Dr. Astrid J. Nyland

Astrid J. Nyland is Associate Professor at the Museum of Archaeology, University of Stavanger, Norway. In her research she explores aspects of life in the Mesolithic and Neolithic, like how societies handled crisis, how one expressed or anchored social affinity through lithics and lithic raw materials, and ways of past (and present) knowledge transmission and storytelling. Nyland also has a background in field archaeology and is the administrative project coordinator for the archaeological excavations at her museum.