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Finnish archaeologist. PhD student. Wanna-be scientist.

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Tampereen Sanomat 6.10.1890

An advertisement to emigrate in US at 1890 news paper. One promising the trip lasting only 10-12 days and leaving from Tampere city. Another Leaving from Helsinki and being very comfy and nice. And not too pricy either. And lasting only 7 days. 

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Old methods

How about trying this next time you have toothache?  1. Put a copper coin into mouth of not yet buried dead person.  2. Take it out after some time.  3. Drop the coin into bottle of strong spirits.  4. Drink the spirit.  This old way to treat toothache was recorded in Torne River valley, Finland/Sweden

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"When you are at diplomatic mission and in funerals and you step in shit. And that's how your picture ends into collections of National museum of Finland." Lennart Oesch, Antti Hackzell ja K.G.Idman Jósef Pilsudskin hautajaisissa. Museovirasto. Historian kuvakokoelma. 

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Fictive kinship

Lol. Found out few days ago that there is a kinship called fictive kinship. It is not based on blood relations or marriage, but is a kinship between adoptive parent(s) and adopted child or between foster parent(s) and foster child. My mom is adopted and I know those relations are not fictional, but it is just how that kinship is called. But I was trying to think different names for such a kinship and now I am just telling myself I can not call it as a Mandalorian kinship.

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These sound like dinosaurs...

In 15th century Europe there were several kind of institutions concerned to help those in need. Syndochium fed and took care of pilgrims and poors, procotrophium fed the poor, gerontocomium was a place for elderly, orphanotrophium took care of orpans and brephotrophium was feeding children of poor. Most common and known was xenodochium, a hospital. 

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Have you ever heard about Luistari at Eura? Not surprised if you haven’t. It is biggest and one of best studied merovingian (600-900) - viking age ( 800-1170) and medieval (1170-1300/1400) site at Finland, yet as usually, we are rather shy to present our findings and while planning to do this, I could not find online maps in English about the site. The site was mostly excaveted from 1969 to 1991, but some of excavations were done at 2013. There are several cairns (in green), from even earlier period of time, but the main attention has been given to the vast complex of graves from the very beginning of time when the Christianity and its echoes started to settle in Finland. There is more than 1300 burials excavated from Luistari. And by burial I mean a grave containing an un burned human remains. These burials contains weapons, everyday objects, pieces of textiles, human bones, animal bones, pottery, leather, pelts and many many more things.  This is just amazing complex of things.

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Saloisten seurakunnan arkisto - Taulukot syntyneistä, kuolleista ja vihityistä 1749-1773 (IIS:2, Raahe), jakso 23; Kansallisarkisto:  Cited 27.10.2020 Record of an earthquake occurring at Raahe 11th of December 1757.

“Litet för dagningen den  11 December om morgonen hade man här stades känning af et jordbäfning, som gick ifrån sydost till nordwäst. Dånet deras hördes, såsam skulle någon i dåwarande krakan åkt strackt med en wagn, och någon skakning kändes äfwen tillika, så at hwad lööst ut i huusen war, det tördes. Detta förspondes så i Brahestad, som i Piehingi, Salo och Pattijoki byar. “

In case your 18th century Swedish is a bit rusty... (Mine is too, but here we go..)

“Shortly before the dawn on the morning of December 11, there was a feeling of an earthquake, which went from southeast to northwest. There was a roar heard, as kraken itself would have made it, and a shaking was felt as well, so that what was loose in houses, it was shaking. This was happening in Raahe, as in the villages of Piehingi, Salo and Pattijoki.”

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Watching a document about Ötzi from Nat. Geographic. “Ötzis tools were surprisingly modern and efficient!” Me: Well, duh, who want’s to have crappy items?

But special slow and approwing applauses to this writer:  “Ötzi was murdered before even a wheel was invented!”

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An adverticement from 1900 9th of January Kaleva magazine about arteficial eyes you can buy from pharmacy at Oulu city. Kaleva started to appear in 1899 and is still going strong.

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An actual quartz flake / crystal from stone age site  - “Kyber crystal”

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But it’s not pyramids!

I don’t know is this an universal phanemon, but seems to be a common attitude among people in here (Finland), that if it’s something old and if it’s not made out from jewelry and gold it can’t be cool. Or it isn’t valuable. If it is not big, spectacular and named as a wonder of the world it can’t be cool. “Well, it’s nothing like pyramids.” Someone can modestly say. Pls! No! Do not do it! It’s a totally different case! You can not compare the environment, the culture, the resources or really anything you have around northern hemisphere to Nile valley! Or other way around. Or you can. But that would be problematic. So very problematic. All cultures are adaptations to the environment currently present: both social and biological! And every culture is equally valuable to us since we as a specie share the history and write our past, present and future together. It is our heritage! It’s part of our past. The pit houses, pieces of quartz and sert are as valuable as golden death masks and yes, the pyramids. They all are signs of past activity, echoes from the past. Yet they have different meanings, none of these are less valuable to us. Please, carish our past no matter how big or small these things are. They are part of our story.

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Announcement of puppy found at Rantsila, Northern Osthrobothnia, Finland. Newspaper Kaleva 1900 8th of January