Finnestorp War Booty Sacrifice
Category: Archaeology
People in modern-day Denmark had the custom of sacrificing war booty in holy lakes.
Posted by Martin R at 3:05 PM • 3 Comments •
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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.
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January 31, 2008
January 30, 2008
ICQ Gender Wars
Category: Psychology
"Errrr, do you think we might perhaps simply have a civilised conversation?"
Posted by Martin R at 12:39 PM • 31 Comments •
Anthro Blog Carnival
Category: Blogging
The thirty-third Four Stone Hearth blog carnival is on-line at Greg Laden's. His blog is, err, like, laden with archaeology and anthropology....
Posted by Martin R at 11:51 AM • 0 Comments •
January 29, 2008
Video From Blog Con Hum/Soc Sci Sesh
Category: Blogging
Here's a healthy chunk of video footage from the session on blogging about humanities and social sciences that I chaired at the NC Science Blogging Conference Saturday before last. Much of it shows me and Jennifer Jacquet looking blank as...
Posted by Martin R at 4:16 PM • 0 Comments •
January 27, 2008
The Amazing Meeting 5.5, Plantation, FL
Category: Skepticism
A 1.5-day mini-con hosted by the Amazing Randi himself!
Posted by Martin R at 3:39 PM • 14 Comments •
January 25, 2008
Volunteering at the JREF
Category: Skepticism
Spent yesterday volunteering at the James Randi Educational Foundation, doing manual work and getting to know people. I moved furniture, cleaned up trash, painted a door and pasted errata sheets into books. And everybody was so nice to me!...
Posted by Martin R at 7:59 AM • 9 Comments •
January 23, 2008
Suicide-Inducing Florida Retirement Community
Category: Travel
Took a walk around the local geocaches, ended up trapped for half an hour in a nightmarish retirement community. Endless identical white single-story houses with garages and immaculate lawns, the streets deserted in the baking January afternoon. I was...
Posted by Martin R at 4:51 PM • 16 Comments •
Sim Florida
Category: Travel
Descending toward Ft Lauderdale airport this morning, I was shocked by the expanse of suburban sprawl stretching to the horizon below me. A huge drained swamp, all flat, covered by an intricate pattern of canals and streets and plots...
Posted by Martin R at 1:21 PM • 3 Comments •
January 22, 2008
Wish I Could Do That In Linux
Category: Tech
Back in April, I installed Ubuntu Linux on my oldish Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop, bought in early 2005. Ubuntu's rapid boot process and snappy action has made it my favourite operating system (while I continue to run Win XP and...
Posted by Martin R at 12:15 AM • 8 Comments •
January 21, 2008
Build Your Life on Eternal Truths
Category: Travel
I just popped out for a burger at Arbee's, and I chose a seat with a good view of the full moon riding high over a Shell gas station. On the wall of the station was a large luminescent...
Posted by Martin R at 6:53 PM • 9 Comments •
MLK Day in Chapel Hill
Category: Travel
Above is a candid pic by Nathan L. Walls, showing yours truly at Saturday's hum & soc sci session. The teeshirt is from the Swedish Skeptics and reads "I am skeptical" in an obscure North-European language. Yesterday's highlights wereAn...
Posted by Martin R at 8:54 AM • 6 Comments •
January 20, 2008
Sunny Winter Morning in RTP
Category: Travel
A good thing about jet lag is that it gets you up in the morning. I awoke at five, played around with the computer, showered, breakfasted and was outside at half past seven. It's a brisk, cold sunny morning...
Posted by Martin R at 8:30 AM • 3 Comments •
January 19, 2008
I've Been Blog Conned and It Was A Blast
Category: Blogging
The best part was actually to meet loads and loads of blogging friends whom I'd only seen in pictures.
Posted by Martin R at 8:49 PM • 6 Comments •
January 18, 2008
Evening in the Research Triangle
Category: Travel
I'm back in the US for the first time since 2002. Before that, the last time was in 1978, when I had lived in Greenwich, Connecticut and gone to Kindergarten for two years. Everybody's way fatter than I remember them....
Posted by Martin R at 10:11 PM • 2 Comments •
January 17, 2008
Any Readers in Ft Lauderdale, FL?
Category: Blogging
Anybody in the Ft Lauderdale area want to meet up some time 23-24 January? I'd like to befriend some natives! I'm touching down at FLL at noon on Wednesday the 23rd and will be staying in Plantation. I'll be a...
Posted by Martin R at 2:57 PM • 3 Comments •
Any Readers in Chapel Hill / Durham, NC?
Category: Blogging
Anybody in the Chapel Hill / Durham area want to meet up some time 20-22 January? I'd like to befriend some natives! I'm attending the ">NC Science Blogging conference in Research Triangle Park on Saturday 19 January. After that, I'm...
Posted by Martin R at 2:57 PM • 3 Comments •
Jenny-Rita Næss Honoured On-Line
Category: Archaeology
Around the time when a senior academic retires, she will, if she's lucky, receive a Festschrift. The word is German and means "celebration publication": typically, it's an anthology put together by her colleagues and students. The contents of a...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 0 Comments •
Anthro Blog Carnival
Category: Archaeology
The thirty-second Four Stone Hearth blog carnival is on-line at Testimony of the Spade. Archaeology and anthropology and anthropology and archaeology! Also, don't miss the 78th Skeptics' Circle over at Skeptical Surfer....
Posted by Martin R at 3:00 AM • 0 Comments •
January 16, 2008
Main Swedish 30s Archaeo-Nazi Named "O", not "SL"
Category: Archaeology
One student eagerly went to Berlin, offered his services and planned excavations with concentration-camp labour!
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 3 Comments •
January 15, 2008
Battle Damage Found on Djurhamn Sword
Category: Archaeology
The edges have several fresh parry nicks that would have made the sword hard to sheathe.
Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 16 Comments •
January 14, 2008
Genes and Peoples
Category: Archaeology
I disagree with Razib's interpretation of some interesting genetic studies over at Gene Expression.
Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 84 Comments •
January 12, 2008
Cyberpunk Crotch Perspective
Category: Film
My friend Mickey Huss (the virtual lamprey guy) has alerted me to the existence of near-future noir flick Gene Generation. It's said to be the first Hollywood movie directed by a Singaporean. I haven't seen it, but I gotta...
Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 0 Comments •
January 10, 2008
Geophysics Locate Royal Halls at Borre
Category: Archaeology
Even the stones in the bottoms of the post holes are visible!
Posted by Martin R at 2:36 PM • 2 Comments •
January 9, 2008
Tangled Bank 96 - Toadally
Category: Carnival
Hey everyone, and welcome to the 96th Tangled Bank blog carnival! This is where you can toadally catch up with the best recent blog writing on the life sciences. BeastiesGrrlscientist at Living the Scientific Life explains why bright blue...
Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 1 Comments •
January 8, 2008
Stockholm Blogmeet 8 January
Category: Blogging
Felicia, Tor, Jesper, Johan, Thinker, Paddy, Kai, Lars, Martin R, Martin C. Photographs by friendly man at nearby table, shoppery by Lars. Our latest Stockholm after-work blogmeet was way back in September. It was high time for another one!...
Posted by Martin R at 4:28 PM • 17 Comments •
January 7, 2008
Chinese Archaeology Loses Proto-Historical Innocence
Category: Archaeology
Proto-history offers a powerful lure to all students of the past.
Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 16 Comments •
January 6, 2008
Canadian Creationists Care About Me
Category: Blogging
Canadian newspaper The National Post seems to be subscribing to a blog-buzz service that everybody on Sb got onto a while ago. Therefore, I just got an intriguingly worded letter from Canadian creationist David Johnston (appended below the fold for...
Posted by Martin R at 4:24 PM • 13 Comments •
What Giraffe Taught Me About Skepticism
Category: Skepticism
It's not about epistemology in the abstract.
Posted by Martin R at 10:35 AM • 56 Comments •
Rock of Ages
Category: Archaeology
Field archaeology has its perks, one of which is the interaction with the public.
Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 1 Comments •
January 5, 2008
Jonathan Lindström Enlightener of the Year
Category: Skepticism
The Swedish Skeptics Society (VoF) has just announced its annual awards. The Popular Enlightener for 2007 is none other than my friend Jonathan Lindström, the guy with the Neolithic kids' book! (I abstained from voting, being heavily biased in his...
Posted by Martin R at 5:12 PM • 2 Comments •
Scintillating Scotoma
Category: Health
It's a weird kind of snow crash in your visual cortex.
Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 8 Comments •
January 4, 2008
Mars Rovers Still Working After Four Years
Category: Space
These machines were originally meant to work for three months, yet they continue to trundle around that cold, distant planet.
Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 6 Comments •
January 3, 2008
US Stoners Afraid to Report ODs
Category: Health
In most US legislatures a drug user runs a great risk of a jail sentence if she reports an overdose.
Posted by Martin R at 2:38 PM • 10 Comments •
Anthro Blog Carnival
Category: Archaeology
The thirty-first Four Stone Hearth blog carnival is on-line at Walking the Berkshires. Archaeology and anthropology, oh my! Also, don't miss the 77th Skeptics' Circle over at White Coat Underground....
Posted by Martin R at 6:11 AM • 0 Comments •
January 2, 2008
Swedish Golden Age Science Fiction Mags
Category: Books
Is your living-room table really complete without a fresh copy of a Swedish 50s sf mag?
Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 17 Comments •
Aard in Open Lab 2007 Anthology
Category: Books
I just learned that my blog entry Your Folks, My Folks in Prehistory has been selected for inclusion in the 2007 Open Lab science blogging anthology! Yay! I was likewise honoured a year ago when I had an entry...
Posted by Martin R at 4:47 AM • 5 Comments •
January 1, 2008
Mindless Blog Popularity
Category: Blogging
Here are the ten most popular non-carnival entries on Aardvarchaeology for 2007.Djurhamn Sword Excavated Stockholm Art Shows Scandinavian Attitudes to Nudity Wish I Could Do That in Linux Lamprey's Spinal Cord Modelled Djurhamn Sword Star Wars Lego Girls Toys to...
Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 2 Comments •
