2016 december

Alvastra pile dwelling

2016-12-22

New face in the Alvastra project

Allow me to introduce a new member of the project group – Sandra Söderlind. Sandra will be working with us for the first six months of 2017, possibly for a longer period of time. I will let Sandra describe her interests and background herself. Hello everyone! My name is Sandra and I have recently ...

2016-12-16

Digitalization is blazing forward in pictures!

Recently, the project benefited from a temporary insurgence of extra manpower in the form of two talented archaeologists who served as photographers digitalizing artifacts. One of our colleagues Sara Kusmin, as well as Jessika Lindquist, an intern studying her masters of archaeology at Stockholm University, have together taken over 700 photographs of various types of ...

2016-12-01

From the Middle Neolithic to the Middle Ages

Textile fragment during excavation. Photo: Nathalie Hinders, SHMM We already know that the Dags mosse mire was not only used during the Middle Neolithic. The material traces of these post Stone Age activities are by no means comprehensive but they do exist. The radiocarbon analysis of human bones revealed one individual from the Early Roman ...