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Martin Rundkvist's blog. Archaeology, skepticism, Sweden. And books and music and stuff.
Dr. Martin Rundkvist is a Swedish archaeologist, journal editor, public speaker, skeptic, atheist, lefty liberal, bookworm, and father of two.
May 31, 2009
Category: Archaeology
The 68th Four Stone Hearth blog carnival will run at Remote Central on Wednesday. Submit your best recent stuff to Tim before Tuesday evening. Anything anthro or archaeo goes!...
Posted by Martin R at 4:28 PM • 0 Comments •
May 29, 2009
Category: Archaeology
A friendly Englishman asked me how a law-abiding metal detectorist should go about getting a permit to pursue their hobby in this country.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 74 Comments •
May 28, 2009
Category: Books
A body of fiction ascribed to a man who writes nothing.
Posted by Martin R at 9:14 AM • 0 Comments •
May 27, 2009
Category: Skepticism
Science is to use reason and observation when approaching factual matters pertaining to any aspect of the single real world we live in.
Posted by Martin R at 4:16 PM • 5 Comments •
May 26, 2009
Category: Children
Us grownups do the same thing easily by just closing our eyes, holding our noses and "pushing", like on air trips or while driving in mountains or scuba diving.
Posted by Martin R at 3:04 PM • 8 Comments •
May 25, 2009
Category: NOIBN
Geocaching is a fun nerdy outdoors hobby where you hide tupperware under boulders in the woods and publish their GPS coordinates on the web for other geeks to go look for the tupperware. Sometimes when you look for geocaches in...
Posted by Martin R at 3:16 PM • 8 Comments •
May 24, 2009
Category: Archaeology
If you want to evict people forcefully to get at an archaeological site, you're doing it all wrong and for the wrong reasons.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 7 Comments •
Category: Blogging
Three of my favourite SciBlings -- Afarensis, John Wilkins of Evolving Thoughts and John Lynch of Stranger Fruit -- have left the Mothership to set out on their own. All had been with Sb since 2006, none explained quite why...
Posted by Martin R at 3:23 AM • 1 Comments •
May 21, 2009
Category: Humour
A lesson in Swedish from the mall at Sickla. Last = noun from the verb lasta, "to load". In = in Fart = noun from the verb fara, "to travel", cf. "wayfarer" and "fare thee well". Load-in-travel. Delivery entrance....
Posted by Martin R at 8:27 AM • 13 Comments •
May 20, 2009
Category: Archaeology
The sixty-seventh Four Stone Hearth blog carnival is on-line at Sorting Out Science. 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 15...
Posted by Martin R at 1:33 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Archaeology
All the warnings are due to inadequate quantity and quality of teaching staff per student.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 6 Comments •
May 19, 2009
Category: Skepticism
An issue that has followed me through my career is the fight against pretentious jargon and extreme epistemological relativism in the humanities. The latter is an old idea from the sociology of science which holds that scientific knowledge does...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 25 Comments •
May 18, 2009
Category: Skepticism
Here's me and my skeptical homies outside the Vasa museum last Wednesday: Manuel Paz-y-Mino from Peru and Massimo Polidoro from Italy....
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 4 Comments •
Category: Archaeology
The 67th Four Stone Hearth blog carnival will run at Sorting Out Science on Wednesday. Get your submissions to Sam before Tuesday evening. Anything anthro or archaeo goes! And hey, hey, hey -- have you considered wearing a bone through...
Posted by Martin R at 3:42 AM • 1 Comments •
May 16, 2009
Category: Homeownership
Moving into a house has conferred a number of unforeseen advantages. The first one I discovered was that I now have a continuing relationship with the sky again, something I really only had before during my scant two years...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 4 Comments •
May 15, 2009
Category: Archaeology
"Err, actually, the 1st Millennium is Prehistory. In Scandinavia, that is. We don't have any written sources."
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 5 Comments •
May 13, 2009
Category: Books
Dancing with Strangers is an account of one of world history's most absurd situations.
Posted by Martin R at 5:24 PM • 5 Comments •
May 11, 2009
Category: Skepticism
Italian skeptical star Massimo Polidoro is on a lecture tour of northern Europe. He spoke in the Netherlands last Friday, and here's the remaining schedule:Mon 11 May. Gothenburg, Sweden. Tue 12 May. Stockholm, Sweden. Wed 13 May. Uppsala, Sweden. Fri...
Posted by Martin R at 8:25 AM • 5 Comments •
May 9, 2009
Category: Children
The readers are not closely emulating their parents' life decisions, and they spawn regardless of whether they are in the middle of their studies or not.
Posted by Martin R at 8:24 AM • 0 Comments •
May 8, 2009
Category: Archaeology
Anglophones find it really funny that one of Sweden's oldest towns is named Sick Tuna.
Posted by Martin R at 8:28 AM • 8 Comments •
May 7, 2009
Category: Archaeology
The readers of popular archaeology magazines have a much more international and escapist view of the subject than most professionals.
Posted by Martin R at 8:31 AM • 16 Comments •
May 6, 2009
Category: Archaeology
Check it out if you're into the Late Mesolithic!
Posted by Martin R at 8:22 AM • 4 Comments •
Category: Archaeology
It's been more than two years since the last time I hosted the Four Stone Hearth blog carnival. Now it's my turn again with number 66!Our first submission is a piece from Anne of the Spittoon blog about a...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 2 Comments •
Category: Music
Lately I've been listening a lot to Damn!'s fourth album, Let's Zoom In, that was released last year. Damn! is an unfortunately namned soul/funk octet from Malmö in southern Sweden, mostly known as a backing band for rapper Timbuktu....
Posted by Martin R at 5:58 AM • 4 Comments •
Category: NOIBN
I intentionally stay away from Twitter. Too many internet-related things already fracture my concentration and keep me from reading books. I go only so far as to update my Facebook status a few times a week. But for those of...
Posted by Martin R at 3:38 AM • 0 Comments •
May 5, 2009
Category: Archaeology
I'm particularly interested in the pre-battle finds that are starting to accumulate.
Posted by Martin R at 11:37 AM • 2 Comments •
May 4, 2009
Category: Archaeology
You can book guides with which you participate in flint knapping, leather working, cooking, archery, trapping and so on.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 8 Comments •
May 3, 2009
Category: Tree House Ruins
One of these men is an extremely zany comics artist and celebrated wit. The other is a stuffy scholar in an abstruse field. We've had a three-day holiday thanks to Friday being 1 May -- a red-letter day in...
Posted by Martin R at 3:20 PM • 3 Comments •
