Charlotte damm

Professor and Head of Discipline

Investigating sociocultural diversity and interaction in the past.

Biography

Charlotte Damm studied for her first degree at University of Aarhus in Denmark, and later received an M.Phil. and a PhD (1991) from University of Cambridge.  She has worked briefly as county archaeologist in Finnmark, Norway and then as director of the excavations at Slettnes, Finnmark (through Tromsø Museum). In 1993 she joined the Department of Archaeology at The University of Tromsø, Norway, where she remained until moving to NUI Galway in 2011 as Established Professor of Archaeology. While her initial research and PhD focuses on the Danish Middle Neolithic and the interrelationship between the cultural groups there, the empirical basis for her later research is the Stone Age hunter-fishers of Northern Fennoscandia. She has done fieldwork in Denmark, England, Norway and Finland, as well as in New Zealand, Botswana and on Greenland.

Office ARC208, Department of Archaeology, School of Geography and Archaeology, Arts/Science Building, NUI, Galway.
Tel 091 494257 
   
E-mail charlotte.dammnuigalway.ie 

Awards/Distinctions

• British Council Fellowship1985-86. 
• Carlsberg Visiting Research Fellow at Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge 1988-89. 

Research

• Slettnes, Sørøya, Finnmark. 1991-1993
• The Past in the Present. Archaeology and Society in Eastern Ngamiland, Botswana. 1996-1999
• Transition to Late Stone Age in Northern Norway. 1996-2001
• Interregional contacts in northern Scandinavia  6000-3000 BC. 2002-
• Early Networking in Northern Fennoscandia. Group leader at Centre for Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy for Science and Letters, Oslo 2008-2009

Her current research interests are linked to sociocultural diversity in the past, interregional interaction and mobility, and prehistoric religion and ritual.

Current Writing

• Networking, Interaction and emerging identities. Proceedings from the International and multidisciplinary conference in Tromsø 13-16 oct. 2009. Accepted for publication in the series Mémoires de la Societé Finno-Ugrienne, published by the Finno-Ugrian Society, Helsinki. Edited by Charlotte Damm and Dr. Janne Saarikivi, University of Helsinki.

• Hunter-gatherer networking: new perspectives and approaches. First volume form the CAS project, edited by Peter Jordan (Univ of Aberdeen) and Charlotte Damm

 Teaching

• AR236 Interpretation in Archaeology
• AR249 Archaeological approaches to ritual and religion
• AR346 Social identities in the Past
• AR325 Minor dissertation
• Directed Studies
• Space, Place and Irish Landscape 

Administration:

• Head of Department
• School Research Committee

• School Finance and Resource Committee

Publications

Select Publications

• 2012 Approaching a complex past: entangled collective identities. In Anfinset, N. & Wrigglesworth, M. (eds) Local Societies in Bronze Age Northern Europe, Equinox, London, 13-30.
• 2010 Ethnicity and collective identities in the Fennoscandian Stone Age. Larsson, Å. M. & L. Papmehl-Dufay (Eds.) Uniting Sea II. Stone Age Societies in the Baltic Sea Region. (Proceedings of the second Uniting Sea workshop at Stockholm University, Sweden, Oct. 20-22, 2006.) OPIA 51, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Uppsala University. 11-30.
• 2006 Interregional Contacts across Northern Fennoscandia 6000-4000 BC. Arneborg, Jette and Grønnow, Bjarne (Eds.): Dynamics of Northern Societies. Proceedings of the SILA/NABO Conference on Arctic and North Atlantic Archaeology. PNM, Publications from the National Museum, Studies in Archaeology and History, Vol. 10. Copenhagen. 199-208.
• 2005 Archaeology, Ethnohistory and Oral Traditions: Approaches to the Indigenous Past. Norwegian Archaeological Review vol 38 (2). 73-87.

Extended Publication List (IRIS webpage)

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