Meetings

2019-10-23

Seminar – a research platform to be launched

The project Alvastra pile dwelling – an archaeological resource will finish with a seminar where the new research portal will be officially launched. An invitation to the seminar and a list of speakers can be found below. Seminar Date: Wednesday 29 January 12.00 am, Thursday 30 January 12.00-20.20 pm Location: Barocksalen, Historiska museet, Storgatan 41, ...

2017-01-27

Peat block from C9 – turned upside down

Presentation by Hans Browall, 2017-01-16 (edited 2017-01-25) I read with great interest last year’s blog posts on the excavation of the peat block from the Alvastra pile dwelling. The block was removed during the 1930 excavations and the project group assumed that it had lain under the clay vessel SHM 16374:C9,1 in the east ...

2016-08-28

The Alvastra project goes international

Dale R. Croes, Pacific Northwest Archaeological Services The Alvastra project has gone international. Just after Midsummer we attended a conference in what one of the participants described as beautiful Bradford, Great Britain. The Wetland Archaeology Research Project (WARP) was celebrating its 30th birthday with a meeting organized by the Department of Archaeological Science at the ...

2016-08-12

A trip to learn from a living legend

In April, I had the opportunity to be able to spend a week in Virginia, USA at the home of Dr. Errett Callahan, a master flint knapper, archaeologist and pioneer of experimental archaeology. Errett has long been one of the people I have looked up to for his skill and accomplishments within my field and ...

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 ...

2015-11-26

Fishing at Alvastra

Accession number 34984:x221y425, F6 (Fid 1188532) Fishing hook of boar tusk Photo: Gabriel Hildebrand, SHMM The picture shows an exquisitely preserved and previously unpublished object from the 1976-1980 excavations at the Alvastra pile dwelling. It was found in Mats Malmer’s eastern trench. Like several other fishing hooks from the older excavations, it is made of ...