Post-Doc, Department of Historical Studies
University of Oslo, Archaeology, Conservation and History
Administrative Officer
Dialogues with the Past
Thesis Title: Recycling Ideas. Bronze Age Metal Production in Southern Norway
About
Lene is currently a Postdoc at the Bronze Age project "Travels, transmissions and transformations in temperate northern Europe during the 3rd and 2nd millennium BC: the rise of Bronze Age societies", led by Kristian Kristiansen. Her focus within the project is lead isotope analysis, metal circulation and provenance, including the hypothesis of indigenous copper production on the Scandinavian Peninsula. Lene works part-time as an Administrative Officer The Nordic Graduate School in Archaeology (Dialogues with the Past).
Previous research includes Bronze Age cosmology, ritual practice, myths and metallurgy (Cand. Philol. thesis "Gjennom ild og vann. Graver og depoter som kilde til kosmologi i bronsealderen i Øst-Norge", published 2006). Her PhD thesis "Recycling Ideas. Bronze Age Metal Production in Southern Norway" (2012) explores the adoption of copper and bronze metallurgy in southern Norway in the late 3rd and 2nd millennium BC and critically addresses the paradox that Norway has an abundance of metal ore sources, yet is very poor in metal finds. Recycling is used as a concept to understand how archaeological ideas about the Bronze Age have evolved and also to interpret the physical remains of Bronze Age metalworking.
Lene was a lecturer at the Department of Archaeology, University of Oslo 2001-2004.
