Inlägget publicerades: 2016-04-14

Visit to Lund

Recently, the Alvastra team went on a visit to Lund, in Southern Sweden, to take part and present our project for a group of Stone Age archaeologists active in that region of the country. While we were there, Nathalie and I spent a day studying artifacts held in the collections of Lund University. The purpose ...

Inlägget publicerades: 2016-04-13

Birkaportalen & 3D-modeller

Stundtals händer inte mycket på Birkafronten här på Historiska men plötsligt händer flera saker på en och samma gång, den så välkända ketchupeffekten. Först och främst har vi nu äntligen lanserat Birkaportalen. På portalen samlar vi bl.a. texter, arkivmaterial, foton, digitaliserad litteratur och ett webb-GIS med fokus på Världsarvet Birka & Hovgården. Birkaportalen är något vi ...

Inlägget publicerades: 2016-03-21

Alvastra archives

Mats Malmer excavating the Eastern Trench at Alvastra pile dwelling. Photo: Stockholm University.   Mats Malmer directed the excavations at the pile dwelling in 1976-1980. At the time he was professor of archaeology at the University of Stockholm but he came from the University of Lund where he was professor from 1970 to 1973. He ...

Inlägget publicerades: 2016-03-11

3D-fotografering av Birkaföremål

Idag har vi haft besök av Håkan Thorén från Arkeologerna. Syftet med Håkans besök var att experimentera med 3D-fotografering av föremål. Historiska museet har inte tidigare jobbat med 3D-fotografering men våra kollegor på Arkeologerna har stor erfarenhet av detta. Arkeologerna brukar främst 3D-fotografera arkeologiska lämningar, byggnader men även i lite mindre skala, arkeologiska föremål. Till ...

Inlägget publicerades: 2016-02-23 Antal kommentarer på inlägget: 2

What is in the Alvastra box? part 3

The third and final post in our series What’s In the Alvastra Box reveals the secrets of the pottery sherds that were found during the excavation of the box. The primary question that drove our curiosity in the first place was whether or not the pottery in the box could be remnant pieces of the ...

Inlägget publicerades: 2016-02-11 Antal kommentarer på inlägget: 6

What’s in the Alvastra box? Part 2

  Fig. 1. The peat block before investigation. Photo Hilde Skogstad, SHM  Introduction On 15 July 1930 a block of peat was cut out of Dagsmosse mire and put into a wooden box with a nailed on lid. Apart from the date (in fact two dates occur on the box 15/7-30 and 30/6-30), archaeologists also ...

Inlägget publicerades: 2016-02-05

Bloggen har flyttat hem till Historiska

Birkaprojektets blogg har ju inte precis varit så aktiv det senaste året. När vi startade bloggen hade Birkaprojektet precis startat upp och våra inlägg handlade mest om vårt accessionsarbete. Sen kom ett par år då vi genomförde arkeologiska undersökningar ute på Björkö och då blev bloggen ett utmärkt redskap för att dagligen nå ut med ...

Inlägget publicerades: 2016-01-26 Antal kommentarer på inlägget: 3

What is in the Alvastra box? Part 1

We in the Alvastra project are excited to be excavating, in-house, a 25cm square block of in situ peat, soil and artifacts, cut and preserved from the site in 1930. It was placed and sealed in a wooden box immediately after removal and shipped to the museum. The block in the box, upon opening, before ...

Inlägget publicerades: 2015-12-17 Antal kommentarer på inlägget: 2

A digital platform about a wooden platform

The prehistoric causeway as it enters the wooden platform from the southeast. Illustration: Mats Gilstring The causeway as it is reconstructed today. Photo: Nathalie Dimc, SHMM We have now created an adress and an introductory text for what will become a kind of site archive for all those who are interested in conducting research into ...

Inlägget publicerades: 2015-12-11

A Fragmented Whole

The ceramic material found at the pile dwelling is fragmented. Most of the time I am working with and trying to understand small fragments that weigh around 5-10g. It is common to work with smaller sherds when studying the Pitted Ware pottery due to the fact that the vessels were intentionally broken during the Neolithic. ...