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Martin Rundkvist's blog. Archaeology, skepticism, Sweden. And books and music and stuff.

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Martin Rundkvist Dr. Martin Rundkvist is a Swedish archaeologist, journal editor, public speaker, skeptic, atheist, lefty liberal, bookworm, and father of two.

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July 31, 2008

News on Antikythera

Category: Archaeology

The Metonic cycle is represented by the Antikythera Mechanism.

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July 30, 2008

Bob Lind Gets Grant

Category: Archaeology

Bob has neither formal qualifications nor any excavation experience.

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July 29, 2008

Hymen Reconstruction and Public Healthcare

Category: Politics

Hymen construction is a silly pointless procedure in demand among certain immigrant groups.

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Estonian Chicken Spam Nightmare

Category: Psychedelic

So it's the 80s, Estonia is under Soviet rule, and your job is to direct movie commercials. And when you get the assignment to promote kana-hakkliha (processed chicken meat), you know exactly what it will take to make the...

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July 28, 2008

Birthday Clustering

Category: Children

Yesterday my glorious daughter turned 5. Today my radiant son turned 10. In the maternity ward five years ago I quipped to the nurses, "The kids being born one day apart, I suppose I'm only fertile for one week each...

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July 27, 2008

Social Nucleus and Accretionary Matter

Category: China

Once in the early 90s two Stockholm girls went to college to major in Chinese. They became friends: one was half-Chinese, the other had spent part of her childhood in China. They would one day become the Architect and...

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Chaosium's Basic Role-Playing

Category: Gaming

Anybody got a copy of Chaosium's 1980 game-rules booklet Basic Role-Playing? And the 1982 Worlds of Wonder boxed set, specifically the Magic World booklet? I'd love to have a look at them (photocopies or a brief loan would be fine),...

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July 25, 2008

Google as an Emergent AI

Category: Tech

Here's a cool update on the old Programmer Mel story, a tech-nerdy short story by George Dyson on Google as an emergent AI. It's sort of a fantasy-fulfillment tale for the boomers who seem to make up the bulk of...

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Mahna Mahna

Category: Humour

When was the last time you saw the Muppets perform "Mahna mahna"?...

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July 24, 2008

Fireweed

Category: Biology

Wind-borne seeds like thistledown that can sprout anywhere.

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July 23, 2008

Google Knol Live

Category: NOIBN

Alun tells me that Google Knol is now live. It's like Wikipedia, only written by experts and pwned by Google. Check it out! Also, I happened upon Everything2, this other weird & interesting hypertext community where anything goes, not modeled...

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Against Theoretical Archaeology

Category: Archaeology

All enquiry that does not concern the life-ways of people in the past and/or does not study material remains is non-archaeology.

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July 22, 2008

Game Review: Pandemic

Category: Gaming

You discuss among yourselves who goes where to whack-a-mole infected cities.

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July 21, 2008

Rental Sculpture

Category: Art

Most artists have a large backlog of unsold work sitting around their homes and studios.

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July 20, 2008

Giant Vertebra Found in Swedish Lake

Category: Biology

The find spot hasn't been near the sea since the end of the latest ice age.

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July 19, 2008

Slave to Love

Category: Introspection

A much-publicised trial in Falun, Sweden is giving me a funny feeling. The man on the stand has confessed to the murder of a woman and a small girl, and is also charged with the violent rape of both and...

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July 18, 2008

Bob Lind Challenges Me to a Duel

Category: Archaeology

"You with your fine archaeological credentials will surely not find reason to complain."

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July 17, 2008

Sailing the Ley Lines with Dr. Curry

Category: Skepticism

Reading up on some pseudoscientific ideas common among dowsing-rod enthusiasts, I happened upon a funny detail. Many Swedish dowsers believe in the "Curry grid", consisting of "power lines" across the surface of the Earth, detectable only by dowsing. They...

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July 16, 2008

Skepdude Beefcake Calendar

Category: Skepticism

On my desk is a copy of the 2009 Skepdude pinup calendar. It features lascivious images of many prominent skeptical gentlemen, including D.J. Grothe, Hemant Mehta and Brian Dunning. For March, there's even a picture of a skinny white dude...

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July 15, 2008

Film Review: Sizzle

Category: Film

What about the scientists? Are all of them real? Some of them? None?

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July 13, 2008

Paddy K Seeks the Bridge of Orchy

Category: Travel

Paddy K is hiking in Scotland without any portable internet connection. He just texted me a request for the coordinates of the Bridge of Orchy. He's currently in Inverardran, about 20 km SSE of the bridge. People in the...

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July 11, 2008

Four Stone Hearth Call for Submissions

Category: Archaeology

Everybody with an interest in anthropology and archaeology who isn't lost in some green summery haze far from the nearest internet connection -- it's time to contribute good new blog entries to next week's Four Stone Hearth blog carnival. You...

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Cesspit Incavation

Category: Archaeology

I often dig old crap out of the ground, so today's chore at the summer house provided some novelty.

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July 10, 2008

33 Test Pits

Category: Archaeology

Today we dug and sieved our 33rd and last square-meter test pit at Djurhamn, and I took the gear back to the County Museum's stores. Unless a colleague with better early-modern pottery skillz than mine provides any surprises, it seems...

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July 7, 2008

Test Pitting at Djurhamn

Category: Archaeology

I wish one of those pits would strike a 16th century midden!

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July 5, 2008

Anthro Blog Carnival

Category: Blogging

The forty-fourth Four Stone Hearth blog carnival is on-line at Greg Laden's blog. Archaeology and anthropology, and all about luta livre! Luta livre is a broad term referring to wrestling in Portuguese. In Brazil, it may also refer to...

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Classical Music Festival Pics

Category: Music

Here's a set of pics from the Music Tuscany mini-festival near San' Giovanni d'Asso in Tuscany, Italy, last week....

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July 4, 2008

Tuscan Photographs

Category: Art

I've put some pix from my recent trip to Tuscany in Italy on-line. In other news, my wife has suggested a brilliant and radical re-interpretation of the Swedish 70s dansband pop hit "Margareta", by Sten & Stanley. Comprehensible only...

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July 3, 2008

Film Review: Journey to 10,000 BC

Category: Archaeology

Late Palaeolithic people sail across the Atlantic to illustrate the Solutrean hypothesis, and the mast is at the aft of the boat. Painful stuff.

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July 2, 2008

Science Blogging Starting to Look Like Football

Category: Blogging

Here's an interesting development. Top science bloggers have become a commodity hot enough that a situation like that in European football is emerging. Players are getting snatched from team to team through hostile buyout (Carl Zimmer of The Loom), and...

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