Doctor of Archaeology — check out my PhD thesis 'Landslide Archaeology'. Working at Uppdrag arkeologi, also affiliated with Kulturlandskapet.
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.
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.
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/?