Unsuccessfully Greening Public Transport
Category: Children
Among the hybrid bus's weaknesses: a 110% fuel consumption compared to a normal diesel engine. Back to the drawing board.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 10 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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February 28, 2009
February 25, 2009
Bibliometry and Open Access in the Humanities
Category: NOIBN
On the problems of applying bibliometric assessments and Open Access practices in the humanities.
Posted by Martin R at 8:48 AM • 8 Comments •
February 24, 2009
With Juniorette at the Playland
Category: Children
I never thought I'd be writing about Iron Age political geography at a place called Andy's Playland. It's Skiing Break, and because of preparations for our recent move my wife and I never got round to booking accommodations up north...
Posted by Martin R at 8:31 AM • 3 Comments •
February 23, 2009
New Photo Book on Abandoned Buildings
Category: Archaeology
Now and then I blog about abandoned tree houses. But of course, real large houses are even more fascinating in their extended boundary state between dwelling and archaeological site (as I wrote about in January '06). I recently read...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 3 Comments •
February 20, 2009
Great New Eclectic Folk Pop
Category: Music
Back in 2006 I gave Silver, the then latest album from Philadelphia folk rockers Maggi, Pierce and E.J., a rave review. Since then the band has put out a collection of covers, a documentary DVD, a side-project duo album,...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 2 Comments •
February 19, 2009
Savvy Brazilian Musicians Harness the Power of Pirates
Category: Music
Illicit copying is not a threat to artists. It is the new distribution system.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 4 Comments •
February 18, 2009
Best Reads of 2008
Category: Books
Looking for a good book? Here are my best reads in English of 2008.Will in the World. How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare. Stephen Greenblatt 2004. The great man in his historical context. Casino Royale. Ian Fleming 1953. Finely written about the...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 2 Comments •
February 17, 2009
Mais Non, Mais Non
Category: Music
With thanks to Dear Reader Shelley, here's a 1969 French cover version of the Muppets' famed song: "Mais non, mais non", as written and sung by Henri Salvador....
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 1 Comments •
February 16, 2009
Archaeology Magazine's Spring Issue
Category: Archaeology
My favourite stories in Archaeology Magazine's spring issue:J.T. Milanich on the practicalities, and the unforeseen hassle, of re-burying a collection of Native American skeletons he excavated in the 1980s before his recent retirement. E.A. Powell on some fake "Atlantean" ruins...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 2 Comments •
February 14, 2009
Let's Turn The Population Trend
Category: Politics
Woman or man -- thy loins must never issue more than two children, preferably less!
Posted by Martin R at 10:37 AM • 48 Comments •
February 13, 2009
14th Century Shipwreck Off Swedish West Coast Possibly From England
Category: Archaeology
On 20 February 1361, King Edward III of England wrote to King Magnus Eriksson of Sweden and Norway with a complaint.
Posted by Martin R at 8:16 AM • 4 Comments •
February 12, 2009
Making the Archaeological Record
Category: Archaeology
Christian cemeteries are very unsafe places to be buried in.
Posted by Martin R at 9:05 AM • 9 Comments •
February 11, 2009
Early Archaeological Darwinism
Category: Archaeology
A less well-known way in which Darwin's great idea was misunderstood or misappropriated.
Posted by Martin R at 9:58 AM • 11 Comments •
Anthro Blog Carnival
Category: Archaeology
The sixtieth Four Stone Hearth blog carnival is on-line at Middle Savagery. Catch the best recent blogging on archaeology and anthropology! Submissions for the next carnival will be sent to me. The next open hosting slot is on 11 March....
Posted by Martin R at 3:30 AM • 0 Comments •
February 10, 2009
Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies
Category: Archaeology
To my current knowledge no scholar in Scandinavian archaeology has ever got a job with the Collegium for Advanced Studies.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 5 Comments •
February 9, 2009
Djurhamn 2008 Fieldwork Report On-Line
Category: Archaeology
The results were actually a bit of a let-down after the sword I found in '07.
Posted by Martin R at 3:06 PM • 2 Comments •
Ola Wikander and Fictional Beings
Category: Language
Essentially, they're the same guy: a storm god called "the Lord".
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 23 Comments •
February 7, 2009
ESF Drops Controversial Journal Grades
Category: Archaeology
There's any number of fields of research in the humanities that are confined to single countries.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 1 Comments •
February 6, 2009
Past Crimes
Category: Books
Chester library has two thematic fiction sections that I've never seen at Swedish libraries. One offers historical fiction. The other, also quite large, is all mystery novels set in the distant past -- labelled "Past Crimes"....
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 2 Comments •
February 5, 2009
Field Trips in Snowy Wales
Category: Archaeology
I got to see the area under highly unusual circumstances: covered in snow and lit by an unclouded sun.
Posted by Martin R at 8:21 AM • 6 Comments •
February 2, 2009
Greetings from Chester
Category: Travel
Greetings from Chester, founded in AD 79, whither I'm come to accept a position as Visiting Research Fellow with the university's archaeology department. Inclement weather delayed my flight, but the taxi driver who took me into town was a clement...
Posted by Martin R at 12:11 PM • 4 Comments •
Sophus the Cat
Category: Humour
My first wife had a cat named Cassandra, and she had a litter of three kittens. One was grey, black and white, and we called him Batman. Two were ginger, and I don't remember what we called them, but the...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 15 Comments •
