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Projects
Lake Bokaren Project, SE
Forgotten no more – Human and non-human remains found in Mid-Swedish Bog Our recent excavation has revealed skeletal remains from humans, horse, cattle and pig on the boggy shore of lake Bokaren, Mid-Sweden – a part of the world not often associated with the phenomena of bog bodies. The drained lake may have been…
Tidens Vatten, SE
Tidens Vatten is dealing with the depositions of human and animal remains in Swedish wetlands and lakes. Initially we have carried out a survey to establish the record of depositions by searches in museum database and through a questionnaire sent to county museums and to understand where these depositions took place. There are distinct concentrations…
Strike-a-lights, SE
Currently working on a projekt on strike-a-lights from the early Iron Age in burials & wetland depositions from northern Sweden, sponsored by Kungl. Gustav II Adolf Akademien för svensk folkkultur. https://su-se.academia.edu/AnneMonikander
Alvastra, SE
Bog bodies The Alvastra pile dwelling is situated in a spring-fed mire (Dagsmosse) between the eastern shore of Lake Vättern and the southern slopes of Omberg Hill in the parish of Västra Tollstad (archaeological site 22), the province of Östergötland. It is neither a dwelling, nor a dwelling placed on piles. The vertical piles that…
Burials in watery places: in runic songs, place-lore and archaeology, EE
Pikne Kama: My PhD project is analysing Estonian runic songs and place-related lore containing information about burials in watery places and combines them with archaeological material. Use of these three different sources together should give us more complete picture about burials customs of the historical times or even older periods. Based on studying burial related…
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Svennums Offermosse, DK
This project has excavated a bog in Denmark and found skeletal remains, ceramics etc – https://www.facebook.com/ArkaeologiVendsysselHistoriskeMuseum?fref=ts Sidsel Wahllin, Museumsinspektør. Vendsyssel Historiske Museum
Excavation of sacrificial bog at Starene, Hedmark, NO
New finds of human and animal remains from bogs have been made at Starene in Hedmark, Norway. The excavations are to be published by Grethe Bjørkan Bukkemoen, Rådgiver/arkeolog, Kulturhistorisk museum, Universitetet i Oslo. http://norark.no/undersokelse/henrettelse-ofring-begravelse-eller-tre-ting-pa-en-gang http://norark.no/undersokelse/offermyr-gjennom-tusen-ar-nye-resultater-fra-stange-i-hedmark
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