Sunlit entrance to Wallenberg conference center
Auditorium. On stage Eva Stensköld, Elisabeth Strandvägen, Johan Fihn Marberg
Lovely spring weather in Gothenburg as the network for Swedish National Data Service (SND) are meeting (inside) to hear what's new and dicuss the future.
#OpenScience #FAIRdata
Fantastic BBC Panorama report from 1956 on Vällingby, Sweden - the most modern town of Europe at the time.
I grew up there, as did my dad and mom (nearby Hässelby to be exact, but it is also shown in the video).
Fascinating - and very funny. Leather jacket boys!
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Ja det behövs inget AI för detta. Bara GPS och fungerande API:er. Och det finns redan flera sådana appar.
The skeleton of the seated individual as exposed in situ during excavation. Photo: Ann Westermark, The Archaeologists, National historical museums.
The third lumbar vertebra of the individual and the quartz-slotted bone point. The vertebra is shown from above (left) and from below (right), revealing the notch of the projectile. Below, a close-up of the bone point is shown; the red arrow indicates two small quartz fragments fixed with resin within the notch. Photo: Caroline Ahlström Arcini, The Archaeologists, National historical museums
#OpenAccess #Archaeology #Mesolithic #Osteology
Westermark & Arcini. "Fatally wounded: A Mesolithic skeleton from Väversunda parish, Östergötland, Sweden."
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An individual buried ca 9000 years ago revealed to have a quartz-slotted bone point in a vertebrae.
#AncientSky
Now that I would need!
The photo shows a wooden model of a cow giving birth accompanied by two men. One man calms the cow while the other ensures a proper delivery.The calf emerges from his mother, licking the hand of the man.
Models of everyday life were deposited in #Egyptian tombs. They were supposed to support the deceased in the afterlife. One of the most charming examples is the model of a #cow giving birth.
Carved in wood, painted.
Probably from Meir, #Egypt, dating c. 2040-1985 BC.
📷 Royal Ontario Museum
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Ha! I was just in a comment thread on another site discussing the phenomenon of a subset of men being obsessed with the "perfect" way to load a dishwasher. Including my own stepfather. 😅
What could possibly be the evolutionary explanation for this?
En kvinnlig forskare i svart tröja och med blåa gummihandskar antecknar resultat på ett vitt papper. Framför henne på ett bord ligger en stor fana. Fanan är sliten med hål och revor. Färgerna går i blått, gult och rött med ett trekantigt mönster i mitten.
Armémuseum har fått FoU-medel från Riksantikvarieämbetet för att undersöka smutsen på militära fanor. Det är ett tvärvetenskapligt samarbete där konstvetenskap, konserveringsvetenskap, miljöhistoria och kemi kombineras.
www.raa.se/nyheter/2026...
#forskning #kulturarvsforskning #heritagescience
Why don't you see penis bones in #museums?
I spoke to @iflscience.com about how museums have been deliberately modifying the anatomy of their specimens: they knowingly mislead visitors about what most male mammal skeletons look like, as I wrote in #NaturesMemory:
www.iflscience.com/the-majority...
That's the best thing I've seen in my timeline today! 😍
And I saw a puppy with hiccups.
A black and white photo of a ceramic jar with wide eyes, a round flat nosed and downturned mouth. There are also two little ears at the top.
🏺 Another very good Bes jar that I came across during my research at work today - this time from Brooklyn Museum. 📜
www.brooklynmuseum.org/en-GB/object...
Cover of book with text in yellow reading: The Firearm Revolution: From Renaissance Italy to the European Empires, overlaid on an image of an angel in seventeenth-century dress with wings and a long gun.
Hello Bluesky! My new book, THE FIREARM REVOLUTION, is out on 14 April. It’s about how a new technology changed society, and how hard it was to control. Here’s a little thread of what’s inside:
Archaeology is a driver of scientific innovation. Rather than being a perceived financial burden, it is actually a high-value investment that can improve human health and environmental sustainability. 🏺1/7
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Portrait of Badin, unsigned replica of a lost pastel portrait by Gustav Lundberg (1695-1786), dating from 1776.
Pleased to see @mirandabryant.bsky.social's report from the new Badin exhibition at the National Museum in Stockholm, curated by my friend and colleague Åsa Bharathi Larsson of Södertörn University.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Middle Neolithic pottery from Dalarna. Rim with large pit impressions and a geometric pattern with drawn lines. Photo: Ole Stilborg
Thin section showing possible bone fragment temper in pottery
#OpenAccess #Archaeology #Pottery #Neolithic
Wehlin & Stilborg: "Den neolitiska keramiken i Dalarna: Ett hantverks uppkomst och försvinnande."
[Eng sum: The Neolithic Ceramics in Dalarna, Sweden: The rise and disappearance of a ceramic craftmanship]
doi.org/10.66449/for...
#AncientSky
Me most of the time these days:
Murasaki Shikibu’s 11th-century novel "The Tale of Genji" has remained popular and influential in Japan for more than a thousand years, including in visual art.
Katherine Goertz considers the role of #Flowers in the novel by examining an Edo-period print woodblock print: https://bit.ly/3OeySzq
British Museum photo of a Romano-British brooch in the form of a hare. It is seen in profile with head to the right, displayed against a black background. The brooch is cast from copper-alloy (bronze), now grey in colour. The hare has a long body inlaid with green enamel and decorated with four copper-alloy dots arranged within the enamel along the length of the body. Its back arches gently and its legs are represented by one back and one front leg, both bent, with feet curling slightly inward, giving a sense of motion. The head is small with a narrow snout and one long ear rises up and backwards. The head is decorated with a large, circular, green enamel inlay, at the centre of which is a copper-alloy dot for the eye. The hare has an incised mouth with a slight upwards curve as if smiling!
Happy Easter!
Here’s a lovely Romano-British brooch in the form of a cheerful little hare! 😍
Copper alloy decorated with enamel, 2nd-3rd century AD.
📷 British Museum www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
#Archaeology
And yes, these failed #digitalisation projects are always viewed as a *techincal* projects and about a *product*, when in reality they should be about practices and work processes - that technical solutions can then be developed for.
Last year I read a book about the similarly botched development of a digital platform for schools in Stockholm ("Skolplattformen").
A common thread is it often starts with decision makers with Grand Vision and good intentions.
See also: Gateway to Hell
#Digitalisation
Book cover of "Millennium-skandalen" by Simon Campanello
Reading a book about all that went wrong with the purchase, development, and implementation of a digital system for healh care in West Sweden.
Publications like this should be *required* reading for politicians and managers in ALL fields. Please stop pushing One System To Rule Them All!
Johanna Mestorf. Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte, Christian-Albrechts Universität, Kiel
Hjørungdahl , T. Johanna Mestorfs handskrivna museijournal: En primärkälla till kunskap om 1800-talets kvinnliga museipersonals vardag samt treperiodsystemets reception i Kiel.
[Eng sum: Johanna Mestorf’s handwritten journal]
#OpenAccess #HistoryOfArchaeology
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De kommer tillbaka!
Bara man låter dem testa linan lite, dra sig undan ett tag för att hitta sig själva.
Innan man vet ordet av sitter de i köket igen och prata om allt möjligt.
Mary Wollstonecraft warned you that women who are only objects of pity and love, due to their “fascinating graces,” their “soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, [and] delicacy of sentiment” — in a word, due to their weakness (and not strength) — “will soon become objects of contempt.”
A pot shard with black Egyptian lettering and diagrams on, held on a museum stand
Windows needed urgently!
"Four of this type exactly. Exactly! But hurry, hurry, by tomorrow!"
The writer provided a helpful diagram - notice the little man with his arms up denoting height!
Egyptian hieratic script on a pot shard, c.1200 BC
📸 Me
#FindsFriday #archaeology🏺
Close-up detail of a Samian ware pottery vessel showing a raised relief of a rabbit or hare crouched in profile, facing left. The animal appears to be nibbling on a dandelion, with its long ears upright and front paws extended. The reddish-brown surface of the pottery is smooth and glossy, with a central vertical crack running through the image. Decorative arches and floral motifs frame the scene
Easter bunny resting 🐰
A #Roman samian ware bowl depicting a rabbit eating a dandelion.
Found in Eschenz/Switzerland.
📷 AATG, Daniel Steiner 🏺
A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)
More context on this #Artemis II image:
* This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right
* The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon:
☀️🌍🚀🌕
The relief that they haven't been too damaged!
My photo shows the ancient Coțofenești Helmet from Romania. The helmet is made from three welded gold plates, on which complex relief decoration was made by a punching method, consisting of geometric, anthropomorphic and zoomorphic motifs. The top half of the helmet is covered in a repetitive, evenly spaced, embossed raised pattern of rounded, fan-ridged bumps which give the helmet a studded look. The crown of the helmet is missing. Over the front opening, at the forehead, are two large almond-shaped eyes, thought to be apotropaic (magical) eyes to ward off evil. They are framed by thick curved lines that sweep outward like dramatic eyebrows, and there is a vertical ridge down the centre between the eyes. The two cheek guards are decorated in relief with a human figure holding a dagger, sacrificing a kneeling ram. The right cheek guard design is partially seen in my photo. The neck guard (not seen in my photo) is decorated on two registers: on the upper part are four sphinxes, and on the lower part three griffins with a leg of an herbivorous animal in their muzzles. The helmet was discovered in the village of Poiana Coțofenești, Prahova County, Romania, in the late 1920s. Experts date the helmet to the mid-5th century BC. I saw the helmet on display in the temporary exhibition ‘Archaeological Treasures of Romania’ at the National Archaeological Museum in Madrid in 2021. It was on loan from the National Museum of Romanian History in Bucharest.
FANTASTIC NEWS!
The 2,500 year-old gold Coțofenești Helmet from Romania has been recovered! 🤩
Also recovered are two of three ancient gold bracelets, all were stolen in a raid on a Dutch museum more than a year ago.
📷 by me 2021
#Archaeology
