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So this piece of flint turned up in our archaeological excavation. It seems to be a natural shape, but nobody else I’ve talked to knows how it got the weird raised Line in the middle. So although there are much more important aspects of the excavation, I’ve made it my personal goal to identify the process that made this stone look like this.

If anybody can help, please reach out!

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Hi!

So it’s been a while. I want to start this blog up again as a sort of studyblr, but it will probably be a weird mix of all sorts of stuff related to academia and archaeology. I guess I should start with a sort of (re)introduction post.

I studied latin and ancient greek in school here in Denmark (gymnasium) which led to an interest in archaeology. After a lot of introspection, I chose to leave the world of classical studies behind and focus on prehistoric archaeology in Southern Scandinavia. I got my bachelors degree on that and is currently pursuing a masters degree in the same field.

I currently work at two different historical archives/museums. I hope to continue working in the museum sector full time after obtaining my masters.

Anyway, I hope some people will want to follow along, I’m going to be on an excavation of a palaeolithic site for the next two weeks and will see if I can get some nice pictures from it.

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A nice evening in the meadow

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This is the life

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I love winter <3

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I want to start posting on this blog again. Since I graduated from school last summer, I got a job as a substitute teacher at one of my former schools. Well, as basically everything else right now, my school is closed. I haven’t got a lot to do at the moment, so I’m reading a lot. Therefore, I’m planning to do a few aestethic pictures and book rewievs. Most of my books are in danish, but I’ll try to remember to post the english title. I hope you’ll enjoy my plan.

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3,000-Year-Old Cooking Mistake Revealed

Archaeologists in Denmark have found evidence of a 3,000 year-old cooking mistake that casts some light into the everyday life of Scandinavian Bronze Age people.

Clear evidence for one of the most common mistakes in the kitchen – burning food – lay in a clay pot that was excavated in central Jutland, Denmark.

The clay vessel was found, upturned and in near mint condition, at the bottom of what was once a waste pit.

“The pot is typical for cooking vessels in this region of Denmark. It was accompanied by several other objects fitting the dating,” archaeologist Kaj F. Rasmussen from Museum Silkeborg, Denmark, told Discovery News. Read more.

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I love looking at the ancient roman busts, especially the unidentified ones. Today, nobody knows who he is, but he must have been a man of some importance once.

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Cyclades, Archaeological Museum of Paros:

Mosaics with a depiction of the labours of Hercules. The mosaics probably belonged to a public building, possibly a gymnasium dating circa 300 A.D. They were discovered in the premises of the Byzantine church Panagia Ekatontapyliani in Parikia, Paros

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idk man, i just have this weird affinity with all classics majors like. the kinship of an intimate greek or latin class is incredible, and unlike a lot of other humanities majors, there are usually relatively few classics majors within a school. and i guess it’s because classics is such a difficult, challenging major that doesn’t have any practical payoff… so you know that no one is there for the money or because their parents pressured them or because it’s what they feel they should do. like classics majors are genuinely all there because we all have this inexplicable l o v e for the such a strange and specific study and we put ourselves through the torture of languages because we WANT TO and i just think that’s really cool and special

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So I found this cool website for learning ancient languages

go wild

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I absolutely adore the early mornings by the sea. Now that I’m not in school anymore, I have a lot more time to stop and appreciate it.

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I read it for latin class. It’s seriously hilarious, and I would recommend reading it!

this is the best review of any ancient text ive ever seen... sure to please communists and sexual deviants... sign me up

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the odyssey

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I got 12 (the highest grade here in Denmark) on my exam! It was an oral exam based on a 15 paged research paper, which I wrote this spring.

The picture is a mini representation of a studenterhue, a cap which all students g’et when they finish the gymnasium. I g’et the real thing when I oficially graduate in two weeks.

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I just had my last greek lesson :’( I will miss my teacher and two fellow students dearly, but graduation is now in sight