Retracing Storsteinen: A deviant rock art site in Alta, northern Norway
Journal issue at http://www.sarks.fi/fa/faxxxvii.html . Storsteinen is one of the four major rock art localities in Alta, northern Norway, and also the least known part of this World Heritage site. The complex nature of the engraved panel combined with the rock’s elevation above sea level may explai...
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ftunivtroemsoe:oai:munin.uit.no:10037/27363 2023-05-15T16:57:48+02:00 Retracing Storsteinen: A deviant rock art site in Alta, northern Norway Tansem, Karin 2020 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/27363 eng eng Archaeological Society of Finland Tansem, K. (2022). Helleristningene i Alta: Estetikken, geologien og figurene. (Doctoral thesis). https://hdl.handle.net/10037/27381 . Fennoscandia Archaeologica Tansem. Retracing Storsteinen: A deviant rock art site in Alta, northern Norway. Fennoscandia Archaeologica. 2020 FRIDAID 1984837 0781-7126 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/27363 openAccess Copyright 2020 The Author(s) Journal article Tidsskriftartikkel publishedVersion 2020 ftunivtroemsoe 2022-11-17T00:01:31Z Journal issue at http://www.sarks.fi/fa/faxxxvii.html . Storsteinen is one of the four major rock art localities in Alta, northern Norway, and also the least known part of this World Heritage site. The complex nature of the engraved panel combined with the rock’s elevation above sea level may explain why it has been assigned a rather obscure position in Alta rock art research. Based on new recordings of the panel, and a reassessment of the rock’s positioning in relation to the shoreline displacement, an analysis where Storsteinen is compared with assumed contemporaneous sites in Alta, in particular Hjemmeluft and Kåfjord, is presented. Based on this analysis a new suggestion for Storsteinen’s chronological affiliation is provided and the author also discusses the congruity of the well-established chronological phasing of the Alta rock art corpus. Article in Journal/Newspaper Kåfjord Northern Norway University of Tromsø: Munin Open Research Archive Alta Norway |
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Journal issue at http://www.sarks.fi/fa/faxxxvii.html . Storsteinen is one of the four major rock art localities in Alta, northern Norway, and also the least known part of this World Heritage site. The complex nature of the engraved panel combined with the rock’s elevation above sea level may explain why it has been assigned a rather obscure position in Alta rock art research. Based on new recordings of the panel, and a reassessment of the rock’s positioning in relation to the shoreline displacement, an analysis where Storsteinen is compared with assumed contemporaneous sites in Alta, in particular Hjemmeluft and Kåfjord, is presented. Based on this analysis a new suggestion for Storsteinen’s chronological affiliation is provided and the author also discusses the congruity of the well-established chronological phasing of the Alta rock art corpus. |
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Tansem, K. (2022). Helleristningene i Alta: Estetikken, geologien og figurene. (Doctoral thesis). https://hdl.handle.net/10037/27381 . Fennoscandia Archaeologica Tansem. Retracing Storsteinen: A deviant rock art site in Alta, northern Norway. Fennoscandia Archaeologica. 2020 FRIDAID 1984837 0781-7126 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/27363 |
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