Your Folks, My Folks in Prehistory
Category: Archaeology
Archaeology is fundamentally incapable of answering the question "who did this?".
Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 34 Comments •
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Martin Rundkvist's blog. Archaeology, skepticism, Sweden. And books and music and stuff.
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Dr. Martin Rundkvist is a Swedish archaeologist, journal editor, public speaker, skeptic, atheist, lefty liberal, bookworm, and father of two.
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May 31, 2007
May 30, 2007
Google Misunderstands Swedish Mentality
Category: Sweden
All governments spy to some extent on their citizens.
Posted by Martin R at 3:29 PM • 4 Comments •
5 Minutes of Kiddie TV Fame
Category: Archaeology
Tonight, my metal detecting team and I go on the Swedish State Broadcasting company's TV science show for kids.
Posted by Martin R at 9:44 AM • 14 Comments •
Lamprey's Spinal Cord Modelled
Category: Biology
Huss has built software models of bits of the lamprey's spinal cord.
Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 0 Comments •
May 29, 2007
Archaeological Fist Fights in Lund
Category: Archaeology
What caught my attention in the new issue of LAR was three polemic pieces.
Posted by Martin R at 8:49 AM • 7 Comments •
May 28, 2007
My Eugenics Project
Category: Introspection
Autism-spectrum disorders may largely be due to an accumulating genetic predisposition to systematise.
Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 14 Comments •
Sublime Erotic Poetry
Category: Humour
Yes, where, oh where indeed?
Posted by Martin R at 8:46 AM • 3 Comments •
May 27, 2007
Swedish Heritage Blog
Category: Archaeology
The Swedish State Board of National Antiquities has a blog.
Posted by Martin R at 3:06 PM • 0 Comments •
May 26, 2007
Album Review: M Coast, Say It In Slang
Category: Music
It's a slick and suave record, calmly up-beat, unaggressive yet intricate.
Posted by Martin R at 12:03 PM • 0 Comments •
May 25, 2007
Radiocarbon Summer Bargain
Category: Archaeology
The standard price is €320 / $430 / £220 per carbon sample.
Posted by Martin R at 1:53 PM • 2 Comments •
May 24, 2007
Blogger Gets Top Job Offer As Comment
Category: Blogging
In a matter of hours, a PLoS editor commented on Bora's blog ...
Posted by Martin R at 11:21 AM • 3 Comments •
500 Hidden Plastic Jars
Category: NOIBN
Often I have risen at dawn on weekends and gone out to seek tupperware.
Posted by Martin R at 10:41 AM • 5 Comments •
Carnivalesque 27
Category: History
Let me put the cremated fragments of your skeleton in a neatly labeled plastic bag.
Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 10 Comments •
Ebba During 1937-2007
Category: Archaeology
She combined the specialities of physical anthropology and animal osteology.
Posted by Martin R at 6:32 AM • 2 Comments •
Anthro Blog Carnival
Category: Archaeology
Archaeology and anthropology to move you and soothe you and treat you right, baby.
Posted by Martin R at 3:33 AM • 0 Comments •
May 23, 2007
Medieval Monastic Graffitti
Category: Archaeology
One of the most recent additions is deliciously enigmatic.
Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 12 Comments •
Technorati Quits Ranking Us
Category: Blogging
Now how will I know if I have any personal worth?
Posted by Martin R at 6:42 AM • 12 Comments •
May 22, 2007
Hyphenation is a Drag
Category: Tech
I have yet to see any software with hyphenation as good as that of WordPerfect 5.1.
Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 17 Comments •
May 21, 2007
New Novella by Michael Allen
Category: Books
"Who was the mysterious Madame de Mentou?"
Posted by Martin R at 3:59 PM • 0 Comments •
Blog Carnival Call for Submissions
Category: Blogging
Wednesday 23 May will see the Four Stone Hearth appear in all its archaeo/anthro glory.
Posted by Martin R at 1:14 PM • 0 Comments •
Speaking of Meat in Post-Conquest Britain
Category: History
The elite talked about meat in French at the dinner table.
Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 28 Comments •
May 20, 2007
Selling Stuff With Liberal Chic
Category: Politics
Give the magazine's white academic readers a warm fuzzy feeling.
Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 32 Comments •
May 19, 2007
Syphilitic Pinkie
Category: History
When holding a glass or cup, your pinkie will point ineffectually at the ceiling.
Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 24 Comments •
May 18, 2007
Are Humans Polygamous?
Category: Psychology
Some people screw around a lot, some very rarely, and some not at all.
Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 40 Comments •
May 17, 2007
Kaga Foil-Figure Pre-Print On-Line
Category: Archaeology
Fornvännen's summer issue .. a note I've written about the Kaga foil-figure die.
Posted by Martin R at 11:20 AM • 2 Comments •
Book Review: Stenger, God the Failed Hypothesis
Category: Skepticism
I find the whole hypothesis preposterous, particularly considering its origins in ancient mythology.
Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 32 Comments •
May 16, 2007
An Evening in Suitland
Category: Introspection
I was momentarily lifted out of my middle-class academic pond and dropped into an upper-class business-orientated swimming pool.
Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 2 Comments •
Samian Ware Found in Småland
Category: Archaeology
Pierre checked out the earth clinging to the roots of a fallen tree at the cemetery...
Posted by Martin R at 3:22 AM • 8 Comments •
May 15, 2007
Hopeful Buttons Again
Category: Blogging
I will absolve you of all your sins and give you the gift of eternal life.
Posted by Martin R at 4:34 PM • 13 Comments •
Archaeological Surveying: Call for Papers
Category: Archaeology
Contour mapping, field walking, metal detecting, aerial photography, geophysics, truffle hogs...
Posted by Martin R at 12:31 PM • 1 Comments •
Stockholm Anti-Papacy Open to Applicants
Category: Humour
"The term pontifex literally means 'bridge-builder' ..."
Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 5 Comments •
May 14, 2007
The Unbearable Abstruseness of Archaeology
Category: Archaeology
No Swedish archaeologist aims at contributing to world history.
Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 13 Comments •
Death of an Imaginary Friend
Category: Film
I am in mourning for a character in Six Feet Under who died on us last night.
Posted by Martin R at 6:23 AM • 6 Comments •
May 12, 2007
Autism-Spectrum Skepticism
Category: Skepticism
Science journalists refer to skeptics as "Asperger Patients Against Superstition".
Posted by Martin R at 4:45 AM • 8 Comments •
May 11, 2007
Scambaiting
Category: Humour
"... the huge fund transfer opportunity that will be of mutual benefit to the two of us."
Posted by Martin R at 8:54 AM • 5 Comments •
May 10, 2007
Is Psychotherapy Superstition?
Category: Psychology
"They do not attain university standards", is the grim message.
Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 34 Comments •
May 9, 2007
Early Voyages of Discovery
Category: History
"The history of exploration and travel, exploratory voyages, geographical discovery and worldwide cultural encounter."
Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 5 Comments •
Anthro Blog Carnival
Category: Archaeology
Archaeology and anthropology to take you through the night.
Posted by Martin R at 2:49 AM • 0 Comments •
May 8, 2007
Album Review: Dungen, Tio Bitar
Category: Music
Dungen ("the Grove") combine psychedelic 70s prog rock with Swedish ethno, fiddle and flute.
Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 6 Comments •
May 7, 2007
Swedish Study of the Kensington Runestone
Category: Archaeology
The runestone's visit to Stockholm didn't add to the discussion of the inscription's date.
Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 24 Comments •
May 6, 2007
Internet Radio Severely Threatened
Category: Music
Pandora's very survival, as that of internet radio in general, is threatened.
Posted by Martin R at 2:47 PM • 10 Comments •
Blog Carnival Call for Submissions
Category: Blogging
Wednesday 9 May will see the Four Stone Hearth appear in all its archaeo/anthro glory.
Posted by Martin R at 10:20 AM • 0 Comments •
Modelling the World in Real Time
Category: Psychology
One day I will wander around guided by an outdated world map.
Posted by Martin R at 8:45 AM • 2 Comments •
May 5, 2007
Face in Book
Category: NOIBN
Feel free to befriend my digital representation.
Posted by Martin R at 2:08 AM • 2 Comments •
May 4, 2007
You Can't Grok Its Multiplicity
Category: Archaeology
Even heavily codified religions, such as Judaism or Christianity, aren't coherent.
Posted by Martin R at 9:05 AM • 18 Comments •
Some May Be Worked
Category: Archaeology
"C. 70 kg collected quartz, of which some may be worked."
Posted by Martin R at 3:30 AM • 5 Comments •
May 3, 2007
Kaga Lady Drawn
Category: Archaeology
I've traced a photograph of the new-found Kaga foil-figure die.
Posted by Martin R at 9:05 AM • 7 Comments •
May 2, 2007
Kaga Relief Brooch Reconstructed
Category: Archaeology
The workmanship is quite exceptional.
Posted by Martin R at 9:05 AM • 6 Comments •
May 1, 2007
Book Review: Cambridge History of Scandinavia
Category: Archaeology
There is very little archaeology here.
Posted by Martin R at 9:05 AM • 18 Comments •
Atheist Blog Carnival Proliferation
Category: Skepticism
If God hadn't wanted you to have contact with other atheists...
Posted by Martin R at 3:44 AM • 6 Comments •
