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Comment on Så du vill bli arkeolog! // Ahh… you’ve decided to be an archaeologist! by Erika

Erika — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 15:59:18 +0000

Har fått höra mycket om att arkeologer har så kass arbetsmarknad. Så jag skrotade idén att bli arkeolog och studerade evolutionsbiologi istället. Begriper inte riktigt hur jag fick för mig att det skulle innebära en större chans att få jobb…

Fast jag bloggar om både biologi och arkeologi

Comment on Ancient times along the Swedish east coast – An archaeological seminar in Blankaholm by Jonathan Jarrett

Jonathan Jarrett — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 21:33:19 +0000

I love that video. All Red Fang’s videos so far seem to have involved drinking (terrible) beer in heroic proportions and building things A-Team style in order to destroy stuff with them. Also the actual albums turn out to be pretty good (at least, I have their Murder the Mountain and it is full-on pedal-to-the-floor truckery throughout). I only hope the seminar lived up to such billing

Comment on Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia by Magnus Reuterdahl

Magnus Reuterdahl — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 17:20:11 +0000

Sorry, to hear that – a really nice museum

Comment on Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia by Bathmat

Bathmat — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 23:01:05 +0000

Thanks for the great photos. Sadly the museum wasn’t open when I visited Georgia so very happy to see your post!

Comment on Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia by Bathmat

Bathmat — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 22:59:16 +0000

Reblogged this on Globe-combing and commented: Magnus Reuterdahl has some great pictures up on his blog from the Georgian National Museum in Tbilisi.

Comment on Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia by kentiki

kentiki — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 14:10:29 +0000

Amazing! Thank you

Comment on Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia by Magnus Reuterdahl

Magnus Reuterdahl — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 13:52:13 +0000

Reblogged this on Testimony of a wine junkie.

Comment on Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia by Ett besök på Nationalmuseum i Tbilisi, Georgien | Magnus Reuterdahls vinblogg (Aqua Vitae)

Wed, 21 Nov 2012 12:55:13 +0000

[...] Nationalmuseum, Georgian National Museum, om detta kan du läsa på en av mina andra bloggar Testimony of the spade, det finns också flera bilder på några av de fantastiska föremålen som finns utställda av [...]

Comment on After the games been played by Richard wisecarver

Richard wisecarver — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 11:42:22 +0000

I have a degree is Anrthroplogy from U. of New Mexico1987 which I have never used to make a living. My last career was as a middle school history teacher. However. I now realize that I have to offer a great of understanding the various Alaska Eskimo Culture (yes we use that word in Alaska since we have more than one Eslimo language and cultures) I spent several summers in Barrow, Alaska 1963-63 and was drawn into the lifestlyle. My interest continued until I moved to Bethel. Ak in 1970, the heart of Yupik Eskimo country . I worked as a laborer and my companions in work, hunting, and fishing were Yupik nmen from some of the 50 surrounding Yupik and Athabaskan villages. Eventually, I traveled by skiff and snow machine thru out the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta . I learned to hunt and fish thru out the Y-K Delta. I had grown up hunting & fishing, but quickly realized that here in the Delta, unfettered by rules and regulatioins and driven by a desire to survive fell in with men who used ancient technologies I had only known about from field and research work when I studies the ancient world at the Univ. This technologies were accompanied a acomplete system of social beliefs and attitudes unknown or disenfranchised in most of America. Eventually I also married a Yupik woman who was young, bright, independent, and well versed in her culture and language. I changed her life and she changed mine., The Yupik Technology and probably their genetics are a direct descendent of that technplogy develooed in ancient Berengia., Their hunting and fishing technolgy is more complex than any other in the Americas. Along the Kuskokwim, at its mouth and around Nelson Island and be found some of the most conservative and sophisticated Native Americans. In most these villages the children go to school speaking only Yupik but soon becomne literate in both English and Yupik. The fresh & salt water and land still provide over 50% of their diet. And yet this spring during the fishing and hunting on the sea ice, I soon saw live photos and videos posted on facebook. The Yupik people adapt quickly to any kind of technolgy that fits their life is astonishing. Their success recently at the University level is incresing and they are playing a major role in both their healthcare and children’s education. I would like to share my knowledge of my wife’s (she has passed) culture and that of my relative with your knowdge of far northern European archaeology. For instance, recovery of the bone and tusks of extinct mammals are an important part of the Bering Sea economy. Stone tools (as reported to me) are found in the same recently thaw perma frost soils as mammoth and extinct horse bones. These fossils and ancient human remains are constantly being washed out by the angry Bering Sea. Yupik culture still depends on the animals we hunt and the fish we catch while at the same time adapting thir life style to the 21st century. In fact, any non-Yupik who choose to live in this Alaska West coast environment must adapt to the Yupik life style. The clothing worn. food eaten, social values and even language quickly adapt or life becomes incredibly miserable. Cultural shifts and adaptations are an onging situation and makes a lot sense out of obscure archaeological evidence evidence. If myou have any interest in my knowlege of northern cultures please contact me at richardwisecarver@yahoo.com I am 69 years old and will notbe around forever.

Comment on Am I to become a union tycoon? by Magnus Reuterdahl

Magnus Reuterdahl — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 10:49:56 +0000

You’re quite right