Research projects

ADED establishes a repository for Norwegian excavation data, and makes it available for queries and download.

The main research aim is to investigate the royal manors’ position in the early Norwegian kingdom, as well as in the kingdom’s prehistory in the first millennium AD.

Bridging Research Across Heritage Studies.

DIRE will afford a more effective access to the best infrastructures for 3D visualisation at the University of Oslo through coordinating access to equipment. It will use new technology to encourage advanced use through remote access to virtual infrastructures.

The project investigates how an exhibition, its objects and architecture balance artistic fascination, spiritual experiences and dogmatic content in one and the same room.

The purpose of this project is to study the historical development of intelligence tests, IQ-scales and concepts of intelligence that such tests are based on, and have helped to produce.

Why human sacrifice? The primary objective of the project is to generate a greater working knowledge of the nature of human sacrificial rituals as contextualised through the perspective of value. The project will forge a deeper understanding of the social mechanisms underpinning the slippery relationship between sacred acts of sacrifice and profane forms of violence.

The purpose of the HumGIS project is to establish an e-infrastructure and researching tools that enables researchers in the humanities to georeference their own data.

Towards a European research infrastructure for heritage science.

This project is the first major study of urban food culture in medieval Norway. Our main research question is: how did food culture facilitate the emergence of an urban identity?

What kind of place was Hundorp in Gudbrandsdalen in pre-Christian times?

UniMus:Kultur will create a new version of the common artefact database that has been in use since 2004.