Posts tagged: archaeometallurgy

92nd Four Stone Hearth blog carnival

My arti­cle about iron­mak­ing at the Stock­holm National Museum of Sci­ence and Tech­nol­ogy (Tekniska museet) is fea­tured in the 92nd Four Stone Hearth blog car­ni­val which went online yes­ter­day at Sort­ing Out Sci­ence. Other top­ics include botany at Easter Island, a newly exca­vated fig­urine seated on Odin’s high seat Hlid­sk­jalf found in Lejre in Denmark, […]

Ironmaking at the National museum of science and technology, Stockholm 2005

Back in 2005, I took part in an event at Tekniska museet (the National museum of sci­ence and tech­nol­ogy) in Stock­holm where we demon­strated pre–industrial Swedish and Japan­ese tech­niques for iron and sword mak­ing. Quot­ing another post that I wrote two weeks ago: Those of you who read Swedish may have seen that there is a […]

Thursday April 29th, 2010 in , , | 3 Comments »

TV">Japanese iron and sword making on Swedish TV

Those of you who read Swedish may have seen that there is a page on my blog called “Svär­dens mästare”, which trans­lates to “Mas­ter of the swords” in Eng­lish. I trans­ferred this page with­out fur­ther ado from my pre­vi­ous web site and have yet not taken the time to trans­late and rework it. The page […]

Friday April 9th, 2010 in , , | 2 Comments »

Migrating from old site

I’ve started to move some con­tent from my old web­site at Högskolan Dalarna. In par­tic­u­lar this means the doc­u­men­ta­tion on some bloomery fur­nace projects that I’ve been involved with over the past few years. You’ll find this stuff under “projects” in the menu. Mostly in Swedish so far, sorry for the inconvenience.

Wednesday January 13th, 2010 in , , , | No Comments »