver Brynild; Glørstad, Håkon; Melheim, Anne Lene; Solheim, Steinar & Lund, Julie (2025). Hvorfor vil Trump styre fortiden? p. 15–15. doi: https:/eavis.dagsavisen.no/p/dagsavisen/10-09-2025/r/8/14-15/6366/1993129. Full text in Research Archive
• Spangen, Marte; Neumann, Iver Brynild; Glørstad, Håkon; Lund, Julie; Melheim, Anne Lene & Solheim, Steinar (2025). Livsfarlige tider for vår felles hukommelse. Full text in Research Archive
• Glørstad, Håkon (2025). De norske universitetsmuseenes rolle og betydning. In Aslaksen, Knut Olav; Tandberg, Anne Helene S.; Rio, Knut; Wrigglesworth, Melanie; Fossen, Haakon & Årrestad, Kari Klæboe (Ed.), Årbok for Universitetsmuseet 2025: "200 år". Universitetsmuseet i Bergen. ISSN 9788278870617. p. 211–226. Full text in Research Archive
• Glørstad, Håkon (2024). Haakon Shetelig 1922 : Primitive tider i Norge: en oversigt over stenalderen : John Griegs forlag, Bergen. Primitive tider. ISSN 1501-0430. 26, p. 109–112. Full text in Research Archive
• Glørstad, Håkon (2024). Vikingskip og vikingtidsmuseum – utfordrende verdensarv på Bygdøy. Årbok / Det norske videnskaps-akademi. ISSN 0332-6209. 2022, p. 159–170. Full text in Research Archive
• Glørstad, Håkon (2023). Book Review: Doggerland - Lost World under the North Sea. Luc Amkreutz and Sasja van der Vaart-Verschoof, eds. Leiden: Sidestone Press. Journal of Anthropological Research. ISSN 0091-7710. 79(3), p. 427–429. doi: 10.1086/725745. Full text in Research Archive
• Glørstad, Håkon (2022). Book review: Knut Ivar Austvoll: Seaways to Complexity: A Study of Sociopolitical Organisation Along the Coast of Northwestern Scandinavia in the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age. Journal of Maritime Archaeology. ISSN 1557-2285. 17, p. 333–335. doi: 10.1007/s11457-022-09328-1. Full text in Research Archive
• Glørstad, Håkon (2022). Populistic Exhibitions or Dedicated to a New Elite of Consumers? Current Swedish Archaeology. ISSN 1102-7355. 30, p. 45–50. doi: 10.37718/CSA.2022.05. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Keynote comment

• Hauer, David; Glørstad, Håkon & Carlsen, Marianne Rustad (2022). Praktsledene fra Osebergfunnet flyttes. [TV]. nrk. Full text in Research Archive
• Hauan, Marit Anne; Achen, Henrik von; Glørstad, Håkon & Hausken, Eli Kristine Økland (2021). https://www.uib.no/aktuelt/147440/universitetsmuseet-brobygger-mellom-fortid-og-n%C3%A5tid-mellom-akademia-og-samfunn. Full text in Research Archive
• Spangen, Marte & Glørstad, Håkon (2018). Arkeologi på rappen 1-7: Håkon Glørstad om endetidsfortellinger og kulturminnevern. [Internet]. Podcast på Soundcloud. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Arkeologi på rappen, sesong 1, episode 7 (julespesial): Enden er nær! Håkon Glørstad, arkeolog og direktør på Kulturhistorisk museum, går i dybden på hvordan regionreformen kan komme til å endre kulturminnevernet og hvordan dette henger sammen med endetidsfortellinger og andre intellektuelle strømninger. Intervjuer: Marte Spangen. Teknisk bistand: Kjell-Erik Jonasson, Krokom Radio. Produsert for Primitive tider desember 2018.

• Glørstad, Håkon (2016). Review of Rune Iversen: The Transformation of Neolithic Societies. An Eastern Danish Perspective on the 3rd Millennium BC. Norwegian Archaeological Review. ISSN 0029-3652. 49(2), p. 207–209. doi: 10.1080/00293652.2016.1230145. Full text in Research Archive
• Glørstad, Håkon (2015). Ex oriente lux – lyset kom til Norden fra øst. Norark.no. Full text in Research Archive
• Glørstad, Håkon (2015). Vår bror, neandertaleren. Norark.no. Full text in Research Archive
• Glørstad, Håkon (2015). 9500–4000 f.Kr.: eldre steinalder. Norgeshistorien på nett. Full text in Research Archive
• Glørstad, Håkon & Rønningen, Asle (2014). Jegerfolk fra øst kom til Norge for 10 000 år siden. [Internet]. forskning.no. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Arkeologiske funn i grenseområdene mellom Finland og Norge i nord kan bety at vår aller eldste historie må skrives på nytt.

• Glørstad, Håkon (2014). Prosjektplan og faglig problemstilling for prosjektet Vestfoldbanen. In Melvold, Stine Annette & Persson, Per (Ed.), Vestfoldbaneprosjektet. Arkeologiske undersøkelser i forbindelse med ny jernbane mellom Larvik og Porsgrunn. Bind I: Tidlig- og mellommesolittiske lokaliteter i Vestfold og Telemark. Portal forlag. ISSN 9788283140095. p. 58–59. Full text in Research Archive
• Glørstad, Håkon (2014). Norges ukjente verdensarv. Norark.no. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Norges minner fra steinalderens kystkultur er unike i en global sammenheng og kan vise dagens mennesker hvordan vi kan overleve klimakriser og dramatiske miljøforandringer. Storstilt samfunnsutbygging eter seg inn i steinalderens kulturlandskap. Hvorfor skal vi ta vare på disse kulturminnene, spør enkelte samferdselspolitikere. Fordi vi har et globalt ansvar for å ivareta denne arven, er ett av svarene. Her ligger minnene om opphavet til dagens sivilisasjoner. Her er arkivet over menneskehetens mestring av klimakatastrofer som også truer dagens samfunn.

• Glørstad, Håkon (2013). Comments on Hakon Glorstad: 'Where are the Missing Boats?' Reply. Norwegian Archaeological Review. ISSN 0029-3652. 46(1), p. 101–120. doi: 10.1080/00293652.2013.777104. Full text in Research Archive
• Prescott, Christopher; Glørstad, Håkon & Melheim, Anne Lene (2013). Norske Røtter. Levende Historie. ISSN 1503-4208. 2, p. 36–39. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Elementene som har bidratt så sterkt til å forme norsk identitet – bonden og sjømannen, gården og skipet – er ikke bare nasjonalromatiske myter. Vi kan følge dem over fire tusen år tilbake i tid, til slutten av steinalderen – og arkeologer gir gjerne overgangen fra jakt og fangst til jordbruk en framtredende plass i den forhistoriske samfunnsutviklingen. I historien om det norske var andre faktorer trolig like viktige: sjøfart, internasjonale nettverk og metall. Og alt dette er uløselig knyttet til et kulturelt nettverk som engang strakte seg fra Nord-Afrika til Nord-Norge.

• Glørstad, Håkon (2013). Deglaciation, Sea Level Changes and the Holocene Colonisation of Norway. Full text in Research Archive
• Glørstad, Håkon (2013). The social and economic importance of the submerged coasts of Europe - how to beat around the bush and still get some results. Full text in Research Archive
• Glørstad, Håkon (2013). The Hamremoen Enclosure in Kristiandsand, South-Eastern Norway. Full text in Research Archive
• Solli, Brit; Glørstad, Håkon & Landsverk, Johanne (2011). Kjekt å ha. [Journal]. Forskerforum. Full text in Research Archive
• Glørstad, Håkon (2011). Neolitiseringen i Øst-Norge. Jordbruk, storviltjakt og Traktbegerkulturen. Full text in Research Archive
• Glørstad, Håkon & Sundström, Lars (2011). Hamremoen - a causewayed enclosure outside the Neolithic world. Full text in Research Archive
• Glørstad, Håkon (2011). Neolitikum på Sørlandet. Kysten, jordbruket og Traktbegerkulturen. Full text in Research Archive
• Glørstad, Håkon & Kallhovd, Karl (2011). Exploring pioneer settlements by means of 20th century Thinking - Or how to make out on scarce resources. Full text in Research Archive
• Glørstad, Håkon (2011). Hamresanden - et systemgravanlegg fra Kristiansand i Vest-Agder. Full text in Research Archive
• Prescott, Christopher & Glørstad, Håkon (2011). Slettabø: Europe's northernmost beaker. The BBC in Norway - from black box to historical watershed. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Probably the northernmost beaker in Europe is from the Selttabø site in Norway. Excavated in the 1970's, the beaker and the associated finds have in recent years gained renewed relevance through the unfolding interpretation of third millennium history. The poster mpresents the Slettabø beaker and its context.

• Prescott, Christopher & Glørstad, Håkon (2010). Nearly north of the beakers: modeling an interpretative platform for third millennium transformations in Norway. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The core area of Scandinavian Norway is found from the southwest coast stretching north to the Arctic Circle. This area is bound together by intensified maritime interaction and alliance with the transition to the Scandinavian Late Neolithic. The transition is related to the establishment of a western Scandinavian Bell Beaker horizon; it is rapid and dramatic and mirrors the BB-transition otherwise in Europe. With in the diverse and extensive 1000 km coastal region affected, there a history that echoes broader Beaker developments was played out. Through neo-geographical and anthropological analogies the article proposes multi-factor models, including migration, social entrepreneurs and knowledge sociological aspects, to illuminate how the dramatic and rapid change in cultural and social life could have occurred. As such, this study from Western Scandinavia serves as an interesting case study of 3rd millennium developments in Europe.

• Glørstad, Håkon (2010). Hamresanden i Kristiansand - et systemgravanlegg fra yngre steinalder. Full text in Research Archive
• Glørstad, Håkon (2010). Nære ting fra en fjern fortid. Full text in Research Archive
• Solheim, Steinar; Eigeland, Lotte & Glørstad, Håkon (2010). Struktur og historie. Sosial stabilitet og endring i østnorsk mesolitiskum og neolitikum. Full text in Research Archive
• Solheim, Steinar; Eigeland, Lotte & Glørstad, Håkon (2010). The structure and history of the Late Mesolithic societies in the Oslo Fjord area. Full text in Research Archive
• Glørstad, Håkon & Gundersen, Jostein (2010). Landscape and settlement of the Continental Shelf in a Norwegian perspective. Full text in Research Archive
• Glørstad, Håkon (2010). Pioneers of the Antarctic. Human-material relations on the fringe of social life. Full text in Research Archive
• Glørstad, Håkon & Hedeager, Lotte (2008). On the Materiality of Society and Culture. In Glørstad, Håkon & Hedeager, Lotte (Ed.), Six Essays on the Materiallity of Society and Culture. Bricoleur Press. ISSN 9789185411061. p. 9–32. Full text in Research Archive
• Glørstad, Håkon & Kallhovd, Karl (2008). Hur fungerar uppdragsarkeologin i Norge: vetenskapligt och administrativt. Full text in Research Archive
• Glørstad, Håkon (2008). Two ways to Europe. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  In 1972 and 1994 Norway had a popular vote for or against the European Union. At both occasions the majority of the voters turned down the union. This paper discusses some of the reasons for this rejection in an archaeological perspective. The part of the country where the majority of the voters were positive towards the union is approximately the same area where most traces of the early Neolithic TRB culture can be found (3800 BC). This is the districts around the Oslo fjord. At two other occasions the Stone Age material of Norway is also heavily influenced by continental Europe. These are the initial occupation of the coast after the Ice Age (9000 BC) and the late Neolithic period (2400 BC). Contrary to the TRB complex, these two waves of influence cover a much larger part of the country. This could be related to two very different ways of organising contact relations and control. The rejection of the European Union, the limited distribution of the TRB complex, and the homogenisation of northwest European culture in the third millennium BC can be interpreted as examples of the working of these two strategies in very different historical settings.

• Persson, Per & Glørstad, Håkon (2025). Rapport. Arkeologisk Registrering. Neolittisk Boplass på Gjerstad. Kulturhistorisk museum, Universitetet i Oslo, Arkeologisk seksjon . Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  I perioden 19. til 22. mai 2025 ble det foretatt en mindre prøveundersøkelse på steinalderboplassen Gjerstad. Undersøkelsen ble gjennomført som et samarbeidsprosjekt mellom Stavanger maritime museum, Agder fylkeskommune, NTNU Vitenskapsmuseet og Kulturhistorisk museum. Formålet med undersøkelsen var dels å avklare omfanget av bosetningsspor, dels å få klarlagt om deler av boplassen hadde spesielt gode bevaringsforhold for organisk materiale. Det ble totalt gravd 35 prøvestikk spredt på tomten, hvorav 33 var positive med funn fra steinalder. I 11 av prøvestikkene ble det også påvist et eldre dyrkingslag med varierende tykkelse. Det ble gjort funn av flint i dyrkingslagene og ned til undergrunnen. Det ble totalt innsamlet 736 funn, hovedsakelig av flint, men også gjenstander av kvarts, bergart og bergkrystall. I tillegg ble det funnet 12 skår av keramikk der ett var dekorert. Boplassen dateres hovedsakelig til mellomneolittisk tid.

• Fonneland, Trude; Brenna, Brita; Glørstad, Håkon; Andersen, Ketil Gjølme; Dam, Hans Christiansen & Larsson, Helene Pousette [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2020). Vilje til forskning - museumsforskning i Norge i det 21. århundre. Rapporten er levert av utvalg for museum og forskning. Kulturdepartementet. Full text in Research Archive
• Glørstad, Håkon; Sandin, Pär Ola; Nordbø, Thorbjørn & Vestad, Steinar (2019). Oppfølging av Det Norske institutt i Athen høsten 2018 - Rapport fra arbeidsgruppe. Universitetet i Bergen. Full text in Research Archive

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