Dr. Martin Rundkvist is a Swedish archaeologist, journal editor, public speaker, chairman of the Swedish Skeptics Society, atheist, lefty liberal, bookworm, and father of two.
Most of Sweden is still seeing continual land upheaval after the latest Ice Age. Where I live, the shoreline recedes half a meter per century, measured vertically. If you build a jetty around here when you're 20, it's pretty much useless when you're 80. This means that the Stockholm Archipelago is in constant flux: underwater rocks become islets, islands merge, and finally they become landlocked hills.
Here's a pop-sci essay in Swedish I published recently in the local historical society's bulletin. It's about the boating situation in my area, Nacka municipality east of Stockholm, a thousand years ago.
[More blog entries about archaeology, Sweden, Vikings, Vikingperiod, ships, boats; arkeologi, vikingatiden, vikingar, Nacka, Stockholm, Birka.]
Comments
Nooo! The ultimate evil - a link as a PDF! I refuse, on principle, to wait 15 seconds for a program to load just so I can read some text and see some pictures.
Do you have the link in a more humanistic format..?
Posted by: paddy | March 4, 2007 4:22 PM
Nope, it's PDF or nuthin'. Right-click the link, Save as..., print it out, sit down like a good humanist and read hard copy!
Posted by: Martin R | March 5, 2007 4:30 AM
Martin: fun reading! If you haven't already done so, you should send this to my old scout troop: Saltsjöbadens Sjöscoutkår. They would probably invite you to give a talk as well!
Posted by: Thinker | March 5, 2007 10:36 AM
Excellent idea, thanks!
Posted by: Martin R | March 5, 2007 3:17 PM