Updated 21.39
I’m currently at the CAA-SE work-shop at Histroriska museet in Stockholm. It’s about to start – so I’ll update later this afternoon. If you are interested I’ll tweet some comments during the work shop #taged CAASE @Reuterdahl.
It was an interesting meeting – the main focus was on a national excavation register, how it can be organized, by whom, for who and what it should contain. Many interesting ideas were put forward and I’ll write a few words on it tomorrow.
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Some time ago a section for CAA, Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology, started in Sweden. I just found out that they hold a workshop on Monday January 31st – on GIS data, in Stockholm. I’ll participate in this. For more information see their group page at LinkedIn.
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One of the academia demands is to publish, or perish i.e. if you aren’t seen you’re not there. Now there’s a new Journal in town that sees things a bit differently:
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Not much activity at the moment – this is due to intensive work elsewhere. I currently am unemployed so I write application for the few jobs announced and writing letter of interest to others. So keep a look out in your e-mail folders 
A few post are coming later on!
If you happen to see any interesting opportunities that you think would suit me please write a comment or send me an e-mail (inventerare[at]hotmail.com).
Mean while I listen to songs on spotify and or on youtube here’s a great tune I’d almost forgotten about
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I like to scavenge throw flee markets and second hand shops. I look for different things but most often end up buying books. Today we managed three stores in Karlskoga. Didn’t find all that much but as always a few books ended up in my possession. The County museums in collaboration with the local historical society annually publishes books. Örebro County publishes the annual book called Från bergslag och bondebygd (From mining and farming districts). These books normally concerns local art, history, cultural history, archaeology etc. Sometimes there is a theme to these books such the 1980 edition: pictures from the world of work.
This time I found 1950-59, 1962 and 1980. A selection of articles from these books addresses such topics as:
Etc. etc.
The authors of these books are both professional researchers and local historians and others. The content goes from science to trivia. I will return to them or parts of them in a future post.
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This year I and my fiancée will go to the Blankaholm archaeological session; Forntid längs Ostkusten, Prehistory along the Swedish east coast. An annual session arranged by Michael Dahlin a.k.a. Misterhultaren. There several interesting seminars, all in Swedish. I’ll give some reports on them when the time comes. More information is available at the blog Misterhultaren (in Swedish).
Program
”Gräv inte där du står. Bosättningsmönster i NÖ Småland under neolitikum och i övergången till bronsålder” – (Don’t dig where you stand”. Settlement patterns in NE Smaland in the Neolithic and during the transition to the Bronze Age.)
”Maktens boningar och vanliga människors enkla tjäll. Några tankar kring ett medeltidssamhälles uppkomst och utveckling. Exemplet Möre”. (Mansions of power and habitants of the ordinary. Some thoughts on a medieval society’s origins and development. The example of Möre)
“Viking – till sjöss och på land” (Viking at Sea and on land)
“Pre Ancylus”
“Mesolitikum i södra Norrland. Exempel från inland och kust.” (Mesolithic in southern parts of Norrland. Examples from the inland and coastal.)
“Gammalt och nytt om trattbägarkulturen på Öland”. (Old and new thoughts on the Funnel-Beaker Culture at Öland)
”I landskapet och mellan världarna. Bronsålderns offerplatser i Mälardalen”. (In the landscape and between worlds. Bronze Age sacrificial sites in Mälardalen.)
”Mem, Ett nyupptäckt hällristningscentrum.” (Mem, a newly discovered rock carvings site )
“Breven kring Ruskas godsimperium” (Letters the Ruska estates)
“Blad tjära och kol i Målilla – lämningar från 1700-talets binäringar i en skogsbygd” (Among tar and carbon in Målilla – remains from the 1700s subsidiary forestry industry)
”VID STENSKEPPETS AKTER! – en nyfunnen dubbelgrav från förromersk järnålder på Gotland”- (AT THE STONE SHIP STERN! – A new-found double grave from the Pre-Roman Iron Age at Gotland)
Arkeologi och rehabilitering i förening utopi eller möjlighet!? (Archaeology and rehabilitation in conjunction; an utopia or an opportunity?!)
I’m looking foward to it
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Jönköping County museum closes its exhibitions until May 2012 because of a need to sanitize the facilities due to silverfish (Lepisma saccharina) aka fishmoths, carpet sharks or paramites. Silver fish are small, wingless insects who live on a diet of carbohydrates such as starches – not all that great in a museum. Especially not one with plenty of art in their collection – among them a nice collection of local artist John Bauer (1882-1918) – known among other things for his great images of trolls, goblins, princesses and fairies etc.
To prevent future problems better ventilations will be installed to ensure the collections. In the meantime the museum will exhibit elsewhere in the County and so perhaps reach new audiences. As the asying goes; There’s nothing bad that does not bring any good.
Illustration from Walter Stenström’s The boy and the trolls or The Adventure in childrens’ anthology Among pixies and trolls, a collection of childrens’ stories, 1915 ( picture from Wikipedia). In this picture the Trolls watches princess Tuvstarr by Johan Bauer.
Source: Jönköpings läns museum and Local web paper Jnytt.se
Got this from the good people at wordpress.com – a kind of summery of 2010 – check it out
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:
The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.
About 3 million people visit the Taj Mahal every year. This blog was viewed about 36,000 times in 2010. If it were the Taj Mahal, it would take about 4 days for that many people to see it.
In 2010, there were 115 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 471 posts. There were 317 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 36mb. That’s about 6 pictures per week.
The busiest day of the year was February 10th with 206 views. The most popular post that day was A curiosity.
The top referring sites in 2010 were facebook.com, tingotankar.blogspot.com, networkedblogs.com, fourstonehearth.net, and arkeologiforum.se.
Some visitors came searching, mostly for john bauer, gunillaberg, rune stones, hanuman, and mark twain.
These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.
A curiosity September 2008
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To Neolithic China and back! The Yangshao project. January 2008
Proud to be one! April 2008
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Three medieval churches, two rune stones and a mound. August 2008
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Gunillaberg April 2008
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Hello and welcome to Testimony of the spade.
My name is Magnus Reuterdahl and I am a Swedish archaeologist and osteologist. Most posts are connected to my work or my interests in general; Scandinavian archaeology, osteology, cultural heritage, literature and so forth.
On the blog Aqua Vitae (in Swedish) and Testimony of a wine (in English) junkie I blog on wine.
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