The Sheep People

Dr. Kristin Armstrong Oma is currently the Head of the department of education and public service at the University of Stavanger, Archaeological museum (2013-present). She is an archaeologist and holds a PhD in archaeology from the University of Southampton (2002-2004), and a postdoctoral fellowship in archaeology from the University of Oslo (2010-2013). Previously, she was a junior lecturer in the department of archaeology at the University of Oslo, and has also participated in a wide range of archaeological fieldwork. Her research is situated in-between archaeology and human-animal studies. In her scholarly work she actively engages in arenas of archaeology and also of interdisciplinary human-animal studies arenas. She has published extensively on the relationships between humans and animals in the past, and she was guest editor of a Society and Animals special issue on archaeology, as well as co-editor of a World Archaeology volume called Humans and Animals.

• 1. Towards an Archaeology Informed by Human-Animal Studies2. Understanding Animals: Perception, Sentience and Anthropomorphism3. Animal Agency4. Three-Aisled Houses in Early Bronze Age Rogaland: Who were the Household Members?5. A Closer Look at Sheep, Sheepdogs and the Dynamics of Herding6. The Sheep People: Towards an Archaeology of Ontology