Dr. Martin Rundkvist is a Swedish archaeologist, journal editor, public speaker, skeptic, 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