Jan Fast Archaeology

I´m staying in my parents house for a couple of nights and while cleaning up the basement I found a couple of very well made iron age reprod...

Neat Swedish documentary about the "History of Sweden" (2011) the first part is about the stone-age.  http://www.youtu...

in the new great facilities of the National Board of Antiquities yesterday. The archaeologists work in the building to the right (St...

... to meet my good friend archaeologist Simo Vanhatalo and learn some new stuff about documentation and making state of the art excavation ...

Made a last trip to the Långåmossarna excavation site today, mainly mapping (drawing a few extra profiles of the refuse pit we excavated in ...

Excellent work once again by Sami ! Sadly the short video is only in Finnish. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85BqPiis4Xs http...

A couple of years ago all the known sites of archaeological interest in Finland were published on the web by the National Board of Antiquiti...

For the past month I´ve been doing much planning of my archaeological activities for the autumn of 2013 and spring/summer of 2014. There see...

The finds from layer one are now cleaned and neatly arranged in archive boxes.The first excavation layer included potsherds from at least si...

Started working with the excavation finds from Raseborg Långåmossarna SW Finland today (mainly sorting the finds and "getting ready...

"In 2008, workers digging trenches for electrical cables on the tiny island of Salme uncovered human bones and a variety of odd ob...

A corded ware culture double burial was found in july during excavations in Narva Estonia. The finds from the grave consisted of three cera...

Took to the forest today not so much in search of prehistoric finds but porcini <3. The lighter side of archaeology :)

Sadly it seem to be lacking its gemstone but nice ring even without it. According to Tryggve Gestrin at the Espoo city museum it dates to th...

When it comes to archaeological fieldwork in 2014  I´m currently planning a couple of small scale rescue excavations in Raseborg SW Fi...

Students from Ekenäs Gymnasium excavating a 6000 year old stone age dwelling site in Raseborg SW Finland (copyright JFA 2013) In a ...

My good amateur archaeologist friend today informed me about this wonderful new find!! A bronze age Scandinavian type flint sickle! Thought ...

I´ll start with this nice find of a previously unknown bronze age cairn from Porvoo (SE Finland). The cairn has been partly destroyed reveal...

Recent bog finds from Ireland! http://irisharchaeology.ie/2011/08/irish-bog-bodies-recent-discoveries/

Hello friends, I´m still on vacation (back in august) but stumbled upon this excellent short video from the Motala excvations were past and ...