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Doctor of Archaeology — check out my PhD thesis 'Landslide Archaeology', published by Stockholm University. Currently affiliated with Kulturlandskapet.
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Dec 15, 2022 27 tweets 12 min read
The media has interviewed Ing-Marie Persson, who worked at the zoo for 37 years and raised a lot of these chimpanzees. She is, to say the least, outraged. Image UPDATE: Headline reads "The apes have taken over building: No one gets in - The chimpanzees saw through the maneuver - Team had to abort". An entry attempt had to be called off; zoo tried to lure the apes back into their habitat using sounds, but the chimps realized what was up. Image
Dec 15, 2022 34 tweets 13 min read
Insane things are happening at Furuvik Zoo. 4 chimpanzees gunned down after a break-out, a 5th shot but only wounded, 3 more on the loose. Drones are used to survey the besieged zoo, after +24 hours the bodies still litter the ground. Zoo says they were "out of tranquilizers". One of the escapees (and, I reckon, the dead) is Santino, who has his own Wikipedia article: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santino_(…
Apr 1, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
@DrFrancisYoung Possibly. There were (from my memory) at least 4-5 of these things in existence around 1391. It's been suggested that the many "Kors-" and "Kross-" names of the coastline indicate locations of medieval raised crosses, but these are the ones which we know were specifically 1/? @DrFrancisYoung ... endowed with lands of their own. The one I bothered writing down the details of, since I think I know where it was located, held lands in no less than four hamlets across two parishes. This area is known for having numerous medieval parishes which later merged into the 2/?