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Irene Baug

Irene Baug

Position

Researcher, archaeology

Affiliation

E-mail
irene.baug@uib.no
Phone number
+47 55588020
+47 47 66 67 98
Visitor address
Øysteins gate 3
5007 Bergen
Postal address
P.O. Box 7805
NO-5020 Bergen
Norway

Irene Baug

Position

Researcher, archaeology

Affiliation

Research

I have studied landscapes and resource utilization in rural areas in the Viking Age and the Middle Ages – also connected to trade and urban societies. Thematically, my research focus has mainly been on quarries and large-scale production aimed at long-distance trade, and forms of transaction, markets and different types of networks have got attention – both within and outside of urban societies. My work is in this way also connected to trade hubs and early urbanization. In order to understand the finds – both production landscapes and artefacts – they are studied within a societal context where social, economic and socio-political relations within a long-term perspective are being analyzed. I have also studied archaeological material and landscapes from an actor perspective, where I mainly have focused upon different actors and their choices and actions in relation to structural powers in the society, and the impact of both social and physical structures upon the humans. My work is largely based on my own fieldwork, on development of methodology and interdisciplinary cooperation with geology.  

Publications
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Doctoral dissertation

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.

Projects

WHEPP the Whetstone Provenancing Project. The aim  is to explore AD 1st–9th-century trade routes and networks involving the western Scandinavian Peninsula. This will be achieved by provenancing whetstones retrieved from well-dated archaeological sites in Scandinavia, in the Baltic, and along the southern North Sea and English Channel coasts. This is an interdisciplinary and interinstitutionally collaboration between UiB, UiO and NGU - as well as some foreign researchers that are attached to parts of the project. WHEPP is financed by The Avaldsnes Royal Manor Project, University of Oslo.

The Borgund Kaupang Project. Life and death of a small town in the periphery of Europe. The aim of the project is to study Borgund’s role in national distribution networks for the trade in-, and consumption ofNorwegian hones: Was Borgund a hub in a trade network for Norwegian hones? And what were the hones used for at Borgund? C. 400 hones from Borgund will be classified and the stones identified using archaeological classificationmethods and different geological analyses. Øystein J. Jansen at the University Museum of Bergen is a collaboration partner in the project. https://app.cristin.no/projects/show.jsf?id=647273.

I am a participant in the project Eidsborg rock, which focuses on production and trade of whetstones in the late Iron Age from the quarry site Eidsborg in Telemark. The project is lead by Museum of Cultural History at the University of Oslo, and is financed by The Research Council of Norway, grant 341213. 

Middelalderklyngen

Eg er koordinator for Middelalderklyngen som er ei av kunnskapsklyngene ved Universitetet i Bergen.

Middelalderklyngen bygger på universitetet sine sterke fagmiljø innan mellomalderstudiar, og arbeider for å vidareutvikle kontakt og samarbeid mellom forskingsmiljøa på universitetet og eksterne lokale og regionale aktørar i Bergen og vestlandsregionen. Klynga skal vere eit samlande organ for desse fagmiljøa, og ha fokus på forsking, utdanning, formidling og forvaltning.