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Testimony of the spadeTestimony of the spadeTestimony of the spade skrivs på engelska av en svensk arkeolog och osteolog, Magnus Reuterdahl. Bloggen handlar mestadels om arkeologi, kulturmiljövård, runologi, osteologi m.m. Mestadels rör bloggen de fornlämningar jag besöker, böcker och artiklar jag för tillfället läser eller om det jag jobbar med. Artiklar
Van Halen vs an immaterial cultural heritage
2012-02-07 20:40:00 I sat listening to Van Halen the other day ? going through my old albums, on vinyl ? anyone remember those big old round things? When I got to the 1984 album and the hit Jump ? something hit me. This song got me thinking on a Swedish word Ättestupa. While David Lee Roth sees ...
Nytt uppdrag: Etik & arkeologi ? A new mission: Ethics & Archaeology
2012-01-25 19:02:00 This post is available in English further down. Som jag nämnt i tidigare inlägg byter jag arbetsgivare från och med den 1 februari, från Länsstyrelsen i Västernorrland till Länsstyrelsen i Östergötland. Det är dock mer på gång för mig inom det arkeologiska ? jag kommer ingå in en arbetsgrupp inom DIK med uppgift att ta ... Mer om: Arkeologi
Östergötland here I come
2012-01-22 11:31:00 Just one week left in Västernorrland County ? then it’s all preparations for my new job at the administrative board in Östergötland County. The job is more or less the same as I’ve been doing up north ie handling different kind of ie processing various types of cases such as different kind of consultations, dealing ...
Flash-back of the Gudrun days
2012-01-12 17:02:00 2011 ended with a bang ? a storm named Dagmar hit Sweden with force, together with the storm Cato. Between 2005-2007 I worked with the effects on ancient monuments and remains after two other storms; Gudrun (2005) & Per(2006). Gudrun herself was responsible for damages on at least 75 million cubic meters of forest. In Kronoberg county ...
Happy new year!
2011-12-31 12:26:00 2011 is closing in and 2012 is waiting to shine. Though the new year hasn’t started yet it has kind of pre-started for me – In February I start a new employment. This time I turn south again, a bit like a jo-jo, to Linköping where I will work at the county administrative board in ...
Got an early christmas gift today
2011-12-23 14:41:00 Got an offer on a new job today. It’ll start next year and means that I’ll be working in Östergötland the better part of next year :) I’ll post more on this at a later date. Merry Christmas Magnus Reuterdahl
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year
2011-12-20 19:12:00 Time seems to fly when you enjoy your self or is busy, this year has come and gone and during the last part I really haven?t paid Testimony of the spade as much attention as I should ? I intend to do better next year. But as go through statistics I?ve managed to posts some ...
Pictures from da hood i.e. the nearby wood
2011-12-11 15:46:00 If you ever wondered were I live this is it; the suburb Bergshamra. Just a few minutes walk from my apartment in Stockholm I’m more or less in the wood and by the waterfront ? yet I’m only a 10 ? minute ride by the subway to down town Stockholm. Today we took a Sunday ... Mer om: stockholm
Prehistoric wine & Ancient wine
2011-12-06 19:34:00 I’ve started yet another blog, Testimony of a wine junkie – I guess you can figure out what it’s about; my other big interest in life: Wine! I’ve also got a wine blog in Swedish Aqua Vitae if you prefer my native tongue. Next year I’ll participate in EWBC ? the European Wine Bloggers Conference ...
The game of thrones ? the real world?
2011-11-16 18:55:00 I?ve just read Jan Rüdiger’s Did Charlamange know Carolingian kingship theory? Before I start off on the book a few notes on who Charlemagne was and on Carolingian theory. In short; Charlemagne (ca 740-814 AD), my namesake, Carolus Magnus aka Karolus Magnus, meaning Charles the Great was the king of the Franks from 768 and ... Mer om: Martin
Seminar on crime against cultural heritage sites
2011-11-07 12:29:00 Jag kommer twittra under seminariet – följ mig på #fornbrott (I’ll tweet the seminar though in Swedish #fornbrott) On Wednesday I?ll be at the Swedish National Herritage boards (RAÄ) seminar on crime against cultural heritage sites. The seminar includes a brief on reported crime against cultural heritage sites 2000-2010, some examples on this and perhaps ... Mer om: Arkeologi
A visit to Högom
2011-11-04 11:03:00 The other day I visited one of the better known ancient monuments in Västernorrlands county; the Högom grave field in Sundsvall . When most hear about big mounds they think of Uppsala Mounds or other big mounds in the lake Mälaren region or further south in Sweden, but there are also several big mounds in the ...
To Italy and back again
2011-10-20 20:29:00 Been on a trip to Italy ? that should be good for posts on archaeology and cultural history. Well, I’ve got some culture though the main purpose of the trip was another type of culture; wine. For the second time I’ve been at the European wine bloggers conference, this time around in Franciacorta. I’ll get ...
Field season 2011 is out & done
2011-10-01 11:00:00 That was the last of the field season 2011, I’ve had a good season in Kalmar County and lately in Blekinge County. The Blekinge E22 excavations are really interesting and the results are fantastic ? Mesolithic huts, settlements, work sites and amazing grave finds from the Neolithic, the Bronze Age and early Iron Age. It’ll ... Mer om: Italy , Jönköping
Real world postPhD
2011-09-24 11:46:00 Welcome Elin Fornander to the real world and congratulations, just yesterday her thesis was printed and she got to hold it in her hands. It still has to be defended ? but I share no fears it will go smoothly ? now it is just the question of finding your place in the archaeological real ...
On display ? Inca gold (?)
2011-09-24 10:44:00 Today I’ll visit the exhibition Inca gold – treasures in the vault, an exhibition by Världskulturmuseerna (the museums of world culture) on display in Stockholm September 10th 2011? February 12th 2012. The exhibition is on archaeological finds from South America, for example from the Incas and earlier Peruvian cultures, and tells the tale on the search ... Mer om: Gold , Museum
New job
2011-09-19 17:30:00 Starting sometime in october and 6 months forth I’ll be working at Västerbotten county administrative board. My office will be in Härnösand. Magnus Reuterdahl
Gaze into my crystal ball
2011-09-16 22:44:00 See what lies behind the wall Can’t you feel the wonder of it all… The future is becoming more clear by the minute, at least it seems like I’ll have a job during the winter months, not the easiest thing for a hobo archaeologist, though I’ll change employer. I really enjoyed Kalmar County museum and ...
Going places
2011-09-10 13:48:00 A constant in life is that time is passing ? at present the days seems to go with the speed of light. Since a week back I’m part of the excavating crew at the E22 in Blekinge , in the south part of Sweden, still employed by Kalmar County museum. The excavation concerns several areas, among ...
Cultural heritage connected to water
2011-08-30 13:11:00 Tomorrow I?ll be going to 3-day seminar in Jonkoping called Kulturarv vid vatten (Cultural heritage connected to water). This can be remains connected to fishing, shipbuilding, ports, mills, forges, logging remnants, dyeing houses, bridges and roads across wetlands, historic and ancient remains under water, etc. E.g. remains of human activity in or close by waterfronts ... Mer om: Jönköping
Day of Archaeology in Kalmar, Sweden. Arkeologidagen 2011 i Kalmar
2011-08-23 16:53:00 Texten följer på svenska. A few weeks ago I joined up with the web project Day of Archaeology 2011, check up the ca 400 blog posts on archaeology here. In Sweden we?ve have an annual Day of Archaeology irl where museums and institutions make different arrangements. Kalmar County Museum is giving a mini seminar? if ...
Into the vault
2011-08-20 10:22:00 At present I’m digging into the history of blues and rock & roll via Josh Alan Friedman’s book Tell the truth until they bleed. Coming clean in the dirty world of blues and rock ‘n’ roll (2008). When reading these types of books youtube is a blessing (in disguise). As you read you can listen in and ...
A blast from the past
2011-08-03 12:02:00 Yesterday a replica of an medieval cog anchored just outside Kalmar County Museum. The cog is a replica from a cog built ca 1390 AD or a little later. Its built by Fotevikens Museum and the city of Malmoe. A cog or cog-built vessel is a type of ship, the earlist one known is from ...
Today is Day of Archaeology 2011
2011-07-29 11:49:00 Day of Archaeology is a project aimed at describing archaeology from diffrent angles. More than 400 blog posts on the subject is expected, so dig in I posted this, the other posts are here, several are beeing updated throughout the day. Magnus Reuterdahl
Pictures from Öland
2011-07-28 14:16:00 During weekends past I’ve taking the car for a few tours around Öland. Here are few pictures on a few of the great cultural heritage sites just waiting for visits. Borgholm castle ruin, just south of Borgholm. At the southern tip of the island is the lighthouse Långe Jan (Tall Jan) This grave field ...
Day of archaeology is closing in ? T minus 1 day
2011-07-28 11:51:00 The deed is done – I’ve uploaded a post to Day of Archaeology 2011. Tomorrow the web gates should open and lots of interesting post be put out into the world wide web. Take a few minutes of your day tomorrow and devote it to some or all of the numerous bloggers and archaeologists that ...
Day of Archaeology 2011
2011-07-26 17:11:00 Have you ever wondered what archaeologists really get up to? Is it all just digging or is there a lot more to it? If so check out the web-event Day of Archaeology 2011 on 29th July. Among others I’ll contribute Magnus Reuterdahl
Evidence of olden day archaeology
2011-07-15 15:23:00 Today I found an old envelope that gives evidence to the history of archaeology. On an envelope the address to a long gone 14C-laboratory is printed; Laboratoriet för radioaktiv datering Frescati, Stockholm 50. I?m not quite sure how long it was opened for business though I know it was active during the 50?s, 60?s and ... Mer om: stockholm
A day of maritime archaeology
2011-07-12 15:30:00 Tomorrow I?ll join the maritime archaeologists who are excavating the 17th century warship and flagship Kronan (the Crown), if the weather is OK. Currently I work at Kalmar County Museum, who are responsible for the excavations of and collections salvaged from Kronan, therefore I get the chance to do some volunteer work on the dig. ... Mer om: Tintin
Hot diggity dang!!!
Mer artiklar från denna bloggen:2011-07-11 13:50:00 Last week we whilst doing an archaeological investigation, stage II, at Öland we found this stone cist. It was about time we came back with some real results and this one is a beaut?. It wasn?t visible above ground but as you can see it is more or less undamaged just below the plow depth. ... Mer om: Sweden 1-30, 31-60, 61-90, 91-120, 121-150 |
