• Neolithic - Late Neolithic, Chalcolithic and early Bronze Age in the Near East
• Metallurgy, in particular copper, mining, smelting, casting
• Late Neolithic and Bronze Age in Skandinavia
• Pastoral nomads and nomadism
• Development of political economy and complex socieites
• Research ethics

 

 

Research ethics for masterstudents, course given at AHKR, UiB

ARK 301

ARK 201

ARK 102

ARK103

Popular science book

• Terje Lislevand; Anna Wessman; Björn Nilsson et al. (2025). 200 Universitetsmuseet i Bergen. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2024). En kort introduksjon til bronsealderen i Norge. (external link)

Popular science book chapter

• Nils Anfinset (2025). 1917 På terskelen til en annen verden – runesteinen fra Eggja i Sogndal. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2025). 1958 Barberkniv i graven – krigersk forfengelighet på Hysstad. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2025). 1953 En armring til begjær – gullarmringen fra Vikse i Sveio. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2025). 1878 To økser og en armring ved Drepningshamaren i Aurland – et unikt funn fra bronsealder. (external link)

Conference lecture

• Nils Anfinset (2016). Ethnoarchaeology as Means for Archaeological Interpretation. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2006). Contextualising Tell el-Mafjar, Jericho. (external link)
• Knut Ivar Austvoll; Christian Horn; Nils Anfinset (2022). Scaling Bronze Age Societies. Between the Micro and Macro. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2012). Palmyrena in the prehistoric period: cycles of change and adaptation. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2006). Levantine and Western Desert pastoral traditions of northeast Africa?. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2006). Towards political economy of the late prehistory of the Levant. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2005). Norsk arkeologi - et spørsmål om grenser?. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2005). Cultivation & Pastoralism in late Neolithic & Charcolithic period. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2004). Å grave i en krigssone: Arkeologiske funn i striden mellom Israel og Palestina. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2004). Results from the 2003 season at Tell el-Mafjar, Jericho: The lithics and the small finds some preliminary results. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2010). Steppen som arena for handel, interaksjon og innovasjon. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2019). Lanscape and Urbanization in the southern Levant - past and present. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2003). Seminar on Lithic Technology: Technology, Function and Typology of the Southern Levant. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2003). Jericho: en arkeologisk utgravning. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2012). Metal, institutions and economic structures in south Norway during the Early Bronze Age. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2012). Cairns, stone structures and nomads. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset; Lene Johannesen (2019). TILBAKEFØRING AV SAMISK HUMANT MATERIALE – NOEN FORSKNINGSETISKE BETRAKTNINGER. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset; Lene Os Johannessen (2019). Rapport fra Norge. Skjelettutvalget og arbeidet vi gjør. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset; Gert Goldenberg; Erica Hanning (2019). COPPER SMELTING - TO SUCCEED OR NOT TO SUCCEED; THE QUESTION IS WHY?. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2016). Ethnoarchaeological studies on copper production in Nepal. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2010). Social and technological aspects of mining, smelting and casting copper - an ethnoarchaeological study from Nepal. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2008). The oasis's of Jericho and Palmyra; their surroundings and potential for digitalized culture heritage. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2008). Social response or resistance to the introduction of metal? at the edge of the “globalised world”. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2008). Economic systems in formation; the southern Levant and Northeast Africa during the 5th and 4th millennia BC. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2006). The Chalcolithic Period of the southern Levant. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2009). Seminar and workshop on the landscape and interaction of the Levant. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2017). Stone Dead! Lithic in material in Late Neolithic and Bronze Age burials. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2004). Culture heritage under pressure, and the recent excavations at Tell el-Mafjar, Jericho�. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2004). Identitet, Etnisitet og Modernitet: Konstruksjonen av etniske grupper og kulturer i Midtøsten i fortid og nåtid. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2004). Copper Awls and Pastoral Nomads in the 4th millennium BC � a link between the Levant and NE-Africa?�. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2007). På veg motkomplekse samfunn; sosial og økonomiske endringer med utgangspunkt i utgravningene i Jericho. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2010). Preliminary results from the PPNB and Early Bronze Age. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2019). Kulturarv i Palestina. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset; Jørgen Christian Meyer; Eivind Heldaas Seland (2009). The First Two Seasons of Survey Palmyra-Issariah. The Joint Syrian-Norwegian project. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2003). Krigen om Kulturminnene. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset; Hamed Salem (2018). Understanding et-Tell as heritage in a past and present urban landscape. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2021). Introduction to the seminar on return of human remains? Practices, implications and ethical issues. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2015). Introduksjon til krig, konflikt og truet kulturarv - å utvide arkeologiens anvendelsesområde. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2022). The Entageled History of the Levant. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2018). Humans, things and places. Heritage in conflict. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2008). The Global Moments Project. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2008). From equality to inequalty; a major shift in social transformation of the Near East. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2008). Tokens, specialised production and religion; towards complexity; travel in past and present. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2006). Societies without a state: Pastoral nomads and villagers in the Levant. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2005). The joint Palestinian-Norwegian excabation at Tell el-Mafjar: the 5th and the 4th millenia of the Lowe Jordan valley: results and future prospects. The Tell es - Sultan in the context of the Jordan Valley: Site management, conservation and sustainable development. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (1997). Mining and Smelting Copper in Contemporary Nepal. A Discussion of its form, Function and Context. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2020). Introduction: Return of human remains? Practices, implications and ethical issues. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2000). Kulturelle endringsprosesser i den chalcolittiske perioden i Midtøsten. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2011). Fra Syria via Nepal til Alpene. (external link)
• Eivind Heldaas Seland; Jørgen Christian Meyer; Nils Anfinset (2009). Palmyra: Brudd og kontinuitet i senantikken. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2015). Crafts, Materials and Power - a view from western Norway in the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset; Gert Goldenberg; Elena Silvestri (2011). The Nepal-process. When ethnoarchaeology meets experimental archaeology. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2007). Claiming historical rights in a nation building process; the case of Israel and Palestine. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2002). The Nubian A-Group - Copper artefacts and cultural implications. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2015). The Syrian steppe in the context of Göbliki Tepe and its wider implications of the Neolithic. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2019). Changing politics, conflict, urban development and the role of culture heritage in Palestine. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2012). Arkeologi, politikk og religion. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2019). Skjelettutvalget - hvem er vi og hva gjør vi. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset; Knut Rio (2021). What happened in Bergen? The museum that became university. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2016). Dynamics and transformation during the Bronze Age of coastal Norway. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2008). Settlement pattern in Jericho and the central hills of Palestine. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2000). Results from last year research and the potential of the Chalcolithic period. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2009). Palmyra og territoriet utenfor. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2011). Interaction and use of the Syrian dry steppe from Pre-Pottery Neolithic to Bronze Age. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2015). Archaeology and the natural sciences: a look at the use of natural sciences in archaeology from the 18th century until today. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2007). Processess of political economies of the 5th and 4th millennia BC. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2002). Societies on the fringes: Trade and contacts in the ¤th millenium BC. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2002). Connections and impulses of the Middle East and Norheast Africa in the 4th Millenium BC. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2002). Kulturelle endringsprosesser i den chalcolittiske perioden i Midtøsten. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2009). Jericho; Kulturminner, konflikt og globalisering. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset; Jørgen Christian Meyer; Eivind Heldaas Seland (2009). Palmyrena: City, Hinterland and Caravan Trade between the Occident and the Orient. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2009). Some preliminary results of the 1st season – Palmyra and the hinterland. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2003). Copper in pre-urban societies of the Southern Levant and Northeast Africa. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2003). Arkeologi og krig: Midtøsten. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2015). Crossing the Red Sea? Contacts between the Nile Valley and the Arabian Peninsula in the late 4th and early 3rd millennium BCE. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2024). Framing the Late Neolithic in Western Norway. Were they all settled farmers. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset; Frode Storås; Dipesh Kharel (2013). Vanishing technologies. Revisting copper mining and smelting in Nepal. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2013). Globalarkeologi. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2018). Culture in Crisis. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2005). Kulturarv i Irak: Omfang og implikasjoner. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2008). Levantine and Western Desert Pastoral Traditions of Northeast Africa, implications for culture contact. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2012). Cairns and stone structures of the Syrian Steppe. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2008). Beginnings of Cultural Complexity in the Levant. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset; Kari Klæboe Kristoffersen; Fredrik sundt Breien (2008). Augumented Reality og formidling: et pilotprosjekt ved Bergen Museum. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2005). Tell el-Mafjar in a broader contemporary perspective: The Jordan Valley and beyond. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2000). Hunnundersøkelsen: Landskap, kosmologi, riter og metallurgi. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2004). The Joint Palestinian-Norwegian Excavation at Tell el-Mafjar, Jericho 2002. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2007). Settlements in a political and culture-historical framework. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2004). Neolithic Societies in Northern Mesopotamia � a look towards Jebel Bishri. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2007). Towards political economies and empires. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2007). THE ROLE OF PASTORAL NOMADS IN THE 5TH AND 4TH MILLENNIA BC. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2007). Copper in pre-urban societies. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2007). Det politiske landskapet i Levanten i 5-4. årtusen i Levanten: prosesser på veg mot økt kompleksitet. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2007). Arkeologi i "ondskapensakse" - Syria. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2007). Pigs of the Jordan Valley and beyond; a social and economic perspective. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2015). Archaeological examples and reflections on ethical dilemmas working in conflict regions. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2009). FROM ORE TO GOD: SOCIAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF MINING, SMELTING AND CASTING COPPER. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2023). Har de døde rettigheter? Etiske utfordringer til forskning på menneskelige levninger?. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2006). Border Archaeology: The Nubian A-Group and its relations. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2003). Archaeology in a sacred and contested region: Jericho 2002. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2012). Palmyrena prosjektet: arkeologi i teori og praksis. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset; Gert Goldenberg; Erica Hanning (2019). Knoweldge Transfer in Alpine Bronze Age Copper Smelting Process. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2019). Graver fra sein steinalder og bronsealder med littisk materiale. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2018). The Urban Transformation in the Southern Levant; project and introduction. (external link)

Popular science article

• Nils Anfinset (2016). Snegler, skjell og fjæresanf - fragmenter av bronsealderens gravritualer?. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2012). Bronsealdersverdet fra Rimsvarden: Fortid møter nåtid. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2017). Etnoarkeologi, eksperimentell arkeologi og taus kunnskap. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset; Knut Andreas Bergsvik; Liv Helga Dommasnes et al. (2017). Svart natt på Universitetsmuseet. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2016). Eksperimentet som feilet: Metallurgi, etnografi og taus kunnskap. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2020). Fragmenter av historier - et bronsefunn fra Veum. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2004). En arkeologisk utgravning i Jeriko på Vestbredden. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2003). Irak - Hva skjer?. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2003). Er Unesco partisk?. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2003). Museumsdirektør uten museer. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2010). Fra tidlige jordbrukere til pastoralnomader. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2016). Sven Nilsson - teolog, zoolog og arkeolog. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2010). Forskningsetiske utfordringer i arkeologien. (external link)

Media interview

• Nils Anfinset (2014). Utanna til uvisse. Høg utdanning er alltid eit god for samfunnet. Men har vi eigentleg bruk for all denne utdanniga?. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2006). Kulturminner i fare. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2004). Jeg fant Atlantis. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2018). Getting to the source of ancient Egypt’s copper. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2018). Skjeletter: Hva finner vi ? Hvor finner vi det ?Hva kan vi lese ut av det ?. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2010). Vergessene Technologien. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2012). Leirebit skal vere første bevis for byen Betlehem. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2012). Kort sagt: om ødeleggelsene i Aleppo. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2014). Utdanna til uvisse. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2024). Museene og Gaza. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2022). Her ser du tre samiske menn. Burde disse maskene bli stilt ut?. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2010). Sporer bibelske bier. Bier fra bibelsk tid kan vise handelssamkvem over store avstander i Midtøsten for 3000 år siden. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2017). Fikk kjeft for å vaske hodeskalle. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2018). Når er det ok å beholde en hodeskalle?. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2018). Det er lett å trå feil når du forsker på gamle skjeletter. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2005). Å grave i en krigssituasjon. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2023). Elise (8) gjorde oppsiktsvekkende funn i skolegården. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2009). Skader på Gazas kulturarv. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2022). Får stadig nye problem­stillinger knyttet til forskning på menneskelige levninger. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2012). Kan ha hentet kopper fra norske fjell i 3500 år. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2012). Ødeleggelser av kulturminner i Aleppo, Syria. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2013). 1000 år gamle jødiske skrifter oppdaga i hole i Afghanistan. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2013). Spurveugle til etikk-kurs. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2006). Kulturminner i fare. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2005). Ulovlig utgraving på Vestbredden. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2013). Kudos to ethics committee. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2025). Brukte "magisk" sverd på gravide. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2017). Bynjar fant unik gjenstand fra bronsealderen. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2017). Hodebry i Bergen. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2010). Storslått skilpaddemåltid kan endre historieskrivningen. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2015). Hvordan Palmyra var, og hvorfor viktig i forskningen. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2011). Eldste kjente vinpresse funnet i Armenia; vindyrking og drikkekultur. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2010). Sporer bibelske bier. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2005). Ødeleggelser av kulturminner i Irak. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2018). - En veileder for forvaltning av menneskelige levninger. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2023). Denne boken burde aldri vært utgitt. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2013). Hva med kulturminnene i Irak - 10 år etter invasjonen. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2007). Nasjonalmuseet i Baghdad skadet, NRK P2, Kulturnytt, 6. august. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2014). Urbanisation out of control. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2018). Fann fleire tusen år gammal sigd. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2018). Fikk kjeft for å ha vasket hodeskalle. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2019). Skal vi la døde mennesker ligge, eller skal vi forske på dem?. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2005). Ny samfunnsstruktur for 6000 år siden. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2012). Fortid-Nåtid-Framtid. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2012). Europas første by funnet i Spania. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2012). Om religion i tidlige jordbrukssamfunn. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2019). Skjelettutvalget: Setter forskningen i et rart lys. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2021). Fikk nei til forskningsprosjekt fordi det kunne spre fordommer mot samene. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2025). Fødselssverdet fra Fitjar. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2025). Bronsesverdet fra Fitjar. (external link)
• Bård Amundsen; Jørgen Christian Meyer; Eivind Heldaas Seland et al. (2012). Mysteriet Palmyra. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2018). Har du skjelett i skapet? Høyr kva du må gjere om du skulle kome over eit skjelett!. (external link)

Lecture

• Nils Anfinset (2010). Arkeologi og historie. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2018). Veileder ved funn av menneskelige levninger. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2020). Er arkeologiutdanningen for akademisk?. (external link)
• Frode Storaas; Nils Anfinset (2015). Presentation of the film Tama Gaun - the Copper Village. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2023). Arbeid med Kulturmiljølov. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2023). Arbeidet med ny kulturmiljølov. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2014). For mange arkeologer. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2013). Arkeologi sett fra undervisningen. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2009). Arkeologi i Midtøsten i teori og praksis. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2016). Skjelettutvalget og forskningsetiske perspektiver. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset; Frode Storås; Dipesh Kharel (2014). Tama Gaun. The copper village. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset; Frode Storås; Dipesh Kharel (2014). Urpremiere: Tama Gaun. The copper village. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2005). Et bronsestøpeprosjekt i Nepal. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2009). Arkeologi på okkupert jord. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2000). Midtøsten - fortid og nåtid. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2023). Kulturhistorie – funn, samfunn og identitet. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2023). Gullringen fra Sveio – kulturarv er gull. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2006). Hvordan arkeologer jobber i Midtøsten. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2006). Kulturminner og politikk- Innledning til filmen "Guyabo - et fredet kuturminne i Peru". (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2014). Erfaringer med forskningsplaner og forskningssamarbeid. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2005). Bosettinger og kulturhistorie: Arkeologi i det hellige land. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2023). Bronsealderen og gullringen fra Vikse. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2024). Hva er bronsealderen. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2024). The University Museum and Global Research. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2006). Archaeology in theory and practice; implications of working in the Middle East. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2014). Forskningsetikk i teori og praksis. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2005). Når arkeologiske objekter blir antikviteter - kjøp og salg av fortiden. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2022). vordan forholde seg til kolonial arv knyttet til museumssamlinger?. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2017). Kultur i konflikt. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2021). Forskning på skjeletter fra Rapa Nui (Påskeøya) - urbefolkning, prøvetaking og ansvar. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2006). Identitet, kulturminner og politikk. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2006). Egypt - En sivilisasjon blir til. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2009). BETYDNINGEN AV ETNISITET FRA FORTID TIL NÅTID. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2023). Ny kulturmiljølov - arbeidet og utfordringer. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2004). Jeriko før og nå: et arkeologisk utgravnings prosjekt. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2014). Noen erfaringer om forskningsplaner og forskningssamarbeid. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2024). Hæ! Er bronsealderen viktig?. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2024). Bronsealderen. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2007). Steinalderen. (external link)

Book anthology

• Terje Østigård; Nils Anfinset; Tore Saetersdal (2004). Combining the Past and the Present: Archaeological perspectives on society. (external link)
• Terje Oestigaard; Nils Anfinset; Tore Saetersdal (2004). Combining the Past and the Present: Archaeological perspectives on society. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset; Melanie Wrigglesworth (2012). Local Societies in Bronze Age Northern Europe. (external link)
• Jørgen Christian Meyer; Eivind Heldaas Seland; Nils Anfinset (2016). Palmyrena: City, Hinterland and Caravan Trade Between Orient and Occident: Proceedings of the Conference Held in Athens, December 1-3, 2012. (external link)

Academic literature review

• Nils Anfinset (2009). The ethics of ethics, or same but different? Comments to Gabriel Moshenska. (external link)

Academic book chapter

• Nils Anfinset; Melanie Wrigglesworth (2012). Introduction: local societies, regions and processes of cultural interaction in the Bronze Age. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2015). Documenting copper Mining and Smelting Technology. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2009). From village to city?. (external link)
• Gert Goldenberg; Nils Anfinset; Elena Silvestri et al. (2011). Das Nepal-Experiment - experimentelle Archäometallurgie mit ethnoarchäologischem Ansatz. (external link)
• Jørgen Christian Meyer; Nils Anfinset; Torbjørn Preus Schou (2016). Palmyrena. The Northern Hinterland of Palmyra (Homs). (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2008). Towards specialised food production - a look at Jebel Bishri. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2017). Craft and resources - western Norway in the Late Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2004). Metallurgy and pastoral nomads in the Chalcolithic of the Southern Levant. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2012). Social response or resistance to the introduction of metal? Western Norway at the edge of the "globalized world". (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2017). Craft and materials in the Bronze Age. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset; H. Taha; M. al-Zawahra et al. (2011). Societies in Transition: Contextualizing Tell el-Mafjar, Jericho. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2011). Formation of Economic systems and social institutions during the fifth and fourth millennia BC in the southern Levant. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2006). Midtfeltet på Hunn: impulser og kulturkontakt?. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2000). Environmental Impact of Copper Mining and Smelting - Past and Present: A Case study from Okharbot Village Myagdi District. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset; Anne Lene Melheim (2002). En begravet støpeplass fra bronsealderen. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2006). Aspects of Excavation, Cooperation and Management; The Joint Palestinian-Norwegian Excavation at Tell el-Mafjar, Jericho. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2009). To eat or not to eat: the social and economic role of the pig in western Asia during prehistory. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2015). Metal, Institutions and Economic Structures in Southern Norway during the Early Bronze Age. (external link)

Media feature article

• Nils Anfinset; Sean Dexter Denham; Lene Os Johannessen (2022). Ikke forskningssensur, men forskningsetikk. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset; Sean Dexter Denham; Lene Os Johannessen (2022). Akademisk frihet, etnisitet og forsknings­etikk. (external link)
• Helene Ingierd; Ragna Aarli; Elisabeth Staksrud et al. (2020). Hvor ble det av forskningsetikken?. (external link)
• Knut Andreas Bergsvik; Gitte Hansen; Nils Anfinset et al. (2017). Ingen pengesum vil kunne erstatte det tapte. (external link)
• Knut Rio; Nils Anfinset; Knut Andreas Bergsvik (2020). Forskningen ut med badevannet. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2003). Bosettere i dilemma. (external link)

Research report

• Nils Anfinset (2009). Palmyrena. Palmyra and the surrounding territory. Joint Syrian-Norwegian Project surface survey north of Palmyra April and May 2009. Preliminary Report. Prehistoric Periods. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2005). Report to the UNESCO on the International training Workshop "Tell es- Sultan in the context of the Jordan Valeey: site management, conservation ans sustainable development. (external link)

Academic article

• Nils Anfinset (2003). A Passion for Cultural Difference. Ethnicithy and Archaeology in the Southern Levant. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2000). Teknologi og Etnoarkeologi. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2004). Preliminary Report on the First Excavation of the Palestinian - Norwegian Excavation at Tell el-Mafjar, 2002, Jericho. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset; Leif Ole Manger; Mohammed Suleiman Shunnaq et al. (2022). Can a Local Descent Group Become an Interna4onal Network? Research on the Rashāyidah in Five Countries. (external link)
• Jørgen Christian Meyer; Nils Anfinset (2010). The Hinterland of Palmyra. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2005). Bosetninger på Vestbredden i fortid og nåtid. (external link)
• Anne Lene Melheim; Christopher Prescott; Nils Anfinset (2016). Bronze casting and cultural connections: Bronze Age workshops at Hunn, Norway. (external link)

Exhibition production

• Nils Anfinset (2011). Palmyrena. City and Hinterland. The Early Bronze Age. (external link)
• Pedro Vasquez; Nils Anfinset (2011). Palmyra. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2011). Palmyrena. City and Hinterland. Pre-Pottery Neolithic Hunters. (external link)

Doctoral thesis (PhD)

• Nils Anfinset (2005). Secondary Products, Pastoral Nomads and the Introduction of Metal: The 5th and 4th Millenia BC in the Southern Levant and Nort-East Africa. (external link)
• Torbjørn Preus Schou; Nils Anfinset; Jørgen Christian Meyer (2015). Mobile pastoralist groups and the Palmyrene in the late Early to Middle Bronze Age (c. 2400­1700 BCE): An archaeological synthesis based on a multidisciplinary approach focusing on satellite imagery studies, environmental data, and textual sources. (external link)

Academic monograph

• Nils Anfinset (2008). Metal, Nomads and Culture Contact: The Middle East and North Africa. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2011). Social and technological aspects of mining, smelting and casting copper. An ethnoarchaeological study from Nepal. (external link)

Radio or TV participation

• Nils Anfinset (2003). Kommentarer til at Norge gav 500.000 til kulturminnene i Irak. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2003). Nye kommentarer til de siste plyndringene i Irak. (external link)
• Kari Loe Hjelle; Nils Anfinset (2023). Stengingen av Universitets­museet var helt nødvendig. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2024). Å stille ut døde. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2003). Kommentarer til plyndringen av Bagdad Museum og andre kulturminner i Irak. (external link)

Conference poster

• Nils Anfinset (2010). Pamyrena: The Early Bronze Age. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2010). Pre-Pottery Neolithic Hunters. (external link)
• Jørgen Christian Meyer; Eivind Heldaas Seland; Nils Anfinset (2010). Palmyrena. City, Hinterland and Caravan Trade between Occident and Orient. 6 posters. (external link)

Journal review

• Nils Anfinset (2021). Joakim Goldhahn: Birds in the Bronze Age. A North European Perspective. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2019. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2012). Book review: El Kharafish. The archaeology of Sheikh Muftah Patoral Nomads in the desert around Dakhla Oasis (Egypt). By H. Reimer, Africa Praehistorica 25. Heinrich Barth-Institut, Köln, 2011. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2020). Review: Kristin Armstrong Oma. 2018. The sheep people: the ontology of making lives, building homes and forging herds in Early Bronze Age Norway. Sheffield: Equinox. (external link)
• Nils Anfinset (2019). Bender Jørgensen, Lise, Soafer Joanna og Marie Louise Stig Sørensen (eds.) 2018 Creativity in the Bronze Age. Understanding Innovation in Pottery, Textile, and Metalwork Production. Cambridge University Press. (external link)

Professional article

• Nils Anfinset; Sean Dexter Denham; Lene Os Johannessen (2023). Ancient Human remains and Research Ethics. Fostering research culture and practice. (external link)

Letter to the editor

• Nils Anfinset (2000). Demokrati og kulturminnevern og arkeologi i den 3. verden. Kommentarer til Atle Omland. (external link)

Introduction

• Jørgen Christian Meyer; Eivind Heldaas Seland; Nils Anfinset (2016). Palmyrena. Introduction.. (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.

In press:

In press Crafts and resources - Western Norway in the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age, proceedings from the 13th Nordic Bronze Age symposium, Gothenburg.

In press Ethnoarchaeology, experimental archaeology and tacit knowledge, in Riss. Et arkeologisk tidsskrift. Universitetet i Bergen.

In press Settlement pattern in Jericho during prehistory, in Portal science for archaeology - approaches from the Mediterranean, ed. T. E. Levy. Equinox Publishing Ltd.In press Crafts and resources - Western Norway in the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age, proceedings from the 13th Nordic Bronze Age symposium, Gothenburg.In press Etnoarkeologi, eksperimentell arkeologi og taus kunnskap, i Riss. Et arkeologisk tidsskrift. Universitetet i Bergen.

 

Books/monographs:

2011 Social and technological aspects of mining, smelting and casting copper. An ethnoarchaeological study from Nepal. Der Anschnitt. Deutschen Bergbau-Museum Bochum.

2010 Anfinset, N. Metal, Nomads and Culture Contact, Equinox Publishing Ltd., London.

 

Edited books/anthologies

2016 Meyer, J. C., Heldaas Seland, E. & N. Anfinset (eds.). Palmyrena: City, Hinterland and Caravan Trade between the Orient and the Occident. Archaeopress. Oxford.

2012 Anfinset, N. & Wrigglesworth, M. (eds.) Local Societies in Bronze Age Northern Europe. Equinox Publishing Ltd., London.

2004 Combining the Past and the Present. Archaeological perspectives on society, eds. Oestigaard, T. & Anfinset, N. & Saetersdal, T., BAR International Series 1210.

 

Reviews, chronicles and comments

2012 Book review: El Kharafish. The archaeology of Sheikh Muftah Patoral Nomads in the desert around Dakhla Oasis (Egypt). By H. Reimer, Africa Praehistorica 25. Heinrich Barth-Institut, Köln, 2011, in Journal of African Archaeology, Vol. 10 (1), 125-127.

2009 The ethics of ethics, or same but different?, in Norwegian Archaeological Review, comments to G. Moshenska, Vol. 42, no. 2, 177-180.

2003 Bosettere i dillemma. Kronikk i Klassekampen 7. juli 2003. (Settlers in dilemma)

 

Articles in books and journals

2016 Snegler, skjell og fjæresand - fragmenter av bronsealderens gravrituale? Årbok for Universitetsmuseet i Bergen, pp. 15-25. Universitetet i Bergen. http://www.nordisktrykk.no/FLIP/UMB2016-Flip/mobile/index.html#p=1

2016 Eksperimentet som feilet: Metallurgi, etnografi og taus kunnskap. Årbok for Universitetsmuseet i Bergen, pp. 127-134. Universitetet i Bergen. http://www.nordisktrykk.no/FLIP/UMB2016-Flip/mobile/index.html#p=1

2016 Sven Nilsson - teolog, zoolog og arkeolog, i Riss. Et arkeologisk tidsskrift. pp. 4-13. Universitetet i Bergen. http://riss.uib.no/files/2016/12/RISS-Nr.-1-2016.pdf

2016 Palmyrena. The Northern Hinterland of Palmyra (Homs), Meyer, C., Anfinset, N. & T. P. Schou, in A History of Syria in One Hundred Sites, eds. Kanjou. Y & A. Tsuneki. Archaeopress Publishing, Oxford. pp. 355-358.

2016 Bronze casting and cultural connections: Bronze Age workshop at Hunn, Norway Melheim, L., Prescott. C. & N. Anfinset, in Praehistorische Zeitschrift, vol. 91, no. 1, 42-66.

2015 Metal, institutions and economic structures in southern Norway during the Early Bronze Age, in Suchowska-Ducke, P., Scott Reiter, S. & H. Vandkilde (eds.). Forging Identities. The Mobility of Culture in Bronze Age Europe. Report from a Marie Curie Project 2009-2012 with concluding conference at Aarhus University, Moesgaard 2012: volume 2. British Archaeological Reports, S2772, pp. 145-153.

2015 Documenting copper mining and smelting technology, in Metals and Civilzations. Proceedings from BUMA VII, Beginnings of the use of metals and alloys, Bangalore, National Institute of Advanced Studies, eds S. Srinivasan, R. Ranganathan & A. Giumlia-Mair, pp. 223-232.

 

2012 Bronsealdersverdet fra Rimsvarden: Fortid møter nåtid, i Riss. Et arkeologisk tidsskrift, Nr. 2, 4-11. Universitetet i Bergen. (The bronze sword from Rimsvarden: Past meets present)

2012 Social response or resistance to the introduction of metal? Western Norway at the edge of the "globalised world", in Anfinset, N. & Wrigglesworth, M. (eds.)Local Societies in Bronze Age Northern Europe. Equinox Publishing Ltd., London. 232-250. http://www.equinoxpub.com/equinox/books/showbook.asp?bkid=441

2012 Anfinset, N. & Wrigglesworth, M., Introduction: local societies, regions and processes of cultural interaction in the Bronze Age, in Anfinset, N. & Wrigglesworth, M. (eds.)Local Societies in Bronze Age Northern Europe. Equinox Publishing Ltd., London. 1-9. http://www.equinoxpub.com/equinox/books/showbook.asp?bkid=441

2011 Formation of economic systems and social institutions: the 5th and 4th milennia in the southern Levant, in Interweaving worlds: systemic interaction in Eurasia, 7th to 1st millennium BC, eds. Wilkinson, T., Sherratt, S. and Bennet, J., Oxbow Publishing. 145-157.

2011 Goldenberg, G., Anfinset, N., Slivestri, E., Belgrado, E., Hanning, E., Klaunzer, M., Schneider, P., Staudt, M. & Töchterle, U. Das Nepal-Experiment - experimentelle Archäometallurgie mit ethnoarchäologischem Ansatz, in Die Geschichte des Bargbaus in Tirol un seinen angrenzenden Gebieten. Proceedings zum 5. Milstone-Meeting des SFB-HiMAT vom 7.-10.10 in Mühlbach, eds. K. Oeggl, G. Goldenberg, T. Stöllner & M. Prast. Innsbruck University Press. 83-90.

2011 Anfinset, N., Taha, H., al-Zawahra, M. & J. Yasine Societies in transition; contextualising Tell el-Mafjar, Jericho, in Culture, Chronology and the Chalcolithic, eds. J. Lowie & Y. Rowan. Oxbow Books, Levant Supplementary Series. 97-113.

2010 Forskningsetiske utfordringer i arkeologien, i Riss - et arkeologisk tidsskrift, nr. 1, 13-20. Universitetet i Bergen.

2010 Anfinset, N. & Meyer, J. C., The hinterland of Palmyra, in Antiquity, Vol. 84, no. 324, June issue, http://antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/anfinset324/

2009 To eat or not to eat: the social and economic role of the pig in Western Asia during prehistory, in Food and Foodways in the Middle East, ed. Naguib, N., 37-55, Birzeit Univeristy. Ramallah.

2009 The ethics of ethics, or same but different?, in Norwegian Archaeological Review, comments to G. Moshenska, Vol. 42, no. 2, 177-180.

2008 Anfinset, N. Towards specialised food production – a look to Jebel Bishri, Syria, in Jebel Bishri in context. Introduction to the archaeological studies  and te neighbourhood of Jebel Bishri in Central Syria, ed. Lönnqvist, M. BAR International Series 1817, 1-13, Oxford.

2006 Anfinset, Nils Aspects of Excavation, Cooperation and Management; The Joint Palestinian-Norwegian Excavation at Tell el-Mafjar, Jericho, i Tell es-Sultan / Jericho in the context of the Jordan Valley. Site Management, Conservation and Sustainable Development, red. L. Nigro & H. Taha, ”La Sapienza” Expedition to Palestine & Jordan, ROSAPAT 02, Rome, pp. 61-82.

2006 Anfinset, Nils Midtfeltet på Hunn: Impulser og kulturkontakt? i Randi Barndon, Sonja M. Innselset, Kari K. Kristoffersen & Trond K. Lødøen (red.) Festskrift til Gro Mandt på 70-årsdagen, UBAS - Universitetet i Bergen Arkeologiske Skrifter. Nordisk 3, pp. 27-41.

2005 Anfinset, Nils Bosetninger på Vestbredden i fortid og nåtid, i Babylon. Tidsskrift om Midtøsten og Nord-Afrika. Vol. 3, No. 2, 106-115.

2004 Anfinset, N., Meltheim, L. & Prescott, C.: Hunnundersøkelsen: Landskap, kosmologi, riter og metallurgi.  http://www.hf.uio.no/iakk/hunn/

2004 Anfinset, Nils Metallurgy and pastoral nomads in the Chalcolithic of the Southern Levant, i Combining the Past and the Present. Archaeological perspectives on society, reds. Oestigaard, T. & Anfinset, N. & Saetersdal, T., BAR International Series 1210. 61-73.

2003 Anfinset, N. A Passion for Cultural Difference. Archaeology and Ethnicity in the Southern Levant, i Norwegian Archaeological Review, Vol. 36, No. 1, 45-63.

2000 Anfinset, Nils Mining and Smelting Copper in Contemporary Nepal. A Discussion of its Form, Function and Context, i H. Vankilde & D. Olausson (eds.) Form, Function and Context. Acta Archaeologica Lundensia. Lund. Sweden, 203-212.

• Urban transformation in the southern Levant, a NORHED-project, in collaboration with Birzeit University
• Trade and landuse in Palmyra and the surrounding territory. Joint Syrian-Norwegian survey between Palmyra and Isriyé (Seriane). Ansvar for tiden ned til og med bronsealder (2009-2012) http://www.org.uib.no/palmyrena/
• Global Moments in the Levant; Processes towards political economies in the Levant in the 5th and 4th millennia bc - a comparative approach (2006-2009)
• Hunn prosjektet (med Christopher Prescott og Anne Lene Melheim) (1998-2003)
• The joint Palestinian-Norwegian excavation at Tell el-Mafjar, Jericho
• VikingAR; the use of Augumented Reality in Archaeology and exhibitions (2005)
• Lower Jordan River Basin Programme, NUFU project (1998-2007)