Sverre Marstrander was a Norwegian professor in archaeology.

Marstrander became a professor in Nordic archaeology at the University of Oslo

University of Oslo

The University of Oslo , formerly The Royal Frederick University , is the oldest and largest university in Norway, situated in the Norwegian capital of Oslo. The university was founded in 1811 and was modelled after the recently established University of Berlin...

 in 1968. At the same time he became the manager of Oldsaksamlingen, the antiquities collection at the University of Oslo, and was in the position until 1980.

His most important studies was the research of the Norwegian rock carvings

Petroglyph

Petroglyphs are pictogram and logogram images created by removing part of a rock surface by incising, picking, carving, and abrading. Outside North America, scholars often use terms such as "carving", "engraving", or other descriptions of the technique to refer to such images...

, which shows in his dissertation from 1963; Østfolds jordbruksristninger.