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Bubble snail on black background
Researchers from the University Museum of Bergen have gathered and published information about the bubble shell in Species Online.
Ornaments from the Early Neolithic Period, belonging to Le Tai, Toulouse University and Essenbach-Ammerbreite, Archäologische Staatssammlung München.
North Europeans resisted adaption of farming and herding when these practices arrived in Europe about 8,000 years ago, according to a new study conducted by a team including Archaeology Professor Francesco d’Errico at the University of Bergen.
Underwater volcanoes
Biodiversity hot spots in the ocean are an un-tapped resource for safer, cheaper and greener products.
NEW DIRECTOR: Starting 20 April, Alette Gilhus Mykkeltvedt is the new director at the University of Bergen’s Faculty of Social Sciences.
The Faculty of Social Sciences has appointed a new faculty director for the first time in 15 years. Alette Gilhus Mykkeltvedt wants to make the faculty more visible.
Thelma Kraft og Kristin Svartveit
Few people at the University of Bergen knows Makerere University in Uganda better than Thelma Kraft. She has facilitated collaboration and capacity building between UiB and "the Harvard of Africa" for fourteen years.