Thursday, 29 May 2014

Hannu I. Miettinen in memoriam

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I just received the sad news that Hannu I. Miettinen  the founding director of Heureka The Finnish Science Centre passed away on the 26th o...
Saturday, 24 May 2014

Nice neolithic flint arrowheads from Säterigatan today

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It was "hotter than hell" but great finds awarded those participating in the Säterigatan excavation today. Especial...
Friday, 23 May 2014

Back to Säterigatan 23-25.5.2014

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For part two of the trial excavation of this wonderful Comb Ceramic (ca 3900-3200 B.C.) site. It´s going to be a hot weekend with plenty of ...
Thursday, 22 May 2014

Happy for Jussi :)

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Last may I heard about ten year old "Jussi" from Helsinki who wanted to become an archaeologist. "Jussi´s" own word...
Wednesday, 21 May 2014

Planned trial excavations of the prehistoric site (Galtarby VI) in Västanfjärd SW Finland

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For a couple of months I have been involved in what looked like a  basic excavation project, namely the trial excavation of a late stone-age...
Monday, 19 May 2014

School day (number 2) at Alppilan yläaste

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Archaeology in Swedish for Finnish speaking students. Despite the very hot weather (+29 C outside and a few more degrees inside) and  th...
Thursday, 15 May 2014

Lecturing about archaeology and loving it

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Today I returned to "the crime scene" namely the Auditorium Virtanen at Heureka were the Jokiniemi excavations started almost exa...

Archaeology, what a blizz...

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Today is the day I´ve been waiting for for 20 + years. Back in the familiar welcoming arms of Heureka the Finnish Science Centre , doing wha...
Wednesday, 14 May 2014

Meeting my 2014 Jokiniemi excavation team for the first time

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Tomorrow I´m giving a lecture at HEUREKA about the excavations of the Jokiniemi stone-age dwelling site from 1990-1994. In the first part o...
Tuesday, 13 May 2014

Great day excavating the stone age of Raseborg

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Great young people, some great finds and above all not a single drop of rain today.  Started out early (7 am) with archaeology students Vilm...
Monday, 12 May 2014

Säterigatan excavation tomorrow

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And quite literally I´ve been working very hard for this one :).  Now "Goin´ Home". See you all here tomorrow with HC photos and...
Friday, 9 May 2014

New info on the stoves of the German transition camp

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I recently wrote about the interesting VW made stoves we found during our surveys and excavations of the German transition camp area. The Vo...
Thursday, 8 May 2014

The excavation permit for the Säterigatan excavation arrived today

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So now we are really set to go with archaeology students Vilma and Emma from the University of Helsinki and the students of Karis-Billnäs ...
Monday, 5 May 2014

Upcoming excavations this summer. Seems like I´m caught up between the stone age and WW2.

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Today I had the privilege of meeting my excavation team from Karis-Billnäs Gymnasium a tight knit and very motivated group of young students...
Sunday, 4 May 2014

The "Mannschaftsbaracken" of the "Entlausungsdorf" are gone

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This sad sight awaited me and Swedish archaeologist Anders Wikström when we visited the "Entlausungsdorf " area of the German WW2...

Archaeology class in Karis-Billnäs Gymnasium tomorrow

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After some very interesting weeks filled with WW2 conflict archaeology I´m finally meeting up with my stone-age excavation team, the lucky s...