Etikett: Advent Calendar
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Advent calendar Flap 5, the Hedeby Mask
Flap 5 Behind flap 5 in the Advent calendar we find the Hedeby Mask. This mask was discovered during excavations at the Viking Age trading town of Hedeby/Haithabu. According to archaeologists, it had been reused as caulking in the hull of a Viking ship. The mask is felted from wool and shaped like an animal.…
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Advent calendar Flap 4, the Konsterud Horn
Flap 4Behind flap 4 of the Advent calendar we find the Konsterud Horn. This horn is a so-called vallhorn, a type of blowing instrument that in Sweden represents a living tradition with roots stretching back thousands of years. The Konsterud Horn was made sometime around the year 0, making it nearly 2,000 years old and…
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Advent calendar Flap 3, the Osterby Man
Flap 3 Behind the third flap of this year’s Advent calendar is the skull of the Osterby Man. The skull was discovered in 1946 during peat cutting in Osterby, Schleswig-Holstein in Germany. It belonged to a man aged between 50 and 60. An injury indicates that he had been struck on the head before being…
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Advent calendar Flap 2, the Bautasten in Runsten
Flap 2Behind flap number two in the Advent calendar hides the Bautasten in Runsten on the island of Öland. A bautasten is a type of standing stone that is known in other parts of Europe as a menhir. The word bautasten comes from the Old Norse bautarsteinn or bautasteinn. Bauta meant “to strike,” perhaps referring…
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Advent calendar Flap 1, Ananjino Daggers
I thought that this year I would do an Advent calendar filled with museum items and archaeological finds. Behind the first flap we find a copy of daggers that is displayed at the Arktikum Museum in Rovaniemi. The original is one of the oldest iron objects ever found in Finland.They belongs to the Ananjino culture…
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