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Dr Martin Rundkvist is a Swedish archaeologist, journal editor, public speaker, skeptic, atheist, lefty liberal, bookworm, and father of two. This is the world's #1 archaeology blog according to Technorati.
Four Stone Hearth
January 31, 2007
Category: Archaeology
The excellent Markus Andersson has made a cemetery map out of the field measurements me and Howard Williams and our collaborators took at Skamby in Kuddby parish the summer before last. This is the prettiest of Östergötland's three boat...
Posted by Martin R at 9:05 AM • 4 Comments •
Category: Archaeology
Mike Parker Pearson and team have excavated part of a huge Neolithic settlement at Durrington Walls above the Salisbury plain, not far from Stonehenge. Finds are abundant and suggest that the place was a seasonal ceremonial feasting site. Says...
Posted by Martin R at 9:05 AM • 0 Comments •
January 30, 2007
Category: Humour
Dining with polyglot friends (he's a Sinologist who also works with Georgian and Basque and speaks a bewildering variety of Asian languages, she interprets Mongolian and speaks the most exquisite Swedish), my wife and I learned something about Mongolian...
Posted by Martin R at 9:05 AM • 0 Comments •
January 29, 2007
Category: Archaeology
Marika Mägi, my old co-student from grad school, is head of the archaeology department at Tallinn university in Estonia. She's organising a conference titled Rank, Gender and Society around the Baltic 400-1400 AD on 23-27 May in Kuressaare on...
Posted by Martin R at 11:57 AM • 2 Comments •
January 28, 2007
Category: Archaeology
On Thursday 1 February at 18:30 I'm giving a talk at the Town Museum of Norrköping. The subject is my ongoing research into the political geography of late 1st Millennium Östergötland, or simply put, My Quest for the Ancient Kings....
Posted by Martin R at 9:21 AM • 7 Comments •
January 27, 2007
Category: Music
Dear Reader, I've just passed a lovely hour skiing on the golf course, and I am very happy. It's -6 centigrade, loads of snow and Mr Sun is shining from a blue sky, accompanied by his pale-countenanced Sister Moon....
Posted by Martin R at 9:05 AM • 5 Comments •
January 26, 2007
Category: Sweden
As I've observed before, enlisting bloggers to do marketing offers some interesting possibilities and limitations. Unlike the case with mainstream media, you can choose exactly which person will receive an advance copy of your product (preferably someone who will like...
Posted by Martin R at 9:05 AM • 1 Comments •
January 25, 2007
Category: Archaeology
Most archaeologists work with rescue excavations for land development, "contract archaeology". And because of the Field-Archaeological Paradox, operative in all Western countries with strong legal protection for archaeological sites, they get to dig a lot of really nondescript things. It's...
Posted by Martin R at 9:00 AM • 6 Comments •
January 24, 2007
Category: Archaeology
One of the founding fathers of Norwegian archaeology and place-name scholarship was Oluf Rygh (1833-1899). In 1875, he became Scandinavia's first professor of archaeology. One of the most enduring parts of his legacy is his 1885 book Norske Oldsager,...
Posted by Martin R at 1:33 PM • 7 Comments •
January 23, 2007
Category: Blogging
John over at Stranger Fruit had a post recently on his most popular entries. Summing up, he found that controversial issues in science and religion drew the most attention. I've had a look at my Google Analytics as well, checking...
Posted by Martin R at 2:47 PM • 4 Comments •
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