How To Get a Mink Skeleton in a Weird Way
Category: Biology
My friend Eddie the pagan goldsmith has inadvertently discovered an unusual way to acquire a clean mink skeleton. Here's what you do.
Posted by Martin R at 4:52 PM • 6 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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Mika's Place for Underwear
Category: Music
11-y-o Junior bought his first own album last Saturday: Mika's The Boy Who Knew Too Much. (My own first was Depeche Mode's Some Great Reward, bought at age 12 in '84 or '85). It's an excellent record once you've...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 4 Comments •
September 28, 2009
Marzipan Gold Hoard
Category: Archaeology
In 1995 a gold hoard was found at Vittene in Norra Björke parish, Västergötland. Its contents had been amassed over two centuries, and it was committed to the earth in the 3rd century AD.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 5 Comments •
September 25, 2009
Anthro Blog Carnival
Category: Archaeology
The seventy-sixth Four Stone Hearth blog carnival is on-line at Afarensis. Catch the best recent blogging on archaeology and anthropology! Submissions for the next carnival will be sent to me. All bloggers with an interest in the subject are welcome...
Posted by Martin R at 3:03 AM • 0 Comments •
September 24, 2009
September 23, 2009
Motte and Bailey and Limburger Cheese
Category: Travel
I type this in the hotel lobby while waiting for the train just across the street that will take me to Brussels. The conference closed at 13, I had sandwiches with my colleagues and then set out again for...
Posted by Martin R at 10:44 AM • 8 Comments •
September 22, 2009
Bus Ride up the Meuse
Category: Archaeology
Sculpture fragment from the Cathedral of St. Lambert in Liège. Today's bus excursion took us up the river Maas/Meuse into Wallonia, Belgium's Francophone part, where our first stop was Liège. The city looks pretty crummy, I'm afraid, with a...
Posted by Martin R at 1:48 PM • 1 Comments •
September 21, 2009
What Am I Doing Here?
Category: Travel
Yesterday's paper sessions offered eleven presentations. I almost fell asleep several times. This was not mainly because four of the papers were in German and French which I have a hard time understanding when spoken quickly. The main reason...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 11 Comments •
Cute Train Lesbians
Category: Travel
A funny intermezzo caught me Saturday on the train from Brussels to Liège. Across the aisle, two young pretty lesbian couples were seated. And they spent most of the ride necking furiously. I suppose that as a het male I...
Posted by Martin R at 2:42 AM • 5 Comments •
September 20, 2009
Fresh Roadkill
Category: Biology
Its unblinking eye was very clear.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 9 Comments •
Psychedelic Circus
Category: Psychedelic
Somebody calls you and you answer quite slowly: a girl with kaleidoscope eyes....
Posted by Martin R at 2:44 AM • 2 Comments •
September 19, 2009
Hello Maastricht
Category: Travel
I like to travel light. My luggage for a five-day conference stay in the Netherlands barely fills a small back pack. Apart from what I wear and carry in my pockets, I've got:Netbook computer + charger Smartphone charger Camera +...
Posted by Martin R at 12:30 PM • 10 Comments •
Giant Vertebra Belongs To Recent Sperm Whale
Category: Biology
During the big whaling era someone took the vertebra to the lake and threw it in.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 3 Comments •
September 18, 2009
Copulation Music
Category: Music
Some of the most intensely loved musical styles have names that mean "copulation music".
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 5 Comments •
September 17, 2009
GothNet
Category: Humour
In a somewhat less subculture-savvy move, an Internet service provider in Gothenburg has chosen to call itself GothNet. Nothing on their web site suggests that they have any inkling what "Goth" means to most English-speaking people today. The etymology...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 8 Comments •
September 15, 2009
5th Century Regional Brooch Design
Category: Archaeology
Here's a piece of fragmentology. In the 19th century a brooch (inset) was found at Vistena in Allhelgona parish, Östergötland. It's a copper-alloy piece decorated with embossed silver sheet panels in the Nydam style, approx. AD 375-450. In 2008...
Posted by Martin R at 9:05 AM • 0 Comments •
September 14, 2009
Cordwood House
Category: NOIBN
It's a bit like brick masonry, only you use cordwood instead of bricks and clay daub instead of mortar. And you always orientate the wood perpendicular to the wall.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 3 Comments •
Autumn Travel Plans
Category: Travel
Dear Reader, if you are in the Netherlands, in England or in Finland and you either a) want to meet me, or b) want to avoid meeting me, I have some important information for you. I am planning to visit...
Posted by Martin R at 5:02 AM • 7 Comments •
September 13, 2009
Velvet Bolete Orgy
Category: Food
My wife and I made a short mushrooming excursion to Lake Lundsjön after lunch. Little more than half an hour in the woods garnered us only four species, but huge amounts of one: velvet bolete. We went home early...
Posted by Martin R at 10:57 AM • 4 Comments •
September 11, 2009
Urban Plastic Owl
Category: NOIBN
On my way to the Library of the Academy of Letters today I spied something unusual. Somebody on the second floor of Storgatan 30 is having pigeon trouble. They've studded the window ledge with nails and stuck a plastic...
Posted by Martin R at 2:53 PM • 10 Comments •
September 10, 2009
Retro Gamer
Category: Gaming
I never was much of a game console nut. My video game crazes mostly played out on the PC. But I did play the Atari in the 70s, the C64 in the 80s and the NES and SNES in...
Posted by Martin R at 3:13 PM • 7 Comments •
September 9, 2009
Anthro Blog Carnival
Category: Blogging
The seventy-fifth Four Stone Hearth blog carnival is on-line at Ad hominin. Catch the best recent blogging on archaeology and anthropology! Submissions for the next carnival will be sent to me. All bloggers with an interest in the subject are...
Posted by Martin R at 8:23 AM • 0 Comments •
Begonia Joined by Spontaneous Mushrooms
Category: Biology
When I left my PhD student office at the Museum of National Antiquities I rescued a couple of angel wing begonias. One has recently been joined in its pot by spontaneously appearing yellow fungus.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 21 Comments •
September 8, 2009
Heyting Algebras, Pointless Topology
Category: Humour
My friend Tor reports, "Complete Heyting algebras are a central object of study in pointless topology"....
Posted by Martin R at 12:18 PM • 1 Comments •
Archaeological Fatherhood
Category: Archaeology
I'm very proud to see that my brain babies are having babies of their own now. That proves to me that the work I put in back in the day was worthwhile.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 6 Comments •
September 7, 2009
Stereophonic Hearing
Category: NOIBN
Yesterday I had a clear illustration of how the brain determines the direction of a noise. I was listening to a podcast in ear buds when my wife asked me something. I took one bud out and talked to her...
Posted by Martin R at 8:25 AM • 8 Comments •
Four Stone Hearth: Call For Submissions
Category: Archaeology
The 75th Four Stone Hearth blog carnival will run at Ad hominin on Wednesday. Submit your best recent stuff to Ciarán. Anything anthro or archaeo goes! The carnival needs hosts. The next open slot is on 7 October 23 September....
Posted by Martin R at 6:43 AM • 0 Comments •
September 6, 2009
Weekend Fun
Category: Having Fun
Played the new German board game Finca that my friend Eddie the heathen goldsmith brought along. It's an abstract system lightly dressed up in a story about harvesting and distributing fruit and greens on Mallorca of all things. Good fun...
Posted by Martin R at 4:07 PM • 0 Comments •
September 4, 2009
Marsh Meringue
Category: Language
Here are two pieces of convoluted Scandy and English etymology that converge in my head.
Posted by Martin R at 8:21 AM • 7 Comments •
September 3, 2009
Tell the Sb Overlords What You Think
Category: Blogging
The Sb Overloards have a poll up to learn what y'all think about the upcoming Sb on-line forum reform....
Posted by Martin R at 3:19 PM • 0 Comments •
A Touch of Pitted Ware
Category: Archaeology
I found knapped quartz and basalt and granite (!) and a lot of small potsherds, one of which has the Pitted Ware culture's signature pits and comb-stamp decoration.
Posted by Martin R at 2:59 PM • 5 Comments •
September 2, 2009
Stockholm Blogmeet 2 September
Category: Blogging
The 6th Aardvarchaeology blogmeet was a friendly three-hour affair with good food, good drink and good company. 'Twas me, Kai, Mårten, Per G, Sigmund, Thinker and Tor, and an excellent time was had at Akkurat. Here's the historical record...
Posted by Martin R at 3:54 PM • 18 Comments •
Fresh New Site, 5000 Years Old
Category: Archaeology
My Stone Age bros Roger Wikell and Mattias Pettersson have descended from their Mesolithic heights and are now looking at Middle Neolithic sites in locations that were quite extreme at the time -- way, way out in the Baltic.
Posted by Martin R at 3:48 PM • 4 Comments •
Geekdom Mainstreamed
Category: Books
On the commuter train the other day I suddenly realised that I was seeing three rather prim middle-aged middle-class people reading novels, and that all three were genre fiction.The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. Douglas Adams 1980. (science...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 5 Comments •
September 1, 2009
An Account of the Lund University Creationism Debate
Category: Skepticism
"Molén didn't hijack the debate. The issues discussed were largely about a scientific basis for knowledge and spiritual belief and the boundaries between them."
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 13 Comments •
