Brit Solli facts for kids

Brit Solli, born in 1959, is a Norwegian archaeologist. She teaches about the past at the Museum of Cultural History in Oslo. Before 2005, she was a professor at the University of Tromsø. From 2012 to 2015, she was also a director at a special research center in Oslo called the Centre for Advanced Study (CAS).

What Brit Solli Studies

Brit Solli studies many interesting things as an archaeologist. She looks at how archaeology itself has changed over time. She also explores how people in the past saw themselves (their identity) and how men and women lived. She studies ancient animals (zoo-archaeology) and how we protect old sites (cultural heritage management).

She also researches the old Norse religion and how the Norse people became Christian. Her work covers how cities grew and the social and political history of the Viking Age and Middle Ages.

Digging Up the Past

Brit Solli has taken part in many excavations, which are like digging up old sites to find clues about the past. She led important projects called the Veøya-project and the Borg III-project.

Currently, she is working on a project called Snow Patch Archaeological Research Cooperation, or SPARC. This project looks at how climate change affects archaeological sites. It's a team effort with scientists from different fields.

Sharing Knowledge

Brit Solli has helped share archaeological knowledge by working on several journals. She was on the editorial board of Journal of the North Atlantic and is now on the board of Current Swedish Archaeology. She also helped edit Norwegian Archaeological Review. From 2010 to 2011, she was the main editor for the Norwegian archaeological journal VIKING.

In 1992, Brit Solli won a special cultural prize. She received it for making archaeology easy for everyone to understand, especially through her work on the Veøya-project.