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Mesolithic Seal Hunters On a Hilltop Near You
Today I joined my friends Mattias Pettersson and Roger Wikell for a day of digging on an Early Mesolithic seal hunting station in the landlocked former archipelago of Tyresta. The Urskogsstigen 4 site...
View ArticleSättuna Fieldwork Report Nearing Completion
I’m almost done with the report from my excavations at Sättuna in Kaga last September. Here’s an excerpt. Finds and radiocarbon dates allow us to identify five phases on-site, two of them corresponding...
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Sättuna Fieldwork Report On-Line
I’ve filed the Sättuna excavation report with the State Board of National Antiquities, the County Archaeologist’s office and the County Museum. And I’ve put it on-line at archive.org. Check it out if...
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Ancient Beetles Will Date Mesolithic Shorelines
I got a great letter from Reggae Roger Wikell, which I publish in translation with the permission of Roger and Mattias Pettersson with the awesome metal hair. For context, note that these two scholar...
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De Profundis
Three cool pieces of science have been retrieved from the depths. In the L’Atalante basin, one of the Mediterranean sea’s deep hypersaline anoxic basins, anoxic metazoans have been discovered. That...
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Old Masters of Quartz
Wednesday was another day guest-digging at one of Mattias Pettersson & Roger Wikell’s sites in the Tyresta woods, this one in the huge denuded area of the great forest fire. Otherworldly scenery!...
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Stone Age Dildo Found in Sweden
Motala in Östergötland has been recognised in recent years as one of the richest Mesolithic sites in Scandinavia north of the current and former Danish provinces. Excavations in waterlogged sediment...
View ArticleEarly Mesolithic Blubber Concrete
Dear Reader, do you come across a lot of ancient blubber concrete in the course of a normal day? I got some exciting news from Mattias Pettersson Tuesday morning regarding his and Roger Wikell’s...
View ArticleRecent Archaeomags
Current Archaeology #254 (May) has a pretty funny 6-page feature by Spencer Smith of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales. He claims to have found the site of a Surrey...
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Ancient Swedish Fishers Put Human Heads On Stakes
The Mesolithic is the period between deglaciation and the introduction of agriculture in Europe (up to about 4000 cal BC in my parts). Within Swedish research into this period in recent years, no...
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