Hello everyone! During the last few days we’ve been busy with the bom-futuro excavation. The site is very interesting and we’re about to see what’s in the soil after some more excavations. Here are some pictures, there’ll be more to come!
Today its raining here in Santarem, so we take the time to write our Bachelor thesis. Tomorrow we are going out to our frist excavation site in the Amazon forest! Pics will be uploaded soon!
Hola! Today we spent some time in the university in Santarém. We saw the archaeological department and the enormous amount of archaeological materials they have there. We also visited a nearby site and worked with the measuring equipment and learned a bit about Brazilian excavation methods. One thing that stand out about their methods that we don’t have in Sweden is that they very often use machétes to clear paths in the vegetation!
Hello, everyone! Here are some pictures from the trip and arrival in Santarém. There will be more to come in the following days! Weather today was about 35*c, quite different from the near 0*c in the town we originally departed from.
Hello!
We have finally reached the city of Santarem in Brasil! We are sorry for the delay, but we are soon going to post some pictures and post more uppdates! Yesterday we had dinner by the Amazon river it was so nice!
Finally my baggage is ready. Just in time consider that tomorrow monday its time to leave for Brazil. Had to bring a guitar with me!
Here is a link to a picture gallery that contains many beautiful images from the city of Santarem and the surrounding areas. I guess we gonna visit Alter do Chão and the beaches!
Next monday the time has come for us to board flight SK 3619 for the first part of the journey to Brazil. The flight will take us from Gothenburg Sweden to Frankfurt Germany. There we will board a overnight flight for Rio de Janeiro Brazil.
Link to the hotel where we will stay
Autumn leaves are falling in front of our University. Sadly we will miss the final part of autumn and the first part of the winter.
Hello everyone! We thought it would be fun to give a closer look at the artifacts we’ve been working with at the museum of world culture in Gothenburg during the summer. These four are just a small sample of the artifacts you can find in the Santarém region, which has artifacts ranging from intricately decorated small figurines, ceramics, amulets made from semi-precious gemstones or larger figurines, some up to 68 cm in height, and some being up to 93 cm wide! More to come soon, surely!
The artifacts are from the Museum of World Culture.
Photographer: Kjell Denti Gunnarsson