2015 oktober

Alvastra pile dwelling

2015-10-26

Projectile points in the Pile dwelling

There are two dominant types of projectile points that have been found in and around the pile dwelling at Alvastra. These are commonly referred to as tanged arrowheads and traverse arrowheads. Tanged arrowhead with fire damage from Alvastra pile dwelling. SHM 34984:x219/y425 F30 (photo: Greg Tanner, SHM) Tanged arrowheads are probably closest related to the Pitted Ware ...

2015-10-13

Interim translations

If you search our database under accession number 34984 you will be greeted by a cascade of Swedish. This is not how we would like it to be but at the moment we are restricted by the confines of our database. Eventually it will be possible to conduct a search in English of the following ...

2015-10-09

Et voilà! A vessel is made

In my recent post I described the differences within the ceramic material found at Alvastra pile dwelling where the so called pile dwelling pottery (PBK) is singled out from the rest of the material partly through choices made during production. In my work it has therefore become important to evaluate how the different materials were ...

2015-10-01

Lithic material in the pile dwelling

There are literally thousands of pieces of flint in the material collected in the 1976-1980 investigations. These range in size from whole cores or pieces of cores and raw material to the smallest micro flakes, and debitage less than 1mm across. So the big question is when is a piece of flint not just a ...