The Research group covers the Stone Age (9500-1700 BCE) and Bronze Age (1700 – 500 BCE). During this 9000-year timespan comprehensive landscape and climate changes contributed to fundamental cultural transformations, change in resource exploitation, settlement patterns and population composition – the neolithization process being the most radical and formative. The ambition is through material culture studies and multi-proxy approaches to be a dynamic platform for investigating long-term cultural changes, and development of complexity and stratified societies. 
Key aspects are: 

• Demographic change, networks of contact, regionality 
• Landscape use, resource exploitation and food-webs.
• Social structure, settlement patterns and dwelling types.   
• Raw material use, technology, cultural transmission and communities of practice. 
• Ritual manifestations and cosmology.  

The Foragers to Farmers research group unites scholars from the Institute of Archaeology and Cultural history at NTNU University Museum and Department of Historical and Classical Studies Faculty of Humanities for collaboration on northern hunter- gatherer and early farming societies. 
The strategic goals are:

• to provide a forum for discussion of research issues pertaining to Stone- and Bronze Age.
• to encourage collaboration between institutions.
• to initiate externally funded research projects and recruitment.
• to activate the comprehensive material from development-led excavation projects in Central Norway.
• to increase awareness of Central Norway`s archaeological material as uniquely positioned to address current international debates.
• To maintain and develop Nordic and international collaborations and networks.