Gärdesån, Offerdal. part 2.

Well hello. A year later i post some remaining pics i didnt include in my previous post of this place. The large moose figures are possibly the oldest in Sweden, about 7000 bp. The smaller figures are a few thousand years younger. Favorite place!

people visiting and looking.

we all start somewhere.

Gärdesån, Offerdal

alltså dessa små fotspår... jag dör.

every site i visit is the best one. 

but this time.. 

this one def. is.

rock carvings at Norrfors, Umeå

this is just outside of umeå, and yet i have NOT been out here ever before, which is a little embarrassing since i'm born and raised in Umeå. i have no good explanation for this. but i decided this day was the day!

the post-glacial rebound dates these rock carvings to around 4000 years of age. mostly elks, some without internal lines but most have internal lines and dots. the other figures i saw were two boats, a funny looking humanfigure and a bird.

the woodbridge leading up to the carvings have little time notes on it for visitors to get a better perspective of the timeframe. It starts at world war II and goes backwards in time and at the end, by the rock carvings, the time line ends with mesopotamia and the egyptian pyramids which were buildt around the same time as the rock carvings were made. most people are familiar with the pyramids so it's easier to understand.

my sister and i spent an hour here, sitting, talking, having tea and trying to figure out the circumstances of the carvings. we didnt really come up with anything new. so no, no new ideas!

the river here is regulated so i couldnt get an idea of the waterflow, but there used to be water around this little rock.

my sister at Glösa, seen through holga camera.

My sister doesn't really know anything about archaeology or prehistory. Some people are interested, some are not, some just haven't gotten there just yet. So when she was following me around on my excursion, i talked about and explained all the sites to her that we visited. 

i assumed i was talking to only one ear but when i asked her later in the evening about the most important things from all the sites, she got 7 out of 10 questions right! and she was enthusiastic as well! 

questions such as where the closest hill forts to the mjälle hill fort are located, the age of the trapping pits, the difference between a storage building and a house, where certain rock carving motifs are in the country etc etc. i was really happy to see her interested when we were at the museum as well, especially when she saw the artifacts from places we had just visited, "aw so cool!" she said. 

 There is hope for humanity!

en dag i storsjöbygden, del 4, Glösa

Glösa hällristningar och fångstgropssystem i Alsen. På vägen hem från Östersund till Åre så tog vi vägen genom skogen och förbi Alsen socken i Krokoms kommun. Där finns fångstgropssystem från vikingatid och medeltid. Det sträcker sig 5 km (!) och har 91 gropar. Vi orkade inte gå och titta på alla, vi tittade bara på en, som låg på en smal, hög och lång ås-rygg. Kort gångavstånd, ca 400 m, därifrån är hällristningarna. Platsen i Glösabäcken var liten, men låg högt med utsikt över vatten och fjäll. Bäcken var smal men de vattenformade mjuka stenhällarna vittnar om betydligt kraftigare vattenflöde efter istiden. fanns några fler ristningar längre ner i bäcken men de fotade jag inte.

Det här var de enda hällristningarna jag hann med den här svängen, men nästa gång hoppas jag att jag kan ta en tur till Gärdesån, Offerdal, och se älgen där i naturlig storlek och mänskliga fotspår! De är möjligen bland Sveriges äldsta?!

stina.

nämforsen

vi tog oss tid att åka på en liten exkursion runt i krokarna när vi var ute på seminariegrävningen. i Nämforsen hann jag inte se allt denna gång för sällskapet hade bråttom. jag hade velat stanna längre och i lugn och ro fått titta på hällristningarna, vad fina dom är! vi gjorde samma rutt som på A-kursen, nämligen nämforsen, högberget och bastuloken. denna gång ha jag betydligt mer vetskap om de platserna!

the elk has always been important in scandinavia and it is the most common to spot on rock carvings and rock paintings in the north. and hey, people of today have elk stickers on their cars and what not, so we're not much different!
this is northern europe's largest collection of rock carvings at a place called Nämforsen in the north of  Sweden. I only managed to photograph a few of them.
 website for Nämforsen in english: http://www.namforsen.com/default.asp?path=22553&pageid=32598

look at the elk and fish kissing in the left bottom corner!

elks above and elks with reindeer? below

fixade och donade insparken för nya A-studenterna.

foto: sofi

våra fina tröjor.
foto: sofi

foto: jag

exkursion nämforsen, del 1

sofi östmans foton.

A-kurs. vi åkte och hälsade på de i C-kursen över oss
som hade seminariegrävning i Nämforsen.
hade jag inte kamera med mig?!
hursomhelst så var det ett jättemysigt ställe.