Tuesday, 29 September 2020

JFArchaeology community archaeology excavations in 2021 - Yhteisöarkeologisia kaivauksia kenttätyökaudella 2021

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The planning of next years community archaeology excavations are well under way and we are happy to announce the dates for the 2021 digs. Ke...
Friday, 4 September 2020

A forgotten grave of a German "Kriegsmarine" soldier in the archipelago?

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Today an article was published in the local newspaper about the repatriation/reburial of the seven KIA Soviet soldiers discovered near the d...
Thursday, 3 September 2020

Reburial ceremony of 7 Soviet soldiers

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Today we attended the reburial ceremony of 7 KIA Soviet soldiers that our team found and excavated between 2018 and 2019.  The ceremony was ...
Wednesday, 2 September 2020

War dead, battlegrounds and more...

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02.09.2020 Wednesday (day three).Today we visited one of several scenes of the ferocious battles that raged in the Hanko archipelago in the ...
Monday, 31 August 2020

Seven days of excavating the WW2 battlefields of the Hanko front

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31.8.2020 Monday (day one). After introductionary lections at the Hanko Front Museum our small but efficient team of nine opened up a couple...
Sunday, 19 July 2020

Check out the latest news fom the Hanko front!

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Daily updates with pictures of finds from the scientific WW2 Battlefield Archaeology excavations in Hanko here! https://www.hanko1941.com/
Tuesday, 14 July 2020

WW2 Battlefield Archaeology in Hanko 13 - 24.7.2020. Daily updates!

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This years scientific battlefield archaeology research of the lesser known 1941 Hanko front (S. Finland) will concentrate on the first early...
Saturday, 11 July 2020

Rain

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Rain is a real nuisance during archaeological fieldwork. Because of the very fine soil (mostly composed of sand and silt) at the Jokiniemi s...
Thursday, 9 July 2020

Back to Jokiniemi - The excavations of the find site of the astounding neolithic clay figurine "Tuima" July 8th-12th 2020

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Helsinki Summer University and Heureka joined forces this summer to try to find out the age of the realistic anthropomorphic clay figurine (...
Sunday, 28 June 2020

Last day of the Kläppkärr excavation

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Yeaterday we finished the excavation and filled up the 40 square meter excavation area. The wonderful stone-age finds continued to the last ...
Friday, 26 June 2020

Day 5/6 of the Espoo Kläppkärr excavation

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The excavation nears its end but beautiful pottery finds keeps turning up in layer three (40 cm below ground surface). Today some of the Ear...