This research was made possible by @AU_Archaeology at @AarhusUni_int with funding my PhD-project, and by @UlrikHjJohnsen1 at @MuseumMoesgaard by allowing me access to the ethnographic collections.

Lastly, we argue that how important play is for innovation, pointing out how the initial emergence of play objects correlates with periods of innovation.

We have identified different learning processes and aims as well as changing roles within a community of practice of Wodaabe bowyers.

By analysing the bow-and-arrow play set we have been able to reconstruct a setting of situated learning through developing peripheral participation across different-age learners and teachers.

Our study shows how analysing toys using the method of cognigrammetry can tell us about the cognitive capacity of children.

NEW PAPER. My second PhD-paper is now out. In collaboration with Miriam Haidle and @ARCHAEOfelix, we have used the method of cognigrammetry on a bow-and-arrow play set from the Wodaabe in West Africa. The paper published by @LivUniPress: liverpooluniversitypress.co.…

The paper is open access, and supplementary material can be found here zenodo.org/records/10806222

This research was made possible by @AU_Archaeology at @AarhusUni_int with funding my PhD-project and by additional funding by @Nationalmuseet through the Elisabeth Munksgaard foundation.

Furthermore, there seems to be an increase in absolute numbers of play objects for the Inuit during the Little Ice Age, i.e. coinciding with changing climatic conditions.

This notion correlates very well with the huge different in absolute numbers of play objects from the two cultures, with only 72 objects from the Norse and almost 2400 objects from the Inuit.

We propose their different responses is partly to be found by looking at the play objects of the two cultures, with an elaborate miniature toolkit presented to the Inuit children and a more stringent one presented to the Norse children.

We then introduce the two cultures in study, the Norse and the Inuit, who both inhabited Greenland during the 2nd millennium CE. Despite facing the same climatic changes, they responded very differently.

Our study starts by highlighting the overlooked role children have played in climatic change responses, despite their importance to innovation and adaptation.

PAPER ALERT. First paper from my PhD-project is now out. In collaboration with @ARCHAEOfelix, we have looked at children and innovation during the Little Ice Age in Greenland. Read it in EJA by @archaeologyEAA published by @CambUP_Archaeo: doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2024.36

Ready to learn about playful dissemination at the Playful Space Summit at @designskolenkd. Gonna be an interesting day, I’m sure 👏🏻

My last day visiting @UVicAnthro ending the best way possibly with a hands-on workshop on palaeolithic art with @NowellApril, playing with clay and charcoal

Enjoying the nice sunshine and beautiful nature in Victoria on my last Sunday here before going home again 🇨🇦🇩🇰

Went whale watching outside Victoria yesterday with @Whale_Sightings and their knowledgeable staff 🐋 Amazing experience