Anne Lene Melheim

• Melheim, Anne Lene (2018). Weight units and the transformation of value: approaching premonetary currency systems in the Nordic Bronze Age, In Dirk Brandherm; Elon Heymans & Daniela Hofmann (ed.),  Gifts, Goods and Money: Comparing currency and circulation systems in past societies.  Archaeopress.  ISBN 978 1 78491 835 4.  Artikkel.  s 67 - 83
• Melheim, Anne Lene; Grandin, Lena; Persson, Per-Olof; Billström, Kjell; Stos-Gale, Zofia; Ling, Johan; Williams, Alan; Angelini, Ivana; Canovaro, Caterina; Hjärthner-Holdar, Eva & Kristiansen, Kristian (2018). Moving metals III: Possible origins for copper in Bronze Age Denmark based on lead isotopes and geochemistry. Journal of Archaeological Science.  ISSN 0305-4403.  96, s 85- 105 . doi: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440318301237
• Melheim, Anne Lene & Ling, Johan (2017). Taking the Stranger on Board - The Two Maritime Legacies of Bronze Age Rock Art, In Peter Skoglund; Johan Ling & Ulf Bertilsson (ed.),  North Meets South - Theoretical aspects on the northern and southern rock art traditions in Scandinavia.  Oxbow Books.  ISBN 978-1-78570-820-6.  Kapittel 3.  s 59 - 86 Vis sammendrag

  In this chapter, we argue that the strong maritime focus in South Scandinavian Bronze Age rock art could be seen as the result of a fusion of two different maritime legacies. The first legacy relates to the North Scandinavian hunter-gatherer tradition of making rock art at maritime locations in the landscape, in connection with seasonal gatherings, and with an emphasis on transformative animistic features and boats. The second major maritime impact relates to Bell Beaker influence in southern Scandinavia, prior to the Nordic Bronze Age, and is associated with regular overseas sailing, intensified interaction across the North Sea, and trade in raw materials and exotica. By incorporating two different maritime legacies both on a practical and a symbolic level, the societies in southern Scandinavia created New maritime institutions which enabled them to enter and participate actively in the maritime exchange networks of the Nordic Bronze Age. We regard the institutionalisation of this particular kind of maritime-ness as a crucial feature, a doxa for the reproduction of the Nordic Bronze Age societies.

• Melheim, Anne Lene & Sabatini, Serena (2017). Nordic-Mediterranean relations in the second millennium BC, In Sophie Bergerbrant & Anna Wessman (ed.),  New Pespectives on the Bronze Age. Proceedings of the 13th Nordic Bronze Age Symposium held in Gothenburg 9th to 13th June 2015.  Archaeopress.  ISBN 9781784915988.  Introduksjonsartikkel.  s 355 - 362
• Prescott, Christopher & Melheim, Anne Lene (2017). Textiles from the peripheries? Upland evidence from Norway, In Sophie Bergerbrant & Anna Wessman (ed.),  New Pespectives on the Bronze Age. Proceedings of the 13th Nordic Bronze Age Symposium held in Gothenburg 9th to 13th June 2015.  Archaeopress.  ISBN 9781784915988.  24.  s 313 - 326 Vis sammendrag

  The Skrivarhelleren site demonstrates the comprehensive range of activities associated with Late Neolithic and Bronze Age settlements, in this case at a seasonal, upland rock shelter site in an area commonly deemed as geographically and environmentally peripheral to the Nordic region – but from c. 2400 BC clearly integrated into the North European World. This peripherally located site offers a fascinating set of data concerning early agro-pastoral practices, hunting and fishing – demonstrated by a rich assemblage of non-durable materials like plant remains, bone, antler, resins and shells – and early metallurgy. Located in the rich upland hunting grounds of Sogn in western Norway, the shelter provides access to seasonal pastures as well as a range of other outfield resources. This article examines new evidence pointing to wool or textile production. Using the exploitation strategies of later periods in this remote region as analogy, we argue that production was not limited to the household, but geared towards a market. The implication of this line of reasoning is that there was a focus on exchange-oriented wool-production and that, in a yet wider context, wool-production could be one of the comparative advantages of the Scandinavian uplands.

• Glørstad, Ann Zanette Tsigaridas; Glørstad, Håkon & Melheim, Anne Lene (2016). Comparative Perspectives on Past Colonisation, Maritime Interaction and Cultural Integration — An Introduction, In Anne Lene Melheim; Håkon Glørstad & Ann Zanette Tsigaridas Glørstad (ed.),  Comparative Perspectives on Past Colonisation, Maritime Interaction and Cultural Integration.  Equinox Publishing.  ISBN 9781781790489.  Artikkel.  s 1 - 15 Vis sammendrag

  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.

• Glørstad, Ann Zanette Tsigaridas & Melheim, Anne Lene (2016). Past Mirrors: Thucydides, Sahlins and the Bronze and Viking Ages, In Anne Lene Melheim; Håkon Glørstad & Ann Zanette Tsigaridas Glørstad (ed.),  Comparative Perspectives on Past Colonisation, Maritime Interaction and Cultural Integration.  Equinox Publishing.  ISBN 9781781790489.  kapittel.  s 87 - 108 Vis sammendrag

  This article explores the potential of the archaeological analogy, by contrasting and comparing two formative periods in Nordic prehistory: the Early Bronze Age and the Viking Age. While admitting the historical differences between the two periods, an attempt is made to assess the structural basis for the apparent similarities in the material record, i.e. to identify whether there are universal parameters behind the particularities of the two historical trajectories. In other words, we approach the crux where history meets the model. Leaning on Thucydides’ report from the Peloponnesian War, Marshall Sahlins’ analysis of the Athenian sea empire and Kristiansen’s previous comparison of the Bronze and Viking Ages, we argue that the material similarities between the two ages were not based on equifinality, but reflect congruent cultural structures that arose as responses to comparable situations, yet with different degrees of social integration.

• Melheim, Anne Lene & Prescott, Christopher (2016). Exploring New Territories – Expanding Frontiers: Bowmen and Prospectors on the Scandinavia Peninsula in the 3rd–2nd Millennia BC, In Anne Lene Melheim; Håkon Glørstad & Ann Zanette Tsigaridas Glørstad (ed.),  Comparative Perspectives on Past Colonisation, Maritime Interaction and Cultural Integration.  Equinox Publishing.  ISBN 9781781790489.  10. Vis sammendrag

  The argument in this article has two premises: First, migration and other forms of human movement have been the norm throughout human history. Second, western Scandinavia is rife with readily exploitable copper ores, and there might have been attempts at utilizing these in the 3rd millennium BC. Building on the concept of travelling metallurgists as an element in the expansion of the Bell Beaker phenomenon in combination with anthropological perspectives on prospecting, the article explores how prospecting for metal would have been adapted to the landscapes of western Scandinavia. Generally, although prospecting seldom leads to successful metal production, and is difficult to study archaeologically, it will often have a significant transformative impact – on both the external and indigenous actors and societies. Two archaeological sites in western Norway are expressly discussed, Slettabø in Rogaland and Skrivarhelleren in Sogn. The latter is particularly relevant as a historical case of prospecting and mining from the 1700s AD and offers insights into movement in a fjord and upland landscape.

• Melheim, Anne Lene; Prescott, Christopher & Anfinset, Nils (2016). Bronze casting and cultural connections: Bronze Age workshops at Hunn, Norway. Praehistorische Zeitschrift.  ISSN 0079-4848.  91(1), s 42- 67 . doi: 10.1515/pz-2016-0003 Vis sammendrag

  The authors present and discuss two segregated metal workshop sites at the Hunn burial ground in Østfold, south-east Norway, and address topics like the scale and character of the production and the cultural context of the finds. One of these sites, the Midtfeltet site, represents one of the most extensive Bronze Age metallurgical workshops in Scandinavia. The site is located in a region that has yielded comparatively few bronze artefacts, and illustrates a paradoxical trend in Norwegian Bronze Age archaeology: the dislocation between production of bronze objects and their final deposition. The Bronze Age workshops and monuments at Hunn are situated in an area with a Late Neolithic history, which after the Bronze Age continued to be used for burials and rituals. Hunn is situated by a natural harbor, and has good conditions for embarking inland on rivers and documented prehistoric tracks. Occurrences of unalloyed copper in a Bronze Age context may be considered an indication of trade in raw metals, which is also indicated by residues on crucibles at other central workshop sites in Scandinavia. Hunn was very probably, with its two workshop areas and signs of specialized production of, among other things, preforms, a regional center or aggregation site for craft production and exchange. A high degree of overlap between Nordic metalworking sites in terms of metallurgical know-how, refractory technology and artefact typology, but also symbolic decoration, is noted. This is indicative of ambulating, specialized metalworkers who had the aggregation site as their primary arena. A link to the Baltic is seen in the locally manufactured Lausitz-inspired pottery and an early cremation burial at Midtfeltet. The article focusses on the results of small-scale excavation campaigns at Midtfeltet in 1996–2006, covering an area of altogether c. 400 m2. The site produced a substantial amount of clay refractories, metalworking debris, flint, animal bone and pottery, 14C-dated to c. 1300–700 BCE. Keywords: Bronze Age; south-east Norway; metal production; refractory finds; cross-craft technologies; exchange networks; maritime trade

• Melheim, Anne Lene (2015). Female Identities in the Making? Aspects of Late Bronze Age Hoarding, In Paulina Suchowska-Ducke; Samantha Scott Reiter & Helle Vandkilde (ed.),  Forging Identities. The Mobility of Culture in Bronze Age Europe. Report from a Marie Curie Project 2009-2012 with Concluding Conference at Aarhus University, Moesgaard 2012. Volume 1.  Bar Publishing.  ISBN 9781407314334.  Volume 1.  s 81 - 91
• Melheim, Anne Lene (2015). Late Bronze Age traffic from Volga-Kama to Scandinavia? The riddle of the KAM axes revisited, In Andreas Hauptmann & Diana Modarressi-Tehrani (ed.),  Archaeometallurgy in Europe III.  Deutschen Bergbau-Museum Bochum.  ISBN 3-937203-74-5.  Artikkel.  s 193 - 202
• Melheim, Anne Lene (2015). Støpeplasser og handelsplasser - to sider av samme sak?, I:  Bronzestøbning i yngre bronzealders lokale kulturlandskab.  Viborgs Museum & Holstebro Museum.  ISBN 978-87-92778-39-0.  Artikkel.  s 15 - 30
• Melheim, Anne Lene; Earle, Timothy; Ling, Johan; Uhner, Claes Olof Johan & Stos-Gale, Zofia (2015). The Political Economy and Metal Trade in Bronze Age Europe: Understanding Regional Variability in Terms of Comparative Advantages and Articulations. European Journal of Archaeology.  ISSN 1461-9571.  18(4), s 633- 657 . doi: 10.1179/1461957115Y.0000000008
• Melheim, Anne Lene & Horn, Christian (2014). Tales of Hoards and Swordfighters in Early Bronze Age Scandinavia: The Brand New and the Broken. Norwegian Archaeological Review.  ISSN 0029-3652.  47(1), s 18- 41 . doi: 10.1080/00293652.2014.920907
• Melheim, Anne Lene (2013). An Epos Carved in Stone: Three Heroes, One Giant Twin and a Cosmic task, In Sophie Bergerbrant & Serena Sabatini (ed.),  Counterpoint : essays in archaeology and heritage in honour of Professor Kristian Kristiansen.  Archaeopress.  ISBN 978-1-4073-1126-5.  Artikkel.  s 273 - 282
• Melheim, Anne Lene (2012). Reconsidering a periphery: scenarios of copper production in southern Norway, In Nils Anfinset & Melanie Wrigglesworth (ed.),  Local Societies in Bronze Age Northern Europe.  Equinox Publishing.  ISBN 9781845537425.  Del 1, kapittel 5.  s 89 - 107
• Lund, Julie & Melheim, Anne Lene (2011). Heads and Tails - Minds and Bodies: Reconsidering the Late Bronze Age Vestby Hoard in Light of Symbolist and Body Perspectives. European Journal of Archaeology.  ISSN 1461-9571.  14(3), s 441- 464
• Melheim, Anne Lene (2011). Towards a new understanding of Late Neolithic Norway – the role of metal and metalworking, In Christopher Prescott & Håkon Glørstad (ed.),  Becoming European: The transformation of third millennium Northern and Western Europe.  Oxbow Books.  ISBN 1-84217-450-9.  Kapittel 7.  s 70 - 81
• Melheim, Anne Lene (2009). Kobberimport eller kobberproduksjon?, I: Geir Grønnesby & Merete Moe Henriksen (red.),  Det 10. nordiske bronsealdersymposium 5.-8. oktober 2006.  Tapir Akademisk Forlag.  ISBN 978-82-519-2393-4.  artikkel.  s 10 - 35
• Melheim, Anne Lene & Lund, Julie (2009). Med hode og kropp - en nytolkning av Vestby-funnet i lys av symbol- og kroppsperspektiver, I: Julie Lund & Anne Lene Melheim (red.),  Håndverk og produksjon. Et møte mellom ulike perspektiver.  Unipub forlag.  ISBN 978-82-7477-384-4.  Artikkel.  s 11 - 40
• Prescott, Christopher & Melheim, Anne Lene (2009). Comments on M. Pilar Prieto Martnez: 'Bell Beaker Communities in Thy: The First Bronze Age Society in Denmark'. THE FIRST BRONZE AGE COMMUNITIES IN SCANDINAVIA. Norwegian Archaeological Review.  ISSN 0029-3652.  42(1), s 89- 93
• Melheim, Anne Lene (2008). Right and left. Directions in Bronze Age cosmology seen through a pair of spectacle-fibulas. Oslo Arkeologiske Serie - Oslo Archaeological Series (OAS).  ISSN 1503-4089.  10, s 539- 554

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• Melheim, Anne Lene; Glørstad, Håkon & Glørstad, Ann Zanette Tsigaridas (ed.) (2016). Comparative Perspectives on Past Colonisation, Maritime Interaction and Cultural Integration. Equinox Publishing.  ISBN 9781781790489.  256 s.
• Melheim, Anne Lene (2015). Recycling Ideas: Bronze Age Metal Production in Southern Norway. Archaeopress.  ISBN 9781407313689.  273 s.
• Lund, Julie & Melheim, Anne Lene (red.) (2009). Håndverk og produksjon. Et møte mellom ulike perspektiver. Unipub forlag.  ISBN 978-82-7477-384-4.  198 s.

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• Lund, Julie & Melheim, Anne Lene (2018). On temporality and the withdrawal of inalienable valuables. The Vestby hoard revisited.
• Austvoll, Knut Ivar; Melheim, Anne Lene & Ling, Johan (2017). Beyond Mapping Movement: Travel and Exchange.
• Martens, Jes; Melheim, Anne Lene; Aannestad, Hanne Lovise & Martinsen, Julian Robert Post (2016). Metallsøking på Sem, Øvre Eiker. Norark.no.
• Melheim, Anne Lene (2016). Bronsebukkene fra Hadeland. Gjenstandskalender. . doi: http://www.khm.uio.no/forskning/samlingene/gjenstandskalender/2016/januar/bronsebukkene.html
• Melheim, Anne Lene (2016). Bronze Age of Norway: From the periphery of peripheries.
• Melheim, Anne Lene (2016). Dolken som var forut for sin tid. Gjenstandskalender. . doi: http://www.khm.uio.no/forskning/samlingene/gjenstandskalender/2016/mars/flintdolken.html
• Melheim, Anne Lene (2015). 1700–500 f.Kr.: bronsealder. Norgeshistorie.no.
• Melheim, Anne Lene (2015). Bondens bilder. Norgeshistorie.no.
• Melheim, Anne Lene (2015). Bronsealderbøndenes hus. Norgeshistorie.no.
• Melheim, Anne Lene (2015). De første resultatene av blyisotopeanalyse på skandinaviske bronsealderfunn.
• Melheim, Anne Lene (2015). Det første metallet. Norgeshistorie.no.
• Melheim, Anne Lene (2015). Et tapt språk?. Norgeshistorie.no.
• Melheim, Anne Lene (2015). Europeisk handel. Norgeshistorie.no.
• Melheim, Anne Lene (2015). For mange høvdinger og for få undersåtter?. Norgeshistorie.no.
• Melheim, Anne Lene (2015). Fra kyst til høyfjell. Norgeshistorie.no.
• Melheim, Anne Lene (2015). Gaver til gudene. Norgeshistorie.no.
• Melheim, Anne Lene (2015). Havgående båter og oversjøiske nettverk. Norgeshistorie.no.
• Melheim, Anne Lene (2015). Knoklene forteller. Norgeshistorie.no.
• Melheim, Anne Lene (2015). Krigerske menn og reisende kvinnfolk. Norgeshistorie.no.
• Melheim, Anne Lene (2015). Nye teknologier – nye tankesett. Norgeshistorie.no.
• Melheim, Anne Lene (2015). Tro og makt i graven. Norgeshistorie.no.
• Melheim, Anne Lene & Ling, Johan (2015). Behind the arrows on the map: A Nordic view on the Bronze Age trade in metals.
• Melheim, Anne Lene; Ling, Johan; Stos-Gale, Zofia; Grandin, Lena & Hjärthner-Holdar, Eva (2015). The Mediterranean turn: The importation of South European copper to Scandinavia and Atlantic maritime trade routes.
• Melheim, Anne Lene; Ling, Johan; Stos-Gale, Zofia; Hjärthner-Holdar, Eva & Grandin, Lena (2015). Iberian copper in Scandinavian forms?.
• Melheim, Anne Lene & Sabatini, Serena (2015). Nordic-Mediterranean relations in the second millennium BC: Introduction.
• Prescott, Christopher & Melheim, Anne Lene (2015). Skrivarhelleren in Sogn - challenging notions of centre and periphery.
• Melheim, Anne Lene (2014). From rituals to trade? A discussion of Nordic Bronze Age metal workshops and their recent interpretations.
• Melheim, Anne Lene (2014). Hvor kom kobberet fra i bronsealderen? Blyisotopanalyse som proveniensredskap.
• Melheim, Anne Lene (2014). Scandinavia's role in 2nd millennium BCE copper trade judging from Pb isotopes.
• Melheim, Anne Lene (2014). Støpeplasser og handelsplasser - to sider av samme sak?.
• Melheim, Anne Lene (2014). Thematic and chronological presentation of the Scandinavian data-sets.
• Melheim, Anne Lene (2014). Weight units and the transformation of value in the Nordic Bronze Age: approaching premonetary currency systems?.
• Melheim, Anne Lene & Bergerbrant, Sophie (2014). Natural sciences and archaeology: a widening gap or a source of theory?.
• Melheim, Anne Lene & Ling, Johan (2014). Production, trade and interaction in Bronze Age Europe.
• Melheim, Anne Lene & Ling, Johan (2014). Taking the stranger on board: the two maritime legacies of Bronze Age rock art.
• Melheim, Anne Lene; Ling, Johan & Stos-Gale, Zofia (2014). Metal production, trade and interaction in Bronze Age Europe: case studies from the Mediterranean and Northern Europe.
• Melheim, Anne Lene & Prescott, Christopher (2014). Skrivarhelleren - Årdal i ei brytningstid.
• Prescott, Christopher & Melheim, Anne Lene (2014). Skrivarhelleren, Holsbru.
• Melheim, Anne Lene (2013). Bronze Age Copycats, Creativity and the Problem of the Prototype.
• Melheim, Anne Lene (2013). Den produktive gaven og den upersonlige varen: noen tanker om handel og håndverk i bronsealderen. Nicolay: Arkeologisk tidsskrift.  ISSN 0332-8937.  (119), s 5- 15
• Melheim, Anne Lene (2013). Fantes det virkelig en bronsealder i Norge? Periferiens rolle revurdert. Fortid.  ISSN 1504-1913.  (1), s 24- 35
• Melheim, Anne Lene (2013). Lead Isotopes of Copper.
• Melheim, Anne Lene (2013). Tracing 2nd millennium copper trade from the Scandinavian perspective.
• Melheim, Anne Lene & Andersen, Tom (2013). The provenance of Norwegian bronzes.
• Melheim, Anne Lene; Kristiansen, Kristian; Grandin, Lena & Gale, Zofia (2013). The provenance of Danish bronzes.
• Melheim, Anne Lene; Ling, Johan & Kristiansen, Kristian (2013). Go West. A new picture of possible connections and flows between Scandinavia and the Mediterranean world in the BA.
• Prescott, Christopher; Glørstad, Håkon & Melheim, Anne Lene (2013). Norske Røtter. Levende Historie.  ISSN 1503-4208.  2, s 36- 39 Vis sammendrag

  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.

• Prescott, Christopher & Melheim, Anne Lene (2013, 21. august). Arkeologisk funn i Årdal. [TV].  NRK Distriktsnyheter Vestlandsrevyen.
• Prescott, Christopher & Melheim, Anne Lene (2013). Der ingen skulle tru at nokon kunne bu - arkeologiske undersøkelser i Skrivarhelleren, Årdal i Sogn.
• Prescott, Christopher & Melheim, Anne Lene (2013). Skrivarhelleren revisited - om resultatene av årets undersøkelser i Årdal.
• Glørstad, Ann Zanette Tsigaridas & Melheim, Anne Lene (2012). Past mirrors: Thucydides, Sahlins and the Bronze and Viking Ages.
• Melheim, Anne Lene (2012). Feminine Identities in the Making? Aspects of Late Bronze Age Hoarding.
• Melheim, Anne Lene (2012). Moulding Practices and "Mutations" in Late Bronze Age Metalwork: On Creativity, Coincidence and the Darwinian Analogy.
• Melheim, Anne Lene (2012). Recycling ideas. Bronze Age metal production in southern Norway.
• Melheim, Anne Lene (2012). Tales of hoards and swordfighters: the brand new and the broken.
• Melheim, Anne Lene & Foss, Arild S. (2012, 14. juni). Bronze Age people with a mine of their own. [Internett].  ScienceNordic.
• Melheim, Anne Lene & Glørstad, Ann Zanette Tsigaridas (2012). Past Mirrors: an introduction to the conference.
• Melheim, Anne Lene & Prescott, Christopher (2012). Exploring New Territories – Expanding Frontiers: Bowmen and Prospectors on the Scandinavia Peninsula in the 3rd–2nd Millennia BC. Vis sammendrag

  It is a widely held opinion that the spread of metallurgy in north-western Europe in the 3rd–2nd millennia BC involved the migration of skilled craftsmen. It is frequently argued, in line with Childe’s theory of travelling smiths and anthropological models of apprenticeship, that metallurgy spread with ambulating metalworkers, or, “surplus” smiths who migrated to and settled in areas where there was a “technological void”. In this paper we suggest that the presence of metal ore sources attracted skilled metalworkers to the Scandinavian Peninsula in the Late Neolithic–Early Bronze Age, and further, that encounters between metal prospectors and indigenous communities were arenas where new technologies could be shared. Particular stress is put on the challenges related to travelling in sub-arctic, alpine environments and, moreover, moving into and perhaps settling in foreign territories that were already colonized. The discussion takes its departure from historical and ethnographic studies of prospectors – involving Medieval sources as well as 19th–20th century AD narratives from Siberia, Alaska and Latin America – and moves on to contemplate archaeological evidence: isotope data, “foreign” artefacts and rock shelter sites with evidence of early metallurgy. The latter, it is argued, may be interpreted as prospectors’ base camps.

• Rønning, Asle & Melheim, Anne Lene (2012, 06. juni). Kan ha hentet kobber fra norske fjell i 3500 år. [Internett].  Forskning.no.
• Melheim, Anne Lene (2011). A new interpretation of the data – indigenous copper production in Bronze Age Norway?.
• Melheim, Anne Lene (2011). Late Bronze Age axe traffic from Volga-Kama to Scandinavia? The riddle of the KAM axes revisited.
• Melheim, Anne Lene (2011). Recycling Bronze Age Ideas - Metal Production in the Nordic Region and the Hypothesis of Indigenous Mining.
• Melheim, Anne Lene (2010). Nebraskiven – en 3600 år gammel almanakk?, I:  Almanakkens historie. En jubileumsbok 2011.  Gyldendal Norsk Forlag A/S.  ISBN 9788205397743.  Artikkel.  s 195 - 207
• Melheim, Anne Lene & Meland, Astrid (2010, 24. februar). Har det vært noen bronsealder i Norge?. [Internett].  Dagbladet.no Magasinet.
• Melheim, Anne Lene (2009, 02. mai). BRONSESTØPEPLASSEN PÅ HUNN. [Radio].  NRK P2 Museum.
• Melheim, Anne Lene (2009). Stein og metall: Spor etter senneolittisk metallproduksjon i Sør-Norge.
• Melheim, Anne Lene (2009, 08. mai). Å FINNE HELLERISTNINGER. [Radio].  NRK P2 Museum.
• Melheim, Anne Lene (2008). Bilder fra bronsealderen, I: Ann-Jorid Pedersen (red.),  Solskip og stjerneguder - en rundreise i Østfolds bronsealder.  Opphav forlag.  ISBN 9788299784504.  Kapittel.  s 149 - 160
• Melheim, Anne Lene (2008). Conference review: IX Nordic Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG), ‘Globalization, Identity, Material Culture ... and Archaeology’, Aarhus, 10-12 May 2007. European Journal of Archaeology.  ISSN 1461-9571.  10 (2007)(2-3), s 223- 225
• Melheim, Anne Lene (2008). Forord. Primitive tider.  ISSN 1501-0430.  10(2007/08), s 5- 5
• Melheim, Anne Lene (2008). Metallteknologi og metamorfose. Nicolay: Arkeologisk tidsskrift.  ISSN 0332-8937.  104, s 31- 41
• Melheim, Anne Lene (2008). What if copper was mined here?.
• Melheim, Anne Lene (2007). Bronsealderen og den siste tidens forskning.
• Melheim, Anne Lene (2007). Kopperkilder, kopperutvinning og bronseproduksjon i Sør-Norge. Metallhåndteringens rituelle og symbolske aspekter.
• Melheim, Anne Lene (2007). Solens reise – Rogaland i europeisk bronsealder.

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