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Testimony of the Spade

Archaeology is taxes well spent!

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Url:http://inventerare.wordpress.com
Author(s):Magnus Reuterdahl
Language:English
Tags:Arkeologi, Archaeology, Cultural Heritage
Description:Testimony of the spade is a blog foremost on archaeology, osteology and cultural heritage. My name is Magnus Reuterdahl and as I am from Sweden a lot of the entries concerns Sweden or northern Europe, although I also like to keep an eye on world archaeology. For example Chinese archaeology and the Yangshao culture.
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Booklets on Stockholm
At a small flee market I visit on and off on my way to lunch when in Östersund I found a couple of books or rather booklets on place-names by Gustaf Brynnel.Gustaf Brynnel (1907-)I didn’t recognize...more
2009-12-01
Good bye!
Yesterday a co-worker passed away. I was fortunate enough to have been working with him, though unfortunately only for a much to brief a time. Björn Winberg was an inspiring man with great knowledg...more
2009-11-27
Mono or stereo?
Yet another dissertation on the Middle Neolithic’s in Scandinavia is on the way, this time it’s Kim von Hackwitz who puts foward Längs med Hjälmarens stränder och förbi – relationen mellan de...more
2009-11-25
Two days on the topic quality
I’ve attended a conference held by RAA (The Swedish National Heritage Board) on the topic Quality in exploratory/ assignment archaeology. This was two interesting days with good seminars and ...more
2009-11-24
A hard long week
It’s been a difficult and in many ways a hard week, for different reasons. This Monday I attended a funeral, in Jonkoping, for a close friend of the family. Funerals are never fun but can be a situ...more
2009-11-19
Silence of the finds
It’s been a bit quite here at Testimony lately. I currently read a couple of books that I intend to write a few lines on here and for the Osteological Associations periodical Benbiten.To give sound...more
2009-11-11
We’ve made the news
Today we were part of the headlines in Norrtelje Tidning (article in Swedish). It’s me holding the Rover. Magnus Reuterdahl
2009-11-04
Final week at Mellingeholm
This week will be a GIS kind of week for me, a lot o f measuring with the rover and the total station and processing the data and in between helping out in the search pits. As winter’s approaching ...more
2009-11-01
Ancient find lito
I collect things; books, comics, art, wine etc. One that I really dig is historic maps and anatomy lithos (osteology), a few weeks ago I stumbled upon this lithography, originally from Meyers Konve...more
2009-10-29
Mellingeholm part 2
A new week in the field awaits. Last week we managed to do a lot of work but there’s still plenty to do. We’ve dug a lot of search pits, ca 5-10 m in length 1,5-2 m in width and 0,4-0,5 m in depth,...more
2009-10-25

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