Kari Loe Hjelle

Position

Dean, Museum Director

Affiliation

Research

Pollen analysis; Quantitative reconstructions; Pollen deposition - vegetation relationships; Cultural landscape development; Agricultural history; Use of plants through time

Teaching

I teach in the following courses:

BIO 250 Palaeoecology

BIO260 Nordic cultural landscapes

ARK101/102/103/104 Archaeology courses - Introductory lectures about botany and archaeology

Publications

Mehl, I.K., Overland, A., Berge, J., Hjelle, K.L. 2015. Cultural landscape development on a west-east gradient in western Norway – potential of the Landscape Reconstruction Algorithm (LRA). Journal of Archaeological Science 61, 1–16.

 

Mehl, I.K., Hjelle, K.L. 2015.From pollen percentage to regional vegetation cover– a new insight into cultural landscape development in western Norway. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 217, 45–60.

 

Bunting, M.J., Farrell, M., Broström, A., Hjelle, K.L., Mazier, F., Middleton, R., Nielsen, A.B., Rushton, E., Shaw, H., Twiddle, C.L. 2013. Palynological perspectives on vegetation survey: a critical step for model-based reconstruction of Quaternary land cover. Quaternary Science Reviews 82, 41–55.

 

Overland, A., Hjelle, K.L. 2013. Pollen analysis in the context of clearance cairns from boreal forests – a reflection of past cultivation and pastoral farming. Journal of Archaeological Science 40(2), 1029-1041.

 

Hjelle, K.L., Kaland, S., Kvamme. M., Lødøen, T.K., Natlandsmyr, B. 2012. Ecology and long-term land-use, palaeoecology and archaeology – the usefulness of interdisciplinary studies for knowledge-based conservation and management of cultural landscapes. International Journal of Biodiversity Science, Ecosystem Services & Management 8 (4), 321–337.

 

Hjelle, K.L., Solem, T., Halvorsen, L.S., Åstveit, L.I. 2012. Human impact and landscape utilization from the Mesolithic to medieval time traced by high spatial resolution pollen analysis and numerical methods. Journal of Archaeological Science 39, 1368-1379.

 

Hjelle, K.L., Sugita, S. 2012. Estimating pollen productivity and relevant source area of pollen using lake sediments in Norway: How does lake size variation affect the estimates? The Holocene 22, 313-324.

 

Bunting, M.J., Hjelle, K.L. 2010. Effect of vegetation data collection strategies on estimates of relevant source area of pollen (RSAP) and relative pollen productivity estimates (relative PPE) for non-arboreal taxa. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 19, 365–374.

 

Hjelle, K.L., Halvorsen, L.S., Overland, A. 2010. Heathland development and relationship between humans and environment along the coast of western Norway through time. Quaternary International 220, 133–146.

 

Overland, A., Hjelle, K.L. 2009. From forest to open pastures and fields: cultural landscape development in western Norway inferred from two pollen records representing different spatial scales of vegetation. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 18, 459–476.

 

Broström, A., Nielsen, A.B., Gaillard, M.J., Hjelle, K., Mazier, F., Binney, H., Bunting, J., Fyfe, R., Meltsov, V., Poska, A., Räsänen, S., Soepboer, W., von Stedingk, H., Suutari, H., Sugita, S. 2008. Pollen productivity estimates of key European plant taxa for quantitative reconstruction of past vegetation: a review. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 17, 461–478.

 

Caseldine, C., Fyfe, R., Hjelle, K. 2008. Pollen modelling, palaeoecology and archaeology – virtualisation and/or visualisation of the past? Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 17, 543–549.

 

Gaillard, M.J., Sugita, S., Bunting, M.J., Middleton, R., Broström, A., Caseldine, C., Giesecke, T., Hellman, S.E.V., Hjelle, K., Langdon, C., Nielsen, A.B., Poska, A., von Stedingk, H., Veske, S. 2008. The use of modelling and simulation approach in reconstructing past landscapes from fossil pollen data: a review and results from the POLLANDCAL network. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 17, 419–433.

 

Hjelle, K.L. 2007. Foreign trade and local production – plant remains from medieval times in Norway. In: Karg, S. (ed.) Medieval food traditions in Northern Europe. Publications from the National Museum Studies in Archaeology & History 12, 161–179.

 

Hjelle, K.L., Hufthammer, A.K., Bergsvik, K.A. 2006. Hesitant hunters: a review of the introduction of agriculture in western Norway. Environmental Archaeology 11(2), 147-170.

 

Hjelle, K.L. 1999. Modern pollen assemblages from mown and grazed vegetation types in western Norway. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 107, 55-81.

 

Hjelle, K.L. 1999. Use of modern pollen samples and estimated pollen representation factors as aids in the interpretation of cultural activity in local pollen diagrams. Norwegian Archaeological Review 32, 19-39.

 

Hjelle, K.L. 1998. Herb pollen representation in surface moss samples from mown meadows and pastures in western Norway. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 7, 79-96.

 

Hjelle, K.L. 1997. Relationships between pollen and plants in human-influenced vegetation types using presence - absence data in western Norway. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 99, 1-16.

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Projects

HACIER: Human, Agricultural, and Climatic impact on Ecological Rules: macroecological analysis of paleo-biological datasets (2014 - 2017)