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Hein B. Bjerck - Curriculum Vitae

Archaeology of the Contemporary Past, Mesolithic Archaeology, and Seascape Archaeology
CV H.Bjerck 03.10.2014 Curriculum Vitae Bjerck, Hein Bjartmann (01.04.1954) Mag. Art. in Archaeology, Professor, Dept. of Archaeology, Museum of Natural History and Archaeology, Norwegian Univ. of Science and Technology (NTNU), N-7491 Trondheim, Norway. Email: [email protected] Education  1984 Mag. Art. (Magistergrad) Nordic Archaeology, Univ. of Bergen. Thesis: "Kronologisk og Geografisk fordeling av mesolitiske element i Vest- og Midt-Norge" (Chronological and geographical distribution of Mesolithic elements in Western and Central Norway). Selected work experience  01.01.1985 – 01.02.1988. Vitenskapsmuseet, Univ. of Trondheim: Scholarship. The Vega project. Mesolithic settlement patterns, research strategies and cultural heritage management.  25.10 – 31.01.1990. Norges allmennvitenskapelige forskningsråd: Research leader. Administration of the program «Forskning om kulturminnevern» (FOK).  01.02.1990 – 21.7.1996. Nordland fylkeskommune: Cultural heritage officer.  21.7.1996 – 25.11.1999. Sysselmannen på Svalbard: Cultural heritage officer.  14.12.1999 – today. Vitenskapsmuseet, NTNU: Associate professor. Professor from 2010. Early settlements (Stone Age), research, teaching, projects, cultural resource management, public archaeology.  2003–2008. ”NTNU Vitenskapsmuseets arkeologiske undersøkelser Ormen Lange» Project leader.  1.03.2003 – 01.09.2005. Seksjon for arkeologi og kulturhistorie, Vitenskapsmuseet. Head of Department.  2001 – 2010. Norwegian Archaeological Review (NAR, www.tandf.no/nar). Editor-in-Chief.  2011 – present. Project leader “Marine Ventures”, Research Counsil of Norway, Project 208828.  2014 – present. “Underviskingskoordinator”, Leder for NTNUs Studieprogram i arkeologi, Leder for Programråd for arkeologistudiet ved NTNU, rådsmedlem Programråd KULMI. Research interests Pleistocene/Holocene transition, Maritime adaptation and seascapes, Material culture studies, Dynamics and structural relations in cultural development of hunter-gatherer societies, Comparative studies, Archaeological theory and research history, Cultural heritage management, Public archaeology. SELECTED SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS 1986 The Fosna–Nøstvet problem. A consideration of Archaeological units and chronozones in the south Norwegian Mesolithic Period. Norwegian Archaeological Review 19(2), 103–122. 1989 Forskningsstyrt kulturminneforvaltning på Vega. Nordland. En studie av steinaldermenneskenes boplassmønstre og arkeologiske letemetoder. Gunneria 61. Trondheim : Vitenskapsmuseet. 212 pages. 1990 Mesolithic site types and settlement patterns at Vega, Northern Norway. Acta Archaeologica Vol 60–1989, 1–33. 1994 Nordsjøfastlandet og pionerbosetningen i Norge. Viking 1994, 25–57. 1995a Malte menneskebilder i «Helvete». Betraktninger om en nyoppdaget hulemaling på Trenyken. Røst. Nordland. Univ. Oldsaksamlings Årbok 1993/1994, 121–151. 1995b The North Sea Continent and the pioneer settlement of Norway. In Fischer, A. (ed.), Man & Sea in the Mesolithic. Coastal settlement above and below present sea level. Oxbow Monograph 53, 131–144. 2000 Stone Age settlement on Svalbard? A re-evaluation of previous finds and results of a recent field survey. Polar Record 36 (197), 97–122. 2002 Om oversiktskunnskapen. Refleksjoner i anledning Anders Hagens 80-års dag. Primitive tider 5, 161–169. 2007 Mesolithic coastal settlements and shell middens (?) in Norway. In Milner, N., O. E. Craig, and G. N. Bailey, Shell Middens in Atlantic Europe, 5–31. Oxford : Oxbow. 2008a Norwegian Mesolithic Trends: a Review. In Bailey, G. & P. Spikins (eds.) Mesolithic Europe, 60–106. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. 2008b (Bjørn Myhre, Hein B. Bjerck and Siv Kristoffersen) “Surroundings, Beginnings and Formation of a Journal – a Dialogue with NAR’s Alpha Editor Bjørn Myhre”. Norwegian Archaeological Review Vol. 41/1 (2008). 2009 “Colonizing Seascapes: comparative perspectives on the development of maritime relations in Scandinavia and Patagonia”. Paper presented at the Tops of the World (TOW) Symposium. Arctic Anthropology Vol. 46(1–2), 118–131. 2010a (Andreassen, Elin, Hein B. Bjerck & Bjørnar Olsen) “Persistent memories. Pyramiden – a Soviet mining town in the High Arctic”. Tapir Academic Press, Trondheim. 2010b ”Brummeren fra Tuv” – tilbakeblikk på samlivet med et lydinstrument fra steinalderen. Primitive Tider Vol. 12, 1–13. 2012a On the outer fringe of the human world: phenomenological perspectives on anthropomorphic cave paintings in Norway. In Bergsvik, K.A. and R. Skeates (eds), Caves in Context. Cultural Significance of Caves and Rockshelters in Europe. Oxbow Books: Oxford. 2012b (Bjerck, Hein Bjartmann; Breivik, Heidi Mjelva) Off shore pioneers: Scandinavian and Patagonian lifestyles compared in the Marine Ventures project. Antiquity 2012; volum 086 (333). 2013a (Andreassen, Elin and Hein B. Bjerck) “Managing the Scars of Terror.” RuinMemories Portifolio, June 2013. http://ruinmemories.org/2013/06/managing-the- scars-of-terror/ 2013b (Bjerck, Hein B. and Atilio Francisco Zangrando) «Marine Ventures: Comparative Perspectives on the Dynamics of Early Human Approaches to the Seascapes of Tierra del 1 CV H.Bjerck 03.10.2014 Fuego and Norway.” The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, 8:1, 79-90 2013c “Looking with both eyes.” Comments to Håkon Glørstad: ‘Where are the missing boats?’ Norwegian Archaeological Review, 46(1). 2014a Bjerck, Hein B. 2014. My Father's Things. In Ruin Memories. Materialities, aesthethics and the archaeology of the recent past, edited by Olsen, Bjørnar and Þóra Pétursdóttir. Oxon: Routledge 2014b Del I: Istid, steinalder og tidlig metalltid. Kapittel 2: Kolonisering av den skandinaviske skjærgårdskysten og begynnelsen til sjøfangsten. Kapittel 3: Utviklingen av sjøfangsten og steinalderens fangstsamfunn. Kapittel 4: Fra steinalderens sjøfangst til metalltidens sjøfart. I Norges fiskeri- og kysthistorie Bind I, Fangstmenn, fiskebønder og værfolk, ed. Nielssen, Alf Ragnar. Trondheim: Akademika. 2