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Martin Rundkvist's blog. Archaeology, skepticism, Sweden. And books and music and stuff.
Dr. Martin Rundkvist is a Swedish archaeologist, journal editor, public speaker, skeptic, atheist, lefty liberal, bookworm, and father of two.
February 28, 2007
Category: Skepticism
My friend Jesper Jerkert has edited a volume of skeptical essays, most culled from Folkvett, the Swedish skeptic quarterly we both help co-edit. This handsome book is just out from the Stockholm publishing house Leopard, whose head hombre Dan Israel...
Posted by Martin R at 9:05 AM • 0 Comments •
February 27, 2007
Category: Archaeology
"Unbelievable that things like these are still around!"
Posted by Martin R at 9:05 AM • 6 Comments •
February 26, 2007
Category: Psychedelic
Sex sells, so here's a pic of my new psychedelic undies.
Posted by Martin R at 9:05 AM • 3 Comments •
Category: Archaeology
I like to publish good archaeological pix.
Posted by Martin R at 3:33 AM • 2 Comments •
February 25, 2007
Category: Blogging
What you need is a blog written from Stockholm by a humorous, skeptical Irishman.
Posted by Martin R at 4:53 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: NOIBN
Should the future Constitution of the European Union make reference to Christian values?
Posted by Martin R at 10:04 AM • 8 Comments •
Category: Archaeology
An item of particular interest to Scandinavian archaeologists and historians at Project Runeberg is an almost complete run of Antiqvarisk Tidskrift.
Posted by Martin R at 8:04 AM • 0 Comments •
February 24, 2007
Category: Archaeology
Alu, lathu, laukaR!
Posted by Martin R at 11:28 AM • 2 Comments •
Category: Archaeology
Jason, I want to see your skinny ass on the next Four Stone Hearth.
Posted by Martin R at 3:20 AM • 2 Comments •
February 23, 2007
Category: Books
The Great Old Ones are stirring in their sleep beneath Guatemala City.
Posted by Martin R at 4:47 PM • 11 Comments •
February 22, 2007
Category: Archaeology
Contract archaeologists should be proud of their work and accept no shit from anyone who sees themself as superior.
Posted by Martin R at 9:05 AM • 4 Comments •
February 21, 2007
Category: Sweden
We secured samples that allowed radiocarbon dating to the Early Viking Period.
Posted by Martin R at 9:05 AM • 7 Comments •
February 20, 2007
Category: Archaeology
The best archaeological finds are made in museum stores.
Posted by Martin R at 4:01 PM • 2 Comments •
February 18, 2007
Category: Music
Rosie Lugosi out-timcurried Tim Curry himself, singing filk versions of disco songs with horror-cliché themes.
Posted by Martin R at 7:30 AM • 0 Comments •
Category: Children
Luke Skywalker's grandma, mother and sister were the same person to him.
Posted by Martin R at 4:14 AM • 6 Comments •
February 16, 2007
Category: Environment
Nuke plants should preferrably be in areas with well-educated and socially privileged inhabitants.
Posted by Martin R at 9:06 AM • 21 Comments •
Category: Film
The plot is driven entirely by the pointless cruelty of a psychopath.
Posted by Martin R at 9:05 AM • 12 Comments •
February 15, 2007
Category: History
It's high time for a first History Carnival here at ScienceBlogs.
Posted by Martin R at 9:05 AM • 10 Comments •
Category: Skepticism
The 54th Skeptics' Circle blog carnival is up at Action Skeptics. Akusai has put some serious work into it this time, weaving a hard-boiled tale of Jack Bixby, Skeptical Investigator around the submissions. Is that a gun in your pocket,...
Posted by Martin R at 8:42 AM • 1 Comments •
February 14, 2007
Category: Environment
The climate issue does not compare to the issue of radioactive waste.
Posted by Martin R at 9:07 AM • 34 Comments •
Category: Archaeology
Get this excavation report for inspiration.
Posted by Martin R at 9:06 AM • 0 Comments •
Category: Skepticism
Simple bad luck is what makes you ill.
Posted by Martin R at 9:05 AM • 3 Comments •
February 13, 2007
Category: Archaeology
How about paying to participate in a Roman Period dig in Bulgaria this summer? I've been asked to help promote the Bulgarian Archaeological Association's 2007 Field School. This really takes me back. I paid for food and board on...
Posted by Martin R at 9:12 AM • 6 Comments •
Category: Sweden
Which neighbouring country should Sweden invade first?
Posted by Martin R at 9:05 AM • 28 Comments •
February 12, 2007
Category: Skepticism
One miraculous cure by a Protestant faith healer would invalidate not just Catholicism, but any group that has theological differences with that preacher.
Posted by Martin R at 3:22 PM • 10 Comments •
Category: Archaeology
I don't think neo-paganism is any more silly than Christianity or Islam, but I do think it's really, really, really silly.
Posted by Martin R at 9:06 AM • 10 Comments •
Category: Art
Work by Sally Mann, Henrik Saxgren and Alphonse Mucha is on display in Stockholm, Sweden.
Posted by Martin R at 9:05 AM • 0 Comments •
Category: Archaeology
Full illustrated report on-line of recent Swedish Viking Period boat grave excavation.
Posted by Martin R at 5:40 AM • 0 Comments •
February 10, 2007
Category: Archaeology
The incomparable net-head archaeologist Ulf Bodin directs the highly successful work to put the collections of the Museum of National Antiquities in Stockholm (Statens Historiska Museum) on-line. Off and on over the past year, I've worked through the scanned catalogues...
Posted by Martin R at 3:49 AM • 3 Comments •
February 9, 2007
Category: Psychedelic
Stoner rats display brain changes and graduate to smack.
Posted by Martin R at 4:16 PM • 20 Comments •
Category: Archaeology
I believe that each player owned his pieces, and that when it was time to sit down for a game of hnefatafl, each player took out his own set.
Posted by Martin R at 9:05 AM • 15 Comments •
February 8, 2007
Category: Music
Robert Schneider, one of my favourite neopsychedelic musicians, has a new album out, this time with his main band again, The Apples in Stereo. His previous album Expo was issued in 2005 with The Marbles and is an excellent...
Posted by Martin R at 3:13 PM • 0 Comments •
February 7, 2007
Category: Archaeology
A buddy of mine sent me a reminder today of why I am happy to not be a contract archaeologist. It's twelve below zero centigrade around here, and still a number of unfortunate Linköping colleagues are out digging. And...
Posted by Martin R at 1:34 PM • 3 Comments •
February 6, 2007
Category: Archaeology
In recent years I've been involved in some archaeological fieldwork at Skamby in Kuddby parish, Östergötland, Sweden. I like to get a handle on the names of places where I work, what they mean, how they used to be...
Posted by Martin R at 2:54 PM • 12 Comments •
February 5, 2007
Category: Skepticism
Here's a must-read for anyone interested in the integrity of science, in the face both of post-modern hyperrelativism and of politically motivated distortion. It's a succinct op-ed in the L.A. Times co-written by Chris Mooney, author of The Republican War...
Posted by Martin R at 2:27 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: Archaeology
Many people who excel at something do so by concentrating on a few tightly defined areas of interest. A colleague of mine once explained to me that she has a narrow-gauge mind (Sw. smalspårig). I like that expression a lot:...
Posted by Martin R at 9:05 AM • 4 Comments •
February 4, 2007
Category: Children
I love my kids and a lot of that affection spills over on their friends as well. But I'm not the kind of dad who finds children's games very entertaining. I rarely even pretend to enjoy them. In my opinion,...
Posted by Martin R at 8:41 AM • 6 Comments •
Category: Carnival
Dear Cultists, welcome to the Temple of Godlessness that is Aardvarchaeology. I will be your High Priest this evening, introducing the latest and greatest blog writing on the subject of Above Us Only Sky. Sisters and brothers, let us...
Posted by Martin R at 1:30 AM • 10 Comments •
February 3, 2007
Category: Music
For about a week, the relentless riff from ZZ Top's 1973 hit song "La Grange" has been playing in my head. Such a great, great song, not least the powerful and exact drumming. And the vocals are really funny,...
Posted by Martin R at 9:46 AM • 6 Comments •
February 2, 2007
Category: Health
With mounting frustration, I'm watching an attempt to secure adequate health care for an elderly relative turn into something that looks a lot like a failed foreign aid project....
Posted by Martin R at 1:34 PM • 4 Comments •
Category: Archaeology
Sun Spurge My friend Dr Jens Heimdahl is a Renaissance man. He's a quaternary geologist, an urban archaeologist, a palaeobotanist, a talented painter and a writer of essays on weird literature. He's co-translated Lovecraft's novella The Dream-Quest of Unknown...
Posted by Martin R at 9:05 AM • 3 Comments •
February 1, 2007
Category: Introspection
One thing I've never fought about with my ex-wife nor my wife is money. This is no mean feat asBoth ladies are somewhat Bohemian souls with a taste for fine shoes and ladies' fashion. I have never made much...
Posted by Martin R at 9:05 AM • 5 Comments •
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