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Anatolijs Venovcevs @avenovcevs.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Analysing lead bullets from an 18th century Russian Pomor site on Svalbard. Four different calibers of lead bullets plus lots of evidence of shot manufacture - from lead bars to waste to cut sprues.

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Anatolijs Venovcevs @avenovcevs.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

17th century whaler's shoe found on the surface in northeastern Svalbard.

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Anatolijs Venovcevs @avenovcevs.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

An untimely artifact of archaeology - an artifact tag from the Institute of Archaeology of the USSR - written in 1994.

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Anatolijs Venovcevs @avenovcevs.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Today at Svalbard Museum - figuring out how to conserve a 400 year old piece of boiled whale fat 🐳

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Anatolijs Venovcevs @avenovcevs.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Coles Bay, Svalbard - the shipping harbour for the Soviet coal mining operation at Grumant from the 1930s to 1961. At one point, Grumant and Coles Bay had a combined population of 1,100 people making it the largest population centre in Svalbard. It was closed in 1961 due to dwindling coal reserves.

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Anatolijs Venovcevs @avenovcevs.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Five months into my new position and I'm finally starting the job I got hired to do - working with the archaeological collections. First is the Russian Pomor material of which we have around 20,000 items, mostly excavated by Russian archaeologists in the 70s, 80, and 90s.

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Anatolijs Venovcevs @avenovcevs.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Stuck in snow on a glacier. I've driven in white out conditions before (thanks for the experience Canada!) but this was something else. The world was a white sheet of paper and the only thing that existed was the snowmobile in front of me.

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Anatolijs Venovcevs @avenovcevs.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Getting back into Bluesky with shots from my new home - Svalbard - an incredible glacial land of ice and snow with even more incredible archaeology.

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Anatolijs Venovcevs @avenovcevs.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

My babushka is a sewing grandmaster. Keep also in mind that at age 83 her eyesight isn't the best... she sews a lot by the feel of the needle. All of this is made from discarded clothing.

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 30/12/2023

The kids’ accounts “have helped officials and investigators build a picture of a Russian effort to remove children from Ukraine — often under the pretext of rescuing them from the war zone — to turn them against their homeland and into loyal Russian subjects”

nytimes.com

Ukraine’s Stolen Children

Thousands of young Ukrainians were separated from their parents by the Russian authorities in the early stages of the war. They are among the most forlorn victims of the invasion.

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Anatolijs Venovcevs @avenovcevs.bsky.social · 26/11/2023

An incredible icescape on the Baltic Sea by Oulu during the five hours of daylight. The temperature was around -21 C with windchill.

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Anatolijs Venovcevs @avenovcevs.bsky.social · 20/11/2023

Quick reminder to anyone interested in participating in our session (or any other session) at @nordicarchtag.bsky.social - the abstracts are due on December 1st.

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Anatolijs Venovcevs @avenovcevs.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

A memory of the mushroom season - admiring the sporing body of an inocybe genus fungus growing on an unidentified iron interconnecter left behind by the retreating German troops in northeastern Norway while working alongside the local mushroom society.

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Anatolijs Venovcevs @avenovcevs.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

I guess I'm officially a doctor now 😃 For those interested about the archaeology of twentieth-century single industrial mining towns in the (sub-)Arctic can find and read my thesis here - munin.uit.no/handle/10037...

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Anatolijs Venovcevs @avenovcevs.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

For the multidisciplinary-minded people out there, check out Session 3, "Entangled Worlds, Entangled Methods: Archaeologies of Nature" organised by me and my colleagues at the University of Oulu. How does working beyond the nature-culture binary reconfigure our approaches to studying the past?

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Anatolijs Venovcevs @avenovcevs.bsky.social · 28/10/2023

Welcome to my fungal musings for a possibly better future. I bring you this lichen growing on crushed and melted glass from the scorched earth retreat by the German forces from Sør-Varanger, northeastern Norway in October 1944.

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