Brit Solli (born 1959) is a Norwegian

archaeologist Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscap ...

and Professor of

Medieval archaeology ''Medieval Archaeology'' is an annual peer-reviewed academic journal covering the archaeology of the medieval period, especially in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It was established in 1957 by the Society for Medieval Archaeology and is publishe ...

at the Museum of Cultural History in

Oslo Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of ...

.Brit Solli
University of Oslo Until 2005, she was Professor in Historic Archaeology at the

University of Tromsø The University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway (Norwegian: ''Universitetet i Tromsø – Norges arktiske universitet''; Northern Sami: ''Romssa universitehta – Norgga árktalaš universitehta'') is a state university in Norway an ...

. From August 2012, Solli has been appointed to be Scientific Director at the Centre for Advanced Study (CAS),Brit Solli
, Centre for Advanced Study at

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters ( no, Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi, DNVA) is a learned society based in Oslo, Norway. Its purpose is to support the advancement of science and scholarship in Norway. History The Royal Frederick Univer ...

in Oslo, for a period of three years.

Research and academic achievements

Solli's areas of research span a wide array of themes, including Archaeological research history, theory and method, archaeology and

identity Identity may refer to: * Identity document * Identity (philosophy) * Identity (social science) * Identity (mathematics) Arts and entertainment Film and television * ''Identity'' (1987 film), an Iranian film * ''Identity'' (2003 film), ...

, archaeology of gender, archaeology and zoo-archaeology,

cultural heritage management Cultural heritage management (CHM) is the vocation and practice of managing cultural heritage. It is a branch of cultural resources management (CRM), although it also draws on the practices of cultural conservation, restoration, museology, archae ...

and archaeology of

Old Norse religion Old Norse religion, also known as Norse paganism, is the most common name for a branch of Germanic religion which developed during the Proto-Norse period, when the North Germanic peoples separated into a distinct branch of the Germanic peop ...

. Solli has also carried out research on Christianisation of the Norse, urbanization, and socio-political history of the

Viking Age The Viking Age () was the period during the Middle Ages when Norsemen known as Vikings undertook large-scale raiding, colonizing, conquest, and trading throughout Europe and reached North America. It followed the Migration Period and the Ger ...

and

Middle Ages In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the late 5th to the late 15th centuries, similar to the post-classical period of global history. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire a ...

. In addition to this, Solli has participated in numerous

excavations In archaeology, excavation is the exposure, processing and recording of archaeological remains. An excavation site or "dig" is the area being studied. These locations range from one to several areas at a time during a project and can be condu ...

, and has led the

Veøya Veøya (or Veøy) is an island in Molde Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located at a junction of the three main branches of Romsdal Fjord between the island of Sekken and the mainland near the village of Nesjestranda. T ...

-project and the Borg III-project. She is currently involved in an interdisciplinary project which is supported by the

Norwegian Research Council The Research Council (also the Research Council of Norway; no, Norges forskningsråd) is a Norwegian government agency that funds research and innovation projects. On behalf of the Government, the Research Council invests NOK 11,9 billion (2021) ...

. The project, called Snow Patch Archaeological Research Cooperation, or SPARC,SPARC
, Forskningsrådet. concerns archaeology and

climate change In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system. Climate change in a broader sense also includes previous long-term changes to E ...

. Solli was on the editorial board of ''Journal of the North Atlantic'' until 2011, and is currently on the editorial board of ''Current Swedish Archaeology''. She was also one of the editors of ''

Norwegian Archaeological Review ''Norwegian Archaeological Review'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal of archaeology. It was established in 1968 and is published biannually by Routledge Routledge () is a British multinational publisher. It was founded in 1836 by George ...

'' until 2009. For the period of 2010 - 2011, Solli was Editor-in-Chief of the Norwegian archaeological journal ''VIKING''. In 1992, Solli was awarded a cultural prize for disseminating archaeology to the general public. The prize was awarded her in relation to the Veøya-project.

References

External links

Publications by Brit Solli
in BIBSYS
Publications by Brit Solli
in the research documentation system Cristin

at the University of Oslo
The SPARC project
at Forskningsradet.no {{DEFAULTSORT:Solli, Brit 1959 births Living people Archaeologists from Oslo Norwegian women archaeologists