fjerde rejse-brev fra tour de baltikum. en amatør arkeolog uden telt-pløkker, på mala i muhu, est.

the library in kuressaare, 1/8-2025.

to mairi kasseorg,

university of tartus;

i'm on a working holiday around the baltic sea, and passed several stone-age and early bronze-age sites

on øland, gotland and the swedish skærgård up to finland, as well as from finland-estonia, at saaremaa.

attached a series of photos from a visit to your recent excavations at mala, where you exposed a layer that reveals much earlier settlements, than the excavation from 1984 - which dates the site to 500-1.000 bc. it appears on these sites, especially rivet vik & engaarden on gotland, but also grogarns huveds vik, and the vik south east of kurgans rôsa uggaarden, that stone age & early bronze age did integrate, without a fight.

it also appears, that stone, boat axe & bronze age settlements were organized with open air court-settings, olderman, investigative bagmænd, assembly hall, mariage/burial, slaugther, sanitation & 3 star generals, to a degree where the early iron age visits from hallstatt, where met by an organization they could not easily subdue, whereby they integrated as guards or tradespeople - if they did not barter before yet a shore leave.

the recently excavated battle of tollensee 1.100 bc, as well as the 100.000 strong force to met cesar and his roman expedition, when they landed on english shores 36 bc, is a testimony to this level of organization, which you will also find on muhu at nomkula, as well as on saaremaa at kaugatoma lôu - and compared to those sites, it appears from the layer exposed, the site at mala dates back much earlier than 5-800 bc.

I also question if it is a burial site - it appears more a ritual slaughter site for very early stone age settlers, probably with ritual execution for destitute or the useless, if the tribe was facing hunger, without pottery - but of course, the site has been in use by several succeeeding cults - compared to the level of organization you find at normkula, kaugatoma löu, rivet vik, engaarden or uggard, and uggardens vik, it is quite simple.

uggarden on gotland, as well as all the other rösa's on that island, appears to have been assembly points or training grounds, for the masters of different trades, of the 10-12 settlements in vicinity to each rösa - and it is possible, considering the level of organization at normkula & kaugatoma löu, that such assembly point or training grounds for 10-12 settlements, in the form of the rösa structure, was also in use in estonia.

mala may have had such a function - but the layer you exposed since the excavation in 1984, reveals a more primitive settlement, and I reckon the sites will date back to very early stone age, after ice retreat.

for good measure, did I place 8 early stone age axe's from each the 2 piles left over from 1984, which have clearly been in use as tools by early settlers. I documented my visit, but off-course, did I not remove a ding.

I commend recent excavations as very valuable, and hope you may benefit from this amateur input.

slides from the other sites I visited, are available upon request - but I recommend to visit them live.

with this, I wish your team all the best with the further excavations, and your career in archeology.

with kind regards,

jacob sejersgaard-jacobsen

kløvermarksvej 5, 1.sal tv

8300 odder, danmark

www.det-liberale-hoejre.org

www.relabenergy.com

+45 29 46 98 65

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recent article on the excavation at mala, which exposed much earlier settlements or usage, than the layer exposed in 1984.

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the old table from 1984. the new excavation may update after recent finds. that will be several 1.000 of hours down the line.

early stone age tools, they were used long into boat axe & bronze age - are all around on saareema, as wel as on gotland.

remains of a fire place, next to the double house for the ceremonial leaders, next to the sacrifical stone. slaugther & storage.

more crude tools from eearly stone age. as good as many a modern axe, when probably fixed on a rod.

probably early butchers tool. its hard to tell, but cannibalism when hunger, may have been practiced untill roman times.

double house, similar to the one at rivet vik. they probably timed intercourse at new moon, as a flock will synchronize.

the recent / ongoing excavation at mala. om jeg virkelig har stjålet nogen ting, ryger der en finger, efter bevis-førelsen.

sanitets-foreskrifterne er blevet fulgt til punkt & prikke. now thats how the archeologist do it.

den grønne farve & moss-typen på offer-stenen fremstår efter den har været sølet i blod over mange hundrede år.

det er tæt på indbrud - men om der ikke forefindes placerede bevis-materialer i mit køretøj, beholder jeg nok mine 10 fingre.

endnu et arbejds-redskab, fra før båd-økse & bronze-alderen. det kan have været i brug til langt ind i romersk tid.

a sign that translate private. the enclosures did away with communal storage. today, they still have a hard time with taxes.

scholasticism, late style. apparently, 2nd wave democracy & modernism confused the citizenry, so they went back to church.

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as on gotland,

enclosures from about 400 ac, marks the end of organized communal settlements in estonia, and the beginning of migration period, as storage/pension for one family enclosure, sent everybody packing.

at uggardens rösa,

there appears to have been a slaughter of that times municipality organization for 10-12 settlements, at about 400 bc – and as enclosures did away with the communal structure, migration period began.

until my visit at uggarden & visby museum,

did I reckon the reason for migration period, was the roman empire's deliberate assault on the top level organization of the stone age, boat-axe & bronze-age settlements in france, spain, & england, whereby our tribal elders reckoned, they rather infiltrate rome and do away with it, like at teutoburg - but with tollensee, and gotlands integration among the 3-4 pre-iron immigration waves, maybe it was just enclosures?

in any case,

the time from enclosures 3-400 ac, until church & feudal scholasticism 1.200 ac, was chaotic, to say the least. then it became all dingeling in the church assembly, probably the congregation on space cake & opium once a week, the only explanation they gave away 50% of their gold & land to the church, until reformation 1520 - and counter reformation untill 1648, at the conference of westphalia, william of orange & roskilde/bromsebro.

galileo, and gutenberg, as well as lingua mundo in the form of latin, set the stage for the long 18th century.

for the very broad mass, so to speak, hell on earth until the 2nd democratic wave of 1850 and modernism.

now times are looking good, as internet provides de-centralized market & learning opportunity to us all.

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but the question still remains; did viking age runes, originate from all them hallstatt iron-ore baboons?

it is fairly close to latin, where hallstatt subdued the etruscean cult, before they knocked eachother up.

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