Welcome to Testimony of the spade

Updated 2008-07-13
My name is Magnus Reuterdahl; I am a 30-something Swedish archaeologist/osteologist residing in Stockholm. If you follow this blog or if you read some of the older posts you’ll see that my work has taken me around and sometimes outside of Sweden.
Life studying the past isn’t always a walk on the sunny side of the street but when one has work archaeology kind of beats more or less anything else. The last few years I worked at the county administrative board of Kronoberg, at Norrbottens museum and for Östergötland County museum among others. At present I work as an archaeologist at the county administrative board of Norrbotten, Luleå.

As some of you may have noticed I have borrowed the name of this blog from Geoffrey Bibby´s book; The Testimony of the Spade – Life in Northern Europe from 15,000 B.C. to the Time of the Vikings. On the front page in the Swedish edition of the book there is a quotation: To Vibeke. Whose question makes archaeology alive: “How does it feel to be prehistoric?” And I think that the answer is part of what got me interested in archaeology. What was life like then?

I have studied Archaeology, Osteoarchaeology (both human Osteology and Zooarchaeology), Scandinavian Languages ­with a historical profile (Runes, the sagas, ancient Icelandic etc.) and Cultural heritage and environment, laws and customs among other things at Stockholm University. In 2004 I got my master of arts in Archaeology and Osteoarchaeology.

As I have learned more my question may have become more precise and diverse as answers most often gives ground for new questions. But in the end the answer to most of those questions still in some way are connected with the original one: What was it like then?

Welcome to Testimony of the spade I hope you’ll like it

Magnus Reuterdahl

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  1. 2009 March 31
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    I love your site. Keep it up !

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