Monday, 25 May 2020

On the importance of a good team

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Today we did a full 15 hours of hard work in trying to locate the lost grave of 13 Soviet soldiers killed during fierce fighting on a tiny s...
Tuesday, 19 May 2020

On the road again

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The Covid 19 situation over here in Finland forced us to rearrange the 2020 community archeology excavation season. Despite the harsh times ...
Saturday, 16 May 2020

The stone-age seascape of Vantaa

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Prior to the upcoming community archaeology excavations in Jokiniemi, Vantaa S. Finland I thought you might like to take a look at this very...
Thursday, 7 May 2020

First WW2 conflict archaeology fieldwork tomorrow

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Finally, tomorrow, at least something happening on the "Hanko 1941" front when me and Mr Lasse Nyman will kick off the first leg o...
Wednesday, 6 May 2020

COVID 19 ja muutokset kesän JFA 2020 yhteisöarkeologisten kaivausten aikatauluissa

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     JFA yleisökaivaukset 2020       ( muutosehdotukset/muuttuneet päivämäärät vihreällä )           Koska monet ovat tiedustelleet kesän ha...
Sunday, 26 April 2020

On the importance of developing new methods for bringing forth the conflict archaeology heritage

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In a column in todays issue of Hufvudstadsbladet professor Laura Kolbe shared her thoughts about the Second World War cultural heritage in ...
Saturday, 25 April 2020

Online lecture - The Stone-Age Mysteries of Helsinki

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The anthropomorphic clay figurine found by a local amateur archaeologist in 1989. Photo TIEDE magazine. In 1989 an amateur ar...
Monday, 20 April 2020

Sodan jäljet lähelläsi - monitieteinen konfliktiarkeologian hanke Uudenmaan kouluissa 2020 - 2021

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Arkeologinen tutkimus mielletään usein nuorten keskuudessa "vanhan tonkimiseksi". Myös nuorten tavoittaminen on vaikeaa, eikä a...
Tuesday, 31 March 2020

Conflict archaeology on the Nordfront

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On March 25th Iron Cross Magazine published my long due feature article about ongoing WW2 conflict archeology research in Finland! Wri...
Thursday, 19 March 2020

Writing an article about the Långåmossarna excavations

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Good thing about the situation (at least here in Finland) right now is that there is plenty of time to write articles about previous excavat...
Wednesday, 18 March 2020

The planning of the 2020 community archaeology digs continues

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Dear archaeology enthusiasts. Just here to inform everybody that we are continuing the planning process of the 2020 community archaeology ex...
Wednesday, 11 March 2020

Ilmoittautuminen vuoden 2020 harrastajakaivauksille Vantaan Jokiniemessä on alkanut!!

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Ennakkokokemusta arkeologiasta ei tarvita. Ale 14-vuotias voi osallistua kaivauksille täysi-ikäisen seurassa. Ennakkoluento Keskustakirja...
Thursday, 5 March 2020

Sinustako kesäarkeologi? Vielä mahtuu mukaan :)

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Kesän kaivaukset alkavat olla täynnä mutta muutamiin JFA projekteihin mahtuu vielä mukaan. Kaikki kaivaukset on suunnattu aloittelijoille e...
Saturday, 22 February 2020

WW2 conflict archaeology field school, register now!

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The registration for the WW2 conflict archaeology field school in Hanko has started! This season we will concentrate on the events of the H...
Thursday, 13 February 2020

Soviet WW2 map case with full contents found in Hanko!

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A while back, a small Soviet (1940-1941) map case containing pencils and seven tightly folded different maps was found. One of the maps imm...
Wednesday, 12 February 2020

"Another one bites the dust"

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Today we surveyed the Hanko harbour magazine to find more German WW2 documents hidden in the roof structures. Very exiting "and dusty...