Recent Conference Papers

2005: Organizer and chair of session “Life on the Edge: Maritime archaeology from the North Atlantic rim of Europe” and presentation of paper “Iron Age boathouses in northern Norway: beyond ‘boat storage’ to a more holistic maritime perspective”. 11th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA), Cork, Ireland, September 5-11,2005.

2005: Iron Age boathouses in Arctic Norway viewed as multifunctional expressions of maritime cultural heritage. (S. Wickler and G. Nilsen). Paper presented at Maritime Heritage 2005, the 2nd International Conference on Maritime Heritage, Barcelona, Spain, April 18-20, 2005.

2004: Colonization and Interaction in Micronesian Prehistory: a zooarchaeological assessment. Paper presented at the Anthropology Colloquium Series, Univ. of Hawai’i, Honolulu, April 8, 2004.

2004: The Seamless Join? Integrating terrestrial and submerged cultural landscapes. Paper presented at the 15th Annual Symposium on Maritime Archaeology and History of Hawai’i and the Pacific, Honolulu, Hawai’i, February 14-16, 2004.

2003: Exploring the Maritime Cultural Landscape of Borg, an Iron Age Power Center in the Lofoten Islands, Arctic Norway. Paper presented at the Session “Underwater Archaeology: Problems, Results, Prospects”, Cultural Heritage and the Management of the Archaeological Record Thematic Block, 9th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, St. Petersburg, Russia, September 10-14, 2003.

2002: Deconstructing ‘Micronesia’: an archaeological perspective. Paper presented at the session: “Recovering, Covering and Uncovering Micronesia”, Fifth European Society for Oceanists (EsfO) Conference "Recovering the Past: resources, representations, and ethics of research in Oceania", Vienna, Austria, July 4-6, 2002.

2002: Session organizer and presentation of paper: Competing colonisation models in Micronesia: the faunal evidence, Human and Animal Migration and Colonisation session, International Council of Archaeozoology (ICAZ) Conference, University of Durham, England, August 23-28, 2002.

2002: The Borg maritime cultural landscape project: geophysical and archaeological investigations of a Viking Age harbor in the Lofoten Islands. Paper presented (in Norwegian) at: The Norwegian Archaeology Meeting (NAM), Kabelvåg, Lofoten, October 3-4, 2002.

2001: Models for the colonization of western Micronesia and Palau. Paper presented at the Second Micronesian Colloquium, Colegio Mayor Olarain, April 17-20, 2001, San Sebastian, Spain.

2000: Patterns of early land use and settlement in Palau and implications for the colonization of western Micronesia. Paper presented at the session: "New Horizons in Pacific Research", Pacific 2000 - The fifth International Congress on Easter Island and Pacific Studies, 7-12 August, Kamuela, Hawaii, USA.